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Equipment & Gear => Guns and Ammo => Topic started by: Lightning_Rider on October 08, 2010, 05:35:50 PM

Title: Convincing your girlfriend or wife?
Post by: Lightning_Rider on October 08, 2010, 05:35:50 PM: Alright so it's safe to say that most of us on this site are obsessed with guns (probably an understatement). What my question is though, is what kind of "fibs" or "tales" have u had to fabricate in order to convince your significant other that you must own a certain gun? Last year i told my girlfriend that the only reason i was "blowing" $1800 on a Beneli shotgun was because the company was goin out of business and that the gun would be worth a "fortune" in years to come. Well that might not be so true, but i got the gun and she quit hasslin me.
Title: Re: Convincing your girlfriend or wife?
Post by: alecvg on October 08, 2010, 05:38:07 PM: Just buy it and don't tell her.
Title: Re: Convincing your girlfriend or wife?
Post by: ICEMAN on October 08, 2010, 05:41:49 PM: I have said it a thousand times....just go to the closet and start counting shoes....or lifting some makeup off the dresser and ask: "How much does this stuff cost?"
Title: Re: Convincing your girlfriend or wife?
Post by: WDFW-SUX on October 08, 2010, 05:43:29 PM: I bought a high end shotgun last year told the wife it was an investment and it would be worth more when I decided to sell it for a nicer one...SUCKER!

If I didnt spend it she would have so I really dont feel bad about it.
Title: Re: Convincing your girlfriend or wife?
Post by: Buckmark on October 08, 2010, 05:46:53 PM: Don't take this the wrong way, but if you have to "fib", make up a "tale", fabricate or convince (Lie) to her then you need to reevaluate your relationship son, grow a pair and buy what you want, when you want and why you want, so long as the money spent is not being diverted from the everyday things all families/couples need.
If you start lying that will just come out bad in the end.
Tell the truth, you will have less to remember.... :twocents:
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Title: Re: Convincing your girlfriend or wife?
Post by: D-Rock425 on October 08, 2010, 05:57:10 PM: I told my wife I needed a new shotgun for duck hunting because my other ones wouldn't be legal
Title: Re: Convincing your girlfriend or wife?
Post by: uncoolperson on October 08, 2010, 05:59:04 PM: Quote
it's for you

put a few in the safe that way
Title: Re: Convincing your girlfriend or wife?
Post by: Wazukie on October 08, 2010, 06:03:51 PM: I've never had to lie or convince or anything else. If the money is there for the purchase and was intended for said purchase, well I buy. The last gun I wanted I didn't have to buy, it was given to me. Ruger #1 25-06 :)
Title: Re: Convincing your girlfriend or wife?
Post by: Greg30-06 on October 08, 2010, 06:07:07 PM: Earlier this year I got laid off from my job of 5 years and by the end of the week my wife had managed to convince me that I should go and buy a Ruger SP101 .357. Man I love my wife!!!! :kneel:
Title: Re: Convincing your girlfriend or wife?
Post by: CAMPMEAT on October 08, 2010, 06:07:19 PM: For me, it's none of the girlfriends business unless she has you by the knads !!!! :'(
Title: Re: Convincing your girlfriend or wife?
Post by: Austrian Hunter on October 08, 2010, 06:09:05 PM: I don't ask how much her shoes or her other stuff cost and she wont ask how much a gun, rifle or bow cost. That was a signed agreement at marriage ;)
Title: Re: Convincing your girlfriend or wife?
Post by: Dan-o on October 08, 2010, 06:44:39 PM: Lying to her doesn't make sense.... It's just one more lie to keep track of.

The key is to marry someone you're compatible with, otherwise you get to spend the next XX years lying and arguing about it.

(From a guy who's tried the lying route and the truth telling route.....)
Title: Re: Convincing your girlfriend or wife?
Post by: Lightning_Rider on October 08, 2010, 06:50:52 PM: Quote from: Dan-o on October 08, 2010, 06:44:39 PM
Lying to her doesn't make sense.... It's just one more lie to keep track of.

The key is to marry someone you're compatible with, otherwise you get to spend the next XX years lying and arguing about it.

