Someone spill the beans please.. I have read several stories here about some of you whose wife goes with you on safari. And some of them not only sightsee but hunt with you also while on safari. What I want to know is what is the secret to finding a good female friend that would actually hunt with me when I get to go on safari??

Jarrod,

Don't do it!! She'll only end up out shooting you with any gun she picks up , then you'll be left with a bunch of trophy fees to pay!!

I got flattened my my missus a couple of weeks ago while away where she out shot me with evry thing she picked up. The thing was she'd never fired a centrefire before!! Not to mention a handgun etc.

I'm praying she doesn't start hunting...

FB

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Originally posted by Jarrod:
Someone spill the beans please.. I have read several stories here about some of you whose wife goes with you on safari. And some of them not only sightsee but hunt with you also while on safari. What I want to know is what is the secret to finding a good female friend that would actually hunt with me when I get to go on safari??

How would you find a woman from Kentucky, or Texas who doesn't shoot, and hunt!

Sign seen in the back window of a car in Ireland

"Wife Wanted"
Must be good cook, have own boat and be able to dig worms.
Please send photo - (of boat)

Mac, you left out Alabama.....


Wife Melanie with wilderbeast shot with 375H&H, she's 4'11"


Alabama turkey..

Only bad side is that they will kill bigger stuff than you...and your hunting costs just doubled. Well, actually more than doubled...you ever seen a woman shop for clothes at a better sporting goods store????
troy

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What I want to know is what is the secret to finding a good female friend that would actually hunt with me when I get to go on safari??

What you need to do is not find a woman who would hunt with you but eliminate those who won't. If they don't like your trophy heads, say goodby. Ask a prospect to hunt with you; if they won't, say goodby, etc.

In a way, I wish my wife would go with me to Africa. On the other hand, she would probably forbid me from hunting if it was raining (yes, she tells me what to do even though I'm bigger and shoot bigger guns).

A buddy of mine has a 9' Marlin, a decent black bear rug, a 20 lb pike and a couple of nice whitetail mounts in his rec room.

They're all his wife's...

Well, I found mine in college. I discovered that most of the girls hanging around the ag college were raised in or near rural settings adn had been exposed to shooting and some form of hunting at early ages. Some had even participated. My wife grew up shooting and had hunted birds and small game with her dad. The interest was there, I just helped cultivate it. You all have seen several pictures of her on this forum. We've hunted many places together, and she's taken some nice animals including oryx, antelope, deer, and hogs.

Find a gal who has been brought up right. I've already introduced our 4-year old daughter to shooting and hunting, so hopefully she'll make someone a good hunting partner one day.

My Bride is a life long Vegetarian and former Peta member.

Only through actually seeing how Wildlife is truly utilized and the benefits it brings the local African community, has she embraced my Hunting. Intelligent individuals can be transformed when they are open and receptive to actual facts versus the false propoganda spewed forth by Liberal Lunatics.

Here is Mrs. Mau Mau in Chewore North.

My wife goes, just to hang out with us. She does not hunt but is a good spotter. My daughter is "death" on birds and plains game. Just started them out young hunting ducks and deer.

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Originally posted by dogcat:
My wife goes, just to hang out with us. She does not hunt but is a good spotter. My daughter is "death" on birds and plains game. Just started them out young hunting ducks and deer.

PS - It helps to dress them stylishly. If I promise a new batch of safari clothes - they take the bait.

Just as important is finding a woman who doesn't frown on YOUR hunting.

My wife and I have been happily married for 35 years. Before she met me, she had never fired any type of gun.

Our first "date" was a rockchuck hunt/shoot. She passed that test and I was hooked!!

If they don't like the outdoors or as Yokon Delta said, "frown" on hunting......send her on down the road...... lots more good women out there than good men!

I put my 13 year old stepson on a plane to Del Rio this week to attend hunting camp at Indian Head Ranch. Three young, attractive girls, also headed to the camp, boarded the plane with him. I advised him to get to know them.

Now for bragging rights - my beautiful young wife and I just returned from a fishing trip in British Columbia. She caught more and bigger fish than I. Also, I have numerous game mounts scattered throughout our home. It took me a couple times, but I finally got it right.

My wife and I have been together for 22 years. She loves camping, berry-picking (she was making a big batch of jam as I left the house this morning) and likes what she calls "sit on your butt" fishing. No hunting, though. We eat game at least five nights a week (I cook). She loves being in the woods but just doesn't want to carry a gun or bow. That's OK. She also has never minded me going off to hunt out west for two weeks every year and is happy to see me going off to Namibia for a hunt. Only thing she won't let me do is hunt elephant. Considering all of the above AND that she doesn't mind all the dead animals hanging in the living room, I think I'm pretty lucky.

