Home Forums Hunting & Shooting Hunting Rifles Does your favorite hunting rifle identify as a woman or a man?

I mainly hunt with my Win70 stainless classic in 30-06 so my rifle is all man but I could see how some of these new fandangled chamberings might claim to be a woman. What say you?

I've never named a firearm, but have called a few of them bad names on occasion.

Wow.

My wife owns a .270.

It's in my safe. But it's her rifle.

That's my story and I'm sticking to it

All men

all rifles are "she". great rifles then you will name them a girl's name.

If this is true, Phil Shoemaker has some 'splainin to do about his 458 😂😇

I refer to my 12ga. Mossberg as “Bertha”, and my old CVA .50 as “Betsy Ann”, so, I suppose some of mine identify as female.

You must really be bored. And I likewise for responding to this goofy post.

Mine identifies as a Marine, it doesn't take any gruff and f's chit up along the way to doing it

LMFAO!!

ya!

GWB

Guess I'm just boring, I don't name inanimate objects or give them genders.

Same. Always thought it curious.

I have a Ruger #1 in 45-70. For the hell of it, I loaded some 500gr round nose to around 50k psi. I called it Buster then. It knock some sense out of me. Backed it down to standard loads. It's still a man.

I call her Vera

No

Nope, not guns.

But about a month ago when we were on vacation, a bunch of us were sitting around and this subject came up about pickup trucks. The women asked me if my truck was a man or a woman, and I said that if it was anything, it was definitely a man.

I have one gender-assigned firearm, 'Bess. 'Bess is a 75 Cal (11 Gauge) Pedersoli Brown Bess musket.

Two quotes from recent missives about 'Bess sum up my feelings about her:





The other thing you have to understand about 'Bess is the size of her balls. She shoots two different sizes. The .69 Caliber ball is what one uses when doing the paper cartridge thing. It weighs 490 grains. The other is a .735 cal ball. I forget how much it weighs, but it has given me the best accuracy. The difference between the two is that the paper cartridge loads kind of clean off the barrel, so you don't have to swab between shots. The .735 can only be shot from a clean barrel. I tried 2 OZ of #6 shot out of her for turkey season. Yowzah! 1 OZ of #6 works fine for squirrel.

True dat!