(From a guy who's tried the lying route and the truth telling route.....)

I don't do this (Lie) with everything on a daily basis or anything like that. It was this and one other time that i made up B.S. to get what i wanted and as a matter of fact she's watching me type this as i speak :) It wasn't my plan to make this an ethics or morals topic :bdid:
Title: Re: Convincing your girlfriend or wife?
Post by: mulehunter on October 08, 2010, 07:01:29 PM: I would buy it if my wife have her own Horse, Trailer, Truck and all Hays Cost..... DAMN I WILL BUY ANYTHING FOR MYSELF! :yike: As long as my wife still Working!

Mulehunter :)
Title: Re: Convincing your girlfriend or wife?
Post by: the1rod on October 08, 2010, 07:28:04 PM: next time you go out shooting just come home with it and put it in the safe like its nothing special, by the time she notices it, if she does, you can tell her you have had it for a long time.
Title: Re: Convincing your girlfriend or wife?
Post by: markts on October 08, 2010, 07:37:16 PM: About 6months ago I asked my wife if she knew how many guns I have aquired in the last 7years(been married 7yrs) She said 2 I said 9 no worries here ;)
Title: Re: Convincing your girlfriend or wife?
Post by: saylean on October 08, 2010, 07:39:33 PM: Quote from: alecvg on October 08, 2010, 05:38:07 PM
Just buy it and don't tell her.

Thats my strategy....then I hear..."Is this new?!" Na...bought it a few months ago... :chuckle:
Title: Re: Convincing your girlfriend or wife?
Post by: Kent Hunter on October 08, 2010, 07:45:45 PM: You guys have seen a few of my posts. I've been on a .22 pistol kick for the last couple of years. I either just save up to buy what I want or I tell the wife the name and model number of what I want and she "surprises" me with it. I have a great wife. ;)
Title: Re: Convincing your girlfriend or wife?
Post by: Greg30-06 on October 08, 2010, 07:50:15 PM: My wife is wanting to start hunting too. So I think that I am going to "BUY HER" a new 7mm mag ;)
Title: Re: Convincing your girlfriend or wife?
Post by: Lightning_Rider on October 08, 2010, 07:54:18 PM: Quote from: Greg30-06 on October 08, 2010, 07:50:15 PM
My wife is wanting to start hunting too. So I think that I am going to "BUY HER" a new 7mm mag ;)

HAHA thats the way to do it...then hopefully she won't like it so you can get another one ;)
Title: Re: Convincing your girlfriend or wife?
Post by: rainshadow1 on October 08, 2010, 07:58:44 PM: Quote from: ICEMAN on October 08, 2010, 05:41:49 PM
I have said it a thousand times....just go to the closet and start counting shoes....or lifting some makeup off the dresser and ask: "How much does this stuff cost?"

:yeah:

