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Gee, i was the first to vote, after 37 years can't afford to get rid of her!! LOL
Would not anyway!! scared of visine in my coffee!! LOL

Yeh, but then I made the mistake of showing mine how to shoot!LOL

No for me also. This January will be 45 years . I guess I got pretty lucky. My actual first date with my wife was to go Pheasant hunting . Showed up to pick her up 5 minutes late around 7:00 Am . Her oldman greeted me at the door gave me the once over, asked a few questions .I remember telling him I stopped to get coffee and doughnuts . I gave him a large coffee and 2 doughnuts.He turned to his daughter and said "he'll do!! " As I recall got 2 pheasants that day .towards the end of the day went back to my place plucked and cleaned the 2 pheasants ,My bride to be seemed to do a pretty good job as I recall I kept one and decided to give her old man 1.We go back to her house ,The old man is giving me the 3rd degree again ,somehow figures out I had taken his daughter back to my place, I will leave out the 15 minute lecture and ASS CHEWING he gave me over that .After he stopped his yelling and screaming He asked what was in the cooler ? I told him I shot 2 and was giving him 1 . I then commenced to tell him That I respected the inside and outside of his house and decided to clean them at my place. I had also confessed to him that I was 100% totally Irresponsible for taking his daughter to my place with-out getting his permission .As I was about to leave he turns to his daughter and says I like him he is a keeper Well the following Saturday we decide to do the same thing again .Guess who accompanied us on our second date. Up till the day he died I always considered him a good friend.
Funny how this story I can remember every detail but I can not remember what I had for diner last not

Great story Mr. Baldwin,

I was deer hunting with my wifes uncle, we were coon huntin buddies and we stopped to say hello to his brother and I saw my future wife and thought she was married. So me being the gentlman I am did not say much. When we left I asked about her and found out she was single and I said turn this SOB around! LOL Well we went on and killed a couple of deer and showed back up in a couple of days and skinned them out and shared the meat and six months later I was hitched for life! LOL She has put up with a lot of hounds and a lot of BS in that time!!! LOL

39 years here. I test the strenghth of those ties every time I get more hounds! The cicken incident almost cost my good cat (chicken) dog and I our hides.... Still we are hanging in there and that aint all bad!!!

Married to the same gal for 39 years. Our entertainment the first few years was shootin jack rabbits off the hood of the truck at night. She drove and I did the shootin. She came from a family of hunters though, so I sorta thought it might work. She gets most of the credit and the good Lord gets the rest.

46 years here.She is very tolerant of my hunting , but hides it well.

Only been three wonderful years for me. I knew I met the right one though when I explained to her that I rodeo'd for a living. I was on the road all the time and when I got home I was usually going hunting right off. Her reply was, " Obviously you haven't meet my father yet". Turns out that was the way she was raised. Her dad also rodeo'd for a living (way more succesful than I) and when he was home he was hog hunting. Didn't hurt that she's absolutly beautiful! Believe me I married way over my head.

I met my wife origionally in highschool. I asked her out once back then but she gave me the cold shoulder. I saw her years later at a local bar that I worked at as a bouncer. We talked and I didnt see her again for years.

My hunting partner told me one day that his wife worked with a girl that I knew in highschool. They were at a haloween party and he was talking to her about a catahoula x that she adopted at the local shelter. He told her that it was a hunting breed that was used for hog hunting. In the conversation she stated that a boy she went to highschool with hunted for hogs with dogs. He asked her what his name was and she said my name. He laughed and said I was his hunting partner. She gave him her phone number and said to give it to me. I called her and we walked our dogs together as our first date. She put out on the third date. She moved in with me 6 months later. She moved out 3 months after that . 6 months later she was back. 3 years later we were married.

Tom White wrote:46 years here.She is very tolerant of my hunting , but hides it well.

Just some points to ponder for our younger houndsman contemplating Marraige ,

STOP , RUN , RUN FAST , DON"T LOOK BACK, KEEP RUNNING
JUST KIDDING


I probably would not change a thing . However A few things come to mind that bother me to this day:

She seems to be able to outfish me every day.
When we both call the dogs they run to her first.
Last time we chased bears together had 1 treed ,after the hounds were leashed up I was walking around the tree looking for the best shot. Being somewhat impatient with me walks up to me ,grabs my handgun fire a shot and the bear was dead before it hit the ground.
She can clean, skin ,butcher birds , turkeys ,deer and bear better than I can


ALL in ALL I would say she is a KEEPER

You got a keeper for sure Mr. Baldwin.

I also have to agree with Shorty, he definitly married UP! LMAO And she is a great cook!

I thought I was good to go and my wife ran off with some guy she work with after almost 10 years. we hunt fish done every togerther just up left one day

Been married to the same women goin on 24 yrs she still cusses me out everytime I go hunting, but she must love it