IMO: NO. Not unless you are already a practiced bow hunter and know how to shoot one well.
Learning to shoot a bow well enough to hunt with one while slowly starving to death is not going to get-R-done.
Agreed, but if you take the time to learn to shoot well and you know hunting already, it's good to have, especially if you have a bow fishing harpoon and reel for it. Gar are good eatin' and carp make good catfish bait. Can't do THAT with a .22.
If you have never hunted at all, you'll likely starve to death with a rifle, let alone a bow you can't shoot. LOL! Fishing is generally more productive. There's lots of edible species, too, that sport fishermen scorn that you can catch a boat load of if you need protein. I've got gill nets, illegal as hell, but hey, we aren't going to worry about legality if we're starving, are we? I've got lots of trot line material and hooks and other tackle stashed. Of course, I live by a big bay and don't plan to run inland except from a hurricane and I'll be back home after the blow as always.
Now, a bow isn't the tool if you don't know how to use it, but if you know how to hunt and bow fish and have a bow, it could be handy, all I'm sayiin'. I have a compound and a new recurve. Recurves are a lot easier to service, strings are cheap, and they'll kill, too. In fact, I bow fish with it in preference to my compound which shoots a bit hard. The recurve has sights just like the compound. I ain't enough practiced at instinctive shooting, sights make it easier.
I don't expect to ever have to "bug out" and need a firearm or anything else, just cash for the restaurants and gas. I've "bugged out" from numerous hurricanes, just drive to Waco and visit my best friend. What I have the fishing stuff for, other than I like fishing, but the illegal stuff is for political/economic catastrophes I see in the future that are possible, without getting political in the discussion. you just can't be too prepared. Think of what our grandfolks went through in the great depression, mine anyway, might have been your GREAT grandfolks. LOL Procurement of food by any means is high on my list. Heck, I know edible plants as well. I ain't gonna starve. I might be hot in the summer without AC, but I ain't gonna starve.
Such thinking was why I got my old recurve out and started practicing. I broke it, ebayed a Hoyt compound and restrung it, bought this PSE recurve. I've been practicing 4 or 5 days a week minimum and am ready for deer season. I might never need it to survive, but they're great for bow hunting and fishing. I used to bow fish a lot with my old recurve.
Anyway, i have rifles, shotguns, rods and reels, gill nets (can also catch birds), .22s, pistols, a pistol/shotgun (contender), knives, and I hunt and shoot and use 'em all. You can never have too many tools when you need food, IMHO. Fix that bow up. It's fun to shoot even if it's not viable as a zombie weapon.