Personification
 

Reading the “Guns that speak” thread got me to thinking about another part of my experiences with these old doubles......I have the tendency to name my guns after I have spent some time hunting with them. I know others do the same?
A few of mine……
- My go to upland 20 bore I call "Connie" short for confidence gun -aka.. the one I grab when I may only get one opportunity
- "The submersible" a 16 bore rainy day trojan that I have managed to drop completely under water twice in the marsh. (Just wiped her down and oiled her up and she was good to go both times)
- "The Beast" my 6 frame 10 bore – Not my most creative name
- this year I anointed my 20 bore 32” GHE “The rifle” after a return to a hunt spot where I had shot long and well the previous hunt- my hunting partner asking “did you bring the rifle back today?”
Anyway, those are a few of my gun names.
Odd – I own a couple boats….never named them….I suppose they are just not as personal to me.

I named my first deer rifle, a Winchester 94 in .30-.30, after what the old-time New Englanders called that cartridge, the "thuddy, thuddy." I named her "Thuddy-thud"... "Thuddy" for the caliber and "thud" was the sound the deer made when he hit the ground. :cool:




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I only call them names when I miss an easy shot :rolleyes:

There's Gunner's gun of course, the Meat gun a straight grip DHE 20 with 26 inch tubes choked cyl/IC I wonder if it came that way?.The LeFever 16ga Optimus that got the moniker the Octopus at a shoot and then theirs the Hollywood gun a GHE 16 two barrel set with all the options and special treatment with gold birds and different engraving from Alex Kerrs in Beverly Hills.

The only rifle that I've given a name to is a Ruger #1 450-400 NE. I call it Thumper:)

My 1914 vintage, 12-gauge, straight-grip, 28-inch Krupp barrel, A-Grade, Ansley H. Fox has long been known as "Meat-in-the-Pot"


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What a nice Fox!

What year is the El Camino?





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I have a 12 gauge Win 21 cyl/cyl 26” barrels with the name “Alley Cleaner”

Papa's large frame 12 gauge 32" VH was called Sputnik. The only other Parkers named bare the moniker of who they came from i.e., Uncle Bill's VH 20 gauge and 16 VH, Papa's Trojan 20 gauge, Dick Broadbent's 12 gauge Trojan, Uncle Taylors 10 gauge Lifter, Uncle Bill's Barrels 12 gauge Damascus barrels on the VH 12 gauge Sherman Bell blew up, Murray's gun a cased 12 gauge VH two barrel set.

My 30" 20ga. Sterly was given the name Finnie for Fintress, wife to A.H. Fox by Frank Srebro and Mike Smith a few years ago at a shoot. I fondly refer to her as Baby Whoop for her performance on the Bo Whoop targets.

I don't have guns that talk but sometimes I feel like the crazy cat lady collecting strays