We were filling in details for a new online account, when it came to the new password section so instead of the dog we would go with my current calibre, her indoors was leaning over my shoulder and said thats the largest calibre you can get, in which i replied don't be daft, to which she replied, no thats the largest calibre your going to get! then it dawned on her that most of the previous passwords were 25-06, I could here the cogs of wrath whurring, have you changed guns again came the condescending voice.No not me!
I think she has ultra violet markered all the guns in the cabinet now.
What to do next?
change the wife?
change the keys?
buy all guns identical?

All three

regards
griff

save the money - change the keys

many years ago my ex came in the house and spotted my brand new Binelli M3 pump/auto combi 12. "you did"nt have that before!" she announced.
"ehh, no"
"how much was it?"
i showed her a magtech pump in gun mart
"you paid £150 for a stupid shotgun when you"ve got loads more?"
"yes dear"
at least now i only have to make peace with my accountant, and i"m not trying to sleep with him.
good shooting

I've just convinced mine, that all the guns I've bought can be sold, for MORE than I paid for them

(I think I've convinced myself of this as well!!)

Dan

I found it is always best to try and get a new face in the cabinet to coincide with a treat for the memsahib. Last week we changed her car and just this morning something called a leupold arrived for me in the post and there is a 222 lying in my local RFD with a label tied to the trigger with my name on it.

Makes the gun a lot more expensive but, it saves on the speech therapy


John

griff.....

Like brass, I have also an Ex. In my personal opinion Ex's earn this status via a myriad of reasons, primarily though; through firearms aquisitions, divestitures and hunting opportunities - you'll have to be the best judge of where you need to go with this......

I can state from experience that the current Mrs. Gerry considers all of the above plus time spent at the reloading bench instead of in front of a TV to be perfectly normal behavoir. Like a new Black Lab puppy it's just a matter of "socialization".

I recommend a new password, something along the lines of .17HMR!

This is all scarily familiar.

My usual approach when buying new hardware is to neglect to mention the trade-in value of the gun disposed of when a new one is bought. This way, my wife thinks a new Beretta 687 20 bore cost around £300. I did not mention the Miroku which disappeared around that time.

Alternatively, spread the cost over a few months. I am planning a new rifle for later in the year. I'll buy a scope for it in the next month or two. Rifle later in the year.

The other approach is to quietly accumulate some cash. When you go to buy something, pay about 2/3's cash, put the balance on Visa, or write a cheque. Via this route, the ball-and-chain thinks a 200 bird pheasant day cost £200.

God, I am devious. Now, how do I hide the cost of a Perazzi SC3 and 2 weeks plains game in RSA? These are currently at the top of my wish list.

+1 to the part cash, part card, that works well for me.

Going to The Phionex meet at Bisley and saying "my dad bought it for me" is starting to wear thin (I'm 30!!)

Even though he did actually pay for the last few items at Bisley????

I must see if he's free this year

School fees kicking in with a vengeance will massively limit gun related expenditure for next 16 years!

This year I've limited myself to one cheap project on an existing rifle but have been unable to resist starting a stockpile of parts for next year....

IMHO EvilBAY has a lot to answer for!

All my reloading equipment was bought to "save money on ammunition". Buying a barrelled CZ action and then a stock from McMillan was to "save money on the cost of a wooden stock I don't need". Doing my hunt last South African hunt in October while on an interlude of a business trip was to "save money on the air tickets". I am constantly saving money. I don't think my wife believes a word of it.

All my reloading equipment was "given" to me and the new Buckmark pistol I've just paid for was also to "save money", as .22 ammo is cheaper than .44mag

Well...., it made sense to HER and thats all that counts

Dan

Griff.

Sounds like you've got problems there mate, knowing you're stuck halfway between hell and glasgow there's not a lot of places to hide in some of that open ground. You could try usin' the -06 as a parent for all your loads and see if she notices the calibre change at the other end.
l tend to go for the trade off approach, l don't ask how much she's spendin' on the nags and that leaves me open to a little better budget and some nice times out chasin' things. 22 years and still tryin' to train the first one...

