RE: which is blurry, deer or pin?
I'll reiterate that with bows, I am sorta in between on this question. I tinker all the time with my bow form, for better or worse. But my target panic stems from looking at the target, then my brain starts yelling at me, "Shoot now, NOW, the pin's on the target NOW, NOW!" When I focus on the pin, a technique I've only recently gone back to, I'm not so intimately aware of exactly where the pin is on the target and I feel more relaxed. So far it's working in that I haven't had any target panic yanks yet, although my overall groups are about the same.
With a rifle with peep or V sights, I am very adamant that they only correct technique is front sight focus. Learned that in the USMC, where they sit you around a barrel with little targets painted on it, and have you sit there for a whole week learning to trust that front sight focus. You have to sell out to the technique for it to work.