https://matteocampagna.com/en/registry/equipment/compound-recurve-draw-weight-arrows Changes to this claim in Matteo Campagna's evidence registry: its status, its year-by-year history, revisions of the page. en-gb https://matteocampagna.com/en/registry/equipment/compound-recurve-draw-weight-arrowsThe comparison comes from a single study, on competition data from 61 archers at the Shanghai stage of the 2025 World Cup. In compound the mean draw weight is 56.6 pounds against 46.8 in recurve, and it is also far more uniform from archer to archer, with a standard deviation of 3.0 pounds against 6.0. On the arrows the picture is less certain. They come out shorter in compound, 71.1 centimetres against 75.6, but in compound the shortest arrow recorded measures 28.9 centimetres, a value that looks as if it was entered in inches and that pulls the mean down, and the archers' draw lengths are missing, which could on their own account for part of the difference. Arrow weight does not separate the two disciplines clearly: 384 against 363 in the printed units, with a correlation of 0.23 that falls short of significance (p=0.07), and the weight is given in grams but only makes sense in grains. A non-significant difference does not show that the weights are the same. It is a descriptive snapshot of a single event, and the firmest figure is the one on draw weight.claim:compound-ricurvo-assetto:revision:2026-09-19:2Sat, 19 Sep 2026 08:00:00 GMT https://matteocampagna.com/en/registry/equipment/compound-recurve-draw-weight-arrowsclaim:compound-ricurvo-assetto:new_claim:2026-07-28:riportatoTue, 28 Jul 2026 08:00:00 GMT