Yep. I bought mine in 2004. It is exactly as you described. It is a special bow for me, being my first traditional bow, and the first brand-new toy I ever bought, after getting my first teaching job. Before the Hunter, the bow that I used, and that got me into archery, was an old Hoyt compound, which I shot my first two animals with. When I bought that Hunter, I was hooked on traditional. It took a lot of practice, but later that year, I finally connected with a feral donkey, and a month or so a later, a young bull buffalo. The next year, I shot a feral horse, then another feral donkey with it. Since then, I've passed that bow on to my brother, and he killed his first bow-and-arrow animals with it, three really big feral goats (I got a goat with it too). I've started shooting longbows since then, Black Widow and Howard Hill, and have a Schafer Silvertip recurve on order; but that Martin Hunter remains a special (and excellent) bow.