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Savage s/shot...26" x 1.230" 8 twist Pac Nor...no barrel nut on this one...4200 Tactical mounted in Burris 30mm Sig rings...SSS trigger...Choate Varminter...tips the scales at +18 lbs or so...Favorite diet includes modest charges of H4831..RE19...H4350...H4895..142 SMKs..140 Nosler Comps...107 SMKs...120 SMKs...2875 fps w/140s & 3300 w/107s...confirmed VHA 1418 yd p/dog kill...whats not to like about the 260 Ackley Improved ?

Yep. I have called my benchrest rifle "YOU POS!" on more than one occasion.....almost always after blowing a small group.

I have an elk gun called "missed from anear!"

I've got a Sharps I call "Old Reprehensible"

GTC

I have a sticker on the stock of my 30-06 that I got from deer urine company. It has a cartoon buck with evil looking green eyes and BLACKDEATH spelled out across the bottom. I don't ever call my guns any names. I just thought that the sticker looked cool.

I call my .280 Ackley Ol' Bang-Flop

Yup

My 30-06 is Betsy
One 300 is Ashley the other Maggie or Mags
7mm STW is called the 7mm Lightning Bolt
338 Win call her Heavy kickin bastid.
My 16 gauage call it the Warthog.

I'd like to, but every one I've come up with sounds dumb.
DAL357

Dead Tired

From the sniper creed of, "You can run, but you'll only die tired."

30-378 Improved
Weatherby MK V action - blue printed and trued by Gordy Gritters.

McMillan A-5 Stock with adjustable cheek piece and hydraulic recoil reducing but pad. Pillar bedded by Gordy.

Zeiss Victory 6-24x72

Vais muzzle break

30" Krieger barrel - chamber work and all other work done by Gordy.

Action, bolt (sans springs) and barrel have been cryoed by 300 Below, Inc.

Badger base and rings.

Rem Mod 7 Stainless Syn in 300 SAUM is called Orca.
Rem Mod 700 McMillan Edge stock in 7mm Rem Mag is Long Walker.
Rem Mod 700 in 243Win w/20" barrel is Mr Shorty.
Rem Mod 700 LVSF (recently featured in Predators and Varmints hear at The Fire) in 22-250 is Mr Green Jeans.

I've had this little 1890 WRF since I was about five or so, my dad, got it from his dad when he was about that old, I don't know when Grandpa got it or who named it first--wasn't me, but it's called "Old Faithful".

You mean, "Ol' Jammer"??? Naw. (Least not to her face.)

This is my 7 saum, I named her Farah to tease my wife, I always tell her that I am sneaking off into the hills with Farah. I let a friend of mine have a fling with her to take this buck.

She don't jam man. It's pretty cool how you can hold the trigger in on those old pumps, a little grease and they'll fire nearly as fast as an auto.

BTW the radio works too -- if you want to listen to the one local AM station that is.

Some, but not all of my rifles have names.

"Stub" is the 17 inch barreled Ruger 77 (hacked a bulge - not mine - out of the end; shoots great). Later bobbed the stock fore and aft, and slimmed it up some to make a "carbine" out of it "for the wife". Beat Ruger to their "Frontier Rifle" by about 10 years.

"Jezebel" is an old sporterized M98. She's been around some, had a couple face lifts (military 7 or 8 mm - assumed - to '06 to .280), her action's a little loose, but if you hold her tight and stroke her gentle, she'll give you a good bang and hopefully make your meat go limp. When I traded a ML for her, she was wearing one of those awful Herter's stocks, and was in '06. I later screwed on a 7mm barrel and reamed it to .280, and fitted an ordered but never picked up Winchester 70 Brown Precision 'glas stock to her. She's a whore, but has a good heart. I've killed a whole lot of stuff with that gun.

"Lady Killer" for the .260 is still on probation. So far it's killed a caribou, an elk, and a wolf, all females, all in one season.

My 220 Swift is AT&T. For when I want to reach out and touch something.

I call my .375 "El Troubador". The critters hate it when he sings his song.

Model 70 Super Express 375H&H = "Francis"
Some don't get it but most Old-timers remember "Francis the Mule" .