Best wives

irishlad said:

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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we do, couldn’t live without them

stillquietvoice said:

A couple years back my wife told me if I wanted an AR to buy it before I couldn't get one.

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Same. In 2016, before the election & everybody thought the witch would win the White House, my wife just walked into the living room and said "You'd better go get another AR while you still can."

Also, over the years, she has given me these: I chose to marry my best friend, and it was a perfect decision. Glad she said "Yes"

You have some real "keepers" there, tuckerdog1 - including your wife & best friend.

Count me among the lucky ones who have posted. My wife's father worked his way up from a state trooper to a high rank leaving several old Colt revolvers to his three daughters when he passed. That's what prompted me to get a pistol permit. She encourages me to do what makes me happy and that includes gun purchases. Now if there's ever a "worst wife" thread I'll tell you about my 27 day 1st marriage, my trip to the emergency room the first week & leaving in a full leg cast. Good thing I didn't own a gun then, she probably would've shot me too.

tuckerdog1 said:

Same. In 2016, before the election & everybody thought the witch would win the White House, my wife just walked into the living room and said "You'd better go get another AR while you still can."

Also, over the years, she has given me these: I chose to marry my best friend, and it was a perfect decision. Glad she said "Yes"

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2 STI’s wow! don’t care what a women looks like, she gets me 1 STI and we are getting married!

Me wife paid off my student load before we got married. She said, let’s work on your credit and here’s a 1st step. we dated for 8 months and got married at the court house, $25 filing fee! That’s how you start a marriage no debt and no wedding expenses

yep....... we shoot together buy guns for each other. We are best freinds.She qualified with a perfect 250 for our CCW permit. Me a 247.

Yep, I'm very blessed. Married my best friend 32yrs ago.
Excellent cook, mother, and now grandmother.

Funny how things change.
Early on in our marriage, she had some remarks about how many guns and ammo I needed, but these days she wonders if have enough. I used to be the one keeping up with politics and 2nd A. developments, but recently, she's more on top of things than I am, listens to Glenn Beck and Dan Bongino weekly, among others.

She shoots a little now and then, but she's not as dedicated as me. We took our CCW together many years ago and she wouldn't use any of the .22 pistols I have, insisted on using my .38 with plus P ammo. She scored 100, I scored 97 because I decided to put a smile face on the head of my target. Only rds in center torso bullseye counted.
I bought her her own .38 and she carried it exclusively until this year when we finally found an auto she likes, Sig P365.

She didn't eat deer meat other than ground burger for the first few years of our marriage until she learned how healthy it was, now that's mostly what we do eat.
Still can't get her to eat squirrel.

Congrats and thumbs up to everyone with a wonderful wife - but frankly I am astounded that this thread is still open.


I've seen a lot more barely-gun-related closed for less around here.
I guess it just depends.

Of course it is wonderful!
I applaud it.

The thread is gun related, although it strays back and forth between wife and gun.


I guess I am saying that I've seen other threads closed that were similarly gun related. And I am rather surprised. That is all. Nothing against wives. Nothing against guns.

When my wife and I got married 32 years ago she was finishing up grad school in New York and was not a shooter.
We moved out to Oklahoma and I got back into shooting and hunting and she wanted to try it as well. After a couple years she took the NRA Pistol Instructor course with me and we both taught the Oklahoma Concealed Carry course together.
She got her first deer with a muzzle loader in 94 when our neighbor invited her along since I was working overseas. We'd also go quail hunting but the tall grass and brush was tough for a hunting "hobbit" so she preferred to go duck hunting with our two Golden Retrievers.(Less walking,more sitting..) The getting up before dawn part was NEVER her favorite part tho.
She kinda got out of hunting when we moved up to Kansas but she participated in a lot of rendezvous shoots with her flintlock until "life" started getting in the way.

tubeshooter said:

Congrats and thumbs up to everyone with a wonderful wife - but frankly I am astounded that this thread is still open.


I've seen a lot more barely-gun-related closed for less around here.
I guess it just depends.

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taking about guns and family is a relief from fighting over Primers, SDS $315 1911’s, Glocks sucking, M1 va AR….

I find it refreshing that we are not fighting and loving

irishlad said:

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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That's sad but true. Tomorrow is my bride and my 9th anniversary. She is a God send and takes care of me. I try to do the same.

I'm somewhat envious of you folks who's spouses gift you firearms. Mine wouldn't consider that. I mean, she might consider it...but considering she doesn't know the difference between instant coffee and ground coffee, I'm glad she doesn't try to do any gun shopping for me. She know what she likes and likes what she knows. She's not a coffee drinker or a gun enthusiast. So I'm on my own for both.

