How many others have wives that hate you going hunting?

My wife used to hunt with me, not sure why she stopped but the only grief i get is when a new toy comes home. She will go fishing on a nice day but reads a book, doesn`t like to eat fish either.
 
If there's one thing worth getting in a fight over, it's your personal freedom, especially if you've done nothing wrong. I'm sure a lot of guys have ex's who thought that their mans time on earth was meant for subservience. I just can't understand it.

As for the hunting, I have her blessing no matter what and she likes to hunt as well.:)
 
I don't feel that my wife gives me any gears when I go out for anything, or buy whatever, but if she's been up all night with our 1 yr old, of course I stay home. Family comes before some hobby. Then next time I hunt harder. If you've got a hobby worth more to you then your family, stop chasing the dragon ;)

These are usually the days when my post count goes up. :/

saskgunowner101 said:
I'm sure a lot of guys have ex's who thought that their mans time on earth was meant for subservience.
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Well, that is a whole nother can of worms. Why would anyone stay with that gongshow?
 
My wife isn't too bad. Sometimes I get the why did you get to go out but I didn't and I have to sit home and watch the kids etc.

But most times I involve her and the kids when I come home cleaning animals. If I ever get any...

And this year she says she wants to start shooting again and come hunting with me so Ya! Just hard to get baby sitters at 4 am!

Hope to get her gun and hunting courses soon.

Her Dad is one of the reasons I wanted to hunt, he doesn't hunt anymore but his stories and experience made me go to my dad and get him hunting again.
 
There's no doubt about it that certain obligations would trump hunting/hobbies, but more to my mind, the unexpected kind. If I wake up and furnace is broke, I'm probably fixing it instead of walking out the door chasing deer. Or the example carbonrod gave about the sick child.

The OP got his gear together, fed the baby and put her back to bed.....just to have the missus lord over him at the door. Maybe if she has the time to play warden, she has time to feed the baby and let the OP out the door?? I'd feel like a prick for keeping the gf from going out to do something while she was doing some chore I could easily do.
 
I suggested a husband-wife moose camp this year. There was an erie silence and then my buddy said "That's possibly the biggest brain fart you've ever had!"

They then looked like they were going to hang me beside our moose.

Let this be never spoken of again.
 
Leaving at 5am to go hunting is no big deal. Sneaking out at 5 am on the other hand...

Mine does not hunt, fish or shoot, but fully encourages me to go hunting/fishing for the food value. She would rather eat free range game and fresh fish than store bought meat, and respects my job as the hunter to bring it home.

That said, For hunting trips i still need advanced planning or she gets paniky because she seems to have almost every move we make planned out for the next two weeks... and she does'nt embrace a change in the agenda so well. If i tried to sneak out of a day she had planned i'd be up the creek without my rifle.
 
buckrodgers said:
Well its 6 am, got my gear at the door, fed the baby and got her back to sleep and guess what? Moma bear standing in the porch caught me on the way out! Man i felt like i was in highschool again sneaking out for the night! lol. WTF is wrong with women. Anyhow just wondering if others had the same issue with there wife,gf ect?
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That sucks. My wife knows that I do stuff around the house. She also know that I give up my hunting time to either be there for her or the kids. She doesn't complain when I do go out, unless it is last minute and we didn't communicate schedules. She will not partake, but my wife doesn't mind me hunting and knows that I am providing for the family and I can blow off some steam doing it!

Sounds like you were doing your best to make your lady's morning a bit easier. If she doesn't appreciate that, than what does she appreciate?

I'm not saying... I'm just saying.
 
3macs1 said:
That is exactly where I am and it gets no better after 34 years and the kids are gone. A gun arrives and all I hear is it must be nice as I lay two boxes next to it one with a 180.00 pair of shoes in it for her and god knows what she has in the other one.:confused:
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That's easy!

$180 shoes that are worth nothing the moment they leave the store vs a firearms worth four times that amount, that will keep much of its value indefinitely.

Ted
 
My wife has hunted with me for the past 25 years. If I ever start to look at gun too long she just says get it you know you want it. We spent our honeymoon in a camper van going from lake to lake fishing, among other things. It has been great ever since. Before that I was married to a shrew that #####ed at everything I got for hunting or fishing, that lasted 4 1/2 years, pure hell.
 
My wife enjoys going hunting with me but I have the in laws over for thanksgiving and they are driving me up the wall. I tried to sneak out for goose hunting just after lunch and I got a big ear full of not wanting to spend time with the family, how i never want to do stuff with them etc. I almost made it but here I am watching my mother in law do her thing and I'm hearing the geese fly outside. Halp?
 
My GF and her whole family were out on the quads with me today looking for bush chickens!

Only got 1, but they were all excited. She is always supportive, her parents I was unsure of, until today. Dad wanted to see how I breast it, and mom is into birding/banding, so I cut off a wing for her to take to show her bird banding group.

All in all a great trip.
 
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