Blades I NEVER SAID THE XBOW WAS INFERIOR!! if I did i am sure someone will show me!!lol
I am having a discussion about the differences between the two. About trajectorys, compounds do have better #s although out to 40 yards, which is most peoples max, they are relatively the same. (at least the new powerful high draw weight xbows)
Sheep you are correct about velocity and weight, although efficiency of the weapon is a big one! ( hence the large draw weights for xbows) where it also gets different is length of arrow, length of fletch, height of fletch, foc etc. Way to many other factors but those are most of the big ones! Each one has an effect on down range performance no matter what fps it started at!