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What does yalls wife think about your hunting? Mine always says it aint fair cause she has to sit at home with the kids or I am never there. She says it aint even hunting season and she is already tired of it.

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Mine doesn't mind if I go, but she doesn't understand why I do... And, she hates it when I want to put another head on the wall...

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I'm not married. I don't have any plans in the near future to get married. The women that I've dated have been offspring of Satan. So I guess I really don't have to hear them gripe about how much this costs, or you got another gun???!!! I kinda like it that way.

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Let's just say, she doesn't look forward to it!:D

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She seems pretty cool with it as long as she doesn't have to see the dead carcas'. You guys just need to learn how to make yourselves less pleasant to be around. Especially during hunting season!:D

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Mine doesn't mind me going, but you have to balance it all out. She knows I like to hunt. Just let her do some things with her friends when you not hunting so she feels like she is getting some away time also if you have kids that is. Of course mine does not really understand the whole head on the wall thing either, but she does love sports, so you take the good with the bad hey!:D

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Mine loves to hunt almost as much as I do. She is 5 months pregnant and we are heading out in about an hour to smack a limit of Mallards. Pics to follow tonight.

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Mine calls herself the "hunting widdow" this time of year.

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My wife is supportive, but less than thrilled since we have a 15 month daughter.

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:D:D:D:Ddude I am on the floor after reading that, hahaha. Well obviously im not married, on acounta im 14, but I wish to get married when i get older. But I tell you this, Im not gunna marry no woman that complains about me hutnin' thats for sure!!!!!


-Travis-

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My wife's perspective - "you hunt all the time and that's all you do"
Reality - I get to go out may be 3 time a year. Once or twice for dove either all day or 1/2 day, 2-3 days for deer, and may be a day for rabbits and or pheasant. This year I'm probably missing dove all together, but I'm going for grouse.

She hates guns and hates that I hunt, but she loves me enough that she lets me do it, which says a lot for the kind of person that she is. She definitely doesn't understand and definitely disagrees with it, but tolerates it.

I have 2 deer tags for 3rd rifle in mid Nov. Our 5th child is due in early Oct. I'm hoping that she's up to it and that I feel OK taking off for a few days with my oldest son (1 son, 4 daughters). Luckily my kids like the steaks and chorizo I make. My wife won't touch it.

She definitely does her part and I can't complain, but I sure wish she'd come around.

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My wife looks forward into getting me out of her hair. And says she can't wait till it opens. But understand I hunt everyday of the deer season and go to 3 different states form Oct,16 till New Years day. And she gets pretty tierd of it by Thanksgiving and starts complaning but shes a trooper we will be married 33 years this Jan 3 so she's been going through it for a while.

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i was going to tell ya to trade her in but if she allows you to do what you want, when you want, with in reason ,lol and it's not harming your marriage....then she's a keeper.......there are those evil females out there that wouldnt let you do anything but go shopping with them, lol....

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mine used to hunt with me, before the kids..
she kinda gets mad cuz i get to go and get out of the house..

she'll do her part when is needed.. i field dress and quarter , she cuts up, wrap and freezes..the best of all she'll cook and eat it with us..

this is my sons first year and she gave me carte blanche with credit card for him.. gees wished i didn't have everything..:D
very good woman for 17 years..

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Mine gets mad at me b/c she doesn't get to hunt as much as me. Its great to be in the woods w/her. We put up stands together and everything. For my first deer this year she wanted to gut it....... too many flies and wasps so I got in there to speed things along, its great to have a second set of hands. The only bad thing is my equipment gets raided, my deer rifle (semi-custom6.5mauser) was the worst but I got over it.

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My wife saves her vacation for deer season and hunts with me. Always has except a few years that she was just to PG. The kids hunted with us as well. I met my wife many years ago out shooting prairie dogs. I have known her since I was 9 and she was 6. Her whole family hunted, all eleven of them and the parents.

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The better part of me doesn't have a problem with me going hunting.
In fact theres been some times that she's happy to see me go.

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Some of you said your wife "LETS" you go. Look down twinx your legs. Hopefully what you see means you dont have to ask to go hunting or anywhere else for that matter.

