My wife and I are big fans of the "don't ask, don't tell" philosophy when it come to my guns or her shoes. I can't tell the difference between any of her 10 pairs of black shoes and she cant tell the diffenece between a shotgun or a rifle.

AWWWWWW

I buy more firearms than my hubby does. He's never once complained. Go figure.

Have her buy it for you.

My wife does not know the combination to my gun safe!

I still carry my pair. I bought a Taurus 850CIA Ultralite today. I deny her nothing I can afford either. She is the queen but the king still rules.

My wifes Dad was a gun collector...I got lucky!

If you need an ace in the hole try this....

"Honey Steve needed some money, this thing is worth about $1500 bucks........I got it for $100, I was thinking of selling it next year and using the money for our vacation!!!

You will keep the gun, she will forget and you will get some "quality time" because she will thinks it SWEET!!!

I go with don't ask don't tell

not telling is a good way to wind up broke or divorced or both, if your financially able then what would be the problem in telling her, if your not, quit acting like a 2 year old and man up and support your family....if you have to hide it or omit it you shouldn't buy it, this is not a man of the house issue, it is more of an issue of trust, if you start hiding guns she'll start hiding purses....then her hotel reciepts...My opinion is to have a joint account, do a family budget and allot a certain amount of money each money for each to blow, if you can save your blow money to buy a gun its your choice and you won't need to hide it....

Without reading 4 pages of this stuff all I can say is, never attempt to deceive or lie to your spouse, If you want to keep her. This from a man who’s been married longer than most here has been alive.

fixing to get married and now shes asking for a new shotgun for pheasant season
last year for christmas she bought me a savage 12bvss so i guess im lucky?

You don't hide it. You shouldn't have to.

buy a safe, dont give her the combo or give it to her one digit off. take it in the house when she is not there, put it in the safe, drive 100 miles get rid of the box. But who would keep secrets? LOL

What happens when the shoe's on the other foot? I do not hide this stuff from my wife as there would be no trust in the relationship. Best of luck.

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I don't, never have never will. Deception is just as bad as lieing or stealing, she is my wife and deserves honesty.

Marriage is a 2 way road and I like mine smooth.

i'm no marriage counselor but if you hide anything from your lady, it'll come back and bite hard. if you can't be honest with her, you got bigger problems

No wife ~ no problem

I'm married to a total non-hunter/non-gun woman, have been for 17 years. When I told her I was going to buy new duck guns last year the first words out of her mouth was; "why can't you use the ones you already have?" At that point all I owned as far as shotguns go, was a vintage A5 Belgium Browning and a single barrel Winchester shotgun the belonged to my great grandfather. I had to explain to her that steel shot would destroy both of these guns and she finally understood. I started a savings account a couple of yers ago just for hunting purchases, I had to shut it down early this year so I didn't have it this time around. I took a pretty good pay cut and had to adjust my budget. I am plan to start it back up after Christmas. This is the best way around making those purchases I found, she still ask questions when I spend the money and I have it in the account but she understands that the whole idea behind doing the savings account is so I can feed my habit so it's OK. Never and I mean NEVER take money out of you checking account or budget to pay for these purchases especially if your are just getting started or you have kids or kid(s) on the way. Also if she is paying the bills I highly encourage you to sit down with her and participate in this process. We had several "run ins" at first over how much money ought to be left over at the end of the month at first. The problem was I just didn't realize actually how much money it took to keep us afloat. My two cents.

Just buy her something nice everytime you buy a gun..and all is well.

Hiding purchases and other things from a spouse is how those stories of the man (or woman) have to have a sit down with their wife (husband) and explain to them WE not I are in 60K in Credit card debt and now are being sued...which is the only reason for the confession.....The number 1 cause of divorce in North America......and this thread explains why...

depends on the finances. I've managed to parlay Christmas and birthday money into a few guns. I've also managed to get a few from my Dad for what he has in them when he finds a good deal. My last purchase really hurt. I wanted a Glock 22, but the $425 was not on the approved spending list. The wife saw my guns. Each one was different, but to her guns are guns and she thought I had more than enough. Tried explaining that a decent semi-auto hand-gun was necessary, but it didn't free up the money. Had to part with a cheap 9mm Norinco and my first handgun, S&W k frame .357.

You just do what you have to do. Cut a neighbors lawn for $25 per week (did that right after I got married). Do odd jobs. Maybe you sit down with the wife and tell her you want the hand cannon and it costs this much. Tell her how you plan to save the money by brown bagging it for x number of weeks / months and the first of the whenever, you want to purchase the gun.

If she says no based on the idea that she just doesn't want you to have it, then you're just stuck. Squirrel away the money, save your pocket change, and get it when you have anough cash squirreled away. BUT, if things are tight and bills are behind, good luck explaining how you ended up with extra money squirreled away...

i don't never would in fact she is the first person i show a new gun too

HOW DO YOU HIDE BUYING GUNS FROM YOUR WIVES?

First off I only have one wife at a time, and I found one who didn't know one gun from another, and I had a lot of guns before I met her. The only problem I have had is she can count!

Maybe the Telaban has the right idea not letting their women go to school!

My wife said, "separate bank account". LOL.