Guns that you bought, but kinda forgot to tell your significant other about.

[Firehouse]

I have an interesting story to tell you tonight. I run a little FFL business on the side. I have a shop out behind my house and I do a little gun hustling for friends and their friends, not to mention I get to pick up things for myself at a decent price and handle the transactions and such. I have this co-worker whose brother-in-law found a rifle online out in Texas at this place called The Sportsman's Finest in Bee Cave, TX. I'm sure some of your from Texas are familiar with it.

I wasn't sure what he ordered, until I received it to handle the 4473 form for him. It was a Sako TRG-42, in .300 Win Mag. Guys, he paid $2500 for this rifle. Now in Alabama, I've owned cars I didn't pay this much for. But the kicker was, he bought it without his Wife knowing. He lives 50 miles from here, and he had to drive up while on his break at work to pick it up. And he met met his Wife on the road while on the way. I shook his hand and bid him good luck. I've been in his shoes. But not for a $2500 rifle.

Can any of you relate?

 

[Indiana George]

Brandy,

In my home, the policy is; "Don't ask. Don't tell."

This, as it pertains to my wife's account with the local gardening/landscaping shop and my dealings when it comes to firearms.

<GRIN>

 

[zainyD]

I haven't told my wife about a few of the guns I've purchased. The more I have the less she recognizes new additions. Generally, I try to have some gun money stashed away for when I see something I can't live without.

 

[oldman45]

All the lady that lives with me just to spend my money and make my life miserable knows is I have a lot of guns. She knows nothing of their value, purchase price or amounts.

I intend for it to stay that way.

The only thing she complains about is the purchase of new gun safes for surplus acquistions without a place to put them.

 

[DeathGrip]

I share everything with Mrs.D.G.After all we are in this together.

D.G.

 

[Smith357]

I can sort of relate, my wife was pretty much anti-gun until she met me. She still does not understand the gun hobby, but then I don't get the shoe thing. She stated early on in our relationship she did not care for guns and wanted nothing to do with them. So I don't tell her anything, she does not have a clue as to how many or what types I have. The only thing she knows is who she should contact to liquidate them if something happens to me.

But there is hope for here yet, about two weeks ago she said in passing that she would like to go to the range and see what it is I do all day.

 

[Iggy]

I don't hide gun purchases or anything else from my wife. My main problem is her glomming on to new guns I bring in.

I usually get to mess with them at cleaning time. However, comma, I headed out the door to a GS recently and she handed me 5 $100 bills and said have a good time.

So I guess, I can put up with a little petty thievery from time to time.

 

[DeathGrip]

I share everything with Mrs.D.G.After all we are in this together.

D.G.

Shhh,She aint lookin so

D.G.

 

[Vulcan Bob]

I am a lucky guy in this respect. My lovely bride dosent really care what I buy as long as I pay the bill's. However, when I pulled up to the house on my new Harley she asked how much was that, I handed her the bill of sale that totaled a few dollar's short of twenty grand and she gave me a odd look, said nothing but, as long as you can afford it!

 

[westkybanded]

Used to shoot trap with the ULTIMATE practitian of slipping by the wife.

He was a chemist for a company for over 30 years on hourly wage. He worked about 50-70 hours most weeks. His wife thought he was on sallary. He had a deal worked out with HR to cut him two checks. One for regular time, and one for overtime. He'd hand over his regular check like a good hubby, and stash the OT money in the safe. After 30 years, the guy probably had a half million dollars worth of shotguns in a VERY small safe in his office along with two legal Thompsons. The missus (a very successful real estate agent) never knew a thing and never knew that he left every Wednesday night with the boys and a $100,000 shotgun to go play at the trap range.

 

[viceunit]

There was a great tongue-in-cheek article about this in a gun mag years ago and I unfortunately don't remember the author or what magazine. But I remember the author describing efforts to sneak guns into his home past his wife, even trying to disguise long guns by putting a lamp shade over the barrel. I got a good laugh out of it.

 

[cp1969]

All of them.

I bought an airplane without telling her. I traded off HER car without telling her. Guns are nothing; I never have to even bother with them as they are trivial when you commit big marital crimes.

