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Originally Posted by Eric Eis
Hope you make the Wood duck calender poster. The one that PGCA did were not what people wanted and they were told that before they started production of them. It's too bad
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Success has a thousand parents and failure is but an orphan.
The PGCA board appointed a committee of directors and interested life and annual members, which then proposed several designs for comment. We had lots of comments and being artwork, many people had many ideas. The final design was from a consensus of people who wanted to be involved. While failure is an overstatement, both projects were not the success that they were expected to be, nor was Muderlak's squirrel poster reproduction the success he expected. People always have their pet ideas, the difficult part is getting people involved in a project and carrying it through to completion. The final result of the calendar was not what I had in mind when we started, nor was it Destry's, who was on the committee, nor was it anybody else's , and I understand it is easy to criticize in retrospect from people who shied away from involvement at the time. We were trying to satisfy many people while considering cost.
With that experience, I would never again be involved in a PGCA organization print/poster/calendar project. There are too many views to satisfy and too much criticism. A couple of us who have some nice guns have talked privately about doing like a Christmas calendar between us with monthly pictures of good guns, but for me never again with a large art project.
Bruce Day, Parker non expert and art dunce