My rifle project has just earned a name....

[54ball]

I’m not big on naming rifles and cars and such.
On occasion things do get named.

Throughout history many rifles both real and imagined and have been named.
Sweetlips from Kings Mountain
Boone’s Ticklicker
Cricket’s Old Betsy
Hawkeye’s Killdeer

Introducing....
Fumbelina....

I have been out of building for a while. This rifle set was bought years ago; really as a practice rifle. I wanted to do a patch boxed rifle.
Anyway I have fumbled through this one. Learning and relearning things.... making mistakes and recovering from them.

Fumbelina is going to make a nice gun but she’ll never be a great gun. I have already made too many mistakes for it to be a great gun.

Guns like Fumbelina are important.
Without Fumbelinas.....
You don’t get the Sweetlips.

I have a sweet one coming. Fumbelina is helping me a bunch.

 

[64Springer]

If I can call my first antique 20ga plank build, Timidity, then I think Fumbelina is a great name for a rifle.

 

[Norman Brooks]

I have one I call "Crooked". My 4th gun from a plank. The reason I call it crooked is I put 3/4" of cast off in the butt end. I will say the sights come up perfect when I shoulder it.

 

[Loja man]

I love your name choice!!

 

[wiscoaster]

I've been thinking about naming my rifles. I think I'll give them girls' names, though. Don't ask me why. Maybe because some of them are temperamental.

 

[TechMoron]

Any name I've ever given them couldn't be printed in a family friendly forum.

 

[deerstalkert]

i have one, my .30 that is never ending work. i call it whatzit. fits no known classification.

 

[Nazgul58]

Finished a Woodsrunner a couple of months back and I wanted to name it. Primarily for hunting so wanted something like "Death Wind or "Ancient Warrior". My wife was cracking up with laughter and suggested "Old Fart". Her suggestion stuck....

Don

 

[Norman Brooks]

I have a "Death Wind". That was on it when I bought it...

 

[sussexmuzllodr]

I have a "Death Wind". That was on it when I bought it...

My Wife calls me out for my "Death Wind" all the time....

 

[Loyalist Dave]

I’m not big on naming rifles and cars and such.
On occasion things do get named.

Throughout history many rifles both real and imagined and have been named.
Sweetlips from Kings Mountain
Boone’s Ticklicker
Cricket’s Old Betsy
Hawkeye’s Killdeer

Introducing....
Fumbelina....
View attachment 263891
I have been out of building for a while. This rifle set was bought years ago; really as a practice rifle. I wanted to do a patch boxed rifle.
Anyway I have fumbled through this one. Learning and relearning things.... making mistakes and recovering from them.

Fumbelina is going to make a nice gun but she’ll never be a great gun. I have already made too many mistakes for it to be a great gun.

Guns like Fumbelina are important.
Without Fumbelinas.....
You don’t get the Sweetlips.

I have a sweet one coming. Fumbelina is helping me a bunch.

Have you fired her from a bench?
If not I would not cast aspersions upon her until you see how she does. They often have personalities, and she may surprise you, because she is plain, and had construction problems. She may shoot like a darling.

Years ago at the "Governor's Rifle Match" here in Maryland, I saw a fellow with a clunky, self-done rifle. Some of the other shooters made wisecracks at him, and he was about to just pack up and leave, and I quietly suggested, even though I'd just met him, that he simply take some prizes home, instead of getting mad. I winked, and he gave me a slight smile, and nodded. Sure enough, it was ugly, but he sure shot it well. The wisecracks stopped after that....

LD

 

[BS]

Guns will name them selves, if they want one. Just be patient!

 

[longcruise]

Only a few of mine have earned names but they have all been called names!

 

[Nick_of_time]

I set out to make a squirrel rifle. My own design, slim barrel in .36, back action lock, maple stock. One day my wife wanted to know how the project was going, but couldn't remember which small animal I intended to hunt. So when I came up from the basement one day she brightly asked "So how's the chicken rifle coming?"
I laughed for a good half-hour, and it's been the Chicken Rifle ever since.

 

[ronaldrothb49]

My first one from parts I called The Ugly Duckling. May not have been pretty but dam it would shoot.

 

[BS]

One quiet calm mourning, I touched of my 12 bore rifle!

It sounded like rolling thunder thru the woods, hence the name "Ole Thunder" came to be.

None of my other guns have names.

 

[Thingamajiggy]

Guns will name them selves, if they want one. Just be patient!

I agree! I've only had 2 that ended up with names so far and you can guess the reason by their name: Ole Reliable and The Mule.

 

[Muddly]

Almost all of mine have names. Only one with a human name is my P53 that I used to shoot Yankees with. She's " Victoria ". Vicky to her friends.
My unmentionable is " Calico". She's a walnut stocked mix of blued and... armory bright.
My laminate stocked T/C Hawken is "Autumn".
I'm waiting on names for my two .50 flintlock Renegades.
My sole breechloader got her name one day when I crossed my thumb over the grip and crept up a wee bit. Recoil caused my thumb to, lightly, tap me on the nose.
I said " Did you just boop me on the nose?!"
Yup. She's "Boop".

 

[Larry (Omaha)]

I’m not big on naming rifles and cars and such.
On occasion things do get named.

Throughout history many rifles both real and imagined and have been named.
Sweetlips from Kings Mountain
Boone’s Ticklicker
Cricket’s Old Betsy
Hawkeye’s Killdeer

Introducing....
Fumbelina....
View attachment 263891
I have been out of building for a while. This rifle set was bought years ago; really as a practice rifle. I wanted to do a patch boxed rifle.
Anyway I have fumbled through this one. Learning and relearning things.... making mistakes and recovering from them.

Fumbelina is going to make a nice gun but she’ll never be a great gun. I have already made too many mistakes for it to be a great gun.

Guns like Fumbelina are important.
Without Fumbelinas.....
You don’t get the Sweetlips.

I have a sweet one coming. Fumbelina is helping me a bunch.

Good post!

We all have our shortcomings (well most of us!) My 81 year old rifle-smith mentor/friend has told me several times: "it aint a mistake if ya can fix it"
Larry

 

[Commodore Swab]

Some of my pieces have been named, first blunderbuss I built "Isabella" the dark blunderbuss.

Then I built a buccaneer musket, it's owner named him "Arvil"

There was the hand cannon for a friend "The Cannibuss"

More recently a swivel blunderbuss "The Royale, no cheese" after pulp fiction discussion on what to call a 1/4 pounder in Europe (4 oz ball).

I'm sure other pieces I've built have been given names but these are the ones I know of.