Just find someone who loves the outdoors as much as you do, make sure she gets a shower when she says she wants one, and you're more than half-way there.

I am married for 22 years to Thea. She is a outdoor person and we go everything together. She never hunted but since the kids started to show an interest in hunting about 7 years ago, she started joining us on our hunting trips. Two years ago she was elected on our hunting branch commitee. The beginning of the year she anounced that she will start hunting this year. She never participated in shooting, we had to teach her to shoot, she passed her hunting exams to become a dedicated hunter, she passed the shooting test and declared she is now ready to learn to hunt. She hunted her first Warthog a little more than a week ago. I was impressed at the effort she had put in during stalks and how eager she was to learn more and try harder.

That was most probably my biggest joy I ever had in the bush. I salute my wife.

I have been married 33 years and my wife grew up in a non-hunting family. She has supported my hunting and fishing during our marriage, and in 2005 went with me to Africa for her first trip. On that trip she shot a giraffe, after having only shot a .22 before that and after having never killed a living thing. We will leave tomorrow morning for Africa for her third and my fifth trip and I am going to talk her into another trophy. She is proud of the giraffe and is sure to tell her story to anyone who visits. I have found that by not being pushy, but by being an ethical hunter, and by educating her to hunting and its benefits (especially in Africa) she has accepted it without any major issues.

Jarrod,

You could check this online women hunting club:

http://www.womenhunters.org/wh-club.html

You may get lucky there...

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Originally posted by Jarrod:
Someone spill the beans please.. I have read several stories here about some of you whose wife goes with you on safari. And some of them not only sightsee but hunt with you also while on safari. What I want to know is what is the secret to finding a good female friend that would actually hunt with me when I get to go on safari??

Well you don't mention if you're looking or already have a wife so I'll refrain from offering suggestions. Personally, my city girl wife had never fired a rifle let alone killed anything when we met. She accompanied me on a couple outings simply to be with me I suspect - hey, we were young ok - and low and behold she enjoyed it! She's not a fanatic about hunting and she only does those things she enjoys but she is undeniably a hunter or is it huntress.

I'd change my avatar for a start ...
(ie if joining a woman hunters forum )



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My better half has never hunted, although she can handle a rifle passably well, and she does accompany me when camp life gets boring. I don't shoot much on these outings though, as she keeps calling me back to come see a flower or a bug or a bird she's spotted. That's when I give her my rifle to carry She positively kicks my ass every time we go fishing, though. Since I bought her the little Fenwick, I have never been able to put more fish in the pan than her!

My wife is a pretty good shot w/ pistol & rifle. She enjoyed my first trip to RSA & she'll be going back w/ me to Namibia/Caprivi in 08. She doesn't like killing, doesn't really want to watch me do it, but she does enjoy the adventure, not the long flight though. My first wife, uh no!

if it f***s floats or flys lease it.

find a girl with no brothers whos dad is a bonafide rifle/hunting loony is a good place to start.

Luck of the draw. Pure dumb luck. No skill. Just good old fashioned four leaf clover luck.

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“Someone spill the beans please.. I have read several stories here about some of you whose wife goes with you on safari. And some of them not only sightsee but hunt with you also while on safari. What I want to know is what is the secret to finding a good female friend that would actually hunt with me when I get to go on safari??â€

• Choose Wisely
• When Hunting, Fishing, Camping make sure she has to do none of the chores that she may do at home.
• Chose Wisely
• Or just be lucky





Wife and daughter in Africa

What's the secret? I don't know. But sometimes you get lucky.

Discover you are lucky without one. No one to tell you what the &%(# you ought to have done or how to have done it. Enjoy the blessing.

The secret is good antelope sausage.

My wife was basically a vegetarian when we met. After a few years, she started coming along on scouting trips, then when I when after ducks. She eventually bought some waders and joined the Honourable Order of Retrievers. Soon after that, she started hunting waterfowl, but she still didn't eat red meat.

A few years ago I blew up my shoulder and had it put back together in early fall. Hunting season was coming and I figured I couldn't handle moving or cleaning anything bigger than an antelope with my 1 1/2 hands. All I shot that year was an antelope doe and a smallish one at that. Didn't come close to filling the freezer, but tasty. The two legged buzzards that start circling every time a new critter shows up in our freezer went hungry that year. What little sausage there was was too good to freely give away. Anyway, I'm sitting down with some sausages that winter and my wife comes by:

"Those smell good. How do they taste?" she says.
"Just like they smell"
"Can I have some?" askes the woman who hadn't eaten red meat in 15 years.
"Sure." I say, knowing she won't have more than 1 bite.
"Wow, those are good! Can I have more?"
"Bugger off, she was just little and there's not much left."
"Fine, I'll get my own then".

