Home Forums Hunting & Shooting Hunter's Campfire Do you name your rifles ? Meet.....'Death from Afar'

I don't know why, but this 250 has been "Agnus" for a long time.

Nope. I can't think up a reason to name a gun, or any machine, and if I could, I couldn't think up a good name. No names for motorcycles, cars, leaf blowers, etc.

Death from afar. No offense meant, (alhtough what I'm about to say sounds offensive) but that sounds a little to mall-commandoish for me. The rifle can speak for itself.

I keep remembering Barney Fife patting his revolver, "Yep, just Andy and me, and Baby makes three."

I have one of the original black shotguns, a BPS stalker with the wood stock and forearm and crinkle black paint from the factory....my hunting partners nick named it Black Death...it stuck.

This may be the first thing that Gene and I have ever agreed on.

Yes. I call my Winchester Model 70 .30-'06 "Winchester Model 70 .30-'06", and soforth........

Called my rifles and shortguns lotsa names. Unfortunately they are not printable.

My Rem 700 ML named after my wife's middle name when she gave it to me for our first anniversary..."Marie".
I have been trying to come up with names for my other guns but cant seem to find the right one.
But I got pics on one......it should speak for itself. [img][IMG]http://i138.photobucket.com/albums/q247/masterhunter1/tomsstuff004.jpg[/img][/img] [img][IMG]http://i138.photobucket.com/albums/q247/masterhunter1/tomsstuff006.jpg[/img][/img]

I have a 40 caliber muzzle loader that I bought from Dixie Gun Works when I was 15, (I am now 61) that I named "Miss Fire". I embossed (?) her name into the stock using a nail for divits and filled the divits with a dab of black paint. The stock was refinished years ago using turpentine and creasoate which I read was an orgiinal finish medium in the 1800's. Nice maple/walnut color resulted.

None of my other guns have names other than "POS" when they don't group well or if they miss intended targets.

I saw a cased Model 29 .44 Mag that someone had taken a woodburning tool and wrote "Big Thunder" on the case.

And I bought a used K-Bar that someone had stamped "Night Stalker" on the ricasso with a metal stamping kit.

OK. It's harmless enough, I suppose. But I sure would hate to be the old guy in Texas who shot the burglars and have the Grim Reaper painted on my shotgun stock.