Naming guns; Pet names for them. I had a .45 cal. flintlock back in the mid-1970's...

[tenngun]

I’ve come up with names for most of my guns but never got in the habit of using them, however I had a god awful Japanese imported made of all mismatched parts and two piece barrel. The guy I got it from called it ‘ol’drug in the mud’ and it stuck.
I traded for it and he missed it after the trade. He found another, named it ‘drug behind drug in the mud’.

 

[Ketchakah]

I have never got in into naming guns. To me they are a tool. Ive thought on it alot though.

 

[Muddly]

Larry Kohler in " Shots at Whitetails" opined that " Experienced hunters have their rifles and treat them as warm personal friends"
I wholeheartedly agree with this sentiment. This is why I name my rifles.

 

[user 31257]

I’ve never understood people naming inanimate objects. I like my firearms a lot but they aren’t getting names.

 

[Zonie]

There are millions of people who name inanimate objects.

Although they start off with more energy than anyone has a right to have, by the time kids get to their teenage years they often become almost totally inanimate objects. About the only time they are not inanimate is when they are headed towards the refrigerator, the bathroom or out the door to gather with their friends.

 

[Stantheman86]

I have to really , really bond with a firearm or it has to have some weird quirk to get a name from me.

Only two come to mind and one is an "unmentionable " that has the names of two of its past users/owners scratched into the grip in two different handwritings so I just call the gun Cruz Rodriguez.

The other is my Pedersoli 1816 Springfield percussion conversion that I had been calling the Pumpkin Slinger or "the manliest weapon ever created" but none of those really stuck. More like what the guy setting up targets on the target backer I used, when I was leaving "what in the ---- was that guy shooting theres holes the size of quarters on here" it's the Pumpkin Slinger

 

[Col. Batguano]

At my house, the guns in the rack are the nucleus of my breeder herd. I let them name their own progeny themselves, as they DO seem to spontaneously multiply. I'm pretty sure that one of them is named Kilroy though. He left his card behind.

 

[Muddly]

ErmaGerd! That's funny! And true...

 

[tenngun]

I’ve never understood people naming inanimate objects. I like my firearms a lot but they aren’t getting names.

Ships are named, most boats, lots of farms. My knifes are all nameless except for ‘My Little Friend’, a knife I assembled in the early seventies, and “Pops” a fishing knife my dad gave me.
I had only one gun who’s name stuck, and I gave that to a friend.

 

[Mad L]

Early Brit Sea Musket: Lady Hamilton (my other woman)
Dutch Doglock Blunderbuss: Grace O'Malley
50 cal. Light Dragoon: Jezebel (my little tart)
50 cal Pennsylvania Rifle: Matilda
45 cal. Kentucky Pistol: Hanna
1860 Winchester cap: Lightning (don't ask)

It's the only way I can tell whose who...
Now my granddaughters I have trouble with so they are:
Thing 1
Thing 2
Thing 3
Thing 4
and Thing 5

My daughters are easy, there are only two; one likes to shoot and one dont, so they are both: My #1

Now, my wife...I can never remember her name and dont want to EVER confuse her with my ex, so I just haller "Hey Honey!" And she will respond with "IF YOU WANT TO SPEAK WITH ME YOU COME HERE AND SPEAK WITH ME!!!".....yup, that's her

 

[Capnball]

1861 model contract rifle "Bridesberg"
Salvaged and sympathetically restored to it present condition. I named it "lucky" because it was about two days away from a crusher when I got it.

 

[BadHorse]

meet Lucrezia Borgia my new smooth bore and she live up to her name

 

[Bob McBride]

Mine get a sort of nickname based on characteristics, what it’s a bench copy of, the name of the builder, or some other quirk. Some of mine are named ‘The Scraped Gun’, ‘The Soddy’, ‘The Brooks Gun’, ‘The Kibler’, etc. Not sure if that really counts...

 

[Rodd Boyer]

Of course my first flintlock "sparky".
My next 2 flintlocks: Hazel Belle and Ruby Royal.... two of my great grandma's names.

 

[toot]

I have a 62 CAL. FUZEE FINN, RED STOCKED CHIEFS GRADE smooth bore. and because it has a red sock I call her MY SCARLOT HARLOT!! get it? they were only made in red for chiefs and in blue witch were for sub chiefs. all of the other trade guns were plain stocked.

 

[Cattman]

now for a bit of true treivia and lets see what member can answer this one the fastest? the rifle sweetlips, what did it do and who was it named after? it would make a good movie.

 

[Capnball]

I want to say Robert Young? Or was that father knows best?

 

[Smokey Plainsman]

It was done back then, Davy Crockett and others had names for their guns.

 

[Rodd Boyer]

now for a bit of true treivia and lets see what member can answer this one the fastest? the rifle sweetlips, what did it do and who was it named after? it would make a good movie.

Over the mountain men at King's Mountain, Sweetlips killed British officer by the name of Ferguson. Sweetlips was named for Robert Young's wife.

 

[Bob McBride]

Ol’ Ticklicker is pretty hard to beat, handlewise.