Naming Guns

[Neo-Luddite]

Many of them do in our house....my edc Ruger LC9-s is "Chico"--- cause he's a 'little guy'. I have a brace of .38 spl S&W 64s-- "Pancho & Lefty". Two AKs and two Yugo SKSs---they are "Boris, Natasha, Rocky & Bullwinkle". My Romy Tokarev is called Nadia after the great Romanian gymnast Nadia Comaneci....and it goes on and on.

 

[375supermag]

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 ...

Hi...
I once had a pair of black Labs named Smith and Wesson.
My son named them...he was 7 years old at the time.
Back in the mid-80s, I had a chocolate Lab named Ruger.
Current Labs are named Thor and Loki...littermates, one yellow, one black.
Both spoiled rotten by my wife... I am totally blameless(of course).

 

[375supermag]

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.

No...
Better than 50 guns and no names.
Don't name vehicles or any other possessions.

 

[.308 Norma]

Hi...
I once had a pair of black Labs named Smith and Wesson.
My son named them...he was 7 years old at the time.
Back in the mid-80s, I had a chocolate Lab named Ruger.
Current Labs are named Thor and Loki...littermates, one yellow, one black.
Both spoiled rotten by my wife... I am totally blameless(of course).

Our gun shy Cocker Spaniel is named Ruger. We used to have a Chesapeake named Winchester. Winchester was a great hunting dog even though I've never owned a Winchester shotgun.
I've never named a gun, but I have occasionally called most of the motor vehicles I've owned a few choice names.

 

[tubeshooter]

Come to think of it, I do occasionally refer to the 2 SKS rifles as Romy (Romanian) and Cindy (Sino-Soviet)...


Also call a Smith 317 with a steel cylinder added "the Princess" sometimes because of all the trouble and money I spent to buy and get it running properly. Also because I now 'baby' the gun as a result.

 

[BullRunBear]

When I retired my lovely wife got me a Late Lancaster TVM flintlock. By far my favorite rifle. I named it Lily, a translation of her name.

All the others are called by the model and, if needed, caliber.

 

[Carl N. Brown]

I just remembered I had given a pet name to my .22 LR Rumanian Army Training Rifle. I paid 69.95 for it in 2000.

It is the only rifle of mine that would reliably extract .22 Junior steel cased ammo from Klimovsk Stamping Plant (green box with turkey sitting on tree branch).

If I have questionable .22 ammo to test, I let Mikey try it, he'll eat anything!

 

[stchman]

Never understood this bizarre fetish. I like my guns, I appreciate the craftsmanship and they can be nice to look at. In the end, they are not alive, so no need to give them "pet" names.

With this being said, I do refer to my Marlin Model 60 as the New Jersey Assault Rifle, but that's more of a joke than a pet name.

 

[tubeshooter]

Eh - to each their own. They "name" boats, and christen them too!


There's plenty people do that I don't understand. I don't expect to understand everything people do.

 

[DavidABQ]

My Anschutz 1712 is names Katrina. My Remington 700 is named Hildegard.

 

[1KPerDay]

my kids name my guns. usually the ones they want.

FN 1906 .25 ACP=Gertrude
10/22=Bob
JC Higgins model 31=Edward
can't remember all the others