What LBR said really hit for me. When I first to archery, four years ago, I bypassed target archery and compound archery for the traditional stuff. I was told the only book I would need to learn to shoot was by Fred G. Asbell. Anyway, I practiced every day, and after three years my effective range shooting instinctively was hardly more than twenty yards. If I got out of the range, my arrows always fell short.

I know there are excellent instinctive shooters out there, but I have a feeling that instinctive shooting isn't so much instincts but training your mind to hold a certain position from a certain distance. At any rate, I bought Byron Ferguson's book become the arrow, and I am far more consistent now than I have ever been. Albeit, at around ten to fifteen yards I often revert back to instinctive. I like Ferguson's method because I have a better idea of where my arrow is going. Visualizing the path of the arrow before shooting has really helped me. I think I'm more of a mechanical person by nature, and Asbell's books were too rigid and non-explanatory for me. However, I'm sure they've worked for other people.