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Does your spouse share your interest in,,

montanajoemontanajoe Forums Admins, Member, Moderator Posts: 60,266 ******
edited January 2021 in General Discussion

guns,shooting,hunting?? Are they a forum member?

My wife is my backup, shooting,and hunting partner. I'm pretty lucky.

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  • William81William81 Member Posts: 25,507 ✭✭✭✭

    My bride shoots with me a few times a year.....hunting is not her thing at all,

    Mostly she supports my enjoyment of it all and tolerates me in general !!.🦌

  • mark christianmark christian Member Posts: 24,443 ✭✭✭✭
    edited January 2021

    My girlfriend likes shooting handguns- caliber from .32 up to .44 magnum, but she doesn't have any interest in rifles other than machineguns. Hunting doesn't interest her at all. Forum member? No.

  • savage170savage170 Member Posts: 37,572 ✭✭✭✭

    Mine likes to shoot handguns especially the revolvers and does quite good at sporting clays. She tolerates my hunting. Biggest draw back is some of my favorite revolvers she now consider hers

  • hillbillehillbille Member Posts: 14,461 ✭✭✭✭

    mine likes to shoot, but arthritis has gotten her to point pistols hurt to shoot, rifles seem to knock her neck out of whack. tried to take her fishing last year but she only made about half hour in the boat and sounded like one of the grandkids, jabbering about anything and everything and complaining there weren't any fish in the lake, I now fish by myself.....

  • montanajoemontanajoe Forums Admins, Member, Moderator Posts: 60,266 ******

    Bless her heart. 🙂

  • scooterdriverscooterdriver Member Posts: 1,197 ✭✭✭✭
  • He DogHe Dog Member Posts: 51,593 ✭✭✭✭

    Yep, supports, hunts small game, shoots. has had handgun training, keeps one by the bedside. Come on over.😊

  • Smitty500magSmitty500mag Member Posts: 13,623 ✭✭✭✭

    My wife and I have hunted, fished, and target practiced together for over a half century. While on the road the past 20 years before our retirement in 2014 we mostly just shot paper targets. She's always had my back and she's always been a better shot with a handgun than me.

  • pickenuppickenup Member Posts: 22,844 ✭✭✭✭

    Forum member - No.

    Shooting - given time she is deadly.

    Not so much on hunting, but when she wants to dispatch a critter, she hits what she aims at.

    Firearms - she has laid claim to a number of them, that I have brought home.

    She has a CCW.

    She bought me a new firearm before we were married. Thought she might be a keeper then.

    Still thinking she might be.

  • Ditch-RunnerDitch-Runner Member Posts: 25,394 ✭✭✭✭

    my wife supports me to a point in all my hobbies as long as I do not get carried away $$ I still have the all same hobbies as when we got married she will help if I need her when working on any thing and is handy in her own wright in many areas she does not shoot much if any lately but still comes out to enjoy every one else when we have back yard shooting ammo dump days . she hates the left for wanting to take away out gun rights as much as any one could

    yep she is a keeper but we have been married 42 years I guess its obvious too late in life to start over now LOL

  • MobuckMobuck Member Posts: 14,167 ✭✭✭✭

    "Mine doesn't have any interest in anything I do."

    DITTO (except for the additions I make to the bank account)

  • ridgleyartridgleyart Member Posts: 937 ✭✭✭✭

    No interest at all.

  • badchrisbadchris Member Posts: 1,676 ✭✭✭

    No and no. But we're both OK with that.

    Enemies of armed self-defense focus on the gun. They ignore the person protected with that gun.
  • dreherdreher Member Posts: 8,893 ✭✭✭✭

    Nope. Not a bit of interest in anything I do.


    Remember, this can be a positive thing. If I can get it from my car into my gun safe unseen, I'm gold. She has no idea what is in my gun safe so if I get something out of the safe she assumes it has been there for years. One long gun looks just like every other long gun to her, all handguns look alike to her!!


    She also has no clue what I pay for my rabbit breeding stock. Since every rabbit I have descends from the top two or three breeders in the country this is a good thing.

  • jimdeerejimdeere Member, Moderator Posts: 26,291 ******

    No, but she buys me a gun most every Christmas and birthday.

  • BobJudyBobJudy Member Posts: 6,675 ✭✭✭✭

    I actually first met Judy at the local shooting club that we both belong to. Don't tell her that I said this, but Judy is a better trap shooter than I am. I can beat her at skeet and sporting clays but I do have to work at it. She is also a pretty fair rifle shot as well. As we get older we don't shoot as much as we used to but she surprises me how well she can do considering how little practice she gets. Bob

  • randomnutrandomnut Member Posts: 942 ✭✭✭
    edited January 2021

    Yes. The wife loves camping, hiking, shooting, hunting, traveling, etc.

    We've made several hunting trips this year around home, and throughout the Midwest.

    Last weekend we scouted for deer, turkey, and ducks all across Oklahoma.

    This spring we'll turkey hunt in possibly 4 states.

  • rossowmnrossowmn Member Posts: 1,959 ✭✭✭

    She has no interest in guns other than asking that I keep them out of the way. Not a forum member.

