Who names their rifle?

I name all of them. But to avoid confusion, jealousy, and anger, they all have the same name---HerShey....As in I'll take her with me in the morning cuz she shoots real good....

I name my dog, Dog, my cat, Cat, my wife, Wife and my gun, Gun. KISS. Semper Fi.

My Dickert Flint , I call Bula , Me and pal Norm use to shoot rocks we would place in tree branches for targets when we were adult kids. She was quit a rock cruncher with 90 grain of powder.

I call them the name of the rifle they are designed after, Beck rifle, Haines rifle, Bogle rifle, TN rifle, fowler, trade gun, TC and such. I have one rifle a friend gave to me on his death bed, his nickname was "Biff" so I call it Biff's rifle even though he is long gone. If I tell my friends " I killed a deer with Biff's rifle" they know exactly what rifle I used.

I don't

Miss Sally.

I only named one rifle. The day I went to the range for the first shots, hurricane Elena changed directions and started heading to the coastline where I lived at the time. Got home and had to pack up for evacuation. That rifle is Elena and the only gun that has been given a name other than a simple descriptive term, such as the King's Musket, Derringer Rifle, Harper's Ferry et. al.

I built a Kibler SMR for my grandson for his 12th birthday and he named it the kraken. My granddaughter was a little jealous so when I built mine I stained it red and named it Rose Red for her, her name is Rosalee and she is a blue eyed redhead. She was very happy when I told her.

My first flinter was a Pedo 1803 Harper's Ferry. It broke so often, we named it "Ye Ole Fence Post"
Fore the threat was it would be used as one.
Good thing the EX took it with her when she left.

My last flinter has been around for almost 20 years, and has escaped being named.

I didn't get to name my rifles. My wife just calls them both "Expensive"!

Mine's called "Val", bought on Valentine's Day and has two hearts inlaid on the stock.

Here you go, just in case you forgot what your guns name was last year.
https://www.muzzleloadingforum.com/threads/naming-your-guns.148574/

My little 32 is Annie Girl.

Panama Red said:

I named mine Crow… you have to be a Mystery Science Theater 3000 fan to understand.View attachment 224925

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Spring Fever was the best short ever.

My flintlock is Chinook cuz it’s always windy here.

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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Half of us on here are weirdos, too!

Dusty_Traveler said:

Spring Fever was the best short ever.

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Loved those guys!

Master Blaster said:

(I posted this before...)

"Gunga Din", my Bombay Bess:

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Nice!

The GRRW Hawken is named "Loomsk", Swedish for Sneaky. Faced into the wind 3 times 2 years ago, had deer walk up behind me. Faced the opposite direction next time and they walked in behind me from the other direction. One came within range and she was sausage.

Have a 20 lb sledge named "Lucille". bought it for $4 at a yard sale. It was brand new with slight rust on the top. I figured somebody bought it, swung it once and said "That's enough of that" and set it on it's head until the yard sale. Over the years I had it if Lucille came into play, whatever we were working on, moved!!

Don

I have named a few of my guns. Shorty, Ugly, Crooked, PITA. And one that I named Murphy's Law Number 14, (anything that can go wrong will go wrong)