https://matteocampagna.com/en/registry/technique/aim-settling-final-second 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/technique/aim-settling-final-secondThe measurement that answers the question comes from seven international-level juniors, 66 arrows at 30 metres indoors, with an optical system fixed to the riser tracking where the bow points on the target. In all seven the area in which the aim moves shrinks second by second: between 0.85 and 1.79 square points from three to two seconds before the shot, between 0.47 and 0.77 in the next second, between 0.30 and 0.59 in the last, and for every archer the last second is the smallest. In the last second the aim is also tighter when the arrow scores ten than when it scores eight or less, but between one archer and another the average size of the area does not say who shoots better. The final settling is therefore shared by everyone, while the path that leads to it is personal: each archer comes onto the target in their own way, and in the last two seconds the traces no longer follow any pattern. A paper from the year before, twelve archers at 70 metres with a laser on the riser, does not measure how much the bow moves but finds in some archers an aim that has not yet settled in the last tenths before release. On the question itself there is still a single study of seven archers, at one distance.claim:stabilizzazione-mira-ultimo-secondo:revision:2026-08-28:2Fri, 28 Aug 2026 08:00:00 GMT https://matteocampagna.com/en/registry/technique/aim-settling-final-second#storiaThe first study to follow the bow in the final moments before release does not yet answer the question. Twelve Taiwanese university archers shoot at 70 metres with a laser on the riser, and the authors look at the last second and a half to see whether the direction the bow points in anticipates where the arrow lands. In some archers that link changes sharply in the very last tenths, which the authors read as an aim that has not yet settled, but nobody measures whether the movement shrinks as release approaches, and the correlations on twelve arrows appear only in graphs. It is context: whether the bow moves less and less remains unstudied.claim:stabilizzazione-mira-ultimo-secondo:history_entry:2026-08-13:2005Thu, 13 Aug 2026 08:00:00 GMT https://matteocampagna.com/en/registry/technique/aim-settling-final-secondclaim:stabilizzazione-mira-ultimo-secondo:new_claim:2026-06-10:riportatoWed, 10 Jun 2026 08:00:00 GMT