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"Become the Arrow"

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Slackbunny:
Anybody read "Become the Arrow" by Byron Ferguson? I'm looking at it right now on Amazon and just wondering if its worth a read. I've been interested in the gap shooting method lately and I think that is what is book focuses on, is that right?

Lemos:
I have it's nat a bad book. I think it's in my items to garage sale if you want it ill see if its still there and send it to you

Eastman:
The book definitely is great. But it's about "instinctive" shooting, not about gap shooting. From what I have read his method is to line up the arrow under the eye,creating a 'gap' but looking instead at where you want to hit.

Alpinbogen:
Good book.  What I took out of it is that the zen-voodoo sounding thing of "become the arrow" boils down to visualizing the flight trajectory of the arrow, building upon Howard Hill's split vision aiming.

Slackbunny:
Well I got the book, and read pretty much the whole thing this morning. I have to say I liked it. It covered most of my questions and concerns. Its not really gap shooting, but its not really instinctive shooting either. Its kind of a hybrid. But it is really good for describing a particular form for shooting. I haven't been able to work out my own form, so I figured I needed to try set method. Hopefully I can settle in to this style and improve my accuracy.

I was worried that it might be a little hokey with all the comments about zen and stuff in the reviews, but it was actually quite practical and helpful to me.

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