Being now married for seven months I'm starting to arrive to some deep philosophical conclusions, such as, why the hell I don't get married with my hunting buddy ???

When wife says (usually at 3 am) "we need to talk"...she refers to future, family, mothers in law, etc

When hunting buddy says "we need to talk" he refers to calibers, game, rifles, etc..

Wife gets angry if I don't watch with her Brad Pitt's last movie..

Hunting buddy gets angry if I don't watch with him Craig Boddington's last movie...

When wife organize a card play she is thinking in inviting her cousins and old uncles to have tea and play bridge.

When hunting buddy organize a card play he is thinking in inviting a bunch of hunters and that usually involves money, whisky and cigarretes till late hours.

Wife complains about how much hunting I'm doing now.

Hunting buddy about how little hunting I'm doing now.

The list goes on and on...

What more I've to discover???

L

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Being now married for seven months I'm starting to arrive to some deep philosophical conclusions, such as, why the hell I don't get married with my hunting buddy ???

If you don't know the answer to that one, I think you are beyond our help (or you have an entirely different type of hunting buddy).

My wife does not like my being gone on hunting trips but has grown more supportive over the years. I recently returned from being gone and out of touch for more than two weeks and she has been pretty good about the whole thing. But, that is after 15 years of marriage.

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What more I've to discover???

L

Well, you could discover that there are females that hunt and could carry on a conversation with you, go hunting with you, etc...but...sounds like it's too late!

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Originally posted by Aspen Hill Adventures:
Well, you could discover that there are females that hunt and could carry on a conversation with you, go hunting with you, etc...but...sounds like it's too late!

Yes, I think the cows are already out of the barn on that one...

Tomorrow is Wifezilla's and my 28th wedding anniversary. She leaves my gun/fishing room alone and I don't divorce her, it's worked so far.

I must start by convincing her how good venison is....then maybe we can upgrade her to the category of "hunting buddy"

L

Hope you don't discover that your wife knows how to read your post, or the only hunting you'll be doing is for some flowers or jewelry!

3 ex wives, 1 wife, 3 children of my own, 4 $$ sucking bratty step daughters, and I finally realized I should have gone hunting more often for venison than women!
Gee isn't life just grand!
LIVE & LEARN then buy a good hunting dog. That dog will get up at 4 AM with you sit in a wet blind,eat your leftovers,put her head in your lap,and when you get home after stopping for a drink with the boys at the local bar to talk women and hunting, that same dog will jump onto your lap for a hug and a pat on the head. Wyn

yeh but there is one thing the dog cant do for you, unless of course your like that bloke from Kenya who got caught with the goat/sheep or whatever it was

you don't need to make her your wife to do that!

It gets better with time, if you stay with one wife. This year I will leave for Zim on our 41st anv. and she stays home.

My fiance grew up hunting with her dad, she has two shotguns (nicer than mine) and carries a .45 acp on her CCW that she got before meeting me.

She also just arranged to purchase a Marlin Guide Gun in .45-70 after falling in love with mine.

There's venison in the crockpot at home and she just sent me an email reminding me that I have to fix cornbread to go with it.

Maybe you just need to get your wife interested in the sport? Any version of the shooting/hunting/collecting sport...

PS. don't challange my lil woman to a tequila drinking contest.

Life is Good!

oh! I have a good woman now, whom inherited her daddy's sporting goods storeS.She's been across the salt pond hunting with me couple of times. She doesn't drink a drop, I do the cooking cause all she eats is salad an fruit, and we have a gal come over twice a week to clean the house up after my labs.
I'm just still paying for my "wilder days" of chasing women, golf balls, and my secretary

I'm very fortunate.

I've seen my wife shoveling blood with a snowshovel to clear the area around a bison bull's carcass because it was getting to the top of her boots.

She stood beside me with a steady rifle at the ready as a herd of about 150 bison thundered right at us, and passed on both sides within five yards of where we stood.

One winter's day, she killed three caribou from the deck of our rural home, and had them gutted and up on the deck by the time I got home from shooting four others a little further away.

She cooks like a Cordon Bleu chef (specifically including game meat), looks like a million bucks, and also likes fishing, canoeing, etc.

It's 38 years and counting....

I meant to include this in my previous post. Dunno where I found it, but I like it!

"Marrying for sex is like buying a 747 for the peanuts."

Until this year, my wife had never been hunting with me. We've been married for 33 years. My son and his wife and I were going sage rat hunting (more accurately shooting instead of hunting). When she saw how destructive the little varmints were she decided to give it a try. Now, if I want my rifle back, I'm going to have to buy her one. It was great fun watching her grimmace every time pieces of sage rat went flying in all directions. You just have to find the right animal and you can have another hunting buddy. Gary t.

