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Sounds like lots of good couples in this thread. My wife is very supportive of everything I do, too much so at times. If I want a new dirt bike, or gun, or fishing stuff for the bass boat, or whatever, I have to be careful not to tell her about it until I'm sure I want it. She will not rest until it is home. I have a new Ram 2500 on order, entirely driven by her. I already have an 18 Ram 2500 I'm very happy with, so have been dragging my feet on it. But it's built now and I'll probably go through with it. First world problems.

We are great friends and I support her equally. We have separate gun safes and hers looks like a combination jewelry shop/gun shop. She's big into concealed carry and is always looking for the perfect gun.

Life is good!
 
Mine is also a great one. Not only supports my gun hobby, she actively participates and can push towards a purchase when I’m on the fence. She can also spontaneously decide she wants something, and even when I say no, it happens anyway. That’s why there’s a .500 magnum in the safe, lol.
 
My wife is awesome. She supports my hobby.

When we did the remodel I got my own "gun room".

Oh and she shoots, too.

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It sounds like you guys have all found keepers! Well, I have to. Mine is a great Wife, Mother, Grandmother, cook, and housekeeper. She keeps our finances in order and She has bought me guns. A MK11 Ruger target 22, a S&W Model 41, a beautiful Sako Varmint rifle in 22-250, and probably a few more that I'm forgetting. We got married at 18 and #47 is coming up soon.
 
Speedo66 said:
My wife is anti-gun and somewhat anti-establishment, she's entitled to her views, but she has never given me grief about my guns or the 40 years I spent in LE.

As far as I'm concerned, that's a win. We don't always see eye to eye on everything, but we still get along well enough after 49 years together.
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This is exactly what I'm talking about, regarding my own situation. (Except that I wouldn't say my wife is antigun. She appreciates the guns, at least, for the monetary value that they represent.)

For older people, such as ourselves, a divorce often entails financial suicide (for both parties). That's reason enough to stay together.
 
TomJ said:
If I can offer some unsolicited advice from someone who's ex is an anti, everyone of you should run out and buy flowers or whatever your wives would like and let them know how much you appreciate them.
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Good advice. Sometimes we get complacent in our marriage.
My bride is my best friend and helps me take the boys to the range every week. It's funny she shoots with me all the time when we have to drive. Before I sold my farm, I was a struggle to get her to go outside to shoot.
She definitely understands inflation and pushed me to drop thousands on components that have skyrocketed since then.
 
Demi-human said:
No, I do not. But I’ve be been looking around some, mostly at my children’s behest. Seen any around like that for a good price?
If she would out cook me, I’d be willing to spend in upwards of tens of dollars…
:D
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Good luck... Most are 15s or 20s of dollars...
 
epags said:
The thread's title is a bit sexist, we must have women shooters who put up with their spouses, but in keeping to the intent of this thread:
Sounds like all of us posters married the right spouses.
Mine is not real interested in shooting unless the facility has a flush toilet bathroom and an air conditioned room to watch from.....HOWEVER, whenever she sees a handgun or rifle mentioned on TV or in a magazine I am reading she askes if I have one and if not why not. Encourages me to go to the club's range weekly to keep up my shooting skills and puts up with me converting 1/2 of our (her) excercise/art room into a reloading center. Laughts when I tell her I am going to the gun room. Which is the laundry/food pantry room except it also contains the gun safe, ammo storage and gunsmithing equipment. She only askes that I don't ding up the new washer & dryer.
BTW, ever try to find a recoil spring that launched behind the washing machine/
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That's funny!!! I get it... Eyes getting worse but my ears can usually triangulate same situation... If the said dryer isn't going...
 
uuolf said:
Good luck... Most are 15s or 20s of dollars...
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A good wife’s worth can’t be counted in gold, nor the brightness of their spirit measured in candles.
Their love can flood a sea, their wrath could drain it.

Ask me how I know…;)

Choose wisely, my young shooting friends!
 
Demi-human said:
A good wife’s worth can’t be counted in gold, nor the brightness of their spirit measured in candles.
Their love can flood a sea, their wrath could drain it.

Ask me how I know…;)

Choose wisely, my young shooting friends!
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Less young people are getting married and/or having children.
 
DustyGmt said:
She is the greatest. Anybody else have a wife like that?
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As I've probably said about a hundred times on THR - my wife is as into guns, shooting and hunting as I am. She ordered a Shiloh Sharps .45-110 (like Quigley's, only with my initials on it) for me for our 25th wedding anniversary, 26 years ago. Of course, I didn't actually get that rifle until our 27th anniversary because Shiloh Rifle Company had a 2-year backorder on their rifles when my wife ordered it. ;)
Also, as I've said before, my custom built .308 Norma Mag (from Montana Rifle Company) was my retirement gift to myself when I turned 62, and I paid for it with my first 2 Social Security payments. I admit, it was (still is) sort of an attempt to reclaim my youth more than a rifle I really need.
The thing is, I had a girlfriend when I was 16, and her dad had a semi-custom .308 Norma Mag (probably a converted 30-06 of some kind) that I loved. He even let me shoot it a couple of times, and when that girlfriend broke up with me, it broke my heart because I knew I'd never see that rifle again.
So, when I was about to turn 62, I told the above story to my wife, and with her full blessings and understanding, I ordered my custom .308 Norma Magnum.
My wife says she's "just happy that I remember more about a rifle than I remember about a former girlfriend." Of course, my wife (Barbara) kids me about it sometimes - she asks me if I'm sure that girlfriend's name wasn't "Norma?"
It wasn't. It was Margaret, and Barb's prettier than Margie ever was anyway. :D
 
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Guys be sure not to take your wives for granted. My beautiful bride of 42 years was diagnosed with Lewy Body Dementia a couple of years ago. It's a horrible disease. I've become a full time caregiver. I squeeze in a little reloading or shooting on the good days for an hour or so.Most days are good days. Most of my hunting I do vicariously through my grandson:). Please hug em and love em while you can.
 
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