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Title: "Measure Your Success in Proportion to Your Effort" - Mike Mitten
Post by: Ryan Sanpei on December 31, 2013, 01:52:00 AM: For years people have asked me why I choose to hunt with a stickbow and at times it was hard for me to explain with words. I've always wanted to express my feelings in a short and simple but meaningful response.

Thank goodness for attending Comptons, where I had the great fortune of meeting the Mitten brothers. There on their table was a poster of Mike with the quote "Measure Your Success in Proportion to Your Efforts". There it was!!! Basically how I felt about traditional bowhunting as well as life itself. Of course I needed to get a signed copy and proceeded back to the booth to show Staci.

In a future conversation with South, he too had very similar sentiments about the quote from Mike and saw it fitting to create a T-Shirt design utilizing his quote.

So here it is GANG!

(http://www.tradgang.com/upload/ryan/shirt2.jpg)
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Post by: Wolfshead on December 31, 2013, 07:44:00 AM: Now that's pretty Cool!
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Post by: Sockrsblur on December 31, 2013, 08:24:00 AM: Very nice!
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Post by: ron w on December 31, 2013, 08:30:00 AM: Pretty much says it all..... :thumbsup: :shaka:
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Post by: Swinestalker on December 31, 2013, 08:39:00 AM: Well said and very true! :thumbsup:
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Post by: Yohon on December 31, 2013, 08:43:00 AM: NICE!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! :thumbsup:
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Post by: Steve Jr on December 31, 2013, 08:54:00 AM: That's perfect ! Yesterday my best friend stopped by the house when I wasn't home and was talking with my wife. We had recently went on a state park deer reduction hunt, he told my wife he was worried about me and why would I take a primitive weapon on a hunt like this. Now we have hunted together for 30 years which 27 of them now I have hunted with a recurve or longbow ( you would think he would know by now) she told him, that's who he is and that's how he is always going to be! My wife is great !! That saying sums it up! I will have to call South and buy a couple of those shirts. :thumbsup:
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Post by: on December 31, 2013, 09:17:00 AM: That sums it up for a lot of us, I think!

Cool shirt!

Bisch
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Post by: Knawbone on December 31, 2013, 09:45:00 AM: As we used to say...........Far Out!!!! Very cool
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Post by: snag on December 31, 2013, 09:53:00 AM: :thumbsup:
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Post by: cacciatore on December 31, 2013, 10:02:00 AM: My same feelings.
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Post by: Duckbutt on December 31, 2013, 10:14:00 AM: I don't shoot a Stalker but have been inspired by both South and Mike's efforts over the years. Might have to get me one of those!
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Post by: Sam McMichael on December 31, 2013, 10:34:00 AM: Far Out? Knawbone, you are giving away your age! But as we used to say when I was young, Far Out! That quote needs to be put on a bumper sticker. While it applies so well to traditional bowhunting, it also fits many of life's undertakings.
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Post by: T-Bowhunter on December 31, 2013, 10:36:00 AM: :thumbsup: :thumbsup:
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Post by: Bivyhunter on December 31, 2013, 10:43:00 AM: The t-shirts are up on the Stalker store page now. They are available in black, M-2XL

http://www.stalkerstickbows.com/store/
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Post by: ARCHER2 on December 31, 2013, 11:25:00 AM: Got to have it! Great quote! Thanks Ryan!
Charlie :shaka:
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Post by: Jayrod on December 31, 2013, 11:32:00 AM: Not to be a spellchecker but it's supposed to be measure success in preparation to your effort not Proportion!! But does mike okay this.......?.??haha but very we'll spoken words
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Post by: Ryan Sanpei on December 31, 2013, 01:16:00 PM: Yes, South spoke to Mike before he worked on the design. Does your poster from Mike say "preparation"??? Please advise…

If I did spell it wrong and Mike's quote does say preparation, I'll be happy to use this quote as I measure my success in "relation to" the amount of effort that I put in.

Thank you,
Ryan
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Post by: Jayrod on December 31, 2013, 02:30:00 PM: Yes it does say preparation!!!! Pm herd bull that's what my posters says!
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Post by: Ryan Sanpei on December 31, 2013, 02:44:00 PM: Thank you for the info! I'll have South contact Mike.
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Post by: fnshtr on December 31, 2013, 02:45:00 PM: Either way... I'm a lot more successful than I had previously thought. Lots of preparation, time in the woods and shooting.

Just no meat in the freezer. :banghead:
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Post by: Bivyhunter on December 31, 2013, 05:41:00 PM: Hmmm.... the poster Mike gave me and hand wrote on it says "proportion". Maybe somewhere along the line he changed things up?
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Post by: Cootling on December 31, 2013, 08:30:00 PM: I used the same quote many years ago in a series of continuing education presentations for hunter education instructors. I believe the original was "The true hunter measures success in proportion to his effort." If I recall correctly, my source credited Saxton Pope.
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Post by: Cootling on December 31, 2013, 08:55:00 PM: I had the wording slightly wrong, but it seems clear that the sentiment should, indeed, be attributed to Saxton Pope. From the home page of the Pope and Young Club:

"The true hunter counts his achievement in proportion to the effort involved and the fairness of the sport."

--Saxton Pope
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Post by: varmint101 on December 31, 2013, 08:59:00 PM: Either way, it's a cool shirt and the saying fits!
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Post by: Cyclic-Rivers on December 31, 2013, 09:49:00 PM: Huh, Here I bought a gadget to measure success. Its in my bag of tricks next to the whiz bang deer magnet. :laughing:

That quote sums it up pretty good.
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Post by: Gen273 on December 31, 2013, 10:18:00 PM: :thumbsup:
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Post by: far rider on December 31, 2013, 10:32:00 PM: :thumbsup:
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Post by: joe ashton on December 31, 2013, 10:38:00 PM: :thumbsup:
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Post by: GrisMunkyNinja on January 04, 2014, 01:10:00 AM: Love that quote. :thumbsup: Very fitting for a bowhunter, and life in general for that matter.