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Thought it would be interesting to hear firearm nicknames from others and why the name.

Davy Crockett had "Old Betsy"

Daniel Boone had "Old Tick Licker"

"Moose Tipper" is what my Ruger M77 TS 35 Whelen is known as. Shot a Canadian bull Moose from 75 yards and it tipped over sideways down a gravely bank. The hunting guide nicknamed the gun.

"Ma Bell" I gave my Ruger M77 TS 22/250V to my son a few years ago and one of his South Dakota hunting buddies nicknamed it "Ma Bell" because it really reached out and touched those Prairie Dogs.

My old 62A I call "Winnie". Had a little Colt .25 I called Junior but he has a new home with a great lady.

Carnivore.



Grim Reaper

I don't have names for any of my rigs, except for one:

The Welcome Wagon

I've got a 458 Lott that I've called a few names.

I got one of the earliest black shotguns. A browning BPS stalker when they were still wood stocks painted with a crinckle black paint. It was hell on waterfowl. My hunting partner nick named it "black death"...the name stuck.

this one my friends call the beast a 500 linebaugh

T/C Hawkens 50 cal is called Hawkeye. We have an understanding about brown on the ground.

Stevens 311 20ga SXS is called "piece of [bleep]" because the wood is ugly but blue is great. All the clear peeled off the wood. Plus ! it's stupid, it doesn't know how to miss. Dang thing hits every bird it sees.

Ken

I have a prarie dog rifle I call "Black Death" for the way it wreaks havoc among the flea-bitten hordes.

I've got lil brother

Buc (acronym for brother's ugly cousin)

jungle fever

the death wand

and thumper



they're all rifles except for one shottie



made me realize I've never named a handgun, guess the intimacy is not as existant with those for me


dumb I guess to name em but I've named a few, the rest are anonymous

oops you asked for reasons behind name too

lil brother = I ain't bad but my lil brother is, 18 inch. 12 gauge with Pachymar Vindicator kit and sidesaddle


buc = the replacement for lil brother to dig wounded bears outa the alders, gives some better options for a bear moving away, with the penetration with hot loads doesn't give up much if any with a bear moving in. tis a customized .45/70 GG


jungle fever= the ugliest stock that resides on a NULA

the death wand= a 7 mag that was slimmed down to 7 lbs. 4 oz. scoped and slung ready to go, back in the day when she went on her diet that was pretty svelte, she was my sheep, bou, moose rifle till till jungle fever took up residence but at 5 lbs. 5 oz. scoped she makes the death wand seem more like a middle aged girl with some spread goin on

thumper= .338 Win mag, when the trigger gets pulled, something is gettin Thumped, be it critter, can, paper or if nada else at least my shoulder...grin

My old 30-30 is known around camp as 'Meatstick'.

The Greatest Grim Reaper

Y-F-P-O-S...

...all to often, as my eyes get dimmer...

Lucretia Borgia A Browning Safari, heavy barrel .243 that was just as deadly as her namesake on groundhogs.

Dr. Wade A Remington custom shop model 7 Mannlicher .257 Roberts given to me by my best friend, Dr. Ray Wade, after I lost my Model 70 in a fire.

NULA My New Ultra Light Arms .338-06.

I have had a couple I called "SOB".

I saw a guy on a board recently calling his shotgun "shotty" Dont ask, dont tell?

308 Norma Mag that we simply call "Norma".

Rem 760 270 with steel buttplate we call "Widowmaker". For whatever reasons it delivers an ugly recoil.

Alan

A few favorites...

Elsie. For those who can't guess the obvious... an LC Smith in 16 gauge.

Black Mamba - 257 Wby Mag

Stealth Bomber - Savage Model 10 Predator Hunter, Mossy Oak brush cammo, including Leupold VX-L scope, in 22-250

The Meat Gun - My Savage 99 - Uncle used to say about his rifle, "This here's the Meat Gun, Son". And I started calling my own rifle that.

Stainless Pig or "Piggie" - My Ruger SP101 - Because it's a stubby-snouted little beast that stainless.

El Guapo ("The Handsome One") - My 6" .41mag Ruger Blackhawk. Name was given to it by the previous owner since it has no bluing left on it. Looks like someone prepped it for a re-blue and never followed through.

Mail Order Bride - My International Harvester M1 Garand - It took 3 years total for me to get the rifle through the DCM. Long story with paperwork loss, warehouse movement, phone calls, and eventually a conversation with the director herself. The future Mrs. Aqualung gave it the moniker.

Warthog - My .44mag Super Blackhawk - Named after the A-10 Warthog because with the rubber grips and bulky no-gunsmith scope mount, the clean, attractive lines of the Blackhawk are now reduced to what the A-10 Warthog is, an ugly but effective ordnance-launching platform.

Aqualung

I have a 3-digit S/N Remington Model 31 I call God's Own Pumpgun (GOP for short). If you'd have the opportunity to rack the action, and even if you were very familiar with 31s, you'd know why.