|
Forum Rules | Firearms Safety | Firearms Photos | Links | Library | Lost Password | Email Changes |
Register | FAQ | Calendar | Search | Today's Posts | Mark Forums Read |
|
Thread Tools | Search this Thread |
February 28, 2019, 10:05 AM | #101 |
Senior Member
Join Date: October 22, 2010
Location: Albuquerque, NM
Posts: 986
|
Dang, David! She shoots like my wife did!
--Wag--
__________________
"Great genius will always encounter fierce opposition from mediocre minds." --Albert Einstein. |
February 28, 2019, 10:41 AM | #102 |
Member
Join Date: February 6, 2019
Location: DFW, Texas
Posts: 36
|
My wife is mostly supportive of us having guns, she's just not a shooter. That being said, she does hate spending money so that's always my trouble. Guns ain't cheap.
__________________
"If you can make yourself laugh, you'll never be lonely" -me |
March 1, 2019, 06:18 AM | #103 |
Member
Join Date: February 9, 2012
Location: NE Ohio
Posts: 58
|
When I bought my 1st semi auto pistol my wife insisted I store then outside of the house. I rented a secure storage locker. She is not anti gun just protective of children. Its was Thanksgiving weekend and we had a lot of the grown children and spouses home. I took a couple of them to the shooting range the day after. Then on Saturday a couple more wanted to go. Of course they all had a blast. Well the following Monday, when the house was empty, my wife asked if I wouldn't mind taking her to learn / try her hand at shooting. She fell in love with shooting targets immediately. Although she had no interest in revolvers. She just liked the semi autos. The rest as they say is history, She owns 9 or 10 of her own now. Shoots USPSA and steel challenge. When I bring or buy a new gun, it's hers and mine as long as it is 9mm or smaller. The larger calibers are just mine. We have been marred 38 years and this works out great. I brought home a CZ 75 SP01 Phantom and 3 Beretta Cheetahs this week. 2 85Fs and an 84. I showed them to her and then put them in my safe. in our house. That's how I got around the offsite rule and how I can pretty much buy any gun I want. I involved her in the process.
|
March 1, 2019, 07:40 AM | #104 | |||
Senior Member
Join Date: November 6, 2004
Location: Georgia/Afghanistan
Posts: 314
|
@USNRet93
Quote:
@Leaf Quote:
@2wheelwandar Quote:
ROCK6 |
|||
March 2, 2019, 03:25 AM | #105 |
Senior Member
Join Date: February 15, 2005
Location: Pensacola, Fl
Posts: 3,092
|
My wife has no problem with my owning guns. She has hers as well. But, in our current depleted financial situation, purchasing new ones is out of the question. I realize that as well as her, and I concur. No new gun purchases.
__________________
COME AND TAKE IT http://www.tamu.edu/ccbn/dewitt/batgon.htm Formerly lived in Ga, but now I'm back in Tx! Aaaand, now I'm off to Fla... |
March 3, 2019, 08:29 AM | #106 |
Senior Member
Join Date: December 17, 2005
Location: Swamp dweller
Posts: 6,187
|
As long as it doesn't hurt the budget I can buy what I want. The problem is once purchased the wife tries the gun, likes it and then I need to buy another one for myself. It's tuff but someone has to do it
__________________
NRA Life Member, NRA Chief Range Safety Officer, NRA Certified Pistol Instructor,, USPSA & Steel Challange NROI Range Officer, ICORE Range Officer, ,MAG 40 Graduate As you are, I once was, As I am, You will be. |
March 3, 2019, 08:41 AM | #107 |
Senior Member
Join Date: January 9, 2018
Posts: 538
|
Had a conversation with a friend yesterday. His wife was a social worker for years. Dealing with troubled kids, parents, etc. Refused to give her blessing to gun ownership.
Well, she gets burned out and gets a job at the local PD (250,000 population city) answering the non 911 calls. Now, she is demanding he gets a handgun and keep it in the house and get a carry permit. Its all perspective vs. reality |
March 4, 2019, 07:08 AM | #108 |
Senior Member
Join Date: July 12, 2016
Location: Fort Bend County, Texas
Posts: 173
|
My wife actually encouraged me to get back into shooting when I returned home to Texas after almost a decade exiled to a northern state. Now, if I bring how a new firearm, she asks "Where's mine?" Hell, we exchanged shotguns for Christmas. I bought her a Benelli Montefeltro in 20ga and she bought me a Beretta 686 Silver Pigeon in 12.
__________________
9 mm may expand, but .45 ACP doesn't shrink! |
March 4, 2019, 07:25 PM | #109 |
Senior Member
Join Date: December 14, 2015
Posts: 116
|
Not to sound macho but I earn 5 times what she does, until the bills suffer, I will do what I want.
__________________
EAA SAR k2p 9mm Beretta px4 storm Taurus pt111 g2 9mm Sig Mosquito 22lr Sig Sauer P250 9mm full size Walther PPS m2 9mm S&W Bodyguard 380 Ruger LCP 380 |
March 5, 2019, 06:46 PM | #110 |
Senior Member
Join Date: March 20, 2014
Posts: 2,083
|
You certainly are the exception to the your money is her money rule...
|
March 5, 2019, 06:55 PM | #111 |
Senior Member
Join Date: December 17, 2005
Location: Swamp dweller
Posts: 6,187
|
Perhaps a wife replacement is due and as stated earlier the gun topic conversation never came up?????
