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Bukslayr

Bukslayr

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This post is in response to the replies in the Dream Season Subject. My wife enjoys bowhunting with me and by herself. I think it is great for 2 reasons. First being that it makes me happy to see her doing something she enjoys and that I enjoy. And 2nd being that she understands that if I am with the guys she knows what we are doing when we go hunting or scouting or tracking deer. She understands the concepts and relationships of being in the outdoors. Being married to her for 5 years has been great and her getting in to bowhunting has done wonders on our relationship. I would suggest trying to introduce this sport to your spouse if she shows any interest in it.
 
I'm glad this works for you and your relationship. I've been married 12 years and have four kids and you seen my opinions on the other post. I don't have to "manufacter" quality time with my wife to make our relationship work. I hunt and she shops! Both of which we do alone! Let me guess, here come the barrage of crap about how I don't love my wife or I hate women. This, just like the other post, is ridiculous! The old "in response to" or "to Splitg1" gets old. I'm glad all of you are so insecure in your relationships that you feel you have to justify what your doing in the whitetail woods to your wives. "I take her because I want her to "understand" what I'm doing". Can I puke now or later? I don't see the coralation between hunting and marriage. Just like I don't see the coralation between garage sales\shopping and hunting. To me, I married my wife because we compliment each other. I have things that I do, and she has things she does and they don't cross over. IMO that's what makes our relationship stronger. Not pretending I want to drag her through the woods with me so we can spend "fake quality" time together. If your wives hunt, good for you. But that doesn't make me any different than you, for not wanting mine to. Or for not buying videos featuring your wives and girlfriends. So go ahead boys and girls have at it with the insults, I'm getting use to it! PS, Thanks to all the people who have sent me PM agreeing with me in private. It's sad that you can't post in public without being run down and attacked.....Again, thanks... &^rocket
 
im 20 years old and i just got engaged.... im a die hard hunter you name it i do it no matter what in my opinion let them do what they want my future wife loves the outdoors but not crzy about it all but thats fine you shouldnt force them if they want to be apart of what you do its up to them dont tell them but take the time to explain what you do and use some of your time scouting to break them in then when your both ready take them with you
 
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I'm glad this works for you and your relationship. I've been married 12 years and have four kids and you seen my opinions on the other post. I don't have to "manufacter" quality time with my wife to make our relationship work. I hunt and she shops! Both of which we do alone! Let me guess, here come the barrage of crap about how I don't love my wife or I hate women. This, just like the other post, is ridiculous! The old "in response to" or "to Splitg1" gets old. I'm glad all of you are so insecure in your relationships that you feel you have to justify what your doing in the whitetail woods to your wives. "I take her because I want her to "understand" what I'm doing". Can I puke now or later? I don't see the coralation between hunting and marriage. Just like I don't see the coralation between garage sales\shopping and hunting. To me, I married my wife because we compliment each other. I have things that I do, and she has things she does and they don't cross over. IMO that's what makes our relationship stronger. Not pretending I want to drag her through the woods with me so we can spend "fake quality" time together. If your wives hunt, good for you. But that doesn't make me any different than you, for not wanting mine to. Or for not buying videos featuring your wives and girlfriends. So go ahead boys and girls have at it with the insults, I'm getting use to it! PS, Thanks to all the people who have sent me PM agreeing with me in private. It's sad that you can't post in public without being run down and attacked.....Again, thanks... &^rocket

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Enough all ready we understand you don't like taking wife hunting. He didn't mention one word about you. He is just wondered how many take there wives hunting.
I wish mine would try it but she won't.
 
You get the jist of my PM. it is just that plain and simple.
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I've tried, she didn't mind it but didn't like it enough to go more than a few times. Oh well..............I won't bug her about her ladies night golf and she won't bug me about whitetails....hopefully.
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My wife has tried it. She has taken a buck with her shotgun, took a doe with her bow, shot a doe with her .270 when we went to Minnesota and has also shot a coyote (shot him on the run with a 12 gauge slug, right through the heart). She had the misfortune of having me as a mentor.
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At the time (15 years ago), I was very impatient and a little too intense for a beginning hunter. This soured her a little on hunting. She is concentrating on raising our children now, maybe she will hunt again in the future. I at least learned from my mistake. With the boys, I constantly remind myself to keep it fun. Hunt when they want to and only as long as they want. I can do the all day sits when I am by myself.
 
I think it's great if a guy takes his wife or girlfriend hunting. She may love it and become a great hunting partner. If she doesn't like it, at least she got to try something new. Some women just aren't cut out for it. (Some men aren't either.) I know I wouldn't want a Prima Dona out in the woods with me. But the only way you're going to know if you like hunting is to try it. I got bit hard by the hunting bug my first time out and I never looked back. I take my hunting very seriously. I hunt alone and I'm responsible for all my decisions. I gut and butcher my own deer. I hunt in all kinds of weather, I've hunted with the flu, I hunted with cracked ribs during the 2005 turkey season and ended up taking two toms that season and carried them each a good 3/4 mile. Each year I do more and more all day sits during the rut. I pulled up to my hunting spot one afternoon with a tire going flat, but instead of attempting my first tire change in the daylight, I dealt with it a half hour after sunset – the deer were moving and so was I.

I'm not saying this to sound tough or because I want to be like a man or go to war or anything like that! When I'm not hunting I am a girly-girl. I say this only to show what hunting means to me and where my drive and level of dedication are at. There are women who love to hunt. I think it's an individual thing, not a gender thing. Human beings are predators, plain and simple. Some gals would just rather channel that hunting drive into stalking the perfect pair of strappy sandals at the mall. Not that there’s anything wrong with that.
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I take my wife with during the gun season, we have a great time. I like that she ejoys the outdoors and doing things like that. She has told me that when the kids get a little bigger, that she taking up bow hunting.
 
My wife and I took our younger boys, ages 10 and 12 to a youth shooting day at a local sportsman's club on Saturday and the boys had a ball shooting several different kinds of guns and bows, etc. Great fun for the kids and great door prizes.

My wife stated that she loves the smell of gunpowder and enjoys shooting, something that she has said before, but has really never given it a priority. Think I might press the issue a little more in the future.

My daughter however, a tall blonde with (dare I say it) Tiffany Lakosky looks goes to a wedding in South Dakota this weekend with her fiance's family. Guess what they did after the wedding... went out and wasted a bunch of prairie dogs with high powers! She was the only girl that tagged along with a bunch of guys (nothing new since she has four brothers) but she loved it. She says she is going to start saving up for a 22-250 as soon as the wedding is over. She has killed a bear and a handful of whitetails. Her fiance' hasn't much interest in hunting. Go figure.
 
My wife grew up in a very active hunting family, she always wanted to participate but was never given the chance for some reason. Since we got married things have changed, we bought her a bow two weeks after the wedding, and a Lone Wolf for Christmas (sorry Matt, my local pro shop started carrying them
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). Right now she's counting down the days until bow season. The only thing I'm worried about is she and poison ivey do not get along at all! I need to get her a good pair of binocs too, I never get to use mine on evening deer roadtrips anymore.
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I have now been married for over 25 years and have hunted hard the entire length of my marriage. My wife has never had any desire what so ever to go hunting with me and she has always been supportive of my passion to hunt.

When we first got married she kind of grumbled about it and I will never forget the day that she said something in front of my grandmother and my grandmother immediately responded that it was a lot better than me hanging out in bars....

To this day, she has never seriously complained about me hunting. I hunt, she shops and we also do a lot of other activities together. I believe that everyone needs balance in their lives and I personally believe that spending too much time together might result in someone getting hurt....:)

Good post!!!

Mark...
 
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