Do You Name Your Guns?

I dont have name for all but here are the few named:

Security six 4" (NUg) First new Hand gun 1982
Security six 6" (NuuuuuuG) Just thought this one up
Hi standard plinker (plinky)
Taurus UL (little friend) we spend alot of time together.
Buffalo scout 22 (John Wayne)
J22 (jenny)
Enfield #1 mk4 (Sarge, short Sgt York) Hunting rifle for over 20 years
:D
 
I almost thought about naming my first one. That was when I mentioned to a friend that I was going to pick up a Turkish Escort after work on Friday.;)
 
Mine already have names, Ruger, Colt, Sig Sauer, and Bersa. They wouldn't know I was talking them if I renamed them.
 
Sheepishly, he says -- I refer to all of mine as "the boys." Except for my 27. That's my only N-frame and I call that one "big boy."
 
I thought this was a silly question,but after a breif shooting session today,I have a name for my .22 automag. I now call it "jammy".
 
Some of us name ourselves after our guns. I took my login name from my Kimber Tactical Ultra II. (And my wife thought it was because I wear polka dot shirts with striped bermuda shorts!)
 
Only a couple, My Win M70 .243 is refered to as "Sweetheart" all the other rifles don't get names. I do however have a J-22 jennings that we all call "pos":D

Ken
 
Haven't named guns, but perhaps I should name some accessories. True story from yesterday:

Called my own office and talked to an employee who, on being told soon after hiring that I have a concealed weapons permit and should be expected to be armed while at the office, responded by saying that she had grown up around guns and was comfortable with them, and told me about going shooting with her boyfriend.

Me: "I got home, went to put my pistol in the drawer, and realized that my spare magazine wasn't in my pocket. Check on the floor by my desk and see if it fell out while I was seated."

Her: "OK. What was the name of the magazine?"

Even worse, after I told her that it was the device that held "bullets" in the gun (no, I didn't call it a clip) and that a bullet should be visible in the top, she said she had found it for me. A few minutes later I found it in the crease of my couch at home, where it had apparently fallen out before I left for work. I'm not at all sure what she found that she thought was my magazine. Kind of worried about bringing it up again, to be honest.
 
Well, the vikings used to name their weapons

Viking Weapons with names:

Swords:
Bastarðr ('bastard')

Brynjubítr ('byrnie-biter') (Sturlunga Saga I, p. 450)

Dragvandill (etym. unc.)

Fetbreiðr ('foot-broad'; 'foot' as in unit of measure)

Fjôrsváfi (acc.) (Life-taker?)

Fótbítr ('foot-biter, leg-biter')

Gamlanautr (Gamli's 'gift')

Grásíða (Grey-side)

Grettisnautr (Grettir's 'gift')

Gunnlogi (War-flame, Battle-blaze)

Hneitir (exact sense uncertain, but something like 'Thruster, Cutter')

Hvítingr (White-One)

Jarðhússnautr ('Gift' of an Underground Room/Passage; it was taken from one)

Jôkulsnautr (Jôkull's 'gift')

Kársnautr (Kárr's 'gift')

Kettlingr ('kitten') (Sturlunga Saga I, p. 452)

Kvernbítr (Quern-biter)

Lang (Long)

Laufi (apparently from 'leaf')

Leggbítr (Leg-biter)

Naðr (Adder)

Níðingr ('villain, truce-breaker') (Sturlunga Saga I, p. 453)

Skrýmir (etym. unc., but perhaps Large-One; also the name of a giant)

Skôfnungr (Shin-bone)

Sniðill (Pruning-knife)

Sætarspillir ('truce-spiller, peace-breaker') (Sturlunga Saga I, p. 453)

Tumanautr (Tumi's 'gift')

Tyrfingr (from 'a resinous fir-tree'; the sword is magical and is said to be sheathed in flame) unfortunately cursed, and causes ultimately death to its owner and its kind.

Ættartangi (apparently Family-tang, as in 'tang of a sword')

Ølvisnautr (Ølvir's 'gift')


AXES
Droplaugar ('drip-water') (Sturlunga Saga I, p. 450)

Hel (This is the name of the giantess who was goddess of death. The word may also be used to simply mean 'death' or hell). (Snorri Sturluson, "Magnúss saga góða", ch. 28)

Himintelgja ('heaven-scraper') (Sturlunga Saga I, p. 451)

Hjalti (This axe-name is apparently from hjalt 'pommel of a sword; cross-guard of a sword'.) (Landnámabák, ch. 55.)

Hlôkk (This is the name of one of the Valkyries. It may be related to hlakka 'to cry, to scream (as an eagle); to rejoice'.

Randgríð (This is also the name of one of the Valkyries. The name is from Old Norse rônd 'a rim, a border', used poetically to mean 'a shield', and , 'frantic eagerness'. There is also a giantess named Gríðr. The combination hence means something like 'shield-hungry'.)

Rimmugýgr ('Battle-hag'). (Brennu-Njáls saga, ch. 45.)

Saxa (This is the name of a giantess; it is also a feminine form of sax 'a sword'.) (Cleasby, R., G. Vigfusson, & W. Craigie, An Icelandic-English Dictionary. Oxford: At the University Press, 1975)

Skaði (This is also the name of a giantess/goddess. The name is identical with the masculine noun skaði 'scathe, harm, damage'.) (Cleasby, R., G. Vigfusson, & W. Craigie, An Icelandic-English Dictionary. Oxford: At the University Press, 1975)

Steinsnautr ('Steinn's gift') (Sturlunga Saga I, p. 454)

Stjarna ('star') (Sturlunga Saga I, p. 454)

Svartleggja ('black-legs; black-hafted') (Sturlunga Saga II, p. 508)

Sveðja ('glancer') (Sturlunga Saga I, p. 454)

Tjald-sperra ('tent-spar') (Sturlunga Saga I, p. 455)

SPEARS
Grásíða ('grey-side', reforged from the sword of the same name)

Vigr ('spear'; the word is poetic, the common word for 'spear' being spjót)
 
To those who point to anthropomorphizing guns as odd or effeminate, I would point out the tens of thousands of soldiers in World War 2 as well as those today who named bombers, tanks, and artillery pieces. I would dare you to call any of those men girly. :p
 
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