Naming your guns?

[exPAtriate]

I'm new to traditional muzzleloading, so my new to me Renegade doesn't have a name yet, but all of my cartridge rifles and shotguns have names. An example is my 270, nicknamed "The Cannon" by my father. I wondered about this for years, because it is just a 270, not a 600 NE, but when I took a doe at dusk at the end of rifle season, I found out. 60 gr. of H4831 makes quite a flash, like a tracer round!

 

[The Miner '49er]

For the past two years I've been racking up a lot of 49's out of 50 on another forum's postal match targets. This prompted me to change the forum name that I used to The Miner '49er, and of course, christened my rifle Clementine.

 

[The Miner '49er]

I just remembered that a few years ago I read where one guy named his rifle Old Lightning because it never struck twice in the same place!

 

[mushka]

All mine have names. It's the 54 cal TC, or the 50 cal CVA, and so on.

 

[ColonialRifleSmith]

I don't name any of my guns. Semper Fi.

 

[Kansas Kid]

Out of close to 25 or so I currently have only two have names and both are smooth bores. FDC 20ga is The Wind Of Death and is engraved as such on top of barrel. The other is a NW 24ga that’s Cross Eyed Jack.

 

[KenM]

Uncle Fud
Who sent the main character a letter in the Eddie Arnold song " Tennessee Stud" that starts out ......Along about 1825

 

[French Colonial]

Uncle Bud?

 

[BillKilgore]

I have named only a few with sentimental attachment. The maple stock longrifle is named “Sugar” and the new rifle is “Cherry” for obvious reason.

 

[The Miner '49er]

Got a new but rather unusual black powder burner, a .75 handgonne. On the tiller I used a wood burning pen to mark it Drachenfeuer. See it shoot and you'll understand its name which is German for dragon fire.

 

[aussie pete]

My Parker Hale 3 band is Longfellow the White mountain carbine is stumpy

Shamefully, I named my three bander after my wife, because I liked the shape of its butt. The bride of 44 years smiles though, as I say, "Come on hon, we're off to the range."

Pete

 

[Commodore Swab]

"Royale, no cheese" was the name for this swivel blunderbuss. A 1 inch bore, with a 1 inch ball is 4oz. Some might remember from pulp fiction what a 1/4 pounder is called since people in Europe don't know what a 1/4 pound is.

 

[Omahkapi'si]

Caplock is called Iinii which is Blackfoot for buffalo cuz there’s a little buffalo head in the grain on the stock.

 

[reddogge]

Mine are just called by their calibers, the .50, the .36, the .32, or the "Trade Gun" or" Ithaca" for the percussion Hawken. Not very original. Out of 80 rifles and guns I've owned over the years only one unmentionable .22 was named by my BIL, "The Nevermiss". My son owns it now.

 

[Big Tom 52]

I refer to my T/C Cherokee as " my Cherokee".

 

[Gtrubicon]

I don’t name my rifles because I’m horrible with names.

 

[bpd303]

I have trouble remembering my boy's names so if I tried naming all 130 guns I would be in trouble.

 

[FishDFly]

Any of you guys name your flintlock like they did in the past ? If so what? If not why not?

In the middle of building my first and even using a kit it seems to be ", coming alive"

Do you name you motor vehicles??

 

[Josh Canuck]

Do you name you motor vehicles??

I do, but only when it gives me trouble and those names are not suitable for the forum nor for young ears.

I'd do the same with my flintlock should I own one but for the moment, Gotta marry the miss this summer THEN buy a flintlock as a wedding gift from me to me.

 

[Dave Dworshak]

no. my brain is full