 

[gunnut44]

Here is my wifes theory, and I hate to say it but it works.
First of all I have a very cool wife when it comes to guns and she never really says too much.
When I go to a gun show I usually tell her to get me some cash out of the bank and she will ask how much so I usually say a $1000 just in case and will put back if I find nothing, now this is the day a 100% 5 screw 27 with a 3.5" in the box or a 100% 2.5" Python are walking around the show for $1100 and for the next month I am kicking myself in the butt and she gets tired of hearing me complain about it, sooo now when I go to the shows she loads me up with $3000 and I will be darned the only thing that I will see is a Mod 10 that has been cleaned with a Scotch Brite pad and coated with used motor oil. They are smarter than we think!

 

[bigolddave]

This goes back nearly forty years. I became very friendly with a guy who opened up a gun shop here in town, and spent quite a bit of time and money there. I had put a 38/44 Outdoorsman for sale on consignment, and when it hadn't sold, I decided to take it back home. There was a couple standing at the counter while my friend was handing over the revolver. They did not know what was going on, so I decided to have a little fun with them. I told my friend I needed a case for my new gun. He handed over a nice leatherette case, and I dropped it on the floor and scuffed my feet on it. There, I said, now my wife won't know I'm bringing in a new gun.

The woman looked at her husband and said, You would never do a thing like that, would you, Honey? Of course not , Dear, was the reply. All this time, my friend is making snorting noises, and trying to keep from laughing by jamming his fist in his mouth.

When they, left, he told me that Honey had been paying fifty bucks a payday for about three months, and pretty soon, my friend would call his house, when he wasn't home, and tell Dear that her husband had won a brand new Winchester 101 trap gun in the raffle they had been having at the store!

 

[4864]

The Wife asks me if I have bought any 'new' gun today. I always say no. I am not lying to her because all the guns I by are almost always used. New to me yes, buy not a newly made gun.

I work part time a a local shop. When I fill out the sales slip I have to put down a phone number. Many a fellow has asked if I will be calling them and if so not to say it is the gun shop about a new gun. I always cover for them!

 

[Smithhound]

Like Gunnut, my Wife is Ok with my addictions, I keep a seperate 'gun-fund' most of the time for emergency purchases. However in the 31 years we have been together I would say probably 90% or so of the guns I've acquired, she has known nothing about. She has seen many of them, sometimes years after i got them, sometimes days, She has finally given up asking when I got that one.
When the stock market tanked a couple years back I showed her the records I keep detailing what I have, what it cost, what it's worth, etc after looking it over She told me that my gun collection had blown away all investments She had made in her 401k (at that time a 201K). So She is really ok with it.
RD

 

[Thuer]

I am a Revolvercollector.
The only thing my wife says when I bought a other revolver is "Put the light out, those revolver come in like insects on the light".

My only problem is where to put my 8th safe.

This year alone I bought 11 revolvers.

 

[oldman45]

All of them.

I bought an airplane without telling her. .

I did the same thing. A friend and I went on 500 mile trip and I saw this plane for sale. The price was right so I made arrangements for the financing and went back to pick it up a week later. She never knew I owned it until I had to go get it.

The roof on the house took about a month to settle back down.

 

[badam0112]

All the lady that lives with me just to spend my money and make my life miserable knows is I have a lot of guns. She knows nothing of their value, purchase price or amounts.

I intend for it to stay that way.

The only thing she complains about is the purchase of new gun safes for surplus acquistions without a place to put them.

I have learned a lot on this forum. I had never ever considered investing in handguns for retirement.

 

[JohnnieB]

All the lady that lives with me just to spend my money and make my life miserable knows is I have a lot of guns. She knows nothing of their value, purchase price or amounts.

Although the eloquent description in your first sentence doesn't apply to my current wife (Marriage-#4 Wife-#3 - You figure it out ), we recently had a conversation about what you described in your second sentence.

I keep a list (Excel Spreadsheet) of all our guns (she "owns" a BDA-380 and a Rossi-351) with date purchased, price paid and seller and, if applicable, date sold, price and buyer, but not the current value and she cannot tell one gun from another just from the technical descriptions. I've been lucky and some of the guns are worth a lot more than I paid for them and not many are worth less, so I added columns for market values and insurance values, and attached pictures to the list so there are visual references as well.

BTW - I've had a few pistols and revolvers follow me home unannounced, but that isn't why SWMBO is M#4/W#3.

John