Regards.

Dave.
....

Gidday Guys,

You really do give the fairer sex far too much credit and power.

You and they need to remember they are nothing more than glorified buckets who can clean the game you bring home.

Take back your power!

By the way I'm twice divorced and the child support is killing me.

Happy Hunting

Hamish

Always trouble and strife!

There is never an argument, I do what I want!

Aleko

Aleko
I was wondering how far down the list I would have to go to hear from a "Real Man".. If You were going to buy a H&H Royal Double would You still be as Bold with the Little Lady..
AK

Well the folks that know my taste in guns,optics and hunting can guess that you need to "take care" of the others too.

Aleko

Since the baby came along and only one of us is working, I give myself an allowance of walking-around money each week. If it runs out, I come home for lunch or carry it in with me. If there's money left over, it goes in with my shooting money.

A couple weeks ago, I got to stuff an extra $35 in there. This kid was going to mow my lawn and didn't show up. I'd left the money with my wife to pay the kid. Finally, I got the time to do it and mowed it myself. I picked up the $35 I'd made, and it's now shooting money.

H. C.

Aleko
Now that didn't help any of us.. You do have a "Special" technique.. Or was I wrong..
AK

AK, the answer is yes. She watched my buy 2 doubles and never flinched. She know in the long run the 2 doubles are moot compared to what she gets in return

Aleko

Aleko
So your kin'da like a High Yielding Bond.. Your paying Big Dividends to the holder..Mmmmm....I guess I'm a High Yielding Bond too..
AK

i normally use the "it goes away" method

i buy a gun.

she chews my ass

the ass chewing??..."it goes away"

i still have the gun

The most tense moments are between the garage door opening and the door to the safe in the garage closing. I also found it helps to leave a pile of rifle boxes near the car, so in an emergency, I can slip the new rig in among the old empty boxes, and it goes unnoticed, until I sneak back and get it in the safe.

My latest trip to Africa for lep cost me 2 rugs and a flat screen tv (32 inch) for the bedroom "so we can watch tv together". Ain't I romantic?

After serious illness, a few years ago, I decided, as a part of the recuperative process to give up booze. After that I drank intermitantly for a while and then stopped all together. My wife is in full agreement with my new sensible attitude and has no problems with my buying a new rifle once a year. They cost less than the stuff I uesd to widdle against the wall.
When earlier this year I found I had spent a little more than I felt I should and told the she who must be consulted that I owed the kitty $1000, she said,
"Oh I think we can stand that can't we"?
Now how's that for Luck?
Yes, she does have a sister but she's happily married.

When i was living at home and got my first job ,i was always buying or selling guns ,when my mother started to bitch about it ,or anything else, i would just give her $50 ,out of the blue and the bitching would stop instantly !

As we all know, fine guns and rifles are expensive. But the finer ones are well worth the cost. Much like the finer women, who are even more costly.

Divorce is also expensive, often enormously so, and enormously emotionally painful to boot, in intensity directly proportional to the longevity of the union. Not by any means a matter to be taken lightly.

But the divorce most needed, when nothing short of it will suffice, is the one the most delayed and postponed, the one for which the most, and the most prolonged, soul-searching and suffering has been endured.

That divorce is worth waiting for, and by God worth the hard and bloody cost of it, which is what of course keeps the divorce lawyers in business.

We must always remember and never forget, that nothing truly worth paying for may be bought cheaply. This is true of Holland & Holland Royal Grade doubles as well as divorces.

So, one must buy the bloody gun and not make any excuses or even think, for one bloody second, of rationalizing or apologizing. As soon as the cost of splitting begins to affect any of the difficult firearms acquisition decisions that all of us must face, then we must accept that the time for splitting has finally arrived.

For the faint of heart, bluffing may be attempted. It can sometimes be successful, and when it is, it may delay the inevitable for years.

JMHO.