Product Details

• Amazon Sales Rank: #46294 in Books
• Published on: 1994-09
• Original language: English
• Number of items: 1
• Binding: Paperback
• 116 pages

Features

• ISBN13: 9780913305096
• Condition: NEW
• Notes: Brand New from Publisher. No Remainder Mark.
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Customer Reviews

Must-Have book for traditional archers!!
The first review and the title of this book are misleading. There is not anything really mystical, or zen-like about it.

It does gives the traditional archer a great tool for improving accuracy...which is why you should be buying the book in the first place (not for spiritual guidance like the reviewer below wanted!! LoL).

Byron covers the "gap" aiming method in detail, and what I feel is the most important part of the book: equipment tuning. If your equipment is not tuned properly you will never know if you missed due to shot execution or equipment problems. Get tuned first, then you can start to eliminate all of your form/aiming problems.

The only thing I didn't like about it was the "become the arrow" part. This comes after you have learned the gap method. It basically boiled down to visualizing the trajectory of your arrow before you shoot. Well, visualization never worked much for me, not to mention, it's hard to visualize something that you can't see until it's 20 yards away.

If you are worried that an aiming method will ruin your instinctive shooting, rest assured that the gap method, once learned, is very quick and becomes subconscious/instinctive...just like anything else...ex: if you play a guitar, you have to learn where to put your fingers consciously at first, then with practice, the fingers go where they are supposed to without conscious thought.

Bottom line: this is a must-have book for traditional archers!

A must for any archer
Become The Arrow by Byron Fergusson
Now I was given this book before I watched his video and I liked it, as an instinctive archer he made sense, then I saw his video where he shoots aspirins in the air at 20 yards, shoots though diamond rings at 25 yards and blows out candles at thirty yards. A must to read, a little self-effacing but good stuff to teach discipline.

A little disapointing
The book was just too short, without enough information. If you cut out the part on hunting, the biography (both are parts I"m not really interested in as a 3-D target shooter), their wasn't a great deal left. Good information on tuning and the author's technique I guess, but he could have added a lot more to clarify. It's like the book didn't have an editor.