Do you name your firearms?

[Vern Humphrey]

It's funny that 19% of us think the other 40% are idiots.

Me sainted Irish Mither tried to live up to me Grandda's rule, "If you can't say something good about someone, don't say anything at all."

I remember her sitting silent while some flannel-mouth old biddie was running down everyone in the neighborhood. Finally me Mither says, "That tells me more about you than about them."

 

[f4t9r]

I have a name for all of them. I call them Colt , Kimber , Rock River , SIG , Marlin , Remmington , Ruger , Browning
They all have diff middle names and we all share the same last name.

 

[Tomcat1066]

My Yugo M59/66 is named Buster. My Factory 26 SKS is named "Vic" (Short for Victor Charles). No name for my CZ 75.....yet

Tom

 

[mbs357]

I would get a normal M1, add a few nice parts to it and call it Ed.
Then get another one all 'tricked out' with synthetic stock and an AIMPOINT, call that one Al.
Whoops, almost forgot.
None of my firearmes have names at the moment.
;D

 

[hso]

I've named only one gun and that's my old FM Hi Power "Frank". Frank is short for frankenstein and it got that name because it's my gun to experiment on. Wanted to try out trit sights. Frank got a set. Wanted to try out an experimental finish. Frank got a new coat. And on and on.

 

[Third_Rail]

My wife names my firearms. Oops, I mean her firearms.

 

[Valkman]

I call my elephant gun "Fluffykins"...

Now that's hilarious!

I took the last option - sorry but if you name your guns you have way too much free time!

 

[armoredman]

Two out of four. My carry pistol, the CZ-75 Po1, is just "the PO1". My SHTF rifle, a 63 year old Mosin Nagant M-38 carbine....is Babshuka Thunderboomer, though I usually just say, "The Mosin."
The wife's rifle, the Yugo SKS, is just "the Yugo", but her CZ-2075, is known as her "little Czech friend".

 

[tegemu]

Some, my new Dan Wesson Commander Bobtail is "Danny Bob." I have several sticks and hiking staffs. My Blackthorn stick" is "Murphy," another is 'Annette," one staff is "Yosemite Sam," another "Diablo." Each has a reason that has a good memory attached.

 

[Smokey Joe]

Names

I've named various firearms over the years. Not all of them get names. Same is true of automobiles. If a thing is to have a name, it will tell you what it is and it will be right, and that is its name.

If it does not tell you, then it was not meant to be, and that is also right. If you think you should not name any of your implements, that is the right path for you.

We get guided in these things, and sometimes we are not as free-willed as we think.

My new SKS is Comrade Princess Anastasia, even though she's Yugoslavian--she has a Russian soul. The break-action shotgun I inherited from my grandfather is The 20-Gauge That Does Not Miss. My S&W 586 is Smitty,or Old Reliable. My 1911 is Old Slabsides.

I also have a number of firearms, some of them very good, and which work well for me, which do not have names that I know of. This is the correct path for those guns.

Incidentally, Comrade Princess Anastasia's name came to me WHILE I was on the range with her, so JJE's complaint is invalid, at least for that one. Come to think of it, my son named The 20-Gauge That Does Not Miss, and we were on the way home from the range with it at the time.

Back when I drove school bus, every one that I drove was named Scrap Iron. Sometimes the kids would chant encouragement to Scrap Iron as she labored up a hill.

 

[1911 guy]

Mathilda

My carry gun got named "Mathilda", but not by me. A co-worker and I got in a somewhat tight spot (turned out uneventful) and he looked over and said "I hope you got Mathilda on". He'd probably just seen League of Extaordinary Gentleman.

 

[jefnvk]

My K31 is the 'Swiss Miss'

Nothing else has a name, though.

 

[lawson]

haven't actively named many of my guns (though i don't think it's weird).

some of them have acquired names over time. my Mossberg 395 has been dubbed "the ugliest shotgun i've ever seen" which is usually followed with "can i try it next?".

 

[grizz5675]

yes my big calibered guns are named big bad boys and my little calibered guns are my little bad boys.

 

[rritter]

Some of mine have names. The Mosin-Nagant 91/30 is Spike, the M44 is Mr. Pointy, and the M38 is Buffy. The SKS is Major Spearage, and the M1 Garand is Miss Liberty. Mauser K98k is Fritz, and the SMLE is still looking for a better name than Smelly

 

[trueblue1776]

I've always stood by the saying "a gun is only a tool", Maybe I've never had a gun cool enough to name.

 

[michiganfan]

Yes I have glock, beretta, ruger etc but my browning hipower I just refer to as a thing of beauty.

 

[rick_reno]

No. I have trouble remembering my kids names, if I did this to inanimate objects I'd never be able to remember them.

 

[jtward01]

I don't normally name my guns, but years ago I did call an Italian-built SPAS-12 I had "Uncle Nunzio." Sort of like, "mess and me and I'll introduce you to my Uncle Nunzio."

As I recall, Boone named his rifle "Ticlicker" because he claimed he could shoot a tic off the back of a hound dog at 30 paces. Don't know if he ever really tried, or if he did try, if the dog survived.

 

[Czar]

Rugger 10/22 #1 : Mr. Magoo (put a 8x56 russion scope on it just for giggles)
Rugger 10/22 #2 : P.D.A.T. (Prarie Dog Assassination Tool)
Baretta 391 : Pasta Tosser
M-N 91 - Tikka : ThinFinn
M-N M39 Sneak: FatFinn
2 Unnamed M44 M-Ns (Probably will be Thing 1 and Thing 2)
Yugo SKS : Esskay
Romo SAR1 : The Toy
Colt AR-15 Lightweight : Kan-Saw (AR / Kan-Saw) My home state get it?
Makarov : Col. Popov
CZ-52 : Flamebelchinghandcannon
CZ-75 Compact : Kathryn


Cars:
Usually named after their color.
White Lightning/Elephant depending on how well its working '78 Mercedes Diesel. (Yes the name is a cruel joke I'm playing on the car)
My 88 560SEL is having trouble with a name, I figured it would be Bonnie Blue, but it's been a Nazi ---Hole so I've been calling it Kurt Waldheim.

I give them names which typically sums up what I think of them at the time. Call me crazy.

 

[Kodiaz]

Ok I've only named one of my guns so far. My 11-87 that I used for hunting and never failed me was "Old Reliable". BUT after I moved to Fl and saw the need to put a 9 + 1 mag extension on it, I looked at it and said, "This thing is a @#$%$#@ Blast Cannon". After I stopped laughing (It took awhile) I knew Old Reliable had been renamed, "The Blast Cannon"

This probably doesn't count but my paintball gun (a 68 Automag by airgun designs if you know what this is your an oldtime paintballer) was called "The Devil's Organ" I won't go into details. My old pump was called "the boomstick"
and until someone can show me usage of the word boomstick before 1992 as far as I'm concerned I invented that word.

 

[TMM]

i plan on naming all the guns that are close to me... Elanor is one of the names i think is quite fitting. perhaps a revo of some sort. my carry gun will definately be named...

~TMM

 

[Kodiaz]

I also want to say that naming firearms like attaching a Bayonet is probably HIGHLY offensive to Liberals. So name your weapons and where can i get a bayonet for my Ruger P94dc

 

[chickenfried]

To use a line from an old joke. What's the use of giving your gun a name? It can't come if you call it.

 

[Ridge]

I've only named three and they are the ones I've always carried.

My Smith&Wesson Model 10's name is "Smitty"

My Marlin Model 25M's is "Punk-1"

And the other is my Marlin Model 60's "Insomniac"

I'm going to etch "The Reaper" into my Marlin 917's stock