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.
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“I never wrote a poem in my life. But if I ever do, it will be about ducks.”
– Gordon MacQuarrie, The Last Stories of the Old Duck Hunters, 1985
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