Naming guns; Pet names for them. I had a .45 cal. flintlock back in the mid-1970's...

One of my unmentionables is named "Meatmaker," but I haven't named my GPR yet, or the pistol that I'm currently building. I'll have to start to think about some names now...

Rodd Boyer said:

Over the mountain men at King's Mountain, Sweetlips killed British officer by the name of Ferguson. Sweetlips was named for Robert Young's wife.

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And here I was thinking a sappy 50s sitcom dad had a musket! But, wait a minute........HE DIDI!

RODD BOYER, YOU WIN. 100 percent correct, ferguson said they will never get me off this mountain. he was right, he is still their. he and his mistress were urinated on my a lot of americans then wrapped in a animal hide and buried. a fitting end to a jerk of a man he was. arrogance got in his way. sweet lips was named after the shooters girl friend and later his wife. he got kissed by sweet lips.

Sweet lips gets the credit in the song and some accounts. By other accounts Ferguson was hit 7 times.

Grenadier1758 said:

Sweet lips gets the credit in the song and some accounts. By other accounts Ferguson was hit 7 times.

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Sweet lips may have hit him first, but ALL the Overmountain were shooting at Ferguson since as the only British Officer there, he exemplified the threat of "putting their families to fire and sword." As infuriated as the Overmountain Boys were from that well published and posted threat, I'm surprised they took ANY prisoners after the battle. I have no doubt Ferguson was hit with more than one bullet, though I can't prove that by documentation.

Gus

When my best friend in life returned from New Year's leave in 1975, he brought back a nice .45 cal. hand built flint rifle, pouch and matching two horn set from near Fort Wayne, IN. I was very surprised as I knew he didn't have the money on that trip to buy a rifle. He explained he had gone to a meeting of the Kekionga Long Rifles and typically got there late. They kept the raffle open till he got there to buy a ticket. Once that was done, the tickets were extremely well mixed, but he won the raffle and brought them home. Since the tickets cost a buck apiece, that rifle became "The Dollar Rifle" from then to this day. He allowed me to fire that rifle for many years in local and national completion and left it to me in his estate.

A few years later when I was transferred to IN, another Kekionga Club member had a flint rifle that for some reason he could just not shoot well, even though it fit him well enough and he was not a bad shot at all. He wound up loaning the rifle to others to shoot and it seemed like everyone else shot it better than he could. So for polite company, he named the rifle "The Painted Lady," though in less polite company he used, shall we say, harsher language. Grin.

In unmentionable firearms, I'm working on a pistol Mjölnir III for myself. Yep, I grew up on Thor comic books in the 1960's, but also from a science fiction short story depicting one built by Frank A. Pachmayr and its owner was sent back in time to ancient Norway and became the original Mjölnir. I'm also working on "Walter Mitty Rifle II" for myself.

Gus

I have an Allen Martin Lehigh that Al named the Busty Brunette.

My Hawken rifle is named Elena. I was on the rifle range when we got the order to evacuate for Hurricane Elena.

My .62 underhammer smoothie w/ 100 grs 2f is named Thunder Butt, in honor of my first wife....

My first black powder rifle was a Hawken .54 Cal named Big Blue and a follow on CVA .32 Cal named Little Blue. Both named by my daughter 25 years ago.


Cobra 6

why is it that ships & weapons for the most part are all given female names as a token of affection?

because we like to caress them. ships i dont know but guns yes, i caress all my revolvers and the one semi auto i own. also my henry golden boy 22. man what a gun.

My longtime friend and i hunt, fish , and shoot together. At our ML club he is called Willie as in Robertson. Well, one day he talked me into buying a really nice maple stocked 39 inch flinter. Recently i purchased his 45 TC flint. They are now called Big Willie and little willie. He was less than thrilled

Mine are all named after their calibers. My fifty cal, or my 54 cal, on down the line. That way I don't forget their names. I'm terrible with names but I can remember guns, and faces.

naming your gun THUNDER BUTT after your wife., is that the same as the feller that named his gun ,LARD A$$, after his wife because she was FAT IN THE CAN?

I named mine "Lightning" because it never strikes in the same place twice.

Named my latest flint lock build “Plague Rider” Because of all the “at home time“ the CCP Virus gave me to work on it.