Have you ever made a post and then wish you hadn’t?

Six men came to kill me one time. And the best of 'em carried this. It's a Callahan full-bore auto-lock. Customized trigger, double cartridge thorough gauge. It is my very favorite gun.

You offering me a trade?

A trade? Hell, it's theft. This is the best gun made by man. It has extreme sentimental value. It's miles more worthy 'n what you got!

What I got? She has a name.

So does this. I call it Vera.

Well, my days of not takin' ya seriously are certainly comin' to a middle.

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Originally posted by sigmonkey:
"I wanna name her Dottie- after my wife. She's a vicious life-sucking bitch from which there is no escape."

You made me laugh!

I will name him George.

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Originally posted by 400m:
Have you ever made a post and then wish you hadn’t?

I think we all have, brother

I can see a rifle earning a title, simply by thoughts conjured up by its physical appearance, weight or performance. But not a name.

Sometimes when you have a bunch of the same type of rifle, a name can easily distinguish one from another. I have seven M14-type rifles. My heavy barrelled LRB M25 JAE-100G3 weighs in around 18 pounds. Once you pick it up, it's a beast. So I simply call it "The Beast." So instead of saying "I took my M25-JAE rifle to the range," I can say, "I took The Beast out to 1,000 yards today. Your friends know which one you're talking about.

Or let's say you've got a bunch of modern rifles in fiberglass or aluminum chassis systems, but one classic rifle in wood. I can see someone calling it "Woody" because it stands out from your collection.

I just bedded a nice LRB M25 in a jet-black McMillan for member flesheatingvirus. I't's big, heavy, and everything on it is black. The words "Sombra Negra" just popped into my head when it was all done.

I have no desire to develop nicknames for AR's.

I don't think it's wrong to title a rifle or any gun, but it should be something that describes its persona, not the name of a youthful obsession.

Titles like: The Beast, Hulk, Ugly Betty, The Rash, Leprosy, Big Bertha, Black Betty, Boom Stick, Kicker, Thumper, Concussion, Black-eye could all be descriptive names.

I'd shy away from girls names, like Sophia, Charlene, Jennifer, etc...

Tony.

Odd choice lol.

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Originally posted by 400m:
Have you ever made a post and then wish you hadn’t?

Many times, my friend, many times

tigereye313, that was the very first thing that popped into my head when I saw the thread title

Here we go:

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Originally posted by tigereye313:
Six men came to kill me one time. And the best of 'em carried this. It's a Callahan full-bore auto-lock. Customized trigger, double cartridge thorough gauge. It is my very favorite gun.

You offering me a trade?

A trade? Hell, it's theft. This is the best gun made by man. It has extreme sentimental value. It's miles more worthy 'n what you got!

What I got? She has a name.

So does this. I call it Vera.

Well, my days of not takin' ya seriously are certainly comin' to a middle.

and another outstanding call-out makes it way into this thread.

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Originally posted by 400m:
Have you ever made a post and then wish you hadn’t?

Every dang day!

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Originally posted by ensigmatic:

tigereye313, that was the very first thing that popped into my head when I saw the thread title

A show gone too soon...

FWIW the Mandarin he mutters roughly translates to "The explosive diarrhea of an elephant."

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Originally posted by 400m:
Have you ever made a post and then wish you hadn’t?

All the time. Don’t worry, in terms of oops threads, you haven’t posted anything compared to some of the people in this thread, myself probably foremost among them.

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Originally posted by 400m:
Have you ever made a post and then wish you hadn’t?

No worries we've all posted threads that took off in their own direction.

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Originally posted by P220 Smudge:
All mine have come with names already on them.

Good point ...

Named my firearms after I used them to kill something. Never etched it in the side or them or anything, just went off of memory. Guess that makes me one of those guys that just wants to watch the world burn. Same with putting ketchup and mustard on my hotdogs, or driving at least five over whenever possible. I like to live a little *shrug*.

Haven't been hunting in years though, so any bought since don't have names.

Nope. No names for most all inanimate objects, save a car my wife had back in the 80's. Buick deuce and a quarter, Electra we called the Four Hole Queen Mary.

Guns just go by their given name. IE G43.

All of my rifles are named Victoria after my ex-wife. She was a mean bitch and so are my guns.

Otis

While I do name the odd inanimate object, guns are not usually among them.

All of my tractors have names. Actually they have two names: One for the general public and several (usually hyphenated) when they let me down.

If I were to name a gun, it would be the Sako Forester. If was a gift from my best friend and I'd call it Frank.

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Originally posted by tigereye313:

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Originally posted by ensigmatic:

tigereye313, that was the very first thing that popped into my head when I saw the thread title

A show gone too soon...

FWIW the Mandarin he mutters roughly translates to "The explosive diarrhea of an elephant."

That little tidbit of FF trivia right there made this thread worthwhile.

I had always wondered what was being said when Mandarin was being spoken in the dialogue... and who on the set spoke and understood enough of it to write it into the scene scripts.