Corrections and missing bows
Most of what arrives here is a single number. One wrong brace height is not a typo that sits quietly in a table — it shows up again on that bow's comparison pages, in its category list, and in any guide that cites it, so it is wrong in four places at once. That makes a two-line correction worth more to this site than a long opinion.
What usually lands in the inbox
A number that disagrees with the maker
Cams get revised, limb pockets change, and draw-length modules get swapped mid-season without the bow being renamed. If a brace height, let-off, axle-to-axle or mass weight here doesn't match what the manufacturer publishes today, name the figure and where the right one is printed.
A bow that should be among the 47
The catalog runs from a $90 takedown recurve to a $2,149 carbon flagship across 6 categories and 20 makers. Small bowyers and importers ship models that never get a press cycle at all, so a model name and the maker's own product page is enough to start.
A price that has drifted
Flagships are stocked through pro shops that set their own numbers, and beginner packages get discounted hard for a season at a time. A heads-up that a figure is badly stale is useful, and so is a note that a bow now sells only as a ready-to-hunt package, which changes what its price even covers.
A tradeoff we have wrong
The pros and cons on each bow page are distilled from public owner discussion, not from shooting the bow. If a complaint has since been fixed — a revised draw stop, a cam that no longer needs a press for every adjustment, a limb issue handled quietly under warranty — that is a correction worth sending.
A model that is gone
Model years turn over fast and discontinued bows linger in a table long after a dealer stops stocking them. Telling us a bow is out of production is more useful than it sounds, because the alternative is finding out from a reader who drove to a shop.
What one corrected figure moves
Two people keep this catalog, between other work, and neither shoots for a shop. No office, no pro staff, no rack of loaner bows — which means a correction is not adjudicated by anyone's field experience — it gets read back against the manufacturer's own published specification, and the catalog moves or it doesn't. The date stamped on the data was August 12, 2026; corrections land on the next pass rather than one at a time, so a reply may arrive before the change does.
A blank here is usually deliberate
Blanks here are load-bearing. Only 31 of the 47 bows carry a speed figure at all, because the 16 traditional bows have no standardized ATA or IBO rating to quote and the 31 compounds do. Only 17 have a star rating, so 30 show none — dealer-only flagships are never sold anywhere that collects public reviews, and an invented average would be worse than an honest gap. Mass weight, let-off and brace height are missing on the bows whose makers don't publish them. If you have a figure from the manufacturer that we have left blank, that is a genuinely useful message; if a cell is blank because nobody publishes it, it stays blank.
The draw weight this site will not pick for you
No maker pays to be listed, to be described a particular way, or to sit higher in a category. Nothing here is a sponsored placement, there is no paid inclusion, and no bow was supplied by a brand in exchange for coverage. We also won't quote you a price or tell you a draw weight to order — the first belongs to a pro shop and the second belongs to whoever watches you draw cold in October.
The business option on the form is there because people ask about the data itself. There is nothing on this site to buy.
A note here buys you an answer and nothing further. No bow maker, no pro shop and no list of any kind receives your address, and nobody is told who queried an IBO number.
Before writing, it may answer the question faster to read what an ATA rating actually measures — where the specs come from, why the speed numbers are the manufacturer's and not ours, and how the ordering is decided.