So. What does your wife think of all this?

Last year...

Wife, "You are not going to the range as often, why?"
Me, "Ammo is expensive."
Wife, "Can you make your own bullets?"
Me, "Uhh, why yes I can! It will cost a little up front..."
Wife, "Get to it. What do you want for Christmas?":D

Great woman she is!
 
My wife bought me two Dillon 1050's and a Spolar and built me a 2,000 square foot reloading room to put them in.


The other reloading stuff I had to get on my own. :(
 
Mine tells me to shut up and load. She wants to shoot this weekend! Keeping up with two shooters in the house can get a little tough. I ran out of 40 S&W RN bullets this morning! Another trip to pick some up and we're back in business.:D
 
My wife is a penny pincher so she loves the money saving aspect of it. Also a bit of a prepper so pretty supportive of stockpiling too.
 
My wife calls my reload room/area the mancave.
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My reloading stand shares a room with my gun safe, exercise equipment, the dog's crate, and a TV and chair where I retreat to watch ball games when my wife is watching Dancing With The Stars. The room was once a bedroom for my daughter, and I have decorated the walls with vintage heirloom tools and tin signs related to firearms. In short, I have replaced everything except the curtains: sheer blue fabric with beads. The family therefore refers to my room as "the frilly man cave."
 
Mine also refers to it as the Man Cave. She is 100% supportive of me ( Great Wife ) . She does not shoot with me to often, but never gives me a hard time about it. Most times she is the one that say's- Why don't you go shooting.
 
"I really don't care what she thinks". Man that sucks. The day I stop caring what my wife thinks is the day we are dividing up our belongings.
Mutual respect and uncontrollable lust.
That's how we roll.
Other than that she knows I have to ocupy my hands all the time.
 
Spoken like a true jersey boy.

Did you even read my posts? My point is I won't compromise on my 2A beliefs, period. Not for the wife or Obama.

Reading comprehension can be tough for public school grads.
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I commented on a particular comment, thus the "quotation" marks. Not at a particular person. Maybe you could elaborate on what your "spoken like a true jersey boy" comment means. To me it means that you are very narrow minded and have likely never traveled to other States/Countries or spoken with anyone from NJ.
It is safe to say that the people on this forum all enjoy and promote the 2A. There are not any "beliefs" associated with 2A. It is a right of people, not an ideal or religion.

Regardless, glad you taught your children/grandchildren the sport. I learned the same way and my wife and I taught our children. I hope this Nor'easter blows through soon so I can get outside to burn up some powder.
Cheers,
 
My wife enjoys hunting and shooting, but is extremely paranoid of the primers and powder to the extent she requested I build a building separate from the houses.
I obliged, and she now refers to them as the craters in waiting.
 
Ungun wife

I have a great relationship. This is wife number two and wife number one (thankfully ex wife) made herself such a pain in the neck over my shooting that I sold everything I owned and just gave up. Then I divorced her. I did it backwards. Should have divorced her first.

Well about ten years ago (under the new regime) I started accumulating BP revolvers and shooting again. I got up to about a dozen revolvers and Wife Nr. 2 asked, "How many guns (I don't call them guns because of the time I spent in the Navy) do you think you will need. I didn't know how to answer her and I told her so. She understood. I am up to more than 90 firearms and every time I go to a gun show and don't come home with something, she asks me why.

She thumps the bible pretty hard and I am no church person. She went shooting with me two times and was so bored she went looking for a snake to play with. So she doesn't make me go to church and I don't make her go shooting. Best arrangement in the history of western culture.
 
I guess mine accepted it as just part of the deal. She purchased me my first gun safe, along with an RCBS 4x4 press back in the early 0's when we got together. That was even before we got married.

Since then she just doesn't even bother with things but will help out with sorting brass or looking over batches of cast bullets for defects.

I learned early on she was a keeper, and been with her almost 30yrs now...:D
 
Mike....

Good post

As I said this wife is Wife 2 for me. I learned several good lessons with Wife 1.

I am giving Wife 1 half of my Navy retirement until she is on the brown side of the grass.

I always send her a little extra for cigarettes.
 
as long as she has ammo to shoot, she's happy. her words not mine the ammo box is getting low you better get to loading...
 
So. What does your wife think of all this?
Mine referrers to my Dillon as a "Bullet Builder" and I am "Bullet Building in the Basement." In a bar in Florida last week she described my hobby to some colleagues as apparently medicinal and akin to "knitting for men."
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Ha! Good description, on all counts.

My wife's cool with all this. She realizes it cuts costs, and I handload almost all that I shoot.
 
My wife is supportive of my hobbies. Reloading is only one of them. She has hers such as sewing, collecting patterns, and collecting vintage sewing machines.

Mine are shooting, reloading, guitars, and growing peppers, and tomatoes. She goes more into the peppers I grow. She wonders my the powdered peppers will not work as gun powder as they are so hot. :eek:

When I go on a run to buy supplies her response is along the lines of "bring me a cool shirt back."
 
At 1st it was a issue of contest for her. my Guns and reloading.
She has finally accepted it as a fact of life. After a few knock down drag out arguments.
We are finally at the Don't ask don't tell phase.
She does not ask and I dont tell.

It is still there simmering waiting for the day she can whip it out.
To maintain the period of detente I work hard to insure the wife gets her time.
If you dont.... ohhhhh we dont want to go there.

She realizes it cuts costs, and I handload almost all that I shoot
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And she believes you??? Mine caught onto that one the 1st day.
" No it does not!! You just spend more on other stuff.
ahhh D'oh!!!!
 
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