naming your guns

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While I don't name guns personally, my shotgun did get a nickname that stuck. Bought it cheap after someone bubbaed the barrel. Took it to my lgs to have it crowned and beaded, and the smith told me I was lucky, my shotgun was barely legal after he was done. IMG_20190129_142008.jpg

Meet Barely Legal. Would have liked the barrel longer, but this pretty much how it came to me.
 
I grew up on a farm and always found it silly when people named cattle. Some did though. Ours were named whatever number the tag in their ear said.
There was a cow my wife and I used to see at a hobby farm we passed pretty regularly. We used to refer to him as hamburger. One day we came by and hamburger was gone. never saw him again.
 
Personally, I wouldn't name them, but several years ago I met a young lady who worked for a major firearms company who named all of hers and had the names tattooed on various parts of her body. It was interesting to try to figure out why she gave a particular gun a particular name, but it was even more interesting to learn, I mean guess, where the tattoos were located and why they were in that particular spot.
 
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I have informally named a few, to separate them from their peers. For example - my 1973 Savage 112 single shot rebarreled to 257 Roberts is 'Old Bob', while my heavyweight Savage 10 in 257 Roberts is 'Fat Bob' and my AR10 in 257 Roberts is (cleverly) 'Arrrr Bob'.

But as a general rule - it would get too hard to remember all their names, so I don't name them.
 
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I haven’t filed any with any official office but I have called a number of inanimate objects by names I have bestowed upon them. Most I couldn’t repeat among polite company.
 
My wife calls her S&W Lolita.

This thread gave me an idea to name my AR after one of our favorite politicians “Chuck”. My Mossberg 590 should be name “Nancy” and my CZ75 after “Dianne” because it’s high capacity because she’s a hi cap lover. Now which one will be “Maxine”? I think my S&W 29 because of all the noise it makes.
 
12 gauge SxS---"Old Thunder"
S&W M640-------"Centennial"(I know, not much imagination)
 
i called my m1a charlene after Full Metal Jacket when it was new. now i just call it the m1a. i just refer to them by their model names.
 
My wife and I have matching Savage 210F 12ga Slug Rifles. She named hers "Betty Lou" (30pt Buck), I named mine "Maude" because she kicks like a mule. That's the only ones of mine that have names.
 
I didn't name guns until about 5 years ago. That was when I named my Glock 19 "Gretchen."

There was a cow my wife and I used to see at a hobby farm we passed pretty regularly. We used to refer to him as hamburger. One day we came by and hamburger was gone. never saw him again.
My family had two cows when I was younger that were named Hamburger and Helper.
 
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I usually refer to my guns by what they are, but I started calling my S&W 327 Night Guard “Brutus”. My wife does to so if she says “go get Brutus” we both know what that means.
 
I have only ever named one thing that I have owned. It was a 1960 1 ton all wheel drive International pickup truck that use to be a tow truck.
It was named Drift Buster. That name was painted on the sides of the bed.
 
I have never named any of my guns. I did have a rifle my cousin named "Thunder."

We hunted together for years not very far from each other looking at two separate fields nearly with our backs together (about 50yds apart with a small woodline between us) and my Win M70 in 300wsm must have been pretty loud as it scared him a many a times. Sounded like lightning had struck very close and that immediate loud clap of thunder is what he said it reminded him of.

He also named another guy's Weatherby for what the Wby "W" looks kinda like. I won't say here but it's 1st name was Sagging.
 
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