A couple of months later, she bought herself a deer rifle and the next fall she got her first deer. She's a great hunting partner, we have a lot of fun and she doesn't complain about being a hunting widow any more.

Maybe good sausage isn't the only secret. Having the patience to let her learn what hunting is really about on her own time and a bit of timely reverse psychology helped too.

Cheers,
Dean

patience is key when transforming a non hunter into a hunter. My wife had shot guns all her life.had a 16ga shotgun when we met.

At first she stayed home when I went turkey/deer hunting. Finally I got her to go along and watch...now she wanted a gun! I got her some warm, fitting clothes to go along deer hunting, watching only. She decided to take up bowhunting for deer, next year it was rifle hunting for deer. I had to talk her into going to Africa...now she's planning the next trip...

WARNING...I've been hunting all(56) the years of my life, have accumulated a BUNCH of stuff, guns, clothes. She's been hunting maybe ten years and HAS more clothes(x2) than I do, is on her forth turkey gun and third deer rifle(I lost my Win70 264 to her). It ain't all good...

My wife goes with but will not hunt. She will on ocations shoot a few shots with my Hornet. On the other hand my kids enjoy hunting, Carmen 11, 1 Francolin, 1 Guinyfowl. Shani 9, 1 Guinyfowl, 1 white blesbuck. Arno 8, 6 vervet monkeys. Arno need to be kept in check as he will if not watched shoot any game animal and dad will have to pay. I still say it is not the parents fault if a girl does not want to hunt, the parent can introduce a girl to hunting but like Carmen who will not shoot at any antilope, the parent can't force her to shoot.
It is however my duity to keep her interested in fishing, camping and hunting. A good companion around the fire is lovely. (Your wife/girlfriend also keep the cold out of your hunting bed)

Rather safe than sorry!!

This question has more to do with who you are and what kind of lifestyle you have.Some do not want a wife that goes hunting but like a mother that does.My mother would accompany my father on hunting trips when I wasn't around.She would wake up in the early morning hours to make us coffee and wish us farewell.She could not really handle a firearm and never drove a car.One thing I know is that women who go along hunting make good mothers.I think women who actually hunt don't make good mothers but men who hunt make good fathers.Ofcourse there are some exeptions.Back to your question,if you want to marry a woman that will go along hunting you stand a better chance if she has lots of money.That way she will always tag along and see that you don't spend too much of it.Marry a woman with no money and she surely will come along to SHOOT you.

shootaway, you are a total moron. Fortunately for you a GOOD woman is one of the things in life you won't have to worry you silly little head about.....

Ahhh, Jarrod. One of the reasons I'm now single is my wife of 18 years complained about my hunting and the time I was away. She refused to go with me, even to staying in motels while I was out. Finally it was complaining about everything I did. Now I'm single. Ain't silence wonderful?!?!
(By the way, I'd be married in a heartbeat if I could find someone to go with me.)

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Originally posted by shootaway:
One thing I know is that women who go along hunting make good mothers.I think women who actually hunt don't make good mothers but men who hunt make good fathers.Ofcourse there are some exeptions.Back to your question,if you want to marry a woman that will go along hunting you stand a better chance if she has lots of money.That way she will always tag along and see that you don't spend too much of it.Marry a woman with no money and she surely will come along to SHOOT you.

Darwin is surely turning in his grave. I ask what has happened to natural selection anyway?

Shootaway, some folks cannot have children. I have to assume you do not have much between the ears to make such a series of statements. I am betting you did not listen to your mother very well when she told you to keep your mouth shut when you have nothing nice to say. She must be ashamed of you.

I never know what that guy says until someone quotes him. I had to click on this thread because Aspen Hill posted to it. Her posts are worth reading unlike some others we all know.

Take her on a safari to South Africa. Make sure you book with someone who has deluxe accomodations (We had one lodge that had marble bathrooms). Take her on a tour of Life-form Taxidermy so she can see how beautiful the mounts can be. Make sure your PH is a woman or brings his wife along. Start saving for your next safari. PM me if you want more details.
Oh BTW, learn how to cook eggs benedict for sunday morning breakfast, she'll fall in love with you and won't care what else you do!

Please don't take me seriously.

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Originally posted by NitroX:
I'd change my avatar for a start ...
(ie if joining a woman hunters forum )



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Well see with that avatar I might find one that is Bi-sexual

Thanks everyone for all the good advice and ideas. Decisions Decisions