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Been married almost 28 years so there is no problem.

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huh? did someone say something?

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Just imagine how precious the time in your stand would be, if you married one of them!

If my wife suddenly left me, I'm sure I could comfort myself with many hours of therapy....right in my tree stand.
I consider the psychological ruination of a hunt a form of abuse, and react accordingly. If your wife interferes with a reasonable amount of hunting, refuse to go to her parents house for a year and absolutely NO shopping trips with her during the long boring month of February. They have no idea how much these two things torture us, do they?
Obviously...my wife keeps her yap shut about it now.
Marriage is NOT servitude. If it becomes such you are in need of a change. As long as you are a good partner to her and take care of family responsibilities, you are entitled to your passions in life.

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CThunter8...you said you're only 14 yrs old. A word of advise on marriage. The complaining doesn't start unitl after you put the ring on their finger. So when you do meet the girl of your dreams be fair to her, and yourself, and let her see what see can expect from you after your married. This goes for everything, not only hunting. If you show her the real you, and she still sticks around, you know she's probably right for you.

But for now just enjoy being a teenager. You'll be saddled soon enough with responsiblity and lifes problems.

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I'm lucky I guess, my father in law hunts and my wife was used to it with him. I spend a lot of time with her and my son from Feburary-September and I try do do everything that they want to do. I coach my son's baseball and football teams so that we can have that time together. I work crazy hours and sometimes it's hard to make the time for the wife but, I will stay until after the high school football game on friday nights so that we can go to them. My club only has 1 weekend that we don't allow guest's so she can come up and stay anytime I am there. She hunts when she can and got her first deer last year on opening weekend. I have friends that envy the situation that I have but, I am sure that there are some people that have it better than me.

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my dose nothing but nag about if every year i just go on an go she tryed to chage me there for a lil bit but this year she said she is thinking of going with me i dont no if that is a good thing or a bad thing

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IMO---husbands and wives need a little time away from each other. Hope it works out for you friend.

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If she begins to say anything, I remind her I am who I am, the choice was hers...I asked her to marry me, it was a simple yes or no answer....

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I work 12 hr nights, and don't always get my work days in a row. Schedule is usually jumbled up, so sometimes it's hard to fit in time for family/hunting, unless I just take off a few days. My wife has never really objected to me going, but she doesn't usually want to try eating it, and I don't think she would want a deer head in her living room. But now that the kids are out of the house( in college) and she isn't busy with them, I think she likes me going, because she values her quiet/alone time. In fact, at Sunday School last week, the teacher asked some of the wives how they encourage and build up their husbands, and mine said she encouraged me to go to the deer lease!!! I'm not sure if she likes me hunting, or just out of her hair. Either way, it's good for me :D

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:):D;)I been married 25 years last month and got a good one. Her dad had taught her how to butcher deer right on the kitchen table at an ealry age. She knows what hunting means to us guys, doesn't always like it come holidays season but she is pretty good about it. She doesn't hunt but does shoot bow with us.

We do our butchering in the garage and she is cheif wrapper as the boys and I do the cutting. She is also on most tracking jobs during local bow hunts. She carries the backpack with the camera, rags and spare lights and such. She just tells everyone the world come to a stop during archery season. So come Sept 30th hang on so you don't fall off. LOL

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My father-in-law hunted, so my wife is used to it. She doesn't like it, and used to gripe and moan to me about it so bad before. Ever since we moved toa new house, and my oldest son started hunting, I don't hear about it any more. I see the trade off as, if I want to go hunting, let her spend time going out with her friends, going shopping, etc. If I hear here complain about the hunting again, then those nights hanging out with friends and shopping trips will also be met with complaints. As for kyhuntr, invite her to come out with you. it may be a tact she is using to get you to stop, but once she is out there, she will she why we love to be out in the woods!

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Lets put it this way, she is not going to pack my lunch for the day. She loves me and puts up with it. I have a good woman.

I always tell her that hunting is better than me going to bars and coming home drunk all the time.:D Not that I would do that anyway.

