Anyone else have "pet" names for their guns?
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Logistar
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Bonnie (Taurus Semi) Clyde (Taurus revolver)
This came about due to the need to occasionally discuss CCWs in public with my SO.
For example... we meet to go hiking... there are (or may be) people around.
ME: Honey, did Clyde come down with you?
SO: Yes, he sure did!
beats
ME: Honey, did you bring you Taurus 650 revolver full of 147gr Winchester .357 magnums?
SO: Yes, I sure did!
Ok, I exaggerated a bit.
When carrying I always try avoiding any discussion of guns or that I might be carrying. If anything NEEDS to be said... using "pet names" is a lot more discreet.
- now if I could just come up with a good "pet name" for my SAR-1!
Logistar
This came about due to the need to occasionally discuss CCWs in public with my SO.
For example... we meet to go hiking... there are (or may be) people around.
ME: Honey, did Clyde come down with you?
SO: Yes, he sure did!
beats
ME: Honey, did you bring you Taurus 650 revolver full of 147gr Winchester .357 magnums?
SO: Yes, I sure did!
Ok, I exaggerated a bit.
When carrying I always try avoiding any discussion of guns or that I might be carrying. If anything NEEDS to be said... using "pet names" is a lot more discreet.- now if I could just come up with a good "pet name" for my SAR-1!
Logistar
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Beretta 92G Elite II with Carbon Creations carbon fiber grips. Trigger job, sight installation and tactical karma from Ernest Langdon.
St. Gunner
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AK- Fugly
A-bolt stalker- Black Death(named by my wife)
Rem870- Bess
Whatever I am packin- My sweet little friend...
Had a .45/70 I called Thors Hammer for awhile, but it only lasted for a bit before I sold it.
The A-bolt was named after a series of shots at a pack of running hogs at an obscene range using a wood fence post for a rest. I dropped five with four shots and she exclaimed "You need to call that thing death" then she looked it over and said, "Black Death."
The Ak got named when a guy I hunt with looked at it and said, "That is the (censored) ugliest thing I have ever seen, has to be made in China." Course anything that is not a Winchester 88 is an abomination straight from Hell according to him, cept he does want a Barret 82.
A-bolt stalker- Black Death(named by my wife)
Rem870- Bess
Whatever I am packin- My sweet little friend...
Had a .45/70 I called Thors Hammer for awhile, but it only lasted for a bit before I sold it.
The A-bolt was named after a series of shots at a pack of running hogs at an obscene range using a wood fence post for a rest. I dropped five with four shots and she exclaimed "You need to call that thing death" then she looked it over and said, "Black Death."
The Ak got named when a guy I hunt with looked at it and said, "That is the (censored) ugliest thing I have ever seen, has to be made in China." Course anything that is not a Winchester 88 is an abomination straight from Hell according to him, cept he does want a Barret 82.
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Dionysusigma
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Let's see here...
SAR-1: "Ivan the Terrible"
The rest don't have names yet. I was thinking of getting a Romanian "Dragunov" 7.62 x 54R and naming it Vlad Csepish, Vlad for short (as in Vlad the Impaler, Count Csepish, Dracula...)
SAR-1: "Ivan the Terrible"
The rest don't have names yet. I was thinking of getting a Romanian "Dragunov" 7.62 x 54R and naming it Vlad Csepish, Vlad for short (as in Vlad the Impaler, Count Csepish, Dracula...)
cool45auto
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I call my Vertec Nikita.
Andrew Wyatt
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I named my mossberg, "Fang, Killer of Goblins and Illuminator of Dark Places" since it's my HD gun and has a light on it.
makdaddy03
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Little Mak for the Makarov.
KT for the Kel-Tec.
Finny for the Finn. M39.
KT for the Kel-Tec.
Finny for the Finn. M39.
10-Ring
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I've tried to name my guns, but nothing really sticks...oh well 
St. Gunner
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ed dixon,
Ha, I like it, I had a pitbull female once we used to hunt hogs with and she was named "Kitty", people would crap when I would call, "Here kitty, kitty, kitty..." and this big ol black bulldog would come screaching around the corner of the house.
Ha, I like it, I had a pitbull female once we used to hunt hogs with and she was named "Kitty", people would crap when I would call, "Here kitty, kitty, kitty..." and this big ol black bulldog would come screaching around the corner of the house.
Gunner, last month my uncle and I made the annual trip to the vet for Ol' Maggie Boy's shots. Yes, it is at least a two-man job, plus warning the vet, who then proceeds to bump us to the front of the line. When we come in, the waiting room's patients and owners are lined against the far wall and I hear a remark passed that "This is like with Hannibal Lecter." Same vet gave my mom take-home shots to administer herself a couple years ago (she's a nurse) and then begged her never to mention his breach of protocol to anyone. Not proud of the boy's "unpredictability" with strangers, but I've read several times that Akitas get hard-wired early and after that trust only the people they knew when young. Upside: mom has a quiet assassin waiting for intruders. Downside: if dementia hits in a few years, will he remember us?
One of my favorite rifle instructors insists that students name their rifles.....It reinforces the idea that all rifles are
in a sense individuals.....They all react differently to different ammo, temperature, humidity, wind, etc.
But, he's an ex-Marine who knows the Marine's Rifleman's Creed by heart....."My rifle is human and I shall treat it as such."
My rifle, a Remington 700 VS in .308 was stolen, but I found it again at a gun show 14 months later.
As such, her name is now Grace......What once was lost, now is found. Plus, she's pretty damn amazing to boot.
hillbilly
in a sense individuals.....They all react differently to different ammo, temperature, humidity, wind, etc.
But, he's an ex-Marine who knows the Marine's Rifleman's Creed by heart....."My rifle is human and I shall treat it as such."
My rifle, a Remington 700 VS in .308 was stolen, but I found it again at a gun show 14 months later.
As such, her name is now Grace......What once was lost, now is found. Plus, she's pretty damn amazing to boot.
hillbilly
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Browning BPCR I call him Big Mo
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AR15 kit gun: Dick Justice
Blatently stolen from Max Payne, but I thought it was funny.
Blatently stolen from Max Payne, but I thought it was funny.
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S&W 19-1 "Tina"
Ithaca 37 "Celine"
Glock 19 "Marie"
Ruger 10/22 "Marion"
Benelli M4 "Charlotte"
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Glock 19 "Marie"
Ruger 10/22 "Marion"
Benelli M4 "Charlotte"
Bam-Bam, it's part of an issue gun...
Year ago, during the troubles in Vietnam, Uncle Sam, particularly the Marine Corps, bought a bunch of Remington 870's with a unitized extended magazine tube, barrel clamp, forward swing swivel, and bayonet lug. The gun was called the Remington 870 Mark I. Remington also offered boxed conversion kits to transform standard 870's to the Mark I configuration. Beauford, who started life as a Wal-Mart 870 3" Express, has one of those front ends grafted onto it. It accepts all of the variations of M16 bayonets.
Year ago, during the troubles in Vietnam, Uncle Sam, particularly the Marine Corps, bought a bunch of Remington 870's with a unitized extended magazine tube, barrel clamp, forward swing swivel, and bayonet lug. The gun was called the Remington 870 Mark I. Remington also offered boxed conversion kits to transform standard 870's to the Mark I configuration. Beauford, who started life as a Wal-Mart 870 3" Express, has one of those front ends grafted onto it. It accepts all of the variations of M16 bayonets.
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