Make a few hunting trips where the wife can go along. I went to New Zealand a couple years ago & hunted for 4 days, sent the wife on a train tour w/ her girlfriend during my hunting time. We got back together & played tourist for another week. She had a great time, so did I.

Solution is simple. Either marry a hunter or teach her to hunt. My wife is my hunting buddy.
273 yard shot on a running ostrich in the Kalahari.

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Originally posted by Mighty Joe:
Solution is simple. Either marry a hunter or teach her to hunt. My wife is my hunting buddy.
273 yard shot on a running ostrich in the Kalahari.

Man look at them legs. On the bird you know

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Originally posted by Lorenzo:


I must start by convincing her how good venison is....then maybe we can upgrade her to the category of "hunting buddy"

L

A word of caution, upgrades to "Wife 1.0" can cause system crashes and unstable operation of the "system", be careful, use lots of chocolate and flowers!!

I was lucky enough to marry my first hunting partner. She always encourages me to use enough gun.

Seriously , I would like to get married again, but am so afraid of what happened with the past one that I haven't even dated lately. Finding a wife who hunts is like finding a treasure chest in the back yard...its happened, but not that often.

If I don't find a tall, slender, non-smoking Republican woman who likes guns and hunting, I'll stay single. I see no logical reason to compromise. There are worse things than living alone.

Russ

Twenty seven years ago we got married. Six months later she proclaimed " I didn't know you hunted so much - I explained, that's because we got married in fishing season". Ten years ago, she explained to friends, he hunted 90 days that year! Today, she drug 2 100# boxes of African taxidermy supplies into the foyer, and bitched because they back-ordered the hartebeest and wildebeest forms, and didn't include the right eyes! Life really is what you make of it.

I can't picture you playing 'Bridge', Lorenzo !!! I surely must have read that wrong ??? On safari next year, however, if you insist on playing that game I suppose we could bring over a few Himba chicks to accompany you ...

Paladin said:

Maybe you just need to get your wife interested in the sport? Any version of the shooting/hunting/collecting sport...

You can't teach an old dog new tricks!

OK, so how young is the bitch? Sorry, how young is your wife?

In good hunting.

Andrew McLaren

#1 & #2 did not fish or hunt.
Total time wasted 7 years.

#3 is going on 14 years this summer.

Difference? #1 & #2 were taken to fancy restaurants etc. First date with #3 was a float trip on the Yellowstone. Got serious with #1 & #2 after they said they "loved me"; got serious with #3 after she shot her first antelope.

#3 and I fish in Yellowstone Park July and August and hunt antelope, deer and elk in the fall. She has her own custom Ruger No.1 in 270 and is a fair shot with her Super BlackHawk 44.

We are planning 21 days in Africa next year.

If you don't like to do the same stuff it won't last or, you just get pissed off at the other person when you "have to" do something you could care less about or that prevents you from following your own passions.

Lorenzo

Do what all Latin safari hunters do. Get a safari mistress.

Just remember to take two cameras and two sets of film.

Then you will have three to worry about - the wife, the buddy, and the mistress. Write a book.

Lorenzo

I may have solved the PROBLEM !!!!

How about I offer a special {LOST WIVES in AFRICA SAFARI} for those that have MARRIED hunters..

We can make it a 12-day Safari for the gal's and they can do all the girlie things like shopping shopping shopping .....

Just one thing or word of warning (hunters) you better hide your credit cards as their safari may cost a lot more than your plains game SA hunt will

Peter

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Originally posted by NitroX:
Lorenzo

Do what all Latin safari hunters do. Get a safari mistress.

Just remember to take two cameras and two sets of film.

Then you will have three to worry about - the wife, the buddy, and the mistress. Write a book.

For the family album



SafariHunt and me

For private (show buddies) album



Nicolette (Miss Limpopo) and me !

please keep this post confidential !

cc

I see you have a website now. So this is what you've been doing all the while. I guess I'll just have to check it out after this. Any discount on your CD for AR members since I've missed the free Beta version a while back?

475 guy

Actually that was two years ago and what has been taking my time lately is to much work. However now it looks like I will be able to spend time to do what I like and that will be noticed on this forum. My movie "Africa and the Big Viking - South African Adventures" are not yet available in an NTSC version but that will happen soon. About discounts I can't say more then it will be well worth the money to buy the movie even at full price !

In the meantime I can tease you with another project I am up to at the moment. Check out this promotional trailer here.

cchunter skeet trailer

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