Going Hunting with my wife for the first time right now!

Doesn't get much better than this and if she likes it shes talking about taking the safety course next year and hunting on her own!

Gonna go load up the Hawken right now....stay tuned.....

Oh and Happy Thanksgiving, I know I have a lot to be thankful for!

Billy

 

[jethro224]

Ya musta got a good one Billy. :thumbsup:

Good luck on your hunt and Happy Thanksgiving back at ya! :hatsoff:

 

Thanks she is a keeper, when we first started dating she used to send checks to PETA. LOL I can't wait till we get our first deer together. Gonna take a pic with a sign saying I USED TO SUPPORT PETA... LOL

Great time, no deer, just too dang hot in NY today.

B

 

[bucktales]

Good on ya! :thumbsup:
Nice having a hunting spouse. Mine's been my hunting partner for the last 10 yrs. My wife and I went out for pheasant this afternoon. Like you said , too dang hot. Got a couple of birds, but still finding ticks on the dog. Stopped counting at 80.
Out for deer in the A.M.

 

[playfarmers]

Happy to hear. My wife has been hunting with me for the last 20 years. We look forward to it each year.

 

[bigbore442001]

Excellent. I wished Mary would join me but she is more of an indoor girl.

 

[rbfree]

Thanks she is a keeper, when we first started dating she used to send checks to PETA. LOL I can't wait till we get our first deer together. Gonna take a pic with a sign saying I USED TO SUPPORT PETA... LOL

Great time, no deer, just too dang hot in NY today.

B

She must be a looker cause Peta member and this crew would be a tuff combo. lol

 

I'll never forget when I told her I was a big time hunter. lol The silence was unreal and sometimes longed for to this day but thats another story. lol

I'll snap a pic of her in your camo's next time we go out.

B

 

[BrownBear]

Watchyertopknot pilgrim!

I'm happy to say my wife has been an enthusiastic hunter for the nearly 40 years we've been married, but it comes at a price. Here's some booby traps to watch for on the huntin marriage trail:

Way, way too often my wife will shoot one of my guns and decide right then and there it's "her" gun. (Same for fly rods, BTW).

In 40 years she never has figured out how to clean a muzzleloader, reload a rifle cartridge, or gut a deer. You just have to recognize that some wimmin are just not as smart as you.

She's been real happy with the CVA Bobcat 36 I've had her using for snowshoe hare, but that's mostly cuzz she's never carried or shot my Crockett 32. BUT!!!! She saw the pic of a trade rifle here on the web, and "suggested" that her 36 might look real good dressed up like a trade rifle. I think she's serious, cuzz every time we load up for a snowshoe hunt, the subject comes up again. I figure she'll start askin to shoot my Crockett if I don't get on with the project real soon. And we both know what that will mean!

And forget about your doe tags when your wife is along! She'll be the first to split the heart on a buck, but don't you dare shoot a doe or suggest she do it. "Oh, the poor thing!" Yeah, wimmin stick together even when they never been introduced.

 

[jimmy82]

"In 40 years she never has figured out how to clean a muzzleloader, reload a rifle cartridge, or gut a deer. You just have to recognize that some wimmin are just not as smart as you."

No your wife has you fooled... she hasn't learned that so that you can do it for her and she can get to doing other things while you break out the elbow grease.

My sister is the same way :rotf: my dad made me gut my second ever deer and everyone after that. The first one was my lesson. But she only helps dad a little, and she's 26 years old. Heaven forbid she get to much blood on her hunting outfit.

I went home on leave one time after my sister had started using MY shotgun for pheasant(she is lucky I outgrew it, and she better not touch my $2000 SKB or she'll lose fingers), I had to clean it because dad had tried teaching her and she still couldn't do it. While I was trying to teach her to take it apart she kept leaving the room and messing around with the dogs :cursing: . I think dad still cleans that shotgun for her.

It isn't that they aren't as smart as us, it the opposite. They play dumb and we assume they can't grasp certain things when in fact they know exactly what they are doing.

But they are the fair sex and the best we can do is :surrender: if we don't want life to be unpleasant.

 

[LadyColeman]

OK as a woman I have to chime in here. I agree that the women that say they can't fugure it out are probably fooling you so that you do it for them, but men do the same thing for things like how to use the washing machine. Anyway, I have not been hunting yet, but when my hubby gets home is is going to take me. If I get a deer, I will learn to dress it, not saying I will enjoy it, but I will learn. And as far as cleaning my gun, that will be something that I learn quickly. I dont know much about guns but I do know that it is important to keep it clean and taken care of. I am really looking forward to hunting!!!!

 

[BrownBear]

Great outlook, LadyColeman. You'll go far.

Actually it's all in very good fun between my wife and I. She's capable and willing, but has more fun trying to con me into it. You should see what happens when she gangs up with her mother. And her two sisters. And her niece. And our own daughter. And our granddaughter. The men in the family are wildly outnumbered at gatherings, but it's all still in good fun.

We've been known to stand together and recite the Man's Prayer from the Red Green Show on PBS: "I'm a man. But I can change. If I have to. I guess."

None of us can understand why, but that's about the favorite show of all the women in our extended family. Just seems like guys doin regular stuff to me.

 

[playfarmers]

My wife has never cleaned her muzzleloader, but did gut her second deer. After that experience she says, she will do the cooking, I have to gut the deer and clean the guns. She is a great cook so I don't mind a bit. I did make my living cutting meat for 10 years, so I am at home with a knife in my hand.

 

Great to hear about another couple hunting! I threw my back out so haven't been back in the woods since. Hopefully that will be better by the weekend so we can get back out there again. I want to do my best to get a good neck shot so my wife can enjoy the anatomy lesson. I'll only take such a shot if its up close and personal but I will try. Have two doe tags left for regular season and then an either sex for both late muzzleloader and late archery in Dec! Should get at least one more by then. Got a report of 20 in one spot the other day. :grin:

Good luck and enjoy the hunt. Wife helped me butcher the button buck and said she'll pass on that part next time. lol I think we've been watching DEXTER too much on Showtime. It's the only show we watch other than news or history, discovery, etc.

Cant' wait for this back to quit it's nonsense so I can get back out there.

B

 

You guys who have spouses (spices?) that hunt with you are extremely lucky. I had a girl friend that loved to hunt and shoot but I thought that marrying a different gal was the way to go. Paying for that stupid decission now - and forever.

 

[bucktales]

yep, life is good. :grin:
My wife and the young pup chasin them birds the other day.