Does anybody else name their guns?

[azrael]

Yup...sure do

back when I had a pair of P-11's I named one of them LOVE and the other HATE (I still have hate)...when I get me a pair a Springy's they will take that name

Ruger .357 is called "Fluffy"

before I sold it I called my Springy XD-9C..my precioussssssssss

Gonna get me a Govt 45 and call it Gladice

 

[Kor]

Welllll...

- My first "named gun" was my ported S&W 640-1 .357, which I had engraved with its name, "Life Partner," on the backstrap.

- Next was my Kahr K40, engraved "Henry V, III.6.33-36"(in the edition I decided to use, these are King Henry's lines, "We would not seek a battle as we are,/Nor, as we are, we say we will not shun it./So tell your master.")

- Just for fun, my Finnish Mosin-Nagant 91/30 is "Uncle Vanya," my Russian 91/30 is "Boris the Bullet-Dodger," my Finnish M39 is "Ice Princess Katya," and my M96 Mauser is "The Swedish Chef." (Bork, bork, bork!) My Springfield 1903 MkI is "The Doughboy," and my M1917 Enfield is "Mud-Cruncher." (see the A&E movie, "The Lost Battalion.") My Turkish-marked Czech 98/22 Mauser is "Turkish"(natch), and my Ruger Redhawk is "Enforcer"('cuz that's what its previous owner had engraved on the barrel).

I've also named guns for my friends, such as the Astra Firecat .25ACP I dubbed, "Snarf."

 

[stevelyn]

I have a Daewoo K2 rifle I call E II after my gf Evelyn. They both can display a nasty disposition.

 

[chaim]

Do my guns have names? Sure do. CZ 75B (or CZ for short), Bersa, 85 (as in Taurus 85), PT140, Daly (Charles Daly 1911), etc.

I don't name my cars either.

I never really got the practice of naming inanimate objects.

BTW- odd to see this thread now, I just had this conversation Sunday with my best friend's wife (she wanted to know what my friend and I named our guns, she names everything and couldn't understand that we wouldn't).

 

[peacefuljeffrey]

I like the idea of naming guns and cars and stuff. I usually go with a name that starts with the same initial as the make of the gun.


I once had a Mazda 323 that I called "Mike" -- just like the computer Mycroft Holmes in The Moon Is a Harsh Mistress.


-Jeffrey

 

[Malamute]

A friend named his hunting rifle Mabel.

 

[DSRUPTV]

I don't really refer to them with names but I do say "she" in reference sometimes.

 

[Sir Aardvark]

Yep.... I call 'em names....

"Expensive", "Too much", "I musta been nuts!", "Hope my wife doesn't find out about this one", etc...etc....

 

[IZinterrogator]

My fish don't have names, so why should my guns?

(The fish are plastic and don't have feelings that are hurt by me not naming them.)

 

[jmilliron]

I haven't named any of my handguns but I plan on naming any rifles I buy. Names have to be from the same country as the rifle though.

Justin said:

My carry gun (USP Compact .45) is named Reason.

I see you've read 'Snow Crash.'

Always good to see a literate person!

-jason m

 

[38SnubFan]

Nope never named 'em, but if I had to give the .38 snubbie (my first handgun purchase) a name, I'd probably go with "Faithful".

For the .45 (my usual CCW piece), I'd have to simply say "Threat Stopper".

-38SnubFan

 

[torpid]

I named my best gun "spoon", and my best spoon "gun".

Then I went out to swordfight with a fork.



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[CletusFudd]

Gun Names

I used to have a couple of AR-15's which I called "poodle Shooters" but I sold them and got an M1A which I call "baby". The rest of them I just call "gun".

 

[enfield303]

My 870 that is being modified for HD is known as "Old Painless". My friends refer to it as "the Mule", when my buddy shot it the first time he brought his own ammo. Magnum loads. 18 inch barrel. You figure it out.

 

[Primersinmyshoe]

Lucky Lady

Here's my 38sup race gun. I had her name engraved on the slide.

 

[rritter]

I've got names for several:

SKS - Major Spearage
Mosin Nagant 91/30 (with bayonet) - Spike
Mosin Nagant M44 - Mr. Pointy
Mosin Nagant M38 - Buffy
M1 Garand - Miss Liberty

Still pondering names for some others.

