Hunting set up,The call of the wild

[lpcjon2]

Well this is the time of the year that we try to get everything in order for the season. I read post upon post about what set ups to use, Bows,arrows,heads,blinds,and stands.

  But the most important set up we forget is the Family that will be at home.So what are some of the things you do to prep the family for your up coming season or long hunt away.

[**DONOTDELETE**]

Honey I'm going hunting for a week or so... BYE.

My Wife is going back Up to Jersey to visit family, So She will be gone for 3 weeks, I get 3 weeks to go hunting.. I can do My 3 weeks all at once or brake it up...

[adeeden]

I promise I'll be around home more about christmas time! (They understand and expect this)

[fireball31]

pretty easy.  My wife's coming with me.  Might be a problem once we've got kids.

[mcgroundstalker]

I always ask my wife to come with me but she says she'd rather stay home. I'm kinda thinking she may have a boyfriend or two on the side. I was wishin' it was a couple of girlfriends...  :rolleyes:  ... Then maybe I'd never leave myself! ...  :p  ...

... mike ...

[lpcjon2]

Originally posted by mcgroundstalker:
I always ask my wife to come with me but she says she'd rather stay home. I'm kinda thinking she may have a boyfriend or two on the side. I was wishin' it was a couple of girlfriends...   :rolleyes:   ... Then maybe I'd never leave myself! ...   :p   ...

... mike ...

You aint rite at all...LOL          

[koger]

I have twice the work to get done, blinds, equpment, washing clothes. You see, my wife hunts with me, and is a great hunter, which she continually rides me about. I thought it would be great to get her into hunting a few years back, now with 16 deer, 1 Turkey and a 4x4 bull elk, yes I said elk, here in KY, she can hold her own with most men. She really enjoys it, especially the peace and quiet. She has been helping me get the blinds ready, picking up bad apples and baiting the poor deer, scouting and wathcing deer with the spotting scope and binos. Her two best deer have been taken on the ground, archery tackle at 10 and 16 yards, one a 11 point, 16 inch inside spread, 150#  and last year a nice 8 pt, #170, 15 inch inside spread. Someone asked her recently did she trophy hunt, she said everyone is a trophy and that she went by the POH record book. The guy looked puzzled and asked her did she mean P&Y, she said no, POH, Pounds of Hamburger per deer, only shoot the fat ones!!LOL!

[njloco]

Well, I do it with a lot of sensitivity. Like Honey, I'm going hunting this year again, Oh and it might be in Texas for a couple of weeks. I started telling her that last October, this way by this hunting season she is use to hearing it.

Ken

[Dave Bowers]

Fortunately my wife is very receptive toward me and hunting. She always asks when I am going.

Mcgroundstalker, when did you say you were going hunting?  Just kidding, my wife usually hunts with me, I need someone to pull the deer cart for me. These past years she has been shooting as many deer as I do. I bought the cart because I was getting to beat up to drag her deer out and still have enough back left to keep hunting for the rest of the season.

[lpcjon2]

paven,My deer cart is a body bag.It keeps the deer from getting caught on brush and such and it freaks people out when they see me hurling it into the back of the truck.

[Arkansaslongbow]

My wife doesn't hunt but she looks forward to hunting season every year because she and the entire family loves deer meat; she also knows how much hunting means to me and she is 100% supportive towards my addiction;

After 31 years I really believe she enjoys the time to herself and the grandkids keep her busy as well; I am trully blessed with a wonderful wife...  

[PAPA BEAR]

not married but my woman who's 13 years younger than me better have her boyfriend stop eating my oreos or theres gonna be trouble up in heaa.  :D        :D

[Rick Butler]

My wife is pretty understanding of how important this time of year is to me.  As long as my "honey-do" list is caught up I'm good to go.  

If you would go to the super sized oreos I wouldn't eat so many.

[Sam McMichael]

"Honey, I'll be hunting in the morning" is my standard set up. I never go on extended hunting trips, but I do go hunting nearly every weekend from September to New Year's Day. Fortunately, I'm only about 10 minutes away from where I hunt.

[Cyclic-Rivers]

I have only been married 4 years last week.  Each year I find myself explaining less and less.  The first year was why do you have to set the alarm so early and why cant you be home just before dark.

It's getting closer to: "have a great time, see you when you get home".

[trapperzeke]

Well, since kid #2 is due Nov.1, it may be a little harder to figure that one out this year.  But I like to "soften the blow" of a hunting trip right after a nice dinner of venison backstrap.  

[Slasher]

Well let's see... I've replaced the broken microwave/stove hood...  tiled the back splash in the kitchen... She knows that if she really wants something on my honey-do list as I become fanatical about my shooting... She can put a humdinger or two on there as long as I am able to be finished before season opens....

Now her birthday is right in the middle of the rut... and that can get me in some real trouble, but she is very understanding... especially if I have the line on a real good buck... besides, she loves venison even more than I do...

[bolong]

I covered all my hunting in a pre-nup agreement 36 years ago. I have to remind her of that once in a while though.