Hunting question

Wouldn't mind my wife going hunting with me but I know she would never go. She has no interest in shooting something herself,but is quite happy to let me do it for her :) Also, she has a bit of a problem with the whole skinning/butchering process; all she wants to see of it is the neetly wrapped packages in the freezer.
 
My wife does not hunt with me, nor will she. For the most part, I hunt alone.
Sometimes with my buddies during deer/moose seasons. And I take my kids upland/waterfowl hunting.
 
My wife does not have any interest in hunting with me or anyone else.
She can't kill anything.

But she has no problem with my hobby, or what I spend on it. I bought 3 guns this week and not a peep.

She has fired handguns before, but isn't interested in coming to the range. She said that if I get into quilting, she'll come shooting...... so if you come by and catch me at the sewing machines, don't get the wrong idea!
 
50-50, she likes the camping bit and I like having a cook in the rv. When it gets cold her and the kids are elsewhere for now.
 
Ummm........can't ever see that happening in our camp. Too much arguing over doing the dishes etc. Only way I'd ever get mine out would be to drag her corpse with me. Even then she'd haunt me. Won't go anywhere that doesn't have running water, toilets, showers etc.
 
My wife loves to come along for the camping, sitting around the campfire bit, and though she has shot a goose and a deer, she really hates getting up two hours before daybreak to go hunting, so she keeps camp.

Once something is on the ground though, she is right in there gutting and skinning like a pro. Back home she takes charge of the butchering too. She likes to the cut the meat into the cuts she likes to cook.

On one trip one October (when I talked her into going seeing as we both woke up several hours before daybreak) we just went on a speculative day trip and when we stopped in one spot at sun-up she started picking berries and I went for a short walk and shot a bear. We had it gutted and skinned in about 45 minutes, in the truck a little while later in chunks and were down at the river making breakfast on an open fire by around 9:00 a.m.
 
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My wife usually comes moose hunting with me, but she really dislikes he hunting anything else. She finds moose both stupid and ugly, which makes them fine to kill, but everything else she can't stand the idea of me hunting. She is great to be with on the moose hunt however.
 
My wife does not hunt or shoot. She did camp with me once, when I took her to the Continental Divide and we hiked and fished on our anniversary.

She is into the opera, symphony, leisure lunches with gf's and upper crust get-togethers. I tag along on those just so people don't think she is single or that I died. I'd rather pee blood tho. I'm just not too good with hanging out with bajillionairs although Ive guided a few and found them no different than anyone else.

Ever since I told her friend that Bambi wasn't real and if she did more outdoors stuff she wouldn't have such a fat ass, I haven't been invited out much........

We are polar opposites in most ways.
 
My wife IS my big game partner... She's not interested, for the most part, in chasing small game, so that is my time with the guys and dogs.

Cheers
Jay
 
I tried to get her out for the longest time. Finally got her out and she enjoyed it for about the first hour- Hour and a half then wanted to leave. Was not for her she said. Enjoyed watching the different critters running around but could not stand to sit there so quiet for so long:):). I here people biting their tongues on that one.
 
JennifersEverywhere said:
This is just pure curiosity on my part.

Many guys posting here seem pretty enthusiastic about getting the women in their life out to the range.

Does that hold true for hunting, also? I asked a friend of mine why she didn't hunt with her dh, and she said hunting was his time to be away with the guys and she didn't mind that one bit.

What's your preference - is your hunting time your "time with the guys" or would you prefer to bring your significant other if she would agree to go?
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It all depends how well she does at keeping her mouth shut. Maybe she wants to do me in. My wife passed away last Nov. She would rather shop then hunt any day.

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wow... you guys are crazy. hunting is the one time it is acceptable to tell honey bird, i want to do this alone/with friends...lol.. cap it... it is payment for all the curtian picking/ carpet picking/ paint swatches you went over.. pretending to care! its a trade off =):dancingbanana:
 
I second that..

I think a real hunting camp is kinda gender specific. In our group one friend wanted to bring his gf so we just made excuses and didnt include him the next year. Alot of the fun is beeing away from the women and the kids.. If i had no hunting partners, maybe my gf could come...? nothing wrong with day trips i guess. Your husband might be cool with it.. but how happy is he if going to be if he breaks up everyones group hunt because he tried to change it..
 
My sweetie has actually offered to hunt with and to stay and mind the camp to keep the ne'er do wells away from our stuff. And she collects knives too!!
I have set up a throwing target for her to throw her shivs and other nasty stuff. Has her own 22 so far. I have no problem hunting with her if she will come. Good company too and she doesnt drink....
 
Hunting with the Ex

We hunted when we were together, and since we split we still make a couple of trips a year.

She has hunted with the odd new man in her life, but says she prefers to hunt with me.

I like hunting with the softer ### sometimes, they have a differant perspective on hunting then we do.

She is as capable of, if not more then some of my other hunting buddies.
 
while not hunting, a chick I took to the range a couple of times (and who keeps asking me to go) has just signed up to start doing mounted shooting (for those out of the rodeo loop, its basically shooting targets with a six shooter from horse back)

I put that in the win column
 
I think women not being in hunt camps is a self propagating cycle. Women weren't there so men and women didn't expect them to be. Therefore, women aren't there. Probably a lot more women hunters than 20 years ago.

I don't think my girlfriend would hunt, but she would almost certainly enjoy the camp and getting dirty (hey now) butchering animals bit. That's just how she is. I suspect she visualises all the different things she could cook with an animal and everything else goes out the window.

Saw a rabbit get dinged by a car once, first thing out of her mouth was "Ooohhh, poor bunny.... Do you think it's ok to eat it?"
 
Here are a couple of my favorite hunting "buddies."


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The girls don't like this picture as they say they look too plump with all the warm hunting clothing on.
I hunt with a number of male friends, my son and my brother but I sure like to be out with my wife and daughter.

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Darcy shot an antelope last fall.

Robin in Rocky
 
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