I think this subject has been discussed and debated for as long as I can remember.....it was debated back in the early 60's when traditional archery was just plain archery.

I will flat out state that I am unable to shoot instinctively...period! It blows my mind to hear an instinctive shooter state he doesn't know the distance, doesn't see his arrow, and just burns a hole and the arrow goes there. My archery, and in fact all my shooting sport, training just will not accept or allow myself to shoot that way. All other shooting sports reference to the equipment in some manner inorder to hit their mark.... my mind just will not let me do it any other way (unless I am inside of 15 yards. )

Arthur's method closely resembles the way I shoot........split finger with longbows due to class requirements only and 3 under with recurves. My longbow shooting is ok but still needs a ways to go. Recurve with 3 under using the point of the arrow as a point of aim is like shooting sights for me and has a much higher degree of accuracy. But, I luv shooting my longbows far better.......doesn't figure huh?

Chad and the others are right......shoot how ever it feels the most natural because that will be the most consistantly repeatable form for you to use. I have seen target archers, especially compound archers, with horrible form shoot extremely well because they consistantly repeated their horrible form on every shot.