Keep track of the hair/nails/facials, and cosmetics, shampoos, extra copies of purses, shoes, boots, etc. etc. etc. etc. If she grants you matching fun money, you're going to have a pretty well stocked safe! We don't even realize until we start keeping track, but the girls can spend some MONEY!!!
Title: Re: Convincing your girlfriend or wife?
Post by: sporked horn on October 08, 2010, 08:03:38 PM: One summer my dad got a new Mossberg and was looking it over, when my mom asks that's not new is it? Dad says no had it for years. Things got a little tense when mom opened the woodstove and found that new cardboard box waiting for colder months :bash:.
Title: Re: Convincing your girlfriend or wife?
Post by: Jamieb on October 08, 2010, 08:12:41 PM: I don't ask, just buy a gun if I want one.
I have a gun/hunting fund in the drawer of my reloading bench, it's my money to buy what ever I want. When I sell a gun or other hunting gear, the money gets put in the drawer.
I've never told my wife about my gun fund but she's never asked where I got the money for a gun so she knows, as long as I'm not dipping into the bill money she don't care. 100's of guns and scopes have come through here, I don't hide it, don't have to.
Cabelas layaway is a good way to buy a gun a little at a time with extra funds as they become available, without dipping into the "family" bank account.
I dont really know crap about women but I think that as long as the bills are getting paid most women wont mind their boyfreind/husband buying what he wants.
Title: Re: Convincing your girlfriend or wife?
Post by: markts on October 09, 2010, 10:05:05 AM: Quote from: Jamieb on October 08, 2010, 08:12:41 PM
I don't ask, just buy a gun if I want one.
I have a gun/hunting fund in the drawer of my reloading bench, it's my money to buy what ever I want. When I sell a gun or other hunting gear, the money gets put in the drawer.
I've never told my wife about my gun fund but she's never asked where I got the money for a gun so she knows, as long as I'm not dipping into the bill money she don't care. 100's of guns and scopes have come through here, I don't hide it, don't have to.
Cabelas layaway is a good way to buy a gun a little at a time with extra funds as they become available, without dipping into the "family" bank account.
I dont really know crap about women but I think that as long as the bills are getting paid most women wont mind their boyfreind/husband buying what he wants.
When you figure them out write a book and you can buy anything :chuckle:
Title: Re: Convincing your girlfriend or wife?
Post by: Bean Counter on October 09, 2010, 10:26:35 AM: If she's not your wife then what difference does it make? :dunno: Call me old fashioned but until you're married you can spend your money how you want. If I were her brother, however, I would be advising her to consider your financial responsibility if you feel you need to lie in order to buy wants which aren't necessities.

That being said, its nice to have fun things. And if it wont break the bank and in line with what my WIFE spends or agrees to let me spend, I am all about counting shoes in the closet, ala ICEMAN.
Title: Re: Convincing your girlfriend or wife?
Post by: PolarBear on October 09, 2010, 10:34:05 AM: Quote from: rainshadow1 on October 08, 2010, 07:58:44 PM
Quote from: ICEMAN on October 08, 2010, 05:41:49 PM
I have said it a thousand times....just go to the closet and start counting shoes....or lifting some makeup off the dresser and ask: "How much does this stuff cost?"

:yeah:

Keep track of the hair/nails/facials, and cosmetics, shampoos, extra copies of purses, shoes, boots, etc. etc. etc. etc. If she grants you matching fun money, you're going to have a pretty well stocked safe! We don't even realize until we start keeping track, but the girls can spend some MONEY!!!
:yeah:
Also keep track of lattes, lunches out with the girls, nick knacks for the house, etc. When I first got married I was getting ready to sell a rifle for a pretty penny and she immediately started thinking of a piece of furnature. I had to make it clear that any and all funds made by selling or trading a gun are to go 100% back into another gun or hunting equipment, NO EXCEPTIONS!
Title: Re: Convincing your girlfriend or wife?
Post by: woodman on October 09, 2010, 10:37:32 AM: My wife is always pushing me to buy more stuff for hunting, she says that I deserve it. Maybe it is because I have never said no to anything that she has wanted OR maybe she just wants me out of the house. :)
Title: Re: Convincing your girlfriend or wife?
Post by: jaymark6655 on October 10, 2010, 12:19:51 PM: Married and not too well off, but I never lie. Once I did end up buying one for her, I had forgot to switch my address on DL and gave her my Christmas cash to buy it under her name, so it is hers. Last time I ended up buying her a $500 diamond ring that she wanted with the understanding that this season or next I could go out a get a $1000 rifle. She really doesn't go too shoe crazy so I have to try and be a little fair.
Title: Re: Convincing your girlfriend or wife?
Post by: JackOfAllTrades on October 10, 2010, 12:27:08 PM: Quote
what kind of "fibs" or "tales" have u had to fabricate in order to convince your significant other that you must own a certain gun?

Married 26 years next month. I don't lie about why I want to buy a gun. I buy what I need within reason and tell her what I want it for. Same with fishin gear.

-Steve
Title: Re: Convincing your girlfriend or wife?
Post by: Tony 270 on October 10, 2010, 12:27:37 PM: Quote from: rainshadow1 on October 08, 2010, 07:58:44 PM
We don't even realize until we start keeping track, but the girls can spend some MONEY!!!

