TeeJay, I fully understand where you coming from as well. Being the Anti Social person that I am I need a lot of alone time. I wouldn't want her up my butt every minute either, and she understands that. If she did decide to deer hunt I might hunt next to her a few times until she gets the hang of it. After that she is on her own. That is how I do it with my friends. We might meet up before the hunt if our schedules coincide, but we go our seperate ways after that. And we meet at the end of the night to talk about what we saw, or help if someone got one.

As far as the pre season stuff, she is already a part of that.

We do turkey hunt together though (my hunting buddy, not my girlfriend). Normally we try to draw different weeks for turkey, that way we can hunt longer. One calls while the other shoots.

Keep in mind my girlfriend does not live with me, so we are not on top of each other all the time. That makes a difference. And she has two kids, so most of what we do is family oriented. I'm not your typical guy either. I don't drink anymore, I don't like bars, and I don't like sports other than hunting and nascar. I think my girlfriend is more of a man than I am?[] She likes football and other sports. And it's not that I am opposed to drinking, I just did too much of it when I was younger and now my body can't take it anymore.

I didn't mean to offend anyone, I was trying to say that if you were into the male bonding thing then having your girl there might be a pain. I'm not like that though, so it's not a big deal to me.

Paul