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01-17-2019, 11:59 AM
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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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01-17-2019, 03:42 PM
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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.
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"I'm a Setter man.
Not because I think they're better than the other breeds,
but because I'm a romantic - stuck on tradition - and to me, a Setter just "belongs" in the grouse picture."
George King, "That's Ruff", 2010 - a timeless classic.
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