Gentlemen (and ladies if present)
Mighty hunters we may all be but the modern female is hard to catch and harder to keep. Especially when informed of our bloodthirsty ways.
In england it is difficult to find females inured to the ways of hunters/shooters and most react with horror when informed.
Any amusing anecdotes about introducing ladies to our beloved sport or have you had the tables turned on you? Words of advice or warning or anything else that may be of interest!!!
To kick off: A friend of mine took his wife on a romantic first date
Duck flighting on a bitterly cold evening whereupon she had a camo net thrown over her and was told to keep quiet so as not to disturb the ducks!
Since gone on to take her first stag in grand style at over 200yds in the neck. Very nice.

Cheers

Z

My other half was almost a vegitarian when we met. So the first time she came round to my house for dinner coincided with my having shot my first fallow buck. The head was in the pot boiling away partly skinned, just with a pair of antlers sticking out of the water.

I explained that we were having a traditional greek speciality of deer head stew, and not to worry about the hair as I would strain most of them off. I explained that it needed to boil for a couple of hours while we went a picked up my glasses from a mate.

Needless to say she was relieved when I ordered Chinese upon our return!!!

She now bans me from giving away venison without checking first and acccompanies me on most game shooting outings although less so on cold stalking outings. She shoots both a shot gun and rifle well at targets and should get started on feathered game next season.

FB

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I explained that we were having a traditional greek speciality of deer head stew, and not to worry about the hair as I would strain most of them off. I explained that it needed to boil for a couple of hours while we went a picked up my glasses from a mate.

Good one FB!

ahh, go to the Royal Ag College, at Ciren. you will be well placed to meet slightly mad young hunting shooting and fishing set girls!

I can thoroughly recommend the freshers and may balls.

zaitsev,

If a woman really cares about you the fact that you hunt, even if she is not keen on it won't make a great difference. She'll learn to accept it as a part of what makes you you, or she'll learn to appreciate it as much as you do (odds are very good that she will accept it)

I had the opportunity to meet a gentleman who was a stalker, and I made the mistake of being jealous of all the time he spent stalking, when in truth if I had sat back and really thought about it, stalking was a part of what made him him, it made him happy, it gave him something special that was his and his alone with his friends, it was part of what made him the man I came to care for.

I wish now I could take back all the arguing I did with him about the stalking and ask him to share more of it with me, learning about it all on my own now, my own fault.

Goodluck, hang in there, she's out there and I promise you'll find her.

Lynn D

My hunting really bothered my wife, but one night at a party she told one of her girl friends that I had killed a deer a few days prior. She was hoping for a little feminine sympathy, but the friend sat right up with a very excited look in her eyes and said, "Ooooh, can I have some of the meat?"

Things kind of turned around after that.


Okie John

My wife isn't bothered but has asked if there is something wrong with me

If I mention shooting around her friends though, then I get treated like a child killer!!
Was a bit off putting at first, now I know what buttons to push I can get them really going.

Zaitsev.

Well l made the dubious mistake of findin' a girly who likes shootin', fishin' and the odd party thrown in, and then marrying the bint.

Still can't get her near a ferret, and if l want to remain a happy hunter l've been informed that l'd better keep the situation that way...or else!

Dave.
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At one point one of my uncles decided he absolutly had to have a Thompson submachine gun; going through all the legal hoops necessary in the USA to buy and own a Class III weapon. His wife was quite perturbed about this unreasonable need, and expense. Being a loving husband, he checked into the cost of a series of sessions with a psychiatrist which could lead to a cure for his "unreasonable need". The estimate came to about $10,000. He presented his wife with the comparative costs of buying the Thompson, and being thereby relieved of his longing, or sitting throught the sessions for $10,000 with no guarantee of being "cured". She told him to go buy the submachine gun as it would be cheaper. He ended up keeping it for a few years, selling it at a profit. So, he scratched his itch and made money in the process. His wife learned alot about human nature.