Does anybody hide a new gun purchase to your wife/gf??

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No, I don't hide my purchases... (mainly because I'm single!)

I don't have the type of personality that would react well to having every dollar I spend scrutinized by someone. Maybe that is part of the reason I'm single. :scrutiny:
 
I've never hidden a gun from my wife.

When I settled on a Mossberg .308 with the camo stock, I made a big show of painting my Marlin 60 camo.

That's not hiding is it?
 
With as little as my wife knows about guns it is easy to hide them. My safe has 12 slots in it for rifles. I just take out one of the 22's of the M38's out and store it elsewhere. As long as there are 12 guns in the safe no questions are asked.
 
Does anybody hide a new gun purchase to your wife/gf??
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Not me.

I enjoyed showing my wife a new gun purchase or what I bought at the gun show.

I had to be careful saying I was thinking about buying a new gun or some new reloading equipment because She would want to buy it.

About 1971 when I had been laid off and money was tight, one day I came home and told my Wife I had seen a very nice M1 Garand at a gun store. She made me get back in the car and go buy the rifle, even though we really couldn't spare the money.
She knew I had always wanted a M1 since my time in the USMC.
 
hiding generally means not using or cleaning it when the people you hide it from are home. Same with ammo, "why the god ###n H### you got a box of .35 rem/223/308/etc when you only got a 22?"

Besides, if they spouse or gf doesnt know about it, how she gonna know if its missing after the house gets robbed? Be suspicious you only find out and report its gone 4-5 months after hte robbery, and its already been used to do in 5 gas stations and a doctors office or a highschool?
 
Nope,dont have to hide anything from my wife,in fact she enjoys guns as much as I and has her sights set on a few for her own collections!I think I would be more inclined to believe she is 'hiding a few purchases' from me.

I swore we only has 4 AK's now theres 6,and 2 Siaga's and now 3,and I sure dont remember getting that all cosmolined up Yugo SKS...but...there it IS!

:D
 
I am a C&R Collector

which involves buying and selling some. Mostly buying and keeping.

But I often sell guns on gunbroker to fund a new purchase/interest.

Anyway, I don't tell the wife what I'm doing and sometimes the purchases don't align.... accounting-wise and well, another "investment" is made :D
 
Don't Hide em, Flaunt em

Heck, I can remember when my wife made fun of me because I had more rifles than would fit in my tiny gun locker.

Today, I have 3 gun safes ... and no wife.

B. Noz.
 
Nah, If she was the kind of woman that I had to hide things from, I wouldn't have married her. I haven't bought too many since we've been married, but I could any time and she'd be fine with it. She's all right.
 
Ummm? could be a trap. Are we going to be on 20/20? Awe hell she know's I sneak them in the house anyway! Yes I do it to...Beggin for forgiveness is easier than asking for permission! She's even heard me say it and knows it's true. Keep in mind what's good for the goose is good for the gander!
 
My wife went to see her family for two week and took the kids. I took that day off and ended up buying a SKS.

With her gone for two weeks, I baked and boiled the parts. The house smells like cosmoline and I've got the stock hanging in the laundry room.

With any luck, it'll be done and in the safe by the time she gets home.

Her and guns are like me and shoes.
 
I live at home with my parents, dying grandma, and younger brother. None of them know what I have, and I like it that way. They probably wont find out unless my mom checks my bank account and sees an order for an M70AB1 some time later this year. Since I have primary control of the account, it doesnt matter; it's my money.
 
My girlfriend knows that I buy and sell guns. She says that it is my hobby and she wants me to enjoy it. I don't really bring up purchases. Afterall at the end of the day, she and I do not live together, we don't share expenses and we both make our own money.

That being said, when we get married I won't buy guns behind her back. You can say "Yeah right, you will" but we have a very strong relationship and I fully confident I can stick to that pledge.
 
I have the only combination to my vault in my head and one writen down
in my saftey deposit box for her if something happens to me.

The best thing I ever did was before we were married I took her to the
gun shop with me and bought a new Kimber. Now when I come home
with a 300 dollar revolver she thinks its cheap.
 
OF COURSE!! 100% honesty gets you in more trouble... ie: "Yes honey you do look fat in that" or "I would rather just sit here and watch the game instead of going to your parents 43rd annv. dinner". Honest, but it won't fly. She goes out and buys stuff too... my wife buys $100.+ in make up, or new linen for the kids' rooms, I don't want to know it. And she doesn't tell me. It works that way! A new driver, maybe a weekday round of golf at a nice course, maybe a Luger. It's life.
 
Do I hide new gun purchases from my wife? -- Hmn -- Ask me no questions I'll tell ya no lies.

I don't ever attempt to hide my gun purchases from my wife. -- I just don't tell her. If she asks if I bought any guns when I come home from a Gun Show, sure I tell her but the only problem is if something was to happen to me she might sell them guns for what I told I paid. That would be a heartbreaker...:)

But the fact of it is, after you've got a collection of guns they don't notice the new recruits. If I was to look in her closet I couldn't tell what was new and I could care less. Some guns I bought 10 years ago are worth double what I paid. Tough to get a return like that on shoes and purses.

Regards:
Rod
 
This is the reason I need to invest in pistols, i can pocket most of them until i get to my safe, and then wrap them up in an oiled cloth and put them in an ammo can until its range day, she just thinks thats where i keep targets and bullets :evil:
 
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