__________________
NRA Life Member, NRA Chief Range Safety Officer, NRA Certified Pistol Instructor,, USPSA & Steel Challange NROI Range Officer, ICORE Range Officer, ,MAG 40 Graduate As you are, I once was, As I am, You will be. |
March 5, 2019, 06:56 PM | #112 |
Senior Member
Join Date: September 24, 2008
Location: central Arkansas
Posts: 400
|
My wife saw me looking at a Star compact 9mm on J&G, declared it was "so cute", and demanded that I buy one for her.
"Yes, dear..." |
March 5, 2019, 07:09 PM | #113 |
Senior Member
Join Date: October 30, 2016
Posts: 211
|
My wife, way back when I met her, said she didn't like guns. I told her straight out that it was a package deal.
|
March 5, 2019, 07:54 PM | #114 | |
Senior Member
Join Date: June 15, 2016
Location: Rural PA
Posts: 1,639
|
Quote:
__________________
22lr, 20 gauge, 8mm Mauser, 35 Remington, 30-06, 5.56x45/223, 9mm, 380acp |
|
March 6, 2019, 10:54 AM | #115 | ||
Senior Member
Join Date: November 19, 2005
Location: S.E. Michigan
Posts: 219
|
Quote:
Quote:
She's not into shooting. I'm not into gardening. We each allow the other the room they need to enjoy what they enjoy. |
||
March 6, 2019, 11:12 AM | #116 |
Senior Member
Join Date: October 18, 2011
Posts: 1,246
|
I wasn’t raised around purses and don’t like wearing them. I’m supportive of her owning purses to make her happy but I don’t think anyone needs more than 3 purses. Plus I like saving money as well
Also high heels are dangerous and trip hazards |
March 11, 2019, 11:13 PM | #117 |
Senior Member
Join Date: June 1, 2013
Location: Now relocated to Texas
Posts: 2,943
|
Without reading all five pages of responses I would simply make a demonstrative statement to the wife “ I had firearms before you and will have firearms when St Peter comes calling for me.” You can include or omit adding the wife in there with a suggestion you will have the guns perhaps longer than you will have her. This is grand advise from my normal marriage counseling program, you can then actively seek a place to sleep after your house, bank account, vehicles and retirement quickly become the property of your wife at the sound of the judges gavel.
|
March 12, 2019, 09:06 AM | #118 |
Senior Member
Join Date: November 23, 1999
Location: PA. USA
Posts: 1,869
|
My wife doesn’t like me buying handguns either, simple solution is that I don’t tell her!
For a lot of years my CU account was in my name only, that was my gun fund and should would never see the gun shop charges. If she saw something that she thought was new I’d just tell had this for years and it was buried in the safe. For the most part my collecting days are over and since I’m retired the CU account is in both names now. If I do buy anything now I just listen to the P&M session! |
March 12, 2019, 09:52 AM | #119 |
Senior Member
Join Date: January 9, 2018
Posts: 538
|
Dad used to have $50 savings bonds taken from his checks (gub'ment employee) and that was his gun fund. For decades Mom never knew how he afforded his guns when a new one showed up. She never looked at his pay stubs.
It was a slow system, but it worked. |
March 13, 2019, 07:40 AM | #120 | |
Senior Member
Join Date: October 23, 2018
Location: Republic of Boulder, USA
Posts: 1,475
|
Quote:
I guess some are faced with 'pick guns or me'..but I think that's rare..IMHO, of course.
__________________
PhormerPhantomPhlyer "Tools not Trophies” |
|
March 13, 2019, 09:19 PM | #121 | |
Junior member
Join Date: August 11, 2018
Posts: 198
|
Quote:
|
|
March 14, 2019, 07:36 AM | #122 |
Senior Member
Join Date: January 2, 2015
Location: The swamps of WNY
Posts: 753
|
My latest. Wife shoots next to me. She likes my quality guns. I never have a problem buying stuff We need for matches or practice.
I bought a 9mm Springfield RO Champion. She liked it because it was light. SO I bought a Dan Wesson PM-9. She liked that, so did I. SO I bought a Valor in 45 for me. Last night she shot a 94 in timed fire with that Valor. Its hard to keep up! I just bought a used Kimber target II as a project gun for me. David |
March 14, 2019, 06:58 PM | #123 |
Senior Member
Join Date: May 3, 2009
Location: Central Texas
Posts: 3,930
|
Sometimes my wife is ok with me buying a new handgun. She likes to shoot with me. So she does not dislike guns. Most guns she just handles it. Then is ok with it. A few she has not been ok with. Those she confiscated for herself.
On the list of guns she has confiscated after my purchases. 1. Charter Arms Bulldog .44 Special. 2. Raven .25 Auto. (It was given to me as a tip for a detailing job.) She shoots it well, and likes the ultra small size of it. 3. V. Bernadelli Model 60 in .32 Auto. I tried to sneak it by her. It hit her and fet well enough she lets me clean it for her weekly. (She carries it.) 4. RIA 206 .38Spcl. Snub. She likes the size and weight of it. She also shoots it well. I got it because it reminded me of a Colt Detective Special. 6 shot and all. There are others of mine she likes to shoot. The above listed are HER'S! She puts up with me. So when she decides she likes one that much it becomes her's.
__________________
No matter how many times you do it and nothing happens it only takes something going wrong one time to kill you. |
March 16, 2019, 09:44 AM | #124 |
Senior Member
Join Date: October 18, 2011
Posts: 1,246
|
Does anyone’s spouse object to trades? I mean not trading spouses. Gun trades.
|
March 16, 2019, 11:21 AM | #125 | |
Senior Member
Join Date: May 16, 2005
Location: E Tennessee
Posts: 828
|
Quote:
|
|
Thread Tools | Search this Thread |
|
|