Hunt Financing?

[wifishkiller]

Am I the only one who feels bad about taking the money from my main job for hunting?  I guess I feel like that money is better saved for retirement.  I also never have second thoughts about where I spend the extra cash from the side jobs.  Just wondering if im alone on this lol.

[Steve O]

Not any more...I have had a couple of weird near death experiences.  If you wait till you retire, you aren't going to be doing much hunting      When I am old and gray, I may be broke, but I'll have some good memories   :D  

Please don't take this to mean I don't take care of my family...it is just the corners I cut to pay for the things I want to do.

[kojac]

I have biggie's wife put money in "my" account but...sshh!!.....don't tell my wife  :eek:

I have a buddy that says, "it takes a big man to get his wife a second job"

[Brian Krebs]

I fired my wife; and now I am single. I moved to where I hunt. I get extra gas money by every other year letting my german wirehairs produce a litter of pups. I have six in the other room right now- which seems like a better deal than the stock market today    


     

[Benha]

In order for me to go on all the hunts I want my wife had to go to work and when that still wasn't enough I had to get a job! LOL

[Louutah]

I have a golfing buddy who buys a new driver and irons almost every year and finances his "habit" by donating plasma (similar, I am told to donating blood), $30.00 a pop twice a week during his lunch hour all winter, gets him set up every year.  He feels he is contributing something and getting something in return for his efforts.

[Dave Lay]

I do what adeeden does, we have a credit union at work, I opened a account without a debit card, I have $100 a month direct deposited in it and and when (if)I get a raise, that money goes in there as well. And any extra I may get from selling stuff goes in there. it is my hunt fund account and with the approval of my wife. But as others I am a warehouse worker and a poor cracker, and I have had to rob my account for family crisis but only as a last resort. You dont miss the money if you never have it in your hands. works great for me.

[wifishkiller]

ttt this is a good thread

[David Hewitt]

Credit Union if you have one thru work.  Put some money in each payday and eventually you won't miss it.  Also flex bank HSA or HRA work good. I cash in the cost of my prescriptions and meds once or twice a year. Also sell a little firewood.  I get a longevity check at work twice a year and $800 uniform allowance that I rathole as much as I can.  Put all my quarters in a large jar.  Adds up to a few hundred per year.

Woody

[Plywood Bender-laptop]

I opened a Karate school and it has its own checking account.  I pay for all hobbies thru the school.  I try not to dip into the day job funds for hunting, bows, guns or karate tournys etc.

Carl

[hunt it]

Just borrow it! It's much easier to pay it back than save it. Banks just love giving you money!!
Life's to short to wait for hunting trips you always wanted to do. Get insurance on the loan and fly away, he who dies with the biggest debt wins!!! You will only get one chance in life to take the bank for a ride!!!!!! This of course requires the ability to make the payments. Life really is short so make the best of it. I've lost way to many friends that have died saving for these things.

[Patience]

remember the past, plan for the future, live for the now. Find the extra $$$ however you can. You never know when your card will be pulled. i pay the bills and supply the needed goods, the rest has hagle room.

[Featherbuster]

I have enjoyed reading this thread almost more than any other that has been posted on here!!

[Walt Francis]

About six or sevens years back Monty Browning was the speaker for the Montana Bowhunters Association banquet in Bozeman and mentioned how he financed his hunting trips; Trimming trees and "Home Improvement Loans".  Luckily, my wife was in attendance and gained a new understanding/perspective of my obsession to hunt.  Now when I tell her that I am going on a hunting trip she only asks, with a either smile or sneer (depending on her mood and the cost), if we need a “Home Improvement Loan”.  I have found that my hunts never get planned until a date/season and species is set.  The dates/season is usually set according to how long I estimate it will take to put the money together, and then NEVER CHANGES regardless of problems encountered.  Problems always arise and will give everybody legitimate excuses for not going, but if you want it enough you will find a way.  It has been my experience that when the dates/season start changing the hunt never happens.  Do your homework, plan the hunt, the make it happen, it’s easier then you think.

[Jack Shanks]

Twenty years ago I worked two jobs that afforded me one DIY out of state hunt each year along with my deer hunts in my home state without taking anything away from my family. After about ten years of this I landed a full time job working twelve hours a day seven days a week which I worked at until I retired last year. Even at that, I really didn't think I could afford to start taking guided hunts until my two daughters were older. I didn't go on any really expensive trips until after they were through with college and I figured I could afford it a little better. Looking back, maybe I should have borrowed the money and taken these hard expensive trips when I was younger.

[varmint]

I've realized that I am probably never going to retire...........just won't be able to.I figure my retirement will come the morning I don't wake up.......

After knowing/seeing my fair share of people pass on very close to or right after retirement,I decided I wasn't going to wait to do the things the wife and I have always wanted to do until we are supposedly retired.If it means being in debt from now till..............that's what's gonna happen.I'm gonna enjoy the things in life I want to before I'm too old,or worse yet,dead.

[Matt Fowler]

Saving never works for me. I borrow, either from the credit union or my 401k well in advance of the trip. By the time the trip rolls around most is paid back. Plus I can usually save a little and put something like licenses or airfare on the cc.