Should I few guilty for this?..

[buckmaster303]

maybe I need to try this with my wife 

[WaltAlpine]

Get a couple of days worth of input from the responders to your question.
Then get the post deleted so she never sees it and move on, hoping for many years of hunting together.
Just keep your deceit on this unimportant level and you will be fine.

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[Jpmiller]

Here's to hoping you didn't miss seeing the buck she saw. That would be a bummer to find out there really was a deer.

[jjaba]

no guilt needed until she becomes a member and reads your post.

[Odell]

Since you asked, I'm going with yes. You lied to your wife and send some rounds off into the sage. I wasn't there so I don't know if it was safe or not but its on the list of "dont's".

You should have sent her on a belly crawl after it.


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[police women of America]

Honestly I would say no. It's good you feel bad for lying to her but it was all in good fun. And now everytime she thinks of hunting she'll think of seeing a huge buck instead of just sitting and being bored. I don't think you should have fired any shots, that was a little extreme. But I would ovoid telling her for a couple years, I know I would be mad if someone lied about a seeing a buck 

[idaho guy]

You are all good in my opinion.I get why you would feel guilty for  not being totally honest  I have never taken shots but have let young hunters and kids convince themselves they heard an elk coming in when it was a squirrel or they think they saw a bear etc. Your intentions were right.  I have been with my wife for over 20 years and she grew up in Montana in a family of avid hunters but never wanted to pull the trigger. I would take her out with me deer hunting mostly and taught her to rattle and stuff and we had a lot of fun and killed some nice deer eventually not right away. She helped me call in a small bull that I arrowed and  after a while she said she wanted to shoot her first deer and after that she was hooked and got her deer every year. Now we have 3 kids doing all kinds of stuff and she doesn't really hunt with me anymore but those years hunting together are some of my best memories. I don't think I would try to fake her out anymore but stay with it man you are on the right track it will be worth it. 

[huntnfmly]

Very cool
Absolutely no reason to feel bad
In just those few last Minutes you were able to show her and get her to feel exactly what you've been trying to explain.well done

[WA hunter14]

take it to the grave, if you havent told her yet then i definately would not tell her.

[7mmfan]

No issues in my book as long as you had a safe back drop. No different shooting at sage brush as shooting at a coyote or anything else standing in the sage.

If I did what you did though, my wife would have just given me a hard time for missing, so I probably wouldn't have done it. For pride's sake 

[NachesBOY509]

Trust me I haven't told her, I don't plan to make this a habit with my wife at all! But it really did get her into it, and now she can't wait for opening day this year!
I did make sure t was a safe backdrop to shoot towards and I took all the safety percautions!
I will take this one to the grave, but other than that it's all truths from me! And she does like to give me a hard time for "missing" but it's something we can both laugh at for quite some time considering the situation 😂

[7mmfan]

I think 4 or 5 years down the road when shes seen a few animals shot and may even be interested in it herself at that point, it might be time to come clean. I'm sure she'll find the humor in it at that point. 

[GoBeavs85]

If she spotted the "sage buck" how did she not keep seeing the buck after you shot? Sounds like you got lucky she didn't call you on it!


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[Boss .300 winmag]

I'm flabbergasted.

 

Wow.


Honesty is the best policy, your playing a dangerous game IMHO. 

[HunterofWA]

Looks like she's hooked so If I were you I'd delete this topic so that when she gets her first deer and gets real into hunting and joins this forum...