Waskawood said:
LOL...I can sure relate to this one a time or two for sure! :
;D
Any of you name your rifles?
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LOL...I can sure relate to this one a time or two for sure! :
;DI have never named mine but I have a Single Action Army I built in 218 Bee that got the name Gertrude from one of the guys at work. Don't know where or how he came up with it, but it stuck.
One of the other guys at work has a 257 Roberts he calls Ugly Bob.......for good reason!
One of the other guys at work has a 257 Roberts he calls Ugly Bob.......for good reason!
Keith Glasscock
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ntexaslongshot said:
Odd, I call my F/TR rifle a junkyard dog. Same build philosophy, same result... Who would've thought?
For my own, no, but I did name a friends High Power Silhouette rifle once. These guns, ready to go to the line have a allowable maximum weight of 10 lbs, 2 oz according to the rules, and have to be weighed before they can compete. He'd recently rebedded his gun, and found that it didn't make weight at the next big shoot we went to. I dubbed it "Oprah" since it was loud, black, and overweight.
The name stuck.
The name stuck.
my first 6 custom guns were all made using black h-s precision stocks and when leaned against my bench, they ALL looked the same. i bought a label maker and printed names and stuck them just back of the front swivel lug...calibers if no duplicates. had three 22-250s, so they were 22-250 hart, 22-250 rob(the guy i bought the rem 700 action from), 22-250 fn(fabrique national). i know have three 22 brs so 22 br stiller, 22 br win, 22 br lprb(left port right bolt). this label maker is used constantly since i have so many things to keep up with.
My first long range rifle was called "grosse bleue" (big blue in French) because it had a blue McMillan lazzeroni thumbholestock and a 30" heavy profil 300 win mag barrel.
And my uncle has a 22-250 built on a Mauser action with a straight profil 1.3" diameter barrel.he painted the stock green, and you would guess her name: gosse verte.
The 300 whisper is called whisper.
Nic
Ps: in French ,rifles are feminine and shotgun masculine , so it is quite often the case that our rifle would bear female names
And my uncle has a 22-250 built on a Mauser action with a straight profil 1.3" diameter barrel.he painted the stock green, and you would guess her name: gosse verte.
The 300 whisper is called whisper.
Nic
Ps: in French ,rifles are feminine and shotgun masculine , so it is quite often the case that our rifle would bear female names
BigDMT
My father in law's family named his Sako 338 win mag the "Pumpkin Slinger" because of the way those big bullets knock game down during hunting season
That rifle earned that name for sure
That rifle earned that name for sure
Big Bill:
We had a call from an alarm monitoring company about my brother's office alarm.
The alarm company could not raise my brother so they called my parents home .... I was there and answered the call. Upon verifiying my identity they asked if I wanted the Sheriff to meet me there and I declined, telling them I could take care of it myself.
My mother was overhearing the call and sat in disbelief that I would not want an LEO there.
After a bit she said: Well, you better at least take BIG BILL! (My Ruger Redhawk in .44 mag)
I told her, that my Smith Mountain Gun in .44 mag would be better in a gun fight.
No, she insisted that BIG BILL was the better choice!!
We lost her a little over ten years ago and to this day, I chuckle about that story .......... she named my SP 101 ...... Little Bill ............ my Smith MG ..... Middle Bill and my Redhawk ......... BIG BILL!
"You'd better take BIG BILL!!"
Three 44s
We had a call from an alarm monitoring company about my brother's office alarm.
The alarm company could not raise my brother so they called my parents home .... I was there and answered the call. Upon verifiying my identity they asked if I wanted the Sheriff to meet me there and I declined, telling them I could take care of it myself.
My mother was overhearing the call and sat in disbelief that I would not want an LEO there.
After a bit she said: Well, you better at least take BIG BILL! (My Ruger Redhawk in .44 mag)
I told her, that my Smith Mountain Gun in .44 mag would be better in a gun fight.
No, she insisted that BIG BILL was the better choice!!
We lost her a little over ten years ago and to this day, I chuckle about that story .......... she named my SP 101 ...... Little Bill ............ my Smith MG ..... Middle Bill and my Redhawk ......... BIG BILL!
"You'd better take BIG BILL!!"
Three 44s
0nly every time I miss.
BigDMT
moorepower said:
LOL! I hear ya. Can't say those names on here can we ;D
Only a few of my guns end up with names:
"Penny", a .223 RTS tube gun with a copper vein finish. If you see it, you couldn't call it anything else.
"Leviathan", a .308 Palma rifle (R700, Eliseo R1 stock). Due to a mixup with the barrel contour (32" extra-heavy varmint instead of a modified 32" heavy palma), the barrel weighed 9.5+ pounds, and once I got enough weight in the buttstock to balance it out, the gun was over 19 pounds. I've since had that barrel recontoured to what I wanted, got it to a more reasonable weight, and it's shooting great. (Got a Palma Twenty, a 448 pin, and some other wins with it)
"Cupcake", R700 Eliseo R5. Back when my wife and I were in high school, we had a friend, Elise, who used to bring in the most amazing cupcakes. So, when my wife shot the gun for F-class, she sees "Eliseo R5" written on the mag box, and thinks of Elise, and the cupcakes. Hence, "Cupcake". She set a national record with it, and it stuck.
My space guns and service rifles never got named, and I've got a few other tube guns that haven't gotten named, either. I don't set out to name them, though my wife has named all of hers, the best of which is "Tinkerbell", her Trailside set up for bullseye pistol with a red dot. On the 50-yard target, she says the dot dances all over the target like a little pixie, hence "Tinkerbell".
"Penny", a .223 RTS tube gun with a copper vein finish. If you see it, you couldn't call it anything else.
"Leviathan", a .308 Palma rifle (R700, Eliseo R1 stock). Due to a mixup with the barrel contour (32" extra-heavy varmint instead of a modified 32" heavy palma), the barrel weighed 9.5+ pounds, and once I got enough weight in the buttstock to balance it out, the gun was over 19 pounds. I've since had that barrel recontoured to what I wanted, got it to a more reasonable weight, and it's shooting great. (Got a Palma Twenty, a 448 pin, and some other wins with it)
"Cupcake", R700 Eliseo R5. Back when my wife and I were in high school, we had a friend, Elise, who used to bring in the most amazing cupcakes. So, when my wife shot the gun for F-class, she sees "Eliseo R5" written on the mag box, and thinks of Elise, and the cupcakes. Hence, "Cupcake". She set a national record with it, and it stuck.
My space guns and service rifles never got named, and I've got a few other tube guns that haven't gotten named, either. I don't set out to name them, though my wife has named all of hers, the best of which is "Tinkerbell", her Trailside set up for bullseye pistol with a red dot. On the 50-yard target, she says the dot dances all over the target like a little pixie, hence "Tinkerbell".
I have a 221 Fireball I call Frankenstein because the stock, barrel, trigger, scope, and rings came from various rifles I have owned over the years. I picked up an action relatively cheap and put it all together........ on a dark and stormy night.
Its not accurate enough to be competitive but it will pop Dum-Dum suckers regularly at 100 yards.
Its not accurate enough to be competitive but it will pop Dum-Dum suckers regularly at 100 yards.
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