Naming your guns?

[FlinterNick]

I like Ash’s boomstick.

 

[BoomStick]

I like Ash’s boomstick.

Oh YES, now listen here primates!!

And works well when if you can't think of a distinctive handle in a forum...

 

[Erwan]

Some of my rifles have a name, not a original or curious name, just their ordinary name :
- The oldest Tryon Match Pedersoli (~40 years old), my favorite rifle : "Mon vieux fusil" (my Old gun).
- The two other Persoli Tryon (Match and Target) have no name.
- The Pennsylvania I prefer is called "Mon vieux silex" (my Old flinter".
- The last one that has a name is a very old plain rifle Dikar (Jukar/Ardesa/Traditons) : "Mon vieux fusil de chasseur" (My old hunter's rifle).
None of the others have a name and the Sharps Sporting 59/63 54 cal. (paper or linen cartridges) doesn't have one either, they just have the name of their model...

 

[Rudyard]

Well though they don't themselves answer to any name, I have a' Felix' a 45 rifle 'After' Felix Werder '.&..Snappis 'it being a Scots snaphance also 45 cal .Another is ' NZ Poorboy 'because it was made simple of rejects. Then theirs' Pebble gun' originaly a 24 bore flint rifle got up from oddment rejects . But sold on & a new ' Pebble gun 'evolved with many of the old one's optional barrels . It was derisively called' Pebble gun ' by a friend who didn't do flintlocks .
I don't call them anything but record their shooting under those names' Old 490'.' Two grouve' ect ect .
Cheers Rudyard

 

[SciAggie]

Some of my rifles have been given names by others. I have a Shiloh Sharps #1 Sporter that has thrown thousands of rounds on silhouettes. It seldom missed a pig and my spotter named it “porker.” I then used a Remington Hepburn for silhouettes. She was named Kate after Katherine Hepburn. My son named my English Sporting Rifle “Buster” because “whatever is shot at, it will bust her.”
My other guns are nameless.

 

[bubba.50]

Only time mine get called anything is when they give me a hard time. The names they get then can't be repeated here.

 

[Idaho Ron]

My names are Hot Rod Renegade and Hot Rod Hawken.
I actually wasn't the one to name them. A guy on Cast Boolets named them.

 

[SciAggie]

My names are Hot Rod Renegade and Hot Rod Hawken.
I actually wasn't the one to name them. A guy on Cast Boolets named them.

It’s cool when someone else names them.

 

[Rock Home Isle]

Most of my dozen+ frontstuffers are un-named. But I do have names for a few that I'm particularly fond of. There's "Hefty", and of course there's "Sister One", "Sister Two" and "Sister Three".

Some nice lookin girls yah got there…

 

[Mtman725]

Yes all of them !!! Blonde, Frank, Sadie.

 

[SOLANCO]

No. I don't now. Decades ago in the military I had a scoped M14 I called the viper.

 

[The Crisco Kid]

I've posted this photo before on the forum. I built it 41 years ago and never named it. For various reasons it was a closet queen until last year when I shot a javelina with it. For now I call it Miss Piggy.
(I know, javelinas aren't pigs).

 

[Sean E Bug]

I will name cars but have never thought to do it for a gun. if i had to name them all i would be in trouble. I don't think I would remeber which one is which.

 

[appalichian hunter]

There all named after old girl friends, but I dont tell the boss that.

 

[nkbj]

I’d like to see Rattler.

Here you go. The .61 bore makes the 1" barrel light enough to handle really nice.

 

[user 49399]

Here you go.
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Thanks! I like it!

 

[ronaldrothb49]

My first custom build I called The Ugly Duckling but dam I won a lot of matches with it.

 

[oldwood]

Never named a gun , but one day hunting deer with a brand new scratch built long rifle , I made a 125 yd shot on a big doe. I looked down at the new rifle in surprise , and asked the rifle , if it had just done that? It said not a word, but I was happy. That .50 was a great rifle , and used it until a .62 Jaeger , caught my eye. Like it's predecessor ,the .62 Jager rifle , killed it's share of cervids for me , as did the rifles that followed the Jaeger , all yet unnamed , but they stand in my memory ,as good rifles. Glad I was blessed to use them , and know of them. ........oldwood

 

[John Spartan]

All my are named...perhaps nickname may be a better description.
Nice short name so when talking with firearms friends (or making notes on projects) its easier to describe and track.

 

[Snake Pleskin]

I've posted this photo before on the forum. I built it 41 years ago and never named it. For various reasons it was a closet queen until last year when I shot a javelina with it. For now I call it Miss Piggy.
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They are not pigs, but they could fool just about anyone into thinking they are.