Naming Guns

[Tiro Finale]

Do any of you name your guns? If so, what are some names and what are the origins?

I have a couple of named guns. The first is a .223 Contender called "Subtle". It stands for "Son Uvva B****, That's Loud". Great fun at the indoor range.

The second is a .308 Remington 700 called "Valkyrie". This is a gun I did some work on myself (barrel chop, recrowning, staining the stock, etc.), so I felt it earned a moniker of it's own. I don't know why I chose "Valkyrie", but it just seemed right.

 

[LNK]

Do any of you name your guns? If so, what are some names and what are the origins?

I have a couple of named guns. The first is a .223 Contender called "Subtle". It stands for "Son Uvva B****, That's Loud". Great fun at the indoor range.

The second is a .308 Remington 700 called "Valkyrie". This is a gun I did some work on myself (barrel chop, recrowning, staining the stock, etc.), so I felt it earned a moniker of it's own. I don't know why I chose "Valkyrie", but it just seemed right.

Nope. Don't name anything. My wife and daughter name just about everything. Vehicles, my tractors, the goats. Fortunately they have not thought of naming guns, so let's not give them any ideas please...

Lnk

 

[BigBore44]

My Marlin 44mag = Darryl
My Marlin 444= My brother Darryl
My Marlin 45-70= My other brother Darryl


My S&W Model 10 = Rose
My S&W Model 20 = Dorothy
My RIA 10mm = Blanche
My Ruger Redhawk 44 = Sophia

I didn’t actually name them before this thread was created, but I think I’ll stick with them.

 

[Legionnaire]

No, I do not. A lot of them already have names (Ruger, Smith ...)

I'm more likely to give a dog a gun's name. It'd be fun to have a pair of labs named Smith and Wesson ...

 

[splattergun]

the P89 I've had for 24 years or so has always been Betsy, since day one. a couple other guns I've owned for a long time have names I can't repeat here. All the others, no names.

 

[FL-NC]

I just call them what they are already named- Glock 19, OBR, 870, etc. I tend to give pets the cool names. I have a cat named Leonidis.

 

[GAF]

They come from the factor with a names like, Remington, Winchester, Browning, CZ. Giving them new names just confuses them.
I only name things with faces and a brain.

 

[Danoobie]

12 gauge coach gun, "LuLu"-A date you always want to be with, for good boom-boom...
Noreen BN36 I call "Noreen"-Seems appropriate.
7.62X54R VEPR --"Porky"-VEPR is Russian for Wild Boar.
HBAR -AR15-(.75 MOA) --"The Cooler"-The go to, for accuracy and follow-up shots
M77-Canoe Paddle 30.06--"Old Bessie"-Just an old favorite I spend a lot of Q time with
my M44s, "Blackie" and "Brownie"- Guess which colors these stocks are?

Funny, but I only name my long guns...

 

[EddieG54]

I have 14 grandkids and have trouble with remembering all their names. With twice as many firearms thats a road I don't want to go down

 

[Old Dog]

Nope, never have ... never thought of naming any of my guns, either. When I was a boy, though, my dad had a car that my mom named the "Green Dragon" ... regularly belched smoke and fire, was loud (I remember Dad using some baling wire and a frozen orange juice can to do tailpipe repair in the Dairy Queen parking lot) and left us stranded in the woods at the most inopportune times ... Dad did have a Stevens .22 rifle made in 1918 or so he got from his pops that he called "The Boy."

 

[sbwaters]

Betsy.

Who is old enough to remember that?

Big Bertha.

You have to be even older.

 

[Hokkmike]

I don't name them, but they are known by their uses. My carry gun, my hunting rifle, my target rifle, and my bug-out gun.

 

[Vern Humphrey]

Do any of you name your guns? If so, what are some names and what are the origins?

Pre-64 Model 70 Winchester -- Fionn MacCumhail (legendary Irish hero)
Custom '03 Springfield in .35 Brown-Whelen -- Bigfoot Wallace (early Texas Ranger.)
Kimber M82 .22LR -- the Gae Bolga (Weapon used by Cu Chullain, hunted his enemies down.)
Colt Woodsman -- the Holy Grail

 

[herrwalther]

Last firearm I named was my service rifle at Basic Training. Simply because I had to. Her name was Nicole.

There was a firearm I had (and sold) that I called "Picky son of a b****" quite often but that wasn't really a name.

 

[MedWheeler]

I did a long time ago, when I didn't have so many. To make them easier to remember, the names came from their makes. At that time, there weren't any makes from which I had more than one gun. They were all girls' names, my 10/22 was Ruth, my J-22 was Jenna, my Taurus M66 was Tara, Gretchen was a Grendel P10, Charline was an Undercover 38, you get the idea...

No way could I do that now.

 

[mstreddy]

I have two I've named. One is FrankenCup and the other is FrankenGlock. FrankenCup is a Gold Cup parts kit on a no-name frame with a few Videcki parts. Three different finishes and one sweet trigger! FrankenGlock is Glock 34 that the previous owner chopped the grip down to Glock 19 length and sanded the finger grooves off. This was before stippling was the rage. It's uglier than any other Glock I've ever seen, but it shoots rather well.

And recently I named my three SBR AR uppers, actually labeled them with a label maker, the 5.56 is PS for poodle shooter (seems that's all a 223/5.56 is good for) , the 300 Blackout is simply 300 (I need to be more creative), but the 7.62x39 is ARSKI.

 

[Armored farmer]

Not only did i name my .45 flintlock, i engraved it on the sideplate.

 

[Armored farmer]

This one is "Ludwell" after my great great great grandfather who carried it to illinois in 1852.

This is the deer i killed with it in 2015

 

[Deus Machina]

Of all the guns I've had, the only one I've named is my Mosin Nagant.
It's Ivan. It's Russian. They're all Ivan.

 

[Arkansas Paul]

As a general rule, no. Only one.
When I go chasing whitetails, Abigail, my Weatherby Vanguard in .30-06 keeps me company.

 

[denton]

Just one of them... Bought a Turkish Mauser (large ring, small ring barrel shank) and put a take off Remington barrel on it. It's the Turkington.

Oh, and my milsurp 6.5x55 is The Swede.

Other than that, no.

 

[caribou]

I once had an M700 Remington ADL in .243w.
''Momento Mori'' was the name.
Shot like a lazerbeam.
I lost in in a boat flip on a deadhead log in the river.

I still miss that rifle.

My favorite M-39, I simply call my ''Finn''.....Ill say something to the wife like ''Grab my Finn , Im gassing up...'' or something to that effect....and she bings 'em to me, right away. The rest just have factory or military designations.

 

[Rock185]

Nope, I don't do that. I can accept Davy Crockett's "Ol' Betsy", but beyond that, always thought it was a bit unnatural. How does one determine a firearm's gender anyway? I probably don't want to know

 

[420]

So I'm the only one to refer to them by their serial numbers??

 

[Carl N. Brown]

I usually call my guns by make. Mauser. Marlin. Ruger. IBM (a Caliber .30 Carbine, M1).

Sometimes by caliber. My .30-30 is a Marlin 336W.

Sometimes by model designation. Nylon 66. Puma. Bronco.

No imagination.

I did refer to my second gun, a Winchester 69A, as "Winnie".

OK. I have a Charter Arms AR7 Explorer II pistol. I added a shoulder strap, scope mount, and pistol scope for foraging, and laser sight for Close Quarter Combat, and named it "Space Gun". That's as far as I am going to admit.