 

[Relayer]

No, but if I had a black powder flintlock Kentucky rifle, I'd call her "Betsy".

Otherwise, I'm not good at naming things. Once, when I lived alone, I adopted (ok, I trapped) a young cat that I called "Cat". Had Cat for about 8 months. When Dog moved in, Cat left town.

 

[chris in va]

Until I got the mags fixed, my CZ75 was named 'Dammit'.

 

[ulflyer]

And he said "come on Mildred, gonna take you out to the range and give you a good workout!"

 

[Eskimo Jim]

Nio,
I'm as warped as you are.

Some of the names of firearms that I've owned were/are:
Thomas for a very old SMLE
Tommy for a 'newer' SMLE (from Kipling's poem "Tommy Atkins")
Pat and Mike are two 22lr SMLEs which at one time were owned by Ireland
Boris is a Ruger 77 Mk II .30-06 which I used to harvest a Russian Boar
Duke is a 357mag Blackhawk
Irving is a 22lr Single Six (from a 1960s novelty song Big Bad Irving)
Kicks is my S&W model 66 'cause I get my kicks on Rte 66
Moses is my S&W SW1911

There are some others with names and some others without names.

-Jim

 

[Little Loudmouth]

I have a couple guns, both named.

My Ithaca Model 49 single shot .22 is named Karait, after a small but deadly snake in a story by Rudyard Kipling;

My J.C. Higgins Model 20, also known as a High Standard Model 200, is named El Viejo, Spanish for The Old Man, because it's 30-some years older than me.

My Dad has a gun that will most likely become mine, a Remington 788 carbine in .308 named Little Loudmouth. (yep, that's where I got my name)

A friend of mine named his NEF single-shot youth model 20-gauge "Little Kicker" and his Dad has a Russian M44 carbine my friend's named "The Russian Shorty."

We just seem to like naming guns around here.

LLM

 

[SMLE]

Where to start?...

Yeah, I'm nuts. Most of my guns have "told" me their names. This phenomenon seems particularly strong with the old war horses.

Those I have currently;

"La Belle Dame sans Merci" 1777 French Infantry musket converted to percussion and brought to the CSA by Caleb Hughes.
"Moira" 1918 SMLE MkIII* formerly owned by the Irish Free State.
"Silé" (Sheila) Faz #4 MkII made for the Irish Republic.
"Madigan" 1909 SMLE MkIII
"Mathilda" 1909 SMLE MkI*** made up for Crown forces in Ireland.
"Parvati" 1946 Ishapore SMLE MkIII*
"Annie" M1 Garand
"Little Rocky" My Beretta 96
"Rylla" My 1936 vintage Colt Official Police. (H. Beam Piper fans will know the referance)
"Mithangiant" Colt MkIV Series 70 .45 Auto.(Tolkein Elvish for "Grey Iron Shadow". My Brother has "Morangiant" or "Black Iron Shadow")

Others I have owned were;

"Patricia" Enfield #2 MkIV* .22 LR
"Bonny" 1910 MkIII Ross
"Charlotte" 1923 Lithgow SMLE MkIII with Parker Hale target sights.
"Destiny" Early '50s S&W Model 27 with 3" Bbl. My late Mother once referred to this revolver as "A sweet little pistol".

 

[ACP230]

My Ruger 77RL in .250 Savage is called "The Deerslayer."
Many deer I've shot with it have fallen on the spot.

My first .45, a Model Of 1911 U.S. Army made in 1918 goes by "Old Veteran."

My Danish Madsen subgun is called "Hrothgar," after the Danish king in Beowulf.

The Remington 40X .22, a heavy target rifle became "Target Dawg," as soon as my son and I got it out of the CMP shipping carton.

Some guns don't seem to need naming. Some do.

 

[Zeke Menuar]

The Tupperware Special - M700 ADL Synthetic

Bubba the 12 Gauge - Western Field 550A with the 18.5" barrel attached.

ZM

 

[PvtPyle]

I name just about everything that is close to me or dear to me. Yep, everything. I ran out of names for my guns though.