Do you have "pet names" for some of your guns?

[PALADIN85020]

From the time I was a kid, I had names for some of my guns. My dad and I used to pull "Annie" down and go shooting. Maybe you have have given nicknames to some of your favorite and not-so-favorite guns! Here are a few of mine!

John

 

[A10]

i call my Glock "Ol' Plasticky".......

 

[feralmerril]

Nope. While I am a big gun lover I havent ever got to the point on nameing guns, cars, motorcycles or airplanes I have owned.

 

[nosreme]

Not only do I not have "pet names" for my guns, I refuse to refer to a gun as "she" or "her" in complete contravention of all internet gun forum norms.

 

[A10]

I once had a Datsun that I used to call "START you miserable piece of ****".....

 

[Fishslayer]

No, not really, but... My first S&W revolver was a 6" Highway Patrolman. When I bought my second, a '52 Model of 1950 Target I started referring to them as "Mr. & Mrs. Smith."

 

[JJEH]

Do you have "pet names" for some of your guns?

No, no names here.

But I do remember a girlfriend... way way back in the day, she had nicknames for her bOObs... back then I thought it was funny.

But today, not so much...

 

[walnutred]

Three of my firearms have names. Thumper is a left handed, 50 caliber flintlock I build about 30 years ago. Watch Dog is an Ithaca 1911A1 I carried for years as a personal defence sidearm. In 2007 I pickled up a S&W 10-6 that with the help of a fellow forum member was traced back to a NYPD Officer named Patrick J Cassidy. I've since taken to thinking of that revolver a "Patrick" when I take it shooting.

 

[PatAz]

Not something that interests me.

 

[ACP230]

Only the ones that seem to require it.

I have an M657 with eight and three eighths inch barrel that is called "Long Tall Sally." It's from a line in a blues song. Came to mind
as soon as I unpacked it.

My Ruger M77RL in .250 Savage is called "The Deerslayer." The name
kind of grew on it as I hunted with it.

A Danish gun is named "Hrothgar" after the Danish king in Beowulf.

Some don't seem to need names. I call them things like "The Ruger VT ," or the M649.

On a side note all my cars end up being called "The Beast" close to the end of their useful life.

 

[Cajje]

Errr... I can barely remember peoples names ... naming weapons must only occur after one remembers the names and birthdates of your fishing poles.

 

[C Islander]

Names? Hmmm, nope!!

 

[gunblade]

I have one I call Rusty.

 

[Straightshooter2]

Yeah ok, guilty but only a couple of them. My Colt is Betsy, named after Mike Hammer's .45ACP. My .30-06 is named Thumper for obvious reasons having nothing to do with a cartoon rabbit. After thinking about it though, maybe I should transfer the Thumper name over to one of my 91-30s. If I ever break down and get a black powder Colt Walker or an 1860 Army replica, I'll probably name it Josey.

Oops, looks like somebody else uses Thumper also.

CW

 

[Texas Star]

Some. My M-66-3 is named Daniel and the M-60-4 is Horace. My Beretta M-92FS is Pietro. No other gun names, save that my single-shot .410 that I got at age 6 is Betsy, after Davy Crockett's rifle.

My liitle Toyota is called the Yamato, after Japan's huge battleshp in WW II. That's a joke about their relative sizes. But my Corolla has more miles on it than the Yamato did, I think. It was sunk pretty soon after launching.

 

[Texas Star]

Only the ones that seem to require it.

I have an M657 with eight and three eighths inch barrel that is called "Long Tall Sally." It's from a line in a blues song. Came to mind
as soon as I unpacked it.

My Ruger M77RL in .250 Savage is called "The Deerslayer." The name
kind of grew on it as I hunted with it.

A Danish gun is named "Hrothgar" after the Danish king in Beowulf.

Some don't seem to need names. I call them things like "The Ruger VT ," or the M649.

On a side note all my cars end up being called "The Beast" close to the end of their useful life.

Just wondering:is the Dane a Bergmann-Bayard? A Madsen? A SIG P-210 or a Browning Hi-Power used there? Not too many Danish guns...

 

[eaglebeaver]

Whichever gun I am carrying is called "Roscoe"

 

[feralmerril]

This one reminds me of two couples haveing dinner over to one of their houses. The old boy told the other about a good resturant they went to recently. The other guy asked him the name of it. The old boy didnt say anything and finaly said what kind of a flower does a guy give his girlfriend to show love? A rose? Suggested his friend.
The old boy yelled to his wife in the kitchen talking to her friend, "Rose! What was the name of that new resturant we ate at last night?

 

[Cooter Brown]

I'm not sure why people get so upset/offended or whatever they get about this. Nobody's questioning your manhood. There's a long tradition of men who did this, including Daniel Boone and Bill Cody.

I borrowed Bill Cody's name of Lucretia Borgia for my shotgun--I just call her Lulu for short:

In my case it's mostly wishful thinking, although I do shoot the old girl (guilty of that too--my boat is also a she) pretty well.

 

[Foodfuzz]

My S&W Mod. 65 3" bbl. is known as "Maybelline" cause' she keeps on doin' the things she used to do.