Naming your guns?

There are more pictures posted in the “firearm identification” page. I don’t mind posting another tho… I like looking at it.

Fisher king, I like looking too

I named my first pistol before the kit arrived, a 50 cal Kentucky pistol “Clementine”
I named my second kit as well, a 50 cal Kentucky long rifle
“Ellsbeth”
My third build, a Bounty Hunter, was going to be called Black Bess but I could not get the stock to go black/walnut well enough for that, so she gos nameless
My forth build is yet to happen, but she will be a Kibler Colonial in 50cal called “Bella”

The Big cannon is I presume' Mons Meg' at Edinboro castle There is a bigger at the Tower of London '.The Dardanelles gun.' what name other I can't say .The habit of nameing guns go's back to thier days Thier was a' Mad Marjory 'about that time & Noted Sportsman author Lt Col Peter Hawker had his ' Big Joe' &' Bloody Burnet' the Cripple stopper .I see I listed some of my named guns in page 2 of this thread , If Phil Coffins on page one pinned down the importance of naming guns . They named traction engines too I bought one off a relative of Ned Kelly but I could never probe him on it though I knew the history . He was working his old Ruston & he called it' Emma'
I says" You call it Emma?" He says" er " Bostard ! is what I call it ! ".
He was a fine gentleman he was 90 then & his Brother was visited by a friend His wife came to the door she says" Oh he's not well Geoff" Then from his bed shouts ''Oh it's you Geoff ? " followed by a frail " Have you seen any more Engines ?". Steam Traction Engines , both brothers where keen on preserving them.
Steam & black power are closely related .Both need to be coaxed & jollied to get the best of them , you can't just flick a switch & demand something .
Regards Rudyard

My guns only get named when they fail me. And none of those can be mentioned here.

Omg bubba,! I just realized my gunz do have names! Due to your finley tuned keen insight!who knew?

I had an unmentionable that my ex-wife referred to as "the other woman".

Some of Mine tend to be named more for their function. Such as deer rifle, squirrel gun, target gun and so on. I don’t remember giving any of them more endearing names.

I thought I didn't have names for any of my guns. But I realized I've called one of my deer guns "The Nine-Pound Hammer" on more than one occasion.

Oh I like that “ the nine pound hammer” maybe I’ll name my hand cannon Pedersoli Bounty Hunter “The Hammer” that has a nice ring to it

The Rev. style longrifle I used for decades I 'sorta' named "Ben" in memory of a distant ancestor who, supposedly, was a personal messenger for George Washington. Never really referenced it that way though. My current favorite flint crusher was built from a Chambers 'Little Fella' set of parts. So, I do call it my 'Little Fella'. (p.s.: Dave, it doesn't really crush my flints. )

I call my 10 gauge Zouave The Beast.

I name all my firearms but I don't tell any one what the names are .

My Virginia rifle is Annabelle Lee.

Im simplifying, gonna go with for sale,
Or sold

I name mine; rifle, shotgun, pistol - no need for anything more

My unmentionable is Calico
My P53 Enfield repop is Victoria
My caplock TC Hawken is Autumn
I have 2 Pennsylvania Hunters. One is Peach, the other Bumblebee.
I have a flintlock. 50 Renegade, yet to earn a name.
I also have a classy vintage breechloader named Madame.

Have never and would never. It just seems weird.

I've named a couple; "Johnny", the Jonathan Browning Mountain Rifle and "Tommy" the T/C Hawken .45. One other has a sort of title of "Yellow Bird Gun", but it isn't really a "name". Got a few others that I might have given female names to, but somehow never got around to it. The female half of my household would likely object to my taking "Sally" out to the woods.

Not any different, or weirder, than pilots naming their planes.