And instant coffee still sucks, but that's all I had this morning.

Howland937 said:

I'm somewhat envious of you folks who's spouses gift you firearms. Mine wouldn't consider that. I mean, she might consider it...but considering she doesn't know the difference between instant coffee and ground coffee, I'm glad she doesn't try to do any gun shopping for me. She know what she likes and likes what she knows. She's not a coffee drinker or a gun enthusiast. So I'm on my own for both.

And instant coffee still sucks, but that's all I had this morning.

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my wife bought me a 1858 cap&ball and 2 pounds of Phils Coffee shipped from California to Seattle! She said, I want a fresh pot every morning… YES SIR!

Mark_Mark said:

my wife bought me a 1858 cap&ball and 2 pounds of Phils Coffee shipped from California to Seattle! She said, I want a fresh pot every morning… YES SIR!

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I'm not even that picky. Chock Full 'O Nuts, Folgers, Maxwell House...whatever, as long as it's not light roast,decaf, instant, or flavored by anything but coffee beans. Nope. Some Nescafe' stuff.

Larry Ashcraft said:

My wife saves up her money and sends our son to do the shopping

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I'd maybe have a decent chance that way, except mine isn't old enough to buy anything. He could probably stand there and tell her what I needed though.

I've only been married to my present wife for a little over four years but she's definitely a keeper. Her last husband had guns but wouldn't let her shoot. I let her and she took to it like a duck to water. She told me one day she wanted a gun of her own. That was 7 or 8 guns ago. I was on the fence about buying an AR. I didn't really care much for them but I wanted one just because the left didn't want me to have one. She pushed me into buying it and then after she shot it she had to have her own. Now when we have extra money she drags me kicking and screaming to the gun store.

My wife, where do I stop?
She hunted with me up until last year, now she is 72 years old and has killed several deer, which I always gave her the best
position, and if I get one, she claimed I put her in a place to bump deer to me, even if I put her in the best spot and she got one,
she says it looked good, so I decided to hunt there! I never got any credit for all those hours of scouting, but to see her face when
she got a deer was so satisfying.
I used to let her hunt out of my sight until one evening a huge black bear -not in season for bow- stalked all around her popping his jaws
pounding off the ground until he gave up on her moving. Got to admit she has nerve, for a ground hunting bow hunter.
I never let her hunt out of sight again, now she has the back yard if she wants to shoot one but turns them down.
She lets me order or buy ALMOST anything I want for firearms or reloading, just gives me the evil eye when I approach the limit.
I HAVE A LINE: about how a wife can be so important is described within the hunting shooting world and it goes:
When it is dark outside, and you don't know which way to turn, and all seems lost there is no better voice to hear than your
wife saying from far away in the cold dark night: HONEY, I FOUND BLOOD OVER HERE!

I meant my future wife when I came home from Viet-Nam. The USMC of that period was short on manpower and long on deployments such as the Caribbean, Med and Gitmo Cuba. I finished out my enlistment at GITMO Cuba and went on to higher education. There wasn't an extra dime to spend but occasionally we purchased 22RF. Center fire ammunition was not in the budget. We learned to live within our budget which in the long run was what was best.

Was in Walmart yesterday with my wife and grandson, stopped in the sports section and was looking at the guns, while wife went yo the pet section. She came back to sports and asked what I was looking at. It, a savage/Steven's 320 pump shotgun for 187.00, she Saud that'd a cheap price buy it. Well I didn't, couldn't justify it given that my finances this week weren't in a good enough place. Herrespinse was I've got it, but still didn't buy it, my birthday and Christmas is coming so maybe Santa will bring it.

My wife, loving and kind as she may be, lacks the knowledge to really know what to buy as much as she might want to.

Gifts certificates are too generic for her.

Howland937 said:

I'm somewhat envious of you folks who's spouses gift you firearms. Mine wouldn't consider that. I mean, she might consider it...but considering she doesn't know the difference between instant coffee and ground coffee, I'm glad she doesn't try to do any gun shopping for me. She know what she likes and likes what she knows. She's not a coffee drinker or a gun enthusiast. So I'm on my own for both.

And instant coffee still sucks, but that's all I had this morning.

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That would be me, I'm not a coffee drinker. Wife likes her's strong, no sugar, I'm not even sure how to use the coffee maker.

Takes her coffee drinking pretty seriously, would never drink instant, or consider buying me a gun for that matter.

remember young gentleman's… the best wife’s bring something to the table. Looks fade, hormones dies, but morals and hard work don’t. Be a man!