Not necessarily. Some years back one of the pros was tearing up the circuit with a low end bow and the company (Hoyt) finally had to tell him to knock it off and use a more expensive one. He was ruining sales on their high end bows by showing the cheaper oneswere just as good.

IMO, a bow that has a lot of handshock has two problems. First, the tiller probably isn't set right. Second, the shooter isn't using enough arrow weight. You can't always eliminate all the handshock, but you can certainly tone it down a good bit with a proper tune job and more arrow weight.

But you don't know what handshock is until you've shot a Jerry Hill longbow. Those darn things kick like a mule, maybemake a couple of your teeth swap holes. Fling an arrow out of one of those bad boys and then you'll never gripe about handshock with a compound again.