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Main Boards => PowWow => Topic started by: Sheepshooter on January 25, 2010, 06:09:00 PM
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My wife swore, before we were married, that she would never shoot a bow and that was ok with me. She came to a couple of Heritage Classic Jamborees and at the second one we bought her a second hand recurve. She loves shooting in the back yard and stumpshooting. She even shoots when I'm not around! I talked her into going snowshoeing on the weekend and 1/2 mile into the trek she was talking about buying her own snowshoes and maybe next time bringing a tent. She absolutely loved it. That's my kind of date! Did I luck out or what?
I'll post some pix of what we saw when we were out.
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awesome! Mine came around during year 7 of the marriage. :)
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Congratulations! My wife has just starting shooting. She says she has no interest in hunting, just targets and stump shooting, which is fine by me since I enjoy any type of archery. We'll be looking for the pics.
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Congrats she is a keeper.Mine said she would like to try but very time I ask she says no.She does enjoy the outdoors.
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My bride, of 29 yrs., loved shooting forever. I'm working on getting her to give up the wheellie. She's got a kit longbow and enjoys shooting.
Have fun!
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lucky guy, mine is shooting 5 years strong and still going.
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After forty years, my wife hates everything I do.
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My new bride is in her first year and shoots better than me....
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Some guys know how to pick 'em.
The rest of y'all were just lucky.
Killdeer :biglaugh:
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I asked my lady if she would go hunting with me. She said sure. When a deer showed up she would get up and yell RUN BAMBI RUN!! She likes venison so I ca
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I can't complain
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PS. She will not hunt with me
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(http://i725.photobucket.com/albums/ww255/randyhermann/P1000291.jpg)
(http://i725.photobucket.com/albums/ww255/randyhermann/P1000296.jpg)
(http://i725.photobucket.com/albums/ww255/randyhermann/P1000297.jpg)
(http://i725.photobucket.com/albums/ww255/randyhermann/P1000278.jpg)
These were 2 of 3 juvenile Lynx kittens that we saw with their mother. I had some better pix of the Lynx but I haven't installed the program to support the format I took the pix in. I will post those pix when i can
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(http://i725.photobucket.com/albums/ww255/randyhermann/P1000306.jpg)
(http://i725.photobucket.com/albums/ww255/randyhermann/P1000308.jpg)
(http://i725.photobucket.com/albums/ww255/randyhermann/P1000312.jpg)
(http://i725.photobucket.com/albums/ww255/randyhermann/P1000313.jpg)
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NICE PHOTOS!! Beautiful cats...
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Yep Sheepshooter, you are doing good all right. That is sure some beautiful country to share with someone special. Thanks for adding the pics.
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Lynx! Way cool!!
Killdeer :bigsmyl:
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To answer your question... YES!!!! Thanks for sharing the pics.
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You did good. Thats almost as difficult as finding the perfect bow.
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I'm with blackstick. :(
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Did you marry the right girl ? Does a hobby horse have a wooden leg ! ? :D
Nice pics !
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Wonderful pics of the lynx, beautiful photographs!
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Beautiful Photo's and Yes those are some Pretty Cat's,It looks like you had a Great Time,Beautiful Country,
Kurt
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Oh,and Yes you did Marry the Right Girl,
Kurt
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Originally posted by Sheepshooter:
(http://i725.photobucket.com/albums/ww255/randyhermann/P1000297.jpg)
Wow! I've never seen a linx that looked quite like that... :knothead:
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Notice that now that he's bragin on his gal, he ain't showing no pics of her. Dummie he ain't!
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Good photos; thanks!
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Lucky man!
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Got my wife to start shooting about a year ago. She loves it, and so do I. Great pictures. :clapper: :clapper: :clapper:
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OUTSTANDING Thanks for sharing :thumbsup:
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I`ll second MJB. :thumbsup:
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I'd say she's a keeper - Nice kitty pics too.
Jer Bear
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:thumbsup: :thumbsup:
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Very nice pictures.
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does she have a sister?
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My wife doesn't hunt any more (scared of our bears).
You better keep this one.
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Congrats for the pics and to have found the right gal.My wife has never shared anything with me if not when I was paying for some exotic seas vacations.So I quit going with her and started to buy bows.
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Hey Neighbour, great pics thanks for sharing.My wife used to come hunting with me but now finds it to cold, Oh well.
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Did you luck out? Only time will tell.
With the painfully earned wisdom of a couple marriages under my belt, I would have said adios when she dismissed any thought of participation in something as deeply ingrained in me as archery.
My son married a gal who hates guns, bows, & hunting, all things he was brought up to love & which are a part of his soul. He has tried to get her to participate, but she acts like bows & guns are rattle snakes. A few years into the marriage now, she has gone from the "accept w/o participating" stage to the "I can change/fix him stage".
From experience I saw this coming and told him with complete candor not to marry her in the first place. I figure he will hang in for another 5-10 years of spirit breaking hell before he gets out, and will take several years after that to repair his spirit and find himself again...
Sorry if this doesn't strike the tone you were looking for, but I've BTDT and have a very pragmatic view in regard to wedded bliss...
Who knows, maybe you will get lucky...
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First, the good news. I just know that at some point she will want to hunt. Laura and I lived like you for about 10 years...shooting, hiking, camping, etc. She got to meet successful women bowhunters and here's what she decided to do...kill a bear....and look what happened.