  • NeoBlackdogNeoBlackdog Member Posts: 17,290 ✭✭✭✭

    Mine likes to shoot. She's pretty fair with a pistol, decent at the trap line, can mag-dump an AR like a pro, and is absolutely deadly with her rifle (700 LTR in 308). She doesn't attend the defensive pistol matches with me now but says when we get retired she'll probably start.

    She's also a fishin' machine. Doesn't seem to matter what we fish for she will almost always catch the most and the biggest.

    She says it's only because I'm the best fishin' guide in the world but I know better. Our friends call her the 'fish witch'.

  • mogley98mogley98 Member Posts: 18,291 ✭✭✭✭

    My wife enjoys shooting and she teaches CWP classes, neither of us are big hunters. Funny thing I was going to cull some of the safe and she said NO she wants to keep them all!

    Why don't we go to school and work on the weekends and take the week off!
  • SCOUT5SCOUT5 Member Posts: 16,181 ✭✭✭✭

    What's this spouse you speak of?

  • Ruger4meRuger4me Member, Moderator Posts: 3,866 ******

    Mine likes to shoot, we took the CCL class together 7 years ago, we don't really hunt but not against it. Not a forum member as far as I know....LOL

  • JimmyJackJimmyJack Member Posts: 5,517 ✭✭✭✭

    No but she supports my interests.

  • William81William81 Member Posts: 25,507 ✭✭✭✭

    And hopefully she is not reading this over your shoulder !! 🤨😉

  • yonsonyonson Member Posts: 952 ✭✭✭

    Wife is a venison freak but has never hunted, I am expected to keep the freezer stocked (we process our own meat, all steaks & roasts). We both have carry permits but she rarely shoots. Mutual interest in Bluegrass music, which is how we met.

  • Grunt2Grunt2 Member Posts: 2,524 ✭✭✭✭

    The wife loves "range time" and turkey hunting...No big game for her...Heck of a shot and has won a couple of turkey shoots...

    She is the daughter of a uranium miner and was brought up on rabbit, deer and elk and does not care for it...

    44 years for us...she is a keeper!!!

    Retired LEO
    Combat Vet VN
    D.A.V Life Member
  • ltcdotyltcdoty Member Posts: 4,184 ✭✭✭

    Up here in New York on the Vermont border, and my wife is from the western slope of Colorado. She has shot more deer then me, has butchered elk along with her sisters and brothers. She has a New York State pistol license, and is a good shot. She also is good at shooting skeet.

    She has shot every gun I own from matchlocks , flintlocks , and every other gun I own. If some ner do well should break in, and run into her first.....I get a chill running up my spine.😮

  • Grunt2Grunt2 Member Posts: 2,524 ✭✭✭✭

    Where in CO...?

    Retired LEO
    Combat Vet VN
    D.A.V Life Member
  • bpostbpost Member Posts: 32,669 ✭✭✭✭

    Wife #1.... Sort of, she would shoot and enjoy the outdoors, camping and the like.

    Wife #2.... not so much, she lied about loving fishing in Alaska before we got hitched, she fished once with me.

    Wife#3... Nope, she was too interested in stealing what she could from me, lying about everything from the day I met her.

  • buddybbuddyb Member Posts: 5,395 ✭✭✭✭

    There is a 8 point whitetail buck mount hanging over my desk now that my wife killed a few years ago with her own model 70 super grade.She loves fishing and shooting.

  • Okie743Okie743 Member Posts: 2,736 ✭✭✭✭
    edited January 2021


    I found that the less the wife knows about my firearms and hunting/fishing equipment the more I can accumulate without being cross examined by the wife. (and I do not have to buy her something (diamonds and jewelry) of equal value to appease her for what I have bought for myself if I can keep it hidden)

    I also store sporting eq for the grandkids so if she inquires about something, it's most generally belongs to one of the grandkids and no further investigations.

    If the wife starts getting mad at you, think of your hunting and fishing equipment FIRST before you pop your jaws, be nice, because you may have to sacrifice your equipment due to your mouth.

  • NeoBlackdogNeoBlackdog Member Posts: 17,290 ✭✭✭✭

    Welcome to the zoo, Pepperjean! You sound like you'll fit right in!

  • diver-rigdiver-rig Member Posts: 6,336 ✭✭✭✭
    edited January 2021

    The wife unit loves to fish, and periodically deer hunts with me. She grew up in Minnersota, with dad and stepmom having a cabin up nort, along with her grandparents on her mother's side, on the same lake. (My parents had a place directly across a narrow finger from her dad.)


    Been together since '88 with a 5 year hiatus while I was in the USMC.


    She shot a button buck this year. Her third deer. She keeps harping me to build a proper range out back so she and the girls can shoot more.


    She truly loves to fish, and takes our daughters a lot more than I do, or we do.

  • 44pinshooter44pinshooter Member Posts: 1,051 ✭✭✭

    My wife owns her own guns. Use to shot some of the pin and steel matches with me. Does not care to hunt, it is the part about killing she don't care for, but some times she tags along with me hunting, just to enjoy the out doors. She spent more than a few nights helping me load ammo when I was doing pins, steel, I.S.P.C. and prairie dog whackin'. She had me show her how to break down all her guns so she could clean them herself. Her last gun, a S&W M&P Shield 9mm, she went and got all by herself, told me after she bought it.

    Besides all that, she is my bestest friend and has put up with me for over 35 years. Yeah, I'll keep her.

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