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

"Sputnik"... Now there's a name from our past.

1957 saw the first living creature to orbit the earth in Laika the dog who was on board Sputnik II. Nikita Kruschev was Premiere (dictator) of the then USSR.

Harry, I think we're aging ourselves. :bigbye:





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My custom DeHaan .410 is “lil poison”..the 3 1/2” Browning BPS i have campaigned since college for waterfowl is “”Thumper”, and the Sako Finnbear .300 Winchester that I got graduating high school is “Dr.Death”.,

I forgot to mention that on the rare occasion I shoot clays or birds particularly well I will call the gun "Death Ray." Another throw back to our childhood. Oh, Happy Birthday, Dean!

My 10 ga. 5 frame with 34 inch tubes is called Jerry Lee. I would guess only the older gentleman will know why. Thomas

The El Camino was a plain Jane 1970. Small V8, three on the tree and dog dish hub caps.

Now That is funny right Thar!! don't care who ya are.....bet you just shoot young hens with it! And it has its own nickname "killer"!!!!

With a 10 gauge, 5 Frame with 34" tubes you won't get a "whole lotta shakin' goin' on."




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Perfect base model to start with.

In '69 I bought a '65 Chevelle 300 with a tiny little six and 3 on the tree for $700.

It didn't stay that way very long....:cool::whistle:





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My first guitar was named Hugo by my then girlfriend (later my wife), the '53 Chevy in had in college was Mortimer Car (Mort for short). Nothing named since then. I have considered naming my SBT Annie (as explained in a DGJ article) but nothing's ever happened officially.

All this naming has gotten me to thinking (were in trouble now:whistle:) of what to call a Heym double rifle in 500 B.P.E. This is a hammer gun with Jones underlever. A very nice rifle and accurate as well esp for a large bore. I'm thinking of Boomer. Any suggestions?

Heymie





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MBOGO

Stormy seas...
 

I named this one after the wood...STORMY SEAS....Fox A grade 16 28" When it thunders & lightnings bird fall from the sky! SXS Ohio

I have an old Lifter I named the Angry Bee
http://parkerguns.org/forums/showthr...ighlight=angry

I call myself names when I miss as I know that I'm to blame. I would have worn the finish off the gun if I called it names every time I missed.

My first Britt would give me the look; "how could you miss after all my work to find and hold them".

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My big #3 frame 12 gauge - The Swamp Angel
My Magnum 10 gauge- The Preacher