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Shotgun Nicknames

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#1 ·
I'm sure I'm not the only one to have given nicknames to some of my shotguns.

For example, I have an old bolt action Mossberg 20ga shotgun which I've dubbed, naturally, "Old Bolty". It seems like the "Old" moniker is pretty popular ("Old Bessy", "Old Gal", etc.). "Big" is also fairly common as in "Big Bertha" for that 10ga shotgun you inherited from your Granddad.

I just bought a 32" Winchester 101 O/U, and I'm considering going with something more masculine like "Buster", or maybe "Buster T. Bronco". "Winny" just doesn't seem to fit this gun. I also considered "The Finger of Doom", but until I can regularly knock down "25 Straights", I'll have to put that nickname on hold.

What are some of your nicknames?
 
#3 ·
My buddy has a Browning A-5 that he calls Thumper. He kept bringing it to the skeet range, we'd both shoot one or two stations with it then reach for our gas guns. He's finally going to relegate it to deer duty - shotguns are required in our neck of the woods. Kind of fitting, going after Bambi with Thumper! I kind of like "Death Itself" for my gun, but like Airchair Bronco, I'm going to wait until I'm more consistent.
 
#13 ·
My 20ga. Citori bird gun is called the Featherduster. I had an Ithaca 37 years ago that a friend named Old Jed (I forget exactly why), my wife calls my Winchester Model 24 The Ugly Gun and my 12ga. BPS is known as The Flight Canceller. I also have a Winchester 94 that's called Number One (I shot my first deer with it years ago).
 
#15 ·
My 1926 Rem. Model 11 has been dubbed "The Howitzer" because of the way the barrel goes back and forth. My model 12 goes my many names, "The old cornshucker", "The blunderbus" because of the gigantic bore of the spreader choke on the Cutts Compensator, or somply, "the Ol' Winchester". Had an Ithaca 600 I called "the hammer" because it did not fit me at all and beat the crap outta me.
 
#20 ·
I haven't named my Beretta I guess. Maybe I should one of these days. If tradition follows suit and I name it with as much imagination as I used to pick out my nickname for this site it'll be a lame nickname indeed.

My little H&R .410 is "topper" or the "idiot stick".

My old Stevens/Savage 67D is the "Old Piece of Sh*t" or "The Fencepost". Both names fit it rather well.
 
#22 ·
Last year I bought a secondhand Stoeger Condor with 26" barrels to use as a cheap backup/loaner/mud gun. I mostly shoot trap with my Beretta, but once in a while I'll take the Stoeger out just for the heck of it. It looks so short compared to all of those long barreled trap guns, so my wife nicknamed it "The Baby Gun".