Who names their rifle?

Mine is Evelyn. No real reason, just seems right. Lyman/Pedersoli flintlock, slightly improved from new. Just wondering if I'm the only weirdo born way too late.

Yep, me too, I give a name to my rifles. Today I went to the range with an old Jukar Plain Rifle, the name is very simple to retain: "Laagland geweer"...

If I'd name mine it would be "misses" as in I'm going to take the misses out today lol

I named mine Crow… you have to be a Mystery Science Theater 3000 fan to understand.

I call all of my black powder firearms Searchfunction.

Mine only get named at times when they cause major frustrations. Usually single syllable four letter names of Anglo Saxon derivation.

TFC is Froggy
Lancaster smooth Rifle is Ike
SMR is Tenn, Tennessee, or Tenngun
Haven’t named my new Dog lock, but leaning towards Fido

Naming inanimate objects is too weird for me, so no.

Mike in FL said:

Mine is Evelyn. No real reason, just seems right. Lyman/Pedersoli flintlock, slightly improved from new. Just wondering if I'm the only weirdo born way too late.

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An interesting notion , huh, I've really never given it any thought. I build em and love em but to name one as if it were living does not strike my fancy.
Any of my guns would just as soon shoot me as anything else as it just doesn't care. Sort of like naming my favorite ax, shovel or hammer.

Think we all do. It's just sometimes they are curses.

M. De Land said:

An interesting notion , huh, I've really never given it any thought. I build em and love em but to name one as if it were living does not strike my fancy.
Any of my guns would just as soon shoot me as anything else as it just doesn't care. Sort of like naming my favorite ax, shovel or hammer.

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My favorite hammer is named Michael… naming an ax though? That’s silly!
-Red, naming inanimate objects, except axes…

Glad to know there are a few.

QuinnTheEskimo said:

Naming inanimate objects is too weird for me, so no.

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You mean like Cutty Sark, Enola Gay, Mount Vernon,Hermatige?

I think guns either earn a name or something that happens over time of using it and learning about it. I never felt like I was good at naming guns besides cursing at them with things don’t go intended.

My dad though has two a GPR he calls Get Meat because that’s what it does best. The other a SMR flint he built that he calls Ricochet. Ricochet got named at a winter shoot when he actually set off the set trigger with a frozen finger, the ball bounced off the tree and cut the straw next to the one he called. The official said if dad would have called the one cut he’d have to count it.

Yep, KILLER #1-#2 AND DOWN THE LINE funny thing is they live up to there names.

QuinnTheEskimo said:

Naming inanimate objects is too weird for me, so no.

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The U.S. Navy does not think it weird

I reckon I was thinking naming a rifle like D. Crockett did, to mention one. What was it? Old Betsy, or some such? Might be just "another one of my weirdnesses," as my wife says. Got another item named Bertha that ain't a muzzleloader, but whom is my favorite you-know-what. Proly ought not started this thread. Too nice a place to muddy up with such tom-foolery.

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"Gunga Din", my Bombay Bess:

Master Blaster said:

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"Gunga Din", my Bombay Bess:

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Excellent choice.