So as a primary archer I was excited to craft a dragonbone bow, and it looks neat as well. I was always a fan of the Forsworn's bows look but their damage just didn't scale for high end characters. Anyway, so I'm using this thing and noticed I am constantly missing long ranged shots, a lot, which of course alerts my target. So I bought a ebony bow (I went the light armor route up the smithing tree to get to dragonbone stuff with 1 less perk investment... mistake, I that see now) and took it out and here is what I found; the dragonbone bow does indeed shoot low.

I tested this by taking both the ebony and dragonbone bow's out a field and I aimed at a tree a long ways off - I used ebony arrows for the ebony bow and I used glass arrows for the dragonbone bow - after shooting both and running out to inspect my shots the ebony arrow appeared right where I aimed/expected to find it, the glass arrow was much lower but in line with the ebony arrow so I'm sure my aim was true for both. Not satisfied with this I repeated the test 3 more times, even switching up which arrows I fired from each bow and every time the dragonbone bow shot low at long range... how disappointing. I did not move my character between shots or move the point of aim when switching between bows either.

Not a fan of the dragonbone arrows though, they should have made them serrated tri-bladed points, not the forks that they appear as, they don't even look like they should fly very far and the daedric arrows already covered that prongy look in a way. Shame. That's my opinion though, I'm sure some people out there like them just fine.

I don't like it because it's orange.
A fairly shallow reason, yes, but it looks gaudy and lame, and doesn't match either set of Dragon armor.

Primarily sneak/thief/archer/assassin here. No problems with any bows. On PC.

so..... aim higher? thats what i did with mine and i could still snipe. bound bow has the same issue. but i still do just fine with it. all i can say is adjust your aim to compensate.

On topic:- The Dragonbone bow has a very fast draw time so there is the possibility that the game considers it a "light bow" (even though it has the most damage) so the range might not match that of heavy bows such as Ebony and Daedric.

I was dissapointed in it cause its just a retexture of the hunting bow :C
Same with dragonbone arrows and steel arrows

As if all bows were so different in shape ...