I have deer season Oct-Dec and wife season Jan-Sept with an occasional trout
fishing trip in the spring.

BDC

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well lets see now ., when my wife say WHATEVER i guess that means i can go hunting.,25 years ago just before we tied the knott ., i told my wife ., i love to hun t., see said cool., oh yes there has been times where the old money factor has come into play ., and she is not happy ., WHATEVER ., and like this week ., my garage got broke into and they stold my bow arrows and case., so now im without bow and hunting starts on saterday ., i say that i need a new bow pakage.,eeeeww she be not happy!but then she knows how much i love to hunt and says do what you have to do ., so all in all she has been a dream catch for me.,:Doh and by the way ., she does not use the word WHATEVER anymore.,lol.,

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Guys I started this thread because I have only been married about 5 years and my wife and I butt heads around this time of year. She dont tell me I cant go, but she complains about me going though. She likes to shoot birds and stuff and i have set up my lil Brothers old bow for her, but we have 2 lil girls that are 5 and 1 1/2 old so she cant really go. When she was young her dad and her brother would hunt like 3-4 times the whole season and that was it. So her idea of deer hunting is to only go a few times a year and that is it. I have a feeling she will come around,

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killadoe ., that is when i had my most problems to ., well they were not problems ., but my wife is saying hey why do you get to have all the fun and i have to take care of kids., so my hunting when my kids were young was alot less then the older they got ., hang in there ,.take what you can now,. for later there will be more.,

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I'm single so my wife rocks during the hunting season!

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My wife as NO issues with me hunting at all. She isn't too crazy about having a mount on the wall if I ever get a buck worthy but she knows and understands why. My wife even buys her licence and goes out with me sometimes. She has never shot a deer but loves to see them and enjoys the outdoors.
I guess I am lucky

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I have been married for 13 years and we dated for a few years before that. My wife new how I was well before we got married and still for some reason married me. She does not hunt but will cook it and eat it. She will buy me hunting stuff and lets me get out only about 50 days a year!! She likes me when hunting season is around because I am so happy!! If I get bogged down with work and don't get out I get miserable and she tells me to go hunting!! I have not gotten permission to hang any mounts in her living room but she let me build a 26x20 garage with an office/sportsman den above it that I can do as I will. One big thing that helps is I mostly hunt close to home, and out behind the house so no travel time. She's a keeper!

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My wife is generally good at leaving me alone to go about hunting, but reminds me that I have other responsibilities, which I would never forget. I wish she had an interest to hunt, but does not. I promised her that I would put forth great effort to infect my 15 month old daughter with the hunting and shooting bug, and she has the gull to doubt my resolve. She will see!

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Mine doesn't mind it too much when I go.

She went with us when I took her son ( my stepson) deer hunting the first time. He got a doe and she got to see him get it. Needless to say she cried and got all upset. While we went to track his deer, the other one that was with it, walked up to her and stood there looking at her.

She doesn't like the idea of killing.

She won't touch a piece of any wildgame, won't even taste it.

She does sorta like the rustic style of all the mounted animals I have, though. That's a plus!

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killadoe: you said, -
Maybe you should get a baby sitter to stay with the kids for a few hours. When our kids were small, we'd get a "grandma" (not always a real grandma, just an older lady friend whom the kids knew) to watch them while WE went hunting. Sometimes we'd even have her stay overnight so we could leave before daylight - or have the kids stay at her house overnight.
My wife loves to deer hunt, and would still go, except her knees won't take the walking right now.
But I'd think that if your wifelikes to hunt, you could find a way to manage taking her with you.
As far as you guys who married women who hate hunting, guns, etc - that ought to be a warning to the single guys. If hunting means a lot to you, make sure the gal you marry enjoys it too. This goes for a lot of other things, too. If more guys would use their brains half as much as they use their hormones when looking for a mate, there'd be a whole lot less alimony payments going on ;).

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Well the grand parents are the ones who keep my girls while we are at work, so when the weekend comes the grandparents are worn out from the week of watching them.. But its all good though, I still have my time in the woods and she does get to go every now and then, she just dont quite understand sometimes...