Rifle names and titles

[Kevin Peacocke]

Ok ladies and gentlemen, it is time to accord our fine hunting pieces the recognition and status they deserve. It is customary in our part of the world to name your rifle after it's first blood, so my heym 89b was called unusually Ngurungundu - wild pig. It doesn't need to be first blood, it is your call, but I am willing to bet the beast will shoot better if you call it right, 'Ugly Dog' will not end well. So send us a name and also a pic, so we can recognise you both.

 

[Pheroze]

Vaalie

 

[DWB]

I dubbed my 450 Rigby "The Chiropractor"

 

[BeeMaa]

CZ550 375H&H with AHR #2...The Beest. Although it was an absolute pleasure to shoot.

 

[RTG]

I default to “trusty rifle” when in the field. Doesn’t matter the rifle.

 

[crs]

My rifles are tools, not children, so they are called by caliber and/or maker name.
Sorry, but no cutsie names.

 

[sierraone]

@Kevin Peacocke , off topic but you are the one I need. Two or three months ago we were discussing The Rand Club in Joberg. What is the name of Zimbabwe's equivalent of The Rand Club?

 

[Hunter-Habib]

I named my Churchill Gunmakers Model Deluxe 7x57mm Mauser “Kaniz” after my dear daughter. I can proudly say that it’s been downing game in six of the world’s seven continents, since 1989.

 

[Pheroze]

My rifles are tools, not children, so they are called by caliber and/or maker name.
Sorry, but no cutsie names.

 

[VertigoBE]

I have not christened any of my rifles or guns with any specific names, and I am usually not so sentimental, but I am a romantic at heart, so perhaps one of these days I'll have to name them too.

Of my recent purchases, the Vereecke, the Dumoulin and the Heym, only with the Dumoulin I have had a chance to hunt so far and be successful. Which was for a nice succulent wild boar. But naming that elegant Dumoulin something like "the pig" or "the boar" just does not ring quite right

update: just found this: The Norse fertility god Freyr had a wild boar called Gullinbursti, meaning ‘Golden mane’. Its bristles glowed in the dark, illuminating his path.

 

[spike.t]

Kevin you move fast ...had chatted with Kevin about him putting this thread together...and today I said better get it started as I just christened my m98 7x57..which he did...meet kanshilye....

Nearly finished burning..so I always shoot something for meat for the scouts and staff who work their butts off when we burning...we were driving to an area and I saw this sable bull....checked him over and he is OK but not big...but very old....so I thought this is matching up...need meat and want to take a real nice animal as first one with this rifle...so off I went...scouts on both vehicles and manager wondered what I was up to....one shot...norma Oryx 156grn....smashed one shoulder and through heart and we found it in meat on other side after going through the ribs...nicely opened up and from feeling it...probably retained most of its weight...very impressed...so everyone happy all round...and thanks again Kevin

 

[Kevin Peacocke]

@Kevin Peacocke , off topic but you are the one I need. Two or three months ago we were discussing The Rand Club in Joberg. What is the name of Zimbabwe's equivalent of The Rand Club?

The Bulawayo Club

 

[sierraone]

The Bulawayo Club

Got it, thanks...

 

[Beck]

I feel the same way about mine, have you had it ported? That helps a lot

I dubbed my 450 Rigby "The Chiropractor"

 

[Kevin Peacocke]

I named my Churchill Gunmakers Model Deluxe 7x57mm Mauser “Kaniz” after my dear daughter. I can proudly say that it’s been downing game in six of the world’s seven continents, since 1989.
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Nice rifle, great name.

 

[Kevin Peacocke]

Kevin you move fast ...had chatted with Kevin about him putting this thread together...and today I said better get it started as I just christened my m98 7x57..which he did...meet kanshilye....

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Nearly finished burning..so I always shoot something for meat for the scouts and staff who work their butts off when we burning...we were driving to an area and I saw this sable bull....checked him over and he is OK but not big...but very old....so I thought this is matching up...need meat and want to take a real nice animal as first one with this rifle...so off I went...scouts on both vehicles and manager wondered what I was up to....one shot...norma Oryx 156grn....smashed one shoulder and through heart and we found it in meat on other side after going through the ribs...nicely opened up and from feeling it...probably retained most of its weight...very impressed...so everyone happy all round...and thanks again Kevin

Looks pretty big to me, nice ring to the name.

 

[Nevada Mike]

I have names for all my bird dogs - Rock, Cap, Buddy, Cody. Sadly, it has not occurred to me to name my guns. I just refer to my rifles by caliber and my shot guns by maker... Daly, Fox, Harkom, Atkin, etc.

 

[spike.t]

Looks pretty big to me, nice ring to the name.

Well as you know quite a few different tribes and languages in zambia...but as my madam is bemba I thought better use that .. ...so kanshilye is bemba for sable

 

[spike.t]

Bla

I have names for all my bird dogs - Rock, Cap, Buddy, Cody. Sadly, it has not occurred to me to name my guns. I just refer to my rifles by caliber and my shot guns by maker... Daly, Fox, Harkom, Atkin, etc.

Blame Kevin....now I will be paranoid if/ whenever I get a new rifle, as to what first animal I use it on will be

 

[PerH]

Well i havent named these 2 yet , Camo stocked is a Ww1 17 made Gew 98 action ,later given to Poland. She weighs 7,3 pounds .458 Win .

I was thinking Walevska or Kopia ( Hussaria lance)



7x57 Brazillian Mauser i have ,not pictured is named Gisele,