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My friend who is married has been hunting deer for 3 years with a bow and arrow and has missed hitting a deer 20 times, so he has gotten nothing. He goes out every weekend during hunting season and has nothing too show for it.

He has decided that he will have better luck with a gun, he knows his wife will not let him have a gun, so he goes out and buys a gun and brings it over to my house and asks if he can leave it in my shed and come get it when hunting season starts, I told him NO.

My thought was if this guy cannot even shoot an arrow straight how is he going to shoot a gun straight.
 
cut him some slack... I am extremely accurate with a firearm but am pretty lousy with a bow and arrow. but leaving a gun in the shed? cmon... it deserves to be in a cabinet - or on a rack above the fireplace or above your bed!
 
I do not see a correlation. My archery skills are terrible. However I can easily qualify as DoD Expert pistol or rifle (but since I am 'civy' worker I can not earn ribbons). Perhaps I have a ton of range time with these weapons over some archery set. So again I see no correlation. Have him slap on a cheap scope if he really needs that accuracy margin.

About his wife? ... people yielding there CONSTITUTIONAL RIGHTS? Instead of marriage counseling I suggest her to a Bill of Rights study. The university saying of the professor walking into day one of classes and saying "look to your right and look to your left, 99 percent of you are lambs waiting for slaughter while 1% of you is smart enough to see it coming and react." Do not let him be that 1%.
 
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Maybe she likes to live dangerously.
My wife wouldn't be without a gun around. She already had a couple revolvers and a stack of gun magazines when we started dating.
 
Man, his wife won't even let him have a rifle. She's probably scared of the evil gun.

Guess I'm very fortunate, my wife never sayes anything about any firearms I bring home, and no I don't sneek them into the house either. She also goes to the range with me at times and also has her CCW permit and yes, does carry at all times except when we go to the VA hospital.

Of course I don't know your friend and its possible the wife has reasons to fear a firearm in the hands of her husband!
 
Umm, I would tend to agree with you.
He definetely needs to pull his head out of his [censored] if he's making shots with a bow or a gun that aren't 100% kill shots. I'm not a big fan of "hunters" who spray lead or arrows around hoping to get a lucky shot.
Archery takes a bit more practice than a gun but hitting the vitals on a deer at 30 yards isn't that hard given good equipment.
 
if everyone had registered guns which a vast majority of us do the world would be a safer place..
criminals have guns so should every homeowner and business owner.
Im not a big fan of hunters either i believe a gun and a doberman is your best protection.. There are lots of people that say they will never have a gun in the house that is until something happens, enough said :)

P.S. get a gun safe so nobody breaks in and steals them easily
 
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Originally Posted By: jcwit
Man, his wife won't even let him have a rifle. She's probably scared of the evil gun.

Guess I'm very fortunate, my wife never sayes anything about any firearms I bring home, and no I don't sneek them into the house either. She also goes to the range with me at times and also has her CCW permit and yes, does carry at all times except when we go to the VA hospital.

Of course I don't know your friend and its possible the wife has reasons to fear a firearm in the hands of her husband!


He is moody, and I did find out that he is bipolar, maybe she thinks he might do something not so nice if the gun is in the house.

They are not getting along too well so there are some things going on.

I guess if you are going to get married buy all of your toys first or have a talk before the big day.
 
Well that sorta explains it. Got a son in law thats bipolar, real nice guy till something sets him off. Hope he takes his meds if he's on them, they do help.

Hope they get everything gets ironed out for them, divorce can get real messy. I never had to go thru it my self and my wife and I are in our 60's so I doubt its in the cards anymore. Thank God she but up with me during the "for worse" parts.
 
This is in the "Humor" section??
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This is in the "Humor" section??
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It's in the Humor section because how many people go out and buy a gun and then bring it too there friends house too store it in there shed becuase they are afraid of there wife.
 
Originally Posted By: c3po
Originally Posted By: jcwit
Man, his wife won't even let him have a rifle. She's probably scared of the evil gun.

Guess I'm very fortunate, my wife never sayes anything about any firearms I bring home, and no I don't sneek them into the house either. She also goes to the range with me at times and also has her CCW permit and yes, does carry at all times except when we go to the VA hospital.

Of course I don't know your friend and its possible the wife has reasons to fear a firearm in the hands of her husband!


He is moody, and I did find out that he is bipolar, maybe she thinks he might do something not so nice if the gun is in the house.

They are not getting along too well so there are some things going on.

I guess if you are going to get married buy all of your toys first or have a talk before the big day.

Or just don't marry a woman that won't have guns in the house...

Seriously if the guy has mental issues it might be better that he doesn't have a gun anyway. I would hate to see you on the news explaining how you only stored the gun for him and had no idea he was going to shoot his wife.
 
There are many different levels of bipolarism. Some are very minor while other conditions can be severe. In most cases medication can ease the condition considerably. Also, most bipolar folks tend to be non-violent....but for the most part when they do act-out it is often against themselves (suicide).
Being that your first post didn't paint the complete picture of your situation, it would be better next time to more fully explain the details up front. That said, I would agree that you've probably made the best choice in telling him no.
 
Originally Posted By: Samilcar
Life Rule #576: Don't store firearms for someone who is both moody and mentally ill.

You would be surprised as to whom is 'mentally ill'. Being bipolar is very common and many folks aren't even aware of it.
 
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Originally Posted By: Samilcar
Life Rule #576: Don't store firearms for someone who is both moody and mentally ill.

You would be surprised as to whom is 'mentally ill'. Being bipolar is very common and many folks aren't even aware of it.


I'm aware of that. I have a very close relative who is bipolar. We went through the whole cycle of a psychotic break followed by hospitalization followed by a struggle to find the right meds. This was followed by going OFF the meds (they felt better, so they didn't feel they really needed them anymore), which started the whole awful cycle rolling again.

For the past five years, this person has remained perfectly normal, thanks to staying on their medication. While I love this person more than I love myself, there is NO way I would store a firearm for them. Especially if they were acting noticeably "moody".
 
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