Okay, here's a topic a bit more on the lighter side.

Had a good friend call and tell me today about the new boat he just bought, one that he's been looking at for several weeks now. I jokingly told him the timing was perfect because I've had my eyes on a new deer rifle and maybe now I could use his purchase to explain to the wife why she should let me buy a new rifle. After all, I'm sure my new rifle will cost a fraction of what he spent on a boat. Now granted, you married guys know you can always "pull rank" and just go ahead and buy a new firearm without the wife's input. But as they say, a happy wife is a happy life.

So what's the silliest or most ridiculous excuse you've ever given the wife for needing something new, and did it actually earn her approval?

For my last one... "My other rifle is too long."

I want a new play toy. And yes it worked.

How many ask their wife? How many do what they want even if she says no?

I was raised in a household where you didn't buy something that wasn't a necessity without consulting your spouse and I do the same.

I have brass and dies for it already.
I buy all black guns and she can't tell the difference between the old ones and the new ones.

Before I got married, I admitted to my addiction. She was well aware that I am a chronic gun nut beforehand. Her Dad has the same affliction, so it really isn't an issue.

I’ve told so many lies to myself I can’t keep em straight anymore

Ammo was on clearance for too good of a deal.

Please honey, darling, sweetheart I want this.

Because Zoe had one on Firefly.

But it holds 15 rounds of 45 Long Colt, what a great hog gun! It's never been hog hunting since I bought it.

I have enough shootin’ irons that my wife has lost count. She hasn’t even noticed the last several that have shown up in the gun safe. I have bought her three boys several guns each in the last couple of years. That helps camouflage some of the other purchases.

I don't need a reason. My wife is addicted to the slots in the Oklahoma casinos. Rifles are much cheaper.

“Because I just bought a $1000 suppressor and don’t have a rifle with a threaded barrel to put it on!” Jokes on me though, she turned around a week later and used that as a reason to buy a new Louis Vuitton purse. Wife won that one.

I need it for work,,, sometimes it’s true,

Loading for that rifle will be economical that by not purchasing it I would be losing money.

Never have felt I needed to ask permission to buy a firearm. That is a genie I want to keep in the bottle.

Because I bought some dies for it at a garage sale!
Did it work? She never noticed the new increase in the #s in gun case.

Don’t need a reason nor permission. My wife honestly could care less. However in the 2 more recent times I discussed it with her before purchasing a new firearm I unused the following two excuses:

1) I need a gun that can shoot long range. Outfitter said I have to be able to hit a target at 500 yds.

2) I don’t have a gun light enough to backpack in with. I have a weight limit on my gear & my current rifles are ALL too heavy.

sick addiction

They are in the safe before she knows they are and I just keep the conversation as calm as possible lol.

I "needed" to get my daughters' a hunting rifle they can use. The older one was 1 1/2 and just had the second when I decided they needed one of their own.
Of course they happen to choose the grendel i eventually built. Who knows why they were so adamant on me getting a Wilson receiver set but who am I to argue with a 1 1/2 year old. Of course the new boarn didn't have an opinion.

“Because I wanted it”

I don’t find a “reason” to buy something. Not everything has a purpose beyond me liking it.
If I like and want something, I buy it. But I do always discuss with my wife first.

I once told my wife I needed another deer rifle so each of the kids would have an equal number of them after I'm gone.

She didn't give any sign of being in agreement.

I make sure she’s a happy woman everyday. Has what she needs, has what she wants. As long as that’s accomplished I buy whatever the heck I want whenever I want to. If my priorities ever get out of balance I’ll have to re-evaluate.

Because I can. Don't need approval to buy any gun. I never buy junk or budget guns will never loose a nickel on any of them.

Because I sold mine to your brother and I missed the gun, so I had to buy another.........