Nickname your rifle?

7600 Rem · 01-24-2006, 09:55 AM

I always heard about people naming their rifles...just wondering if anyone here has a nickname for their guns?

Duckbutter48 · 01-24-2006, 10:05 AM

I nicknamed my A-bolt 270Wsm the Widowmaker

bigpapa · 01-24-2006, 01:18 PM

I have a 12 ga. named Boomer (go figure I named it when I was 14)

I have a .308 named Lucky which has killed more deer than I can remember. It's like a deer magnet.

I have a 30-30 named Tradition which was the rifle my father used to kill his first deer, I used to kill my first deer and my son will use to kill his first deer.

I am purchasing a new 30-06 which I plan to name Excalibur. [>:]

I think naming your firearms gives them character and adds a sence of presence when using them. Plus it's just fun.

"This is my rifle there are many like it but this one is mine. With out me my rifle is nothing. Without my rifle I am nothing."

bigiron · 01-24-2006, 01:24 PM

I nicknamed my 300 ultra mag "BIGIRON"

01-24-2006, 01:34 PM

Yea, I call my 7mm-08's, 308's and 270's deer rifles. The real accurate ones, I call long range deer rifles. My 7mmSTW's and old 300RUM's, I call my big game rifles or moose/elk guns. My 3.5" shotgun 12ga will be called my goose gun. My 204ruger and 22LR are called varmit guns. It goes on and on.

Duckbutter48 · 01-24-2006, 01:42 PM

My bud has a 300win mag we call "The Wounder" since he has wounded about everything he has shot at with it and usually needs at least 1 follow up shot.

TerryM · 01-24-2006, 02:20 PM

My .338 win mag was called Mr Death and my .350 rem mag is called the hammer.

7600 Rem · 01-24-2006, 02:23 PM

Think ill call my 30-06 Pump........"The REAPER"

Duckbutter48 · 01-24-2006, 02:41 PM

Hey thats pretty original BigC. Did you come up with all of those cool names yourself

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RedAllison · 01-24-2006, 03:33 PM

I haven't named all my guns, I guess only two of my biggest/most powerful.

For my Sako/Lazzeroni Warbird it has always been called: THUNDERSTRUCK

The only other gun I reckon I have "named" is my turkey gun (Mossberg 835UM Rhino tubes/Nitro Hevi-Shot, TruGlo red dot): HAMMER OF THOR

I do have a new ParaOrdiance LDA Black Watch SSP .45 that I am considering nicknaming: THE NEGOTIATOR

Must be a guy thing, we nickname all our "toys". My boats nickname is "Rainy Day Woman" after Waylons song. My Harley's nameis "Statesboro Blues" after the Allman Brothers song (it's two toned blue and usually rockin too the blues anyway). A "term of endearment" that I actually DO refer too my wife as (honestly, you just gotta know when the time is appropriate!) is "Ol heifer"...

Hmmmmm I'm beginning to see where my priorities are!

RA