"no hand shock"

[Mike Mecredy]

Actually it has more to do with the string, nock fit, weight arrow weight, than it does with the bow.  I've taken bow that were miserable to shoot but it was because it was a 50# longbow with a Dacron string with enough strands to use with a 100# bow, and the nock so tight on the string that a few of them got pulled off the arrows.  I put a 10 strand d-10 or 12 strand D-97 string on it and got some arrows out that the nock fit perfectly on it, and it shot like the best of them.  The same can be said it the bow is shooting good and you put the wrong string on it and a nock too tight, or an arrow too  heavy or too light, it can get bad to shoot.

[M60gunner]

I stated before after a few shots I do not notice any " hand shock ". Now a day or so later my hand is sore. I know I have arthritis in my hands from working with them all my life. It feels to me like I have become sensitive to my bow but with a delayed reaction. Does this make any sense to anyone?

Same here, I sometimes get in the base of the thumb the day after as well.