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Simply tell your significant other that you are in a air gun exchange program where members swap guns for trial purposes etc.... Membership is much cheaper than buying all those guns - at least it's what i tell my wife.

This is an old one you've probably heard before...A concealed weapon is any gun your wife doesn't know you have! My wife gave up trying to police my gun ownership a long time ago, and as long as I spend "my" money she usually doesn't say a word. If she questions any of my purchases, I just pull out one of my Colt snake guns, show it to her, tell her how much I paid for it and what it's worth now. End of conversation. 

I do try to schedule my gun deliveries on Friday when she's working at the Ronald McDonald house though. If that can't be done, I just watch for the delivery truck like a hawk and meet the guy outside the garage so I can go right into my Jon Deere room without any scrutiny. Just helps to keep the peace, and I haven't had any questions about any of my airguns, as she basically likes me having a hobby that I can do here at home!

... admittedly I didn't read through all of this thread but I did read quite a few of them. Funny stuff My solution to this dilemma goes back to when I was racing bikes ( road cycling - think like tour de France- but I was NOT that caliber an athlete... lol ). Anyway - cycling stuff can be pricey too - I learned to have everything shipped to me at work.

... then just smuggle it into the house later when opportunity presented itself.

My timing bad story, last year I bought an excavator and the guy pulled up to deliver it and my misses was driving in right behind him as it turns out she was behind him the last 2 miles to our house and apparently me saying hi honey do you like Kubota orange was not any where near the right thing to say.

Mine just shakes her head and says you've got another package she's a keeper

I used to buy a LOT of guns and my wife was ok with it because I always told her that I had bought her a new gun and she just said-- that's fine. I went hunting for a week and when I got back I only had 1 gun. She said she had a garage sale but she only sold her guns.--lesson learned-- they are smarted than we give 'em credit for.

Amateurs one and all.

Steps to getting an airgun…..

1. Talk incessantly about the "guess the pellets in a jar competition" hosted buy your favorite airgun reseller.

2. Tell her you are going to enter the competition.

3. Be seen pouring pellets into a jar, and measuring how much volume they take up.

4. Have a notepad with furious notes and calculations written all over it, including a hand-drawn picture of a jar where you are guessing dimensions. 

On the day you order......

5. Crow endlessly about how you WON, and all your hard work paid off.

6. Wait for the gun to arrive from your favorite reseller.

7. When it arrives, insufferably brag about how smart you are.

8. (and this is the most important step) Take her to dinner to celebrate your win.

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9.Tell her you want her to compete with you and the XXX is the best gun for her. I uh me mean she now has a Red Wolf HP

Dinners, Beauty Salon, travel, ......... and then all my arms shipments I send them to withdraw, I follow the shipment online and when I am at destination I proceed to withdraw personally then enter the gunsmith without andie know .....

I had a serious "Close Call" like this a few weeks ago LOL! I had my mail on hold and was planning to retrieve package at the USPO when I got notice that it had arrived, so I went to pick it up, only to be told that they never saw the "Hold" notice.....package was on it's way "out for delivery" The real reason was not hiding anything from the wife, but rather I was going out for the rest of the evening into the night and did not want a pretty expensive large box sitting on my porch waiting to be stolen. 

One thing I have used before that is very convenient when stealth is needed. Have package sent via UPS to your local UPS Store. Attention your name. Pick up at your convenience for a $5.00 fee. 

“True Story” I swear!!! I do try and keep my self in check. But I don’t feel too guilty when I see all the crap she buys!! That and I Try and buy & sell as I go, only keeping the guns I totally love, or want to keep and try for a while. I got tons more justifications and excuses. 

This has been around before, but is worth repeating:

We currently live in the second house that we built, all of the wife's choosing, but I had to figure out how to pay for it all...and work all the OT. We have raised two kids, and now have grand kids. We have gone through countless living room furniture sets, three bedroom sets, and I can't even remember how much crap for our kids, and now she is doing it with grand kids...just not quite as "in depth".

We built this house to her specifications, paint and all, but have somehow had to "revamp" it at least twice, and some rooms more than that...guess who did most of the work. I still bring home two times the income than I have ever expected her to have to worry about, and still work plenty of OT, even though the money is fine.

Where am I going with this? One time, years ago, I sold off all my gun collection when she decided to quit her job and it took her a while to find a replacement, and I went ten years before I ever went shooting again or bought another firearm or air gun...to say the least I don't do this anymore, and even though she gets upset at me sometimes for buying a gun here and there, I now do what I want to when it comes to this area. Being in my 50's now, I am not going to worry about hiding things I buy, air gun or firearms wise anymore.

I only have one life, and about two decades or so of that one left, so now she just needs to understand...just like I have done for her for the last thirty + years. I guess we all have our own ways of dealing with this sort of thing, but I am not going to feel "guilty" about my passion anymore.

One of my coworkers is nice enough to let me ship everything to his house. He will even open the box and send me a pic to make sure things are in good shape. Then he brings it to work on his next shift.

I just make sure his wife is kept clear of mine. He enjoys a free lunch per shipment.

MY wife has commented that she doesn't know all the kinds or how many firearms I have. SO occasionally I pull one out that she says she didn't know I had, and my reply is I have had it along time, it was down in one of the safes. USUALLY works, but couldn't do that when I bought my Redwolf or my RAW. I told my wife I bought the RAW for her, but I was going to shoot it until she decides to...she gave me the LOOK and the eye roll. We have been married 40 year's, she also is a rare find and a keeper.

That reminds me of Ralph buying Alice a brand new Bowling Bowl and the look she gave him  

I wonder if Kayaker had a laugh at bedtime? ( from the sofa)

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Don't know but I am..... Course after getting another bulldog in the mail... I'm on the sofa 

Oh well misery loves company