does a new gun count

if you get it into the safe before the wife sees you bought it. I just picked up a 7mag weatherby vanguard badlands from Buds that i kept my mouth shut about. 3 new guns last month and i though i was pushing the envelope buying another. Wife never said a thing before but i thought i was pushing the limit. She did catch the leupold scope i got in the mail and asked and i said it was for a gun i had a cheap scope on. I think she knows better that i dont have a cheap scope on anything. But she didnt push it.

Many ladies aren't interested enough in firearms to know the difference between a Weatherby and a Winchester, or a bolt action from a semi, but much to my chagrin I learned in the distant past that they can count. "You had 4 rifles when you left for the gun show, but now you seem to have 6?"

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yup but when its up over 40 they its a bit harder to keep track of.

I have several spread out over three locked gun cabinets. The wife has no idea how many I have(neither do I actually, without counting).
She used to complain about the money. A couple of years ago, we had a sudden unexpected expense and needed some quick cash. I sold a couple of guns and paid the bill.
Now she just looks at them as an investment.

When you go to the range always take an empty hard case with you. 3 cases leave ( 1 empty ) 3 cases come home ( all full). Most wives dont go beyond the cases coming and going.

Similarly, I was able to convert several of my investments into a Transmission rebuild once. It did take the edge off some of the questions. And then our financial advisor said it was perfectly legitimate and acceptable to have your portfolio in a gun safe, Right after all our stock holdings tanked . No complaints now.

What else, besides precious metal/stones, are you going to buy, use, and enjoy and still get 80% of your purchase price back? Or even make money if buying used.

My wife has always known what I have, and has never minded at all! She knows that I wouldn't spend out of our means and also knows that I enjoy them. She has her hobbies and I wouldn't ever say anything about hers. She has been following gun prices the past several years and has said like many of us know - the investment pays far better dividends than anything else we have.

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Nope, does not count. Once it's in the house, I have had it for "a while".

I never had a problem like that.
The new wife (of 20 years) is used to seeing them come and go. One more or less doesn't come up on her radar.

In the last week or so, I cashed in a bunch of factory ammo I'd never shoot at the local gun store.
I came home with a new in box Ruger Mk1 made in 1980, and have a Henry Golden Boy on order.
All she said was, "Cool".

Along those lines however--
Something I've always found to be true: "It's easier to get forgiveness than permission".

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My wife has always known what I have, and has never minded at all! She knows that I wouldn't spend out of our means and also knows that I enjoy them. She has her hobbies and I wouldn't ever say anything about hers. She has been following gun prices the past several years and has said like many of us know - the investment pays far better dividends than anything else we have.

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Absolutely the same here. My wife does shoot some but has her hobbies. In the 40 years of being together we have never hid anything from each other.

Years ago I had my 2 stack on cabinets open. She commented 'you only have 2 hands. Why do you have so many guns?' (Just the rifles were showing.) I couldn't respond you only have 2 feet because 5 is the most pairs of shoes she's owned in 39 years.

I just tell the Wife I bought it for her

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I feel your pain - in 56 years of marriage, my green-eyed monster has supported my gunning/hunting ever since I took her shooting during our honeymoon.

She's even bought a few for me...…. :D

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Patrick McManus, who used to write humor for Outdoor Life wrote about this. He said the trick is to buy a larger gun rack and never, ever, let your gun rack get full. That way His wife wouldn't notice. ... one day his wife said "I must be getting old-- I used to dust your gun rack in 10 minutes-- now it takes me hours..."

My wife is cool about buying guns. She knows the bills are paid on time. When i get a new gun. She has a few of her own too. She collects snakes. I collect guns. Taking care of my guns is less work than her snakes lol.

My lady loves to shoot. She is smarter than I, so trying to fool her would be a huge mistake. We talk about major purchases. She actually leans the other way as I have been selling more than I have been buying over the last couple of years. She asks if I am sure I want to sell something.

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Patrick McManus, who used to write humor for Outdoor Life wrote about this. He said the trick is to buy a larger gun rack and never, ever, let your gun rack get full. That way His wife wouldn't notice. ... one day his wife said "I must be getting old-- I used to dust your gun rack in 10 minutes-- now it takes me hours..."

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I was thinking about that McManus story when I read this!!!!


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I just showed my wife this thread. She asked how many of"these guys" work 80ish hours a week and take their kids out to shoot and learn to enjoy and respect firearms. She also said: "you are the epitome of provider - who am I to say what you wish to spend your time and money on? You spent your entire morning with our kids and their guns."
(Gotta say, I do love this woman)

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She never really asks. When I finally bought a safe this last year, she saw they don't all fit. She turned an eye and said I'll prolly need another. Similarly, Ive sold some and never lost money. It works for us.

My wife found out about one of my gun purchases about 3 months after the fact. She was not happy and I was in the doghouse for awhile.

My wife does not get on to me about such; as being a pedigreed hill billy, I just keep a separate stash built up from trading and selling. Call it my rat hole stash. Last thing I bought with common family money was an Enfield No 1, Mark III* I bought about 10 years ago.

It’s always easier to get forgiveness, than permission!

Sneaking in guns is easier than sneaking in gun safes.

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Sneaking in guns is easier than sneaking in gun safes.

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Yeah that second safe will have to come home while she's at work. When she finally notices, Ill tell her the guns and the first safe fell in love and had babies. Natural order of things and all.

might have to do it again today. Ive got a appointment at the VA 90 miles from here and have to go by 3 gunshops driving home.

I don’t and won’t sneak around!

Around here its the motorcycles that are hardest to "camouflage". I am not buying any more firearms as I am satisfied with what I have now. In fact I'm selling the ones off that never get used.

Man just think if you had as many guns as the wife has shoes and purses...The floor would need reinforcement !

Just make sure to treat her to something extra when you treat yourself to extras.

nothing cool at the gun shops this time so i wont go to hell.

If your wife can keep track of your guns - YOU NEED MORE. She does not even ask if I NEEDED a new one when I bring one home. I CANNOT change her hunting rifles without consulting her though and she DOES NOT want another rifle for a GIFT! No new scopes, same loads that have worked for years, or changes unless approved, just so she has 'fresh' ammo each hunting season.

had to laugh yesterday. I got a new leupold scope in the mail for the 7mag. Threw it on top of the safe in the living room. She sat down to watch tv and asked me if i got a new scope. I think the only reason she noticed is that were emptying the house because were tearing it down and building new. Used to be a ton of crap on top the safe i put out in the barn so it was sitting there alone. i told here it was a late valentines present i forgot to give her. She got some electronic do dad watch in the mail yesterday too. Now talk about a waste of money! Youd have to hit a deer with it very hard to put back straps in the freezer!!!!!!!!!!

Sneaking around and lieing just isn't me, to each his own.

Judging others is a sin too. Mine is more fun though.

i dont moan about her shoes etc ,she never worries about my shooting access ,even told my friends not to let me leave a gun show without the 45-70 i had wanted,i didn't argue