Who here has gotten this from their wife/girlfriend?

Originally Posted By: skb2706Its doubtful my wife worries much about me...even in the company of hunting strangers. She'd worry more about me going alone than with a friend I have chatted with on the internet for a few years.

Same here. The little lady only complains when I hunt alone. She wants to go out and watch me call in a dog but I'm afraid she'll see one and go "LOOK BABE!".
 
I have less of a problem with him meeting new people to go hunting with than I do with him going alone. Since it's gotten cold here he's been itching to go ice fishing, and that does worry me because he tends to prefer wearing his 1600 gram waders instead of bibs. Talk about cement boots...so that's more what what concerns me. That and we are at odds right now because I'd rather be out looking for the coyotes but he's in waterfowl mood.
 
My wife left me last jan. it's been non stop hunting ever since. and it will take the family another week to find me if i don't return on time since i dont tell anyone i'm goin' out, been relaxing to say the least and i don't seem 2 beat myself up when i miss anymore, go figure!
 
I guess I'm one of the lucky ones. During my service to Uncle Sam, he'd send me to Turkey... or Morocco... or Saudi... or Norway... or... The list goes on, but I always came back.

Now when I hunt, I hunt alone. Wife don't like it, but she's also very wise. All she asks is what area I'll be in so if I don't come home, she can sic the game wardens after me.
 
The easy answer is after you find a hunting/shooting partner you meet & introduce yourselves to each others families and talk about calling & shooting varmints with the wifes there to insure "that other" guy aint a crazy nut like she thinks everyone is.
Heck get her to go with you while you are at it if at all possible.
 
I do most my calling with my father-in-law, in fact he got me into predator hunting. My wife cant get to upset when I tell her it was her dads idea to go hunting all weekend.
 
I have always hunted with my buddies and brothers. I dont have a girlfriend or wife and i am thankful just for this reason! I dont think I would ever want my wife to come out hunting with me(when i get one). But who knows, It might change when I do get married. Maybe ill do it just to show off lol! Show her I am good at something.
 
Looking at the big picture, this is how I see it. When I go on one of these kinds of hunts I go fully armed. I mean I am hunting after all. I would venture it would be mighty stupid to mess with most hunters unless one had a serious death wish.
 
My wife is different. I tell her I'm going hunting with people I meet on the internet and she packs the truck for me.

I tell her I'm going out alone at night and she makes sure I smell like whatever she thinks Mountain Lions eat.

I have the best wife. I'm the luckiest guy ALIVE!!!!!!
 
There is no way my Wife would go and quite often I tell her I am going to take one of "The Girls" I have 4 daughters and none of them hunt. My Wife knows that one of the Girls means either the Horse or the Dog gets to go. Obviously they can not go together and both are too mean to trust around anyone but family and the Dog mistook my Son for a stranger last night and bit him. She usually hugs one or the other and begs them "Don't go stay here with Mom." Both will pout when they get left at home even the Horse.
 
Originally Posted By: Timberbeast7I only saw one post where somebody said they have tried to take their wife hunting with them. I love hunting with my wife, and she is a h*ll of a shooter. Why don't you guys buy a map and take your wife instead of some random person from the internet?

My wife loves to hunt with me... but mostly for big game, especially mule deer. She thinks coyote hunting is "way too boring..." and she has been with me on some of my very best stands. Like this triple:

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I guess not everyone has the patience for it. Oh, and for some reason the 'more cute' the animal is, the more she wants to kill it. She must think forky horns are really cute
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and coyotes aren't. Kinda makes me nervous when she tells me I'm "cute".

As far as hunting with strangers goes, I doubt they could be any more strange than some of my friends and she is much more worried about me hunting alone. Usually if I can't find someone to go coyote hunting with, she will insist on coming along and sitting in the truck reading a book.
 
Originally Posted By: Swim BaitI'm not married, but all I hear is "you're going to kill coyotes! What if it's a momma and has babies? Oh, you're going to kill their mother." Stuff like that! I'm like, if it's a coyote; it's getting shot. LOL


Originally Posted By: rpc55My wife says, "you want to hunt coyotes, there just a dog." ya I know but they kill a lot of deer and livestock and need to be controlled. Look at that poor woman from Novia Scotia that was killed by coyotes. "Oh great, your going out alone at night, you could be killed" I know, thats what makes it fun.
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Don't worry honey, i carry a gun.
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+1 on those. My girlfriend is the same way. Not much ya can do about it I guess. I'll get her to go out with me one of these days...
 
The first time I hunted with Levi I took him into the middle of nowhere and got lost. It was also raining and stormy and we were driving in an area where a few of the houses looked strait out of the movie "This hills have eye's". I think I even made a comment to him about driving him up there just to do bad things to him. I thought it was funny, dont know how he took that the first time though. lol

I'm sure quite a few guys take a second look and think about how they are going to protect themselves should something go wrong when I show up to go hunt with them.

I cant for the life of me figure out why?
 
About a month ago I stopped my truck along the interstate just outside Apache Junction, AZ and hopped a barbed wire fence and headed out into some thick palo verde trees looking for a good area to call. While walking out I came across a homeless 'camp' I'd call it. I quietly gave it a wide berth and went another 300 yards called for 10 minutes and walked back purposly choosing a route that would take me further from the encampment. Rounding a thicket I encountered another camp with several large tents connected. I circled the tents and came to what appeared to be an opening to the camping area. I saw nobody but was weary as the tent flaps were closed. I clicked my safety off of AR and crouched down. After being motionless for a few minutes and hearing/seeing nothing alarming I turned to leave and was faced with a native American with a Glock about 10 yards away. He had his pistol out and in his hand but not pointed at me. I immediately began some friendly small talk with him about how I was coyote hunting in the area and ran across his great looking encampment as I cautiously walked away from him toward the direction of my truck. He cut me short and told me to 'get out of here!" and I said, "hey, not a problem." I walked backwards another 20 yards while keeping an eye on him until I was in the trees again then headed to the truck.

 
i do most my hunting alone but i took my son every weekend for 20 years now that he is married i like going alone again.
i don't want to make jenny mad at me for taking him away to often.
now i got rockitman to help teach the ropes and sorefeet is still my favorite hunting partner. everyone works on fridays so i love going alone on fridays.
my wife worried when i'd take a 6 year old with me but now he worries about me more then her.
he thinks i'm going to keal over tomorrow and checks up on me more then my mom and dad ever did.
my wife didn't worry when i went elk hunting for 25 days alone. sorefeet and moseley came up on weekends and i came down for showers on cloudy days
i love camping but a guy has to have his no scent showers while bowhunting.
 
My wife gets into the game really well. Great shot, both coyote and deer. She is now equipt with her own Savage 22-250, uses our custom 7MM REM MAG, has her own REM 870 20 gauge and were working on her own 7MM REM MAG. With all that said - she worries 'occassionally' when I'm going 'yote hunting alone. So, I tell her where I'll be(general location) and IF I don't get back by midnight? Its a good chance I just bailed on life in mid-calling. Yeah, I get the look but then ........................

She IS my best hunting partner though and is pushing to get out there tomorrow after some 'yotes. She's got a deal!!!!
 
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