Does anybody use a longbow to go hunting?

once the sniper weapon before the gun and enough power to even go though some amour..the english longbow was a amazing weapon so dangerous that french kings ordered that any english longbowmen caught alive had to have his bow fingers cut off...so when the english bowmen heard that they gave the french king the "finger"...yeah thats were flipping the bird comes from. i'm a history nut guys haha