(http://i14.photobucket.com/albums/a322/Arrowworks/Bearlo2.jpg)
Then she found a rub and scrape behind the house...asked me to put up a stand....and look what happened.
(http://i14.photobucket.com/albums/a322/Arrowworks/Lauras1stbuck.jpg)
Now the "bad" news. I shot a turkey from my Double Bull blind this Fall. She gave it a try and missed two big toms at close range. The result, now she has a Double Bull blind. My hunting budget has doubled.
Oh! There is more good news....it's great! Hope it turns out that way for you.
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After forty years, my wife hates everything I do. :biglaugh: :biglaugh: im sorry but that just cracked me up
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I think that its cool that your wives hunt and shoot with you. I have a great wife myself, but she doesn't shoot or hunt. I really don't mind that at all, because I always looked at that as "my time". we do everything else together, and she gives me the freedom to buy anything I'd want, or hunt anytime that I want. SHE EVEN AGREED TO GET MARRIED ON MARCH 7th!!!.....Here in NY, small game season ends Feb. 28th, the ice is usually too thin to ice fish on then, and Striped Bass season doesn't open till the 16th!
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Also, I'm not too sure that my wife could stand to be around me ALL the time!!
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My wife always approved of my hunting , but never took a part in it, until last year. She said that she wanted to go deer hunting, I took her and she saw several does. She got hooked. Killed her first deer this year adn loved it. She told me that she was suprised she hit it because her heart was beating so hard she could feel it in her ears and she was shaking so badly that she could barely aim.
Think she will make it a habbit? Does a one legged duck swim in a circle?
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lpcjon2- no,she does not have a sister. Sorry Buddy.
cacciatore- I hear what you're saying. My first wife was like that. Always had to be what she was into and sometimes she wasn't even willing to have me involved in that. I do stuff with my wife that she likes too (golf, concerts, etc.) cuz it's gotta be give and take and it's no fun when your always the one giving.
NDTerminator- This is a second marriage for both of us and I hope we each learned something from the first one. It won't be "wedded bliss" all the time, I know. I guess I'm just a bit excited cuz it's so different than the first one.
SeanB - She agreed to get married then cuz she knew you would have a better chance of remembering your anniversary with nothing else going on. Lol. She's no dummy. Mine did the same!
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:^)
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Sheepshooter - if you shoot a bow half as good as you shoot a photograph, you are one dangerous dude. Absolutely great photos!
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My mom started hunting at age 50. Only year she's missed since then was after surgery and she's killed 3 deer in the last two years.
She's 88.
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My wife hunts with a compound and got her first deer by her self.She has interest in what ever I do being hunting,fishing,camping,what ever else we decide to do.I'm a lucky guy.P.S. she shoots a recurve pretty good too.
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I started tinkering in Trad gear about 5 yrs. ago....
A year and a 1/2 later I was Trad hunting exclusively....
A year later, my wife wanted a bow, so I got her a used Bear kodiak...
then last year I start tinkering with making bows...
Guess what? Then she wants a bow I made for her:
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(http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v336/bgeckle/selling%20pics/100_0998.jpg)
It'll only go down hill from here for ya! (just kidding!) :bigsmyl: :bigsmyl:
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hayslope- Thanks for the kind words. I can only take credit for some of those pictures, my wife took some as well. We just got the camera so we are still learning. It helps to have beautiful scenery and willing critters to photograph. We are truly blessed to live where we do.
I read somewhere that we men like when our women do things with us that we like to do. Looks like alot of our ladies have figured that out! :)
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We got married in September (will be 38 years), and went moose hunting for our honeymoon! She missed a few years when the kids were young but we're still moose hunting together.
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Sounds like you have a good one!!! Don't let her go.... :wavey:
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Everyone,
Yes! Randy has found a rare pearl. She is learning a lot about archery, the outdoors and everything that goes along with our life style.
Just tonight, she was talking about coming to our DART league shoots without Randy if he can't make it. That, speaks volume.
As for the pictures,well! She took most of them. You see Randy got a little thing with cameras. I think it is call bad carma.... But jokes aside they live in a great region and take full advantage of it. The best of all is that, the kids are absorbing it all in and they love it. They are a great familly and hopefully friends for life. I look forward to spend more time outdoors with them all. I wish them the best.
Yves
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Oh yea...you will need to stock up on pretty feathes like pink and/or purple.
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Beautiful photos. Thanks for sharing.
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Awesome Pics,awesome place!
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You are a lucky man and i like the pics!My new bride helped me track,drag and butcher the 2 deer i shot this year on our property.I am also a very lucky man! :bigsmyl:
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Good for you.....My wife don't hunt or shoot but she does everything else with me, snowshoes, hike, travels by motorcycle, goes fishing, bicycles and kayaks. I'm very lucky just like you. Oh yea....nice photos!!!
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Almost 24 yrs of marriage here, my wife TOLERATES what I do. She more or less gave me the handle TooManyHobbies. It's too cold to hunt, to uncomfortable to ride (Harley), too this, too that. Oh, well, I love her anyway.
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I guess I could be in blacksticks shoes. I asked my wife if she would like to go camping and she declined. So I bought a tent....... :biglaugh:
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She is a keeper, years of adventure ahead.great pic's.
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yea basically you are lucky, lol