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Posted by Leonard (Member # 2) on September 21, 2003, 09:47 AM:

OUT OF THE HOUSE?

Applies to married men.

Also, avoid mistakes. Never tell a wife how much your gear costs. You will live to regret it.

Inspired by a Cdog comment, this morning.....

Never tell a wife what time you expect to return from hunting! Give her a range, or tell her you aren't sure. You try to be nice, and give her a number like 3:30, but it's not realistic. You fell into the trap!

Things can happen.

Don't be pinned down.

Been there done that, got the T-shirt.

Good advice [Smile]

Good hunting. LB

Posted by Tim Behle (Member # 209) on September 21, 2003, 10:45 AM:

I usually hunt by myself. It keeps me out of trouble if I am the driver, I can control what time I head home.

I just give her a kiss on the cheek and tell her I'll be back in a little bit. She normally doesn't wake up. Weekends I'm usually home by noon, weekdays by 9 AM so I can get ready and go to work at 11.

If the truck breaks down or gets stuck and I am several hours late, I've learned to never wait for the repairs to be made while sitting in a bar. She will immediately assume that it was the type of bar with naked dancers and that the truck didn't break down at all, and I spent all day and several hundred dollars with dancing girls.

I don't know where she ever got the idea I'd do that again! [Eek!]

Posted by Hodgen (Member # 180) on September 21, 2003, 11:54 AM:

I guess I am just plain lucky in this dept.

I usually just tell her, I'll be back in a week to 10 days. Most of my critter calling consists of combining work trips with hunting, so she doesn't really hassle me about it. And when I make strictly hunting trips, she pretty much knows I am hunting, most of the time anyway.

She knows I am "cheap", and if I am forking out money, it's not just to get away and act stupid.

Posted by Leonard (Member # 2) on September 21, 2003, 12:38 PM:

Stop it! You guys are making me feel seriously henpecked. [Smile]

Posted by John/Alaska (Member # 25) on September 21, 2003, 06:04 PM:

I have to pretty much tell my wife when I'll be back. She doesn't care when I go hunting or how many times a week I head out but I had better be back when I say so. There is a real safety issue here especially from now on and I don't mess around with it as neither do my buddies.

As far a gear goes I just put it on a list and she gets it for me for x-mas or birthday. Otherwise if I can't wait then I just get it. She doesn't care as long as I'm okay with it.

Hen pecked Leonard?? Really??

Posted by Leonard (Member # 2) on September 21, 2003, 06:20 PM:

"Hen pecked Leonard?? Really??"

Yeah, I think so? Pray for me!

I understand the safety issue. My wife complains that if I don't show up, she doesn't even know which state to have the authorities to start looking? She's right about that! Sometimes, I don't know where I'll end up, myself?

Good hunting. LB

Posted by Cdog911 (Member # 7) on September 23, 2003, 05:23 PM:

Hell, Leonard, there's an easy solution to that gear cost issue, thanks to Patrick F. McManus. Buy a new gun, diassemble it into its component parts, throw them in a box and take them home. Show them to the li'l woman and comment how cheaply you bought this box of junk parts. Sneak to the basement, reassemble the gun and slip it into the gun cabinet with your other guns. Bigger the gun cabinet, the better. Four guns in a five slot cabinet is noticeable. Five guns in a twelve gun cabinet is less so. This applies only if your wife cares nothing about guns. If she does, your on your own.

I'm pretty lucky in that my wife knows my passion for hunting come fall (and that started this morning:)). I have a great wife and a pretty daned good accountant who has taught me how to apply ALL my hunting expenses toward my writing/ taxidermy business. If I leave the house to go hunting, I keep mileage. All my clothes, my guns, ammo, calls, this computer and the time I'm spending online right now are all deductible as business expenses. She may not like me being gone every time I have a day off during the winter, but it pays off come summertime, when the deer mounts are all done and it's too hot to call. This summer, for example, it bought her a week in a condo in Branson, a riverboat ride for our anniversary, and several days of sightseeing, new carpet for our bedroom, getting the house repainted and new landscaping out front. Sometimes, it's a direct benefit. Three summers ago, I took her to SW Colorado for a week, including a jaunt to the Grand Canyon. While in CO, I took some time to phtograph and study a couple muley mounts he has in preparation for my first mule deer project, then met with the taxidermist that did the work, and claimed mileage for the trip. I ended up making nearly $140 bucks above and beyond what we spent on the trip. She liked that. There's an old saying in taxidermy - taxidermists don't take vacations, just business trips. Same goes for writers and call makers now. It's all in how you take advantage of the laws that are there to be used. Buying mama stuff with the proceeds from my habit makes her accept things a lot more graciously.

Posted by varmit hunter (Member # 37) on September 23, 2003, 08:35 PM:

Walk out the door.

Posted by bucksnort (Member # 202) on September 23, 2003, 09:34 PM:

My situtation is very simple. I tell her from March 1st until October 1st, I will attend her work functions, go shopping, do the "honey dew list" thing, take her on romantic weekends, etc, etc, but come October 1st until March 1st, DON'T **** with me! [Big Grin]

Works for me - so far. [Big Grin]

Take care.

Posted by Cdog911 (Member # 7) on September 24, 2003, 04:39 AM:

VH-

Good to see ya. Been wonderin' where you've been and how things are going. Hope all's well.

Posted by Bob in TX (Member # 66) on September 24, 2003, 05:55 AM:

I got divorced......probably not the best approach?

Bob [Cool]

Posted by Cal Taylor (Member # 199) on September 24, 2003, 07:05 AM:

I don't understand you guys' lifestyle. I seem to spend more time wishing I could go home and see the wife and kids. I'm gone to several different places for weeks at a time in the fall guiding hunts and I don't get home nearly enough. I get home for a few days and then its off to another ranch for some more hunters, I get tired of tents and campers and cooking other than my wifes. I leave again Friday for a week or so and then I get home and have some antelope hunters right where I live until the 15th and then I'm gone pretty much until the end of November. I'm glad to get home for a day of two.

Posted by Purple220 (Member # 173) on September 24, 2003, 10:56 AM:

Bob, I'm kind of with ya in that Dept. LOL
Just tell them be back around dark thirty,,,,,just don't mention what day !!!!

Bob

Posted by NASA (Member # 177) on September 24, 2003, 01:35 PM:

I'm with Bob in TX. No more conning, conniving, coercing, or cajoling. Just get in the truck and GO! [Big Grin]

Posted by Leonard (Member # 2) on September 24, 2003, 04:07 PM:

Let's take up a collection for Cal. Maybe a nice bouquet, to cheer him up? Poor guy! [Wink]

Good hunting. LB

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