**begin rant**

Not sure where all this husband and wife business started, or when it became fashionable to drag your old lady or a clueless toddlerout to the deer woods with you, but that's not my bag. (There's a time and place for it - scouting, hiking, shed hunting, small game, etc...)

My time in the woods is the only time I can get away from women, honestly. Nothing against anyone's wife or whatever, but if my buddy says his old lady is coming along, I'm out. ...And I sure as heck don't want to blow my spare time watching some bumbling chick or 7-year-oldon tv screwing around trying to learn how to hunt. If I wanted to see that trainwreck, I'd just tag along with my buddy while he parades his wife through the woods in turkey season trying to teach her how to be the next Tiffany Lakosky.

Now I'm not saying that there aren't women or 7-year-oldsout there who can carry their own weight (I'm sure there are), I'm just saying that I've never seen one - not on tv, not in real life. Hell, mostgrown mencan't carry their own weight in the woods, and have no clue what they're doing.

When I sit down to watch a hunting show, I don't wanna see a soap opera, or see some schmuck prove that he is hunting in a pen that's so thick with deer that he can put a totally clueless chick in a blind, and even SHE can tag a booner.No - I wanna see people who know what they're doing, doing what they're good at.

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