Funny gun names!

[SurgePyrodex]

Howdy. I'm new to the board. Name's Surge, I'm a Texan and have an insatiable taste for antique firearms. Nice to meet you all!

Have you ever set eyes on a gun name and just couldn't stop saying it? Share it! I'd have to say the funniest gun name I've ever heard was "Fallshirmjägergerwehr 42 Rifle." I dare you to beat that.

 

[Weimadog]

The Dardick revolver, which fires the Tround?

 

[Sheslinger]

Manlicher

 

[PowderBurn]

"Kalashnikov" just rolls off the tongue. Very pleasant to say. Sounds like a ballet troupe.

The opposite is "Krag"; kinda sticks in your throat.

 

[chris in va]

Ceska Zbrojovka. Once you figure out how to say it, kinda interesting.

Or how about the cheapest possible ammo I've ever used...UltraMax.

 

[Kevlarman]

Back in my school days I used to scribble in my notebook and came up with fake names for real guns:

Grock
SIG-Sour
Cult 1911
Brauning
Heckle and Cough

 

[slzy]

velo-dog

 

[Old Fud]

Vera

 

[Nathaniel Firethorn]

Moisin-Nagant

- pdmoderator

 

[Bear Gulch]

Fosbury

borchardt and a frendh WWI mchine gun that is pronounced "ShowShow", but I have not idea how to spell the name.

 

[Ash]

JoLoAr

Campo giro

gyrojet

And, of course, the suicide specials such as

Tramp's Terror
and
Hardpan

 

[Smoke]

Wasn't it Olympic Arms that made the PCR (Politically Correct Rifle)?

That always cracked me up.

 

[MrMurphy]

Sho-Sho: Chauchat Machine Rifle, one of the worst abortions ever called a gun... designed by committee and a total piece of junk. Foisted on US troops by the French instead of the better and U.S made Lewis gun in use by Brit troops.

 

[armoredman]

EAA Windicator revolver....

 

[R.H. Lee]

'Kimber' sounds funny to me. It's kind of effeminate.

 

[BryanP]

Manlicher

Sheslinger, I have never made that connection. And I have a fairly dirty mind.

*sigh*

 

[joegerardi]

Old Fud wrote:

Vera.

What a great show! I can't wait for the movie!

..Joe

 

[fistful]

Ceska Zbrojovka

Try Ceskaslovenska Zbrojovka. That is, BRNO

 

[aguyindallas]

How about "French Battle Rifle"....now thats funny!

 

[R.H. Lee]

How about "French Battle Rifle"....now thats funny!

Excellent condition. Never fired. Only dropped once.

 

[VARifleman]

Dragunov, oh how I want one...

 

[Barbara]

Mine is different: The Nylon 66 has always bugged the beejeebers out of me. It's just wrong.

 

[Kamicosmos]

I agree on Manlicher. Nice stock, but makes me snicker just a bit.

I also smile whenever I see a Taurus 'Raging Hornet'. Now, I've been stung by a couple raging hornets before, so I know they can be serious, and the gun is pretty cool. Just kinda brings a WB Cartoon type image into my mind...

 

[Rico567]

The original spelling of the post is badly misspelled.

The corrected spelling of the original post:

Fallschirmjaegergewehr

Germans are fond of compound nouns (smaller nouns run together in one large word to create a cumbersome, more specific noun; this is not their worst habit, if we consider invading Poland).

Working backward, "gewehr" is a rifle, "jaeger" is a hunter, and "fallschirm" is a parachute.

Thus, the admittedly awkward English rendition would be "parachute hunter's rifle."

English speakers would render it more idiomatically as "paratrooper rifle."

See- not so funny after all.

 

[Chuck Dye]

Not quite in keeping with the intent of the thread, I know, but my favorite funny gun name is Mas Ayoob’s snubby, Fluffy. I'm not sure which is funnier though, the name Fluffy, or Ayoob’s rationale for the name.