Whats that joke? A successful man is one who makes more money than his wife can spend. A successful woman is one who can find such a man.
Title: Re: Convincing your girlfriend or wife?
Post by: huntandjeep on October 10, 2010, 01:19:30 PM: ive never have to lie to my wife for a new gun.I just tell her i need this one or want that one.
Title: Re: Convincing your girlfriend or wife?
Post by: rickomatic on October 10, 2010, 02:09:49 PM: Just use the "dress in the closet" approach.

"Oh....that OLD gun? I've had that one forever! ;)
Title: Re: Convincing your girlfriend or wife?
Post by: Curly on October 10, 2010, 02:19:52 PM: I bought my wife a Beretta O/U 12ga for her Birthday or Christmas or our Anniversary.........I can't remember which one now. I have shot it more than she has. Now I'm thinking of getting "her" a new 7mm-08 or .308 because I she needs a lighter weight rifle.
Title: Re: Convincing your girlfriend or wife?
Post by: BLKBEARKLR on October 10, 2010, 02:23:00 PM: Quote from: Buckmark on October 08, 2010, 05:46:53 PM
Don't take this the wrong way, but if you have to "fib", make up a "tale", fabricate or convince (Lie) to her then you need to reevaluate your relationship son, grow a pair and buy what you want, when you want and why you want, so long as the money spent is not being diverted from the everyday things all families/couples need.
If you start lying that will just come out bad in the end.
Tell the truth, you will have less to remember.... :twocents:
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Could not have said it any better!!!!

Only thing I woory about when looking for a new bow, gun or reel is how much it is going to cost me. Because without a doubt in my mind I will be buying two of them.

Find someone that is compatible with what you do and never take away from the daily expenses. That gun is a want not a need.
Title: Re: Convincing your girlfriend or wife?
Post by: grundy53 on October 10, 2010, 02:27:42 PM: It's easier to beg for forgiveness then ask permission... :tung:
Title: Re: Convincing your girlfriend or wife?
Post by: chester on October 10, 2010, 02:32:16 PM: :yeah: wow..steve didnt know you were keeping that a secret from her. you were sending me pics before you even left the store. :chuckle:
Title: Re: Convincing your girlfriend or wife?
Post by: Lightning_Rider on October 10, 2010, 02:38:32 PM: I told her the truth about the swarovskis though and she did not judge me on my decision but i don't think she was as impressed as i was/am
Title: Re: Convincing your girlfriend or wife?
Post by: phishisgroovin on October 10, 2010, 06:34:40 PM: i dont lie to my wife for any reason about my firearms (or anything else for that matter), if i want one i just get one when i can.
If she hates it i tell her not to look at it. :chuckle:
Title: Re: Convincing your girlfriend or wife?
Post by: Decker on October 10, 2010, 06:59:59 PM: For our first married Christmas, 10 months ago, I decided to invest some of my hunting fund into our relationship and bought my wife a Diamond Razor's Edge Bow with winner's choice string, her own bow case, every thing pink, fletching and all, etc. I told her that I was trying to find ways to spend more time with her and include her in what I love to do. ...after all I didn't want her to be a "hunter's widow" like some of her other friends complain about being.

Well, due to this new development, I HAD to buy a nice blind for us to hunt out of together ;) . When she's gotten used to the whole thing, I'll have to buy a couple of tree stands we can use "together". Oh, and suddenly she can see how having a couple of trail cameras could be really handy. I just had to show her the joy of the sport. I am very proud of my wife, this spring she completed hunter's safety and this fall has been out hunting with me for the first time, well with her own tag.

On our anniversary, she surprised me with an S&W .38 Special that had only been shot around 6 times. She was debating between that and another .44magnum, but considered that having a .38 might be good for her to have "for defense purposes." (Now who's turned the table?)

Now she's decided that the gun for anniversary gift should be an annual tradition and I couldn't agree more. I mean how could I lose, it started with buying her a "diamond" ;)
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Post by: rasbo on October 10, 2010, 07:08:27 PM: thats cool decker,A family that plays together stays together...
Title: Re: Convincing your girlfriend or wife?
Post by: Ellensburg on October 11, 2010, 12:28:26 PM: If you gotta lie about buying a gun then you gotta problem.