I have been fooling with this hickory stick for a lil bit. I got it through a few issues and am not sure how long it will live has about 200 bullets through it. Now to the rest of the story!One of my good buddies came up the other day when I was test firing it, and wanted to try. He shot it for 45mins and was in love. He was talking about selling his Matthews before the afternoon was out with a big grin on his face. I gave him the bow with the disclaimer it might not be long for the world and he would have to come over and make his own. He has been over ever afternoon since to shoot and work on it! Another win for team primitive. It had pulled at the shelf cut ,and had a small place on the back. I smooth on glued the splinter down then backed the whole area with rawhide, glued with smooth on. On the belly I used good old super glue. Yes, he does know things could go bad. Its 66" ntn pulling around 38# @ 27ish not a great deal of stress IMOP.