No Steve I have a couple long bows of my own one i really love my brother in law made it for me it shoots like a dream killed several deer with it to. one long bow one recurve.I dont like when I start a thread to get positive feed back and i get hammered about what I say I have nothing against any type of archery its my favorite thing in the world and the peaple that get involved with it 99% of them are great people.