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My 12ga English fowler's name is "Melon Buster"

My 20ga Trade Gun's name is "Two-Fer

My 20ga Fusil de chasse is "Big Tom"

A 28ga smoothbore I named "Ol'Cobb"

I have a Tylle Fusil Fin in the works being built for me by a friend. 46" 16ga. I normally don't name a gun before it proves it's self in the field but this one will be named.... "Matilda"
 
my 56 inch barreled fowler is long Tom,I have a Wilson and a Nwtg still waiting on names,my blunderbus is ol bigmouth
 
My duck, snowshoe and ptarmigan hunting buds have named my short Bess Vesuvius. Lots of smoke and flame, and it's 1 5/8 oz of shot does impressive things in the field.
 
My 28 gauge fowler is named "Rubey" after its' builder. Also helps that the stock is cherry.
 
Here's how I see it, to give a gun a name gives it character and a sense of belonging to YOU

"A mans self is the sum total of all that he can call his".. (William James 1890"

"More than mere tools our possessions become extensions of the self. We use them to signal to ourselves and others, who we want to be and where we want to belong, and long after we are gone they become our legacy. Some might even say our essence lives on in what once we made or owned"

Your Psychology lesson for today. :hatsoff:
 
NWTF Longhunter said:
Here's how I see it, to give a gun a name gives it character and a sense of belonging to YOU

"A mans self is the sum total of all that he can call his".. (William James 1890"

"More than mere tools our possessions become extensions of the self. We use them to signal to ourselves and others, who we want to be and where we want to belong, and long after we are gone they become our legacy. Some might even say our essence lives on in what once we made or owned"

Your Psychology lesson for today. :hatsoff:
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I like it, very poetic, got me thinking.
 
I built my early Virginia fowler from a kit. I managed to turn $450 worth of parts into a $250 gun. I destructed it a couple of years back, and never thought of naming it. After the work I did on it the best that I can come up with is "OOPS". :redface: :redface:
 
I named my rifle Ol' Malindy for some reason I've long since forgotten. But my trade gun I never got around to naming. I guess nothing popped into my head.
 
My guns are girls, loved and cared for, maybe the sprit of the Hamadryads still alive in the wood, maybe the katchina that lived in the iron ore or the flint, maybe the faceless lemur that brings form to chaos.
My hammers a tool, kept in a drawer till I need it, or my axe sharp and oiled but just stored in the garage, my girls live in the house with me.
 
Ron my Joe Schell 12 ga smooth rifle is "Achilles" He loves to fight big mean spirited hermit longbeards
 
My 12 ga. is named Myrtle.
My .54 is named Gertrude.
My Harpers Ferry is named Beatrice.
 

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