You sure do have a keeper. Gotta find me a women like that.

thats why i dumped my b/f. City Boys these days

Chic

I dont know where you live but here everyone hunts. When deer season rolls around the school is half empty (on the days im actually there). And thats not just guys.

As for the original question...yeah. i'd dump her real fast. If she can't except hunting then she can't except me.

thought that I would get one of two responses here. one being that what everyone here has said, the other would have been marriage above all else. I have been married for seven years and have a little girl that is nine months old today. I met my wife in san diego when I was in the navy. she never dated anyone that hunted until me. I didn't do much hunting when I was in san diego until I met my best friend. we hunted coyotes, bobcats, varmints if you will. I came home about a week each year bowhunting and did remarkably well. my wife thought that hunting season was only that long. I don't recall ever telling her it was longer, maybe a mistake on my part. now that I live in nw virginia, I hunt quite a bit. deer, turkey, varmints, you name it, because that is what I did when I lived in pa before the navy. I dated one girl that was a vegetarian for some time, but she thought it was pretty neat that I did hunt. she didn't particurally like it, but she got along with it. I have ditched women that didn't like hunting, but with a wife, I suppose that is a bit different. I have only been out hunting twice this calandar year, and it is killing me. I went once for turkey, and once for whistlepigs. my wife thinks that I am neglecting my little one because I want to go hunting and fishing (I haven't been fishing ALL year, and it is killing me.). she is a stay at home mom and I have a rather demanding job that occupies me for fifty or more hours a week. I don't know that I could bring myself to divorce her, but things are getting a bit sticky lately. she ruined perhaps one of my best days hunting when I nailed two deer in one day about a minute apart two seasons ago by picking a fight with me. I just don't see an easy way out of this. I even get a nasty look when I say I am going to shoot a three d round at that local range. three hours a week, and I get that. It is nice to know that there are others out there that feel the same way I do though. Keep the thoughts coming.

recurver--my wife would certainly be gone if she threw any of my hunting equipment anywhere.

I guess I got lucky! My girl loves to hunt and it's awesome. We have a lot of fun together out in the woods.

Yepper, my ex couldn't handle it after 10yrs, said I didn't need to be doing it anymore. I asked her, "What do you mean? For just this year or what? She said, "you really don't need to be doing it". Well, after that, things went done hill and she was gone soon, I just had a hard time believing that if she really loved me that she would ask me to give it up. I really didn't loose anything but I still hunt from sept to the end of nov., or season permitting. When it comes to hunting season I get tunnel vision and can't focus on anything other than being in the woods. Bobby

My girlfriend doesn't mind hunting, she's not against it but she's not strongly for it. It's the guns part of hunting she doesn't like. But on the other hand, she's glad that I can go spend time doing what I love with a some buddies.

Respect is the key

What are these - arranged marriages? Don't you get to know a person before you decide to marry them?

LUST !!!!!!!!!!

I found the key with my wife. You must find a woman who either hunts themselves (like mentioned before is a "rare breed"), or in my case find a woman who's dad is a diehard. My wife spent her whole life with her dad gone in the fall deer hunting. So it is no big deal for me to do it. The only real difference is her dad was not a Turkey hunter also as I am so she had to adjust to the spring thing. She is another one who will jump in and help me skin and process meat. And is very animant that I teach both of our kids the aspects of outdoors! I even took my wife hunting for the first time 2 years ago for turkey. She complained a little about the time in the morning and the walk through the woods in the dark, but when it broke daylight and she saw all of the game coming around she said to me "I now see why you do this, this is great" on top of it I called up a bird with a 10" beard that she killed. Now she wants to try to deer hunt.