Did you give names to your Khukuris?

Fleischer, most appropriately, means "butcher" -- perfect for a knife knut!

I think alot of the meanings of names here in the US have been all but lost, like:fletcher: arrow-maker; cooper: cask-maker; etc.



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Clay Fleischer
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Specialization is for insects.
 
Hi Guys,

My 18in AK is named "Thorn". Seem my sig for that one.

On another note my trusty .223 rifle is generally known as "Miss Fire"

The Old Man's .303 Mk. 5 SMLE Jungle Carbine (with the flash hider removed!) is known as "Puff" due to the 3 foot long belch of flame it produces.

Andre


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"The thorn stands to protect the rose, yet it is peaceful and seeks no conflict."

 
Hi Andre,

I like the name Thorn. Very fitting. You still have a 223? I thought that your gvt. decided to protect you from yourself and declared all such weaponry evil and illegal. grrrr... that just makes my blood boil!!

Glad to see there is another Enfield fan here. One of my favorite rifles. I'm having a scout rifle built off of a Jungle Carbine as we speak. I anticipate it being mated with my much anticipated Gelbu Special.

Mike
 
Andre -- like the name and the quote.

A friend of mine named most of his firearms:

The Walther PPK was "Jimmy" (James Bond reference)

The Mossberg 590 was Impulse (no idea why)

My Fav:

The AR15A2 was "Sweetness"

Says it all, doesn't it...

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Clay Fleischer
clay_fleischer@yahoo.com
AKTI Member A000847

Specialization is for insects.
 
Cherokee Grandmother's 1896 Winchester .38 was called "Betsy." Grandfather's .22 LR special (don't think you can get ammo for this one anymore) was called "Guts."

 
When I got my 20" Bhudhuni village model last week my immediate reaction was "What a beast!" I haven't been able to improve on that description so that's what it will be called. Bill, what would that be in Nepali?

My WWII remains nameless.

Mark
 
Mike, Clay.

Thanks guys, going off topic slightly.

My .223 is a bolt-action, no more semi's anymore
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One of the results of the gun-grab was a change in the type of firearm in the community not really the amount. The money I got for my Mossberg 500 went straight to buying an O/U Brno shotgun. Most other gun owners I know did the same.

As for the Lee-Enfield, my dad is a SMLE nut and I grew up around them.

A little known point of history is that in Australia in the 1950's, due to the influx of ex-military .303's onto the comercial market some state goverments tried to ban the .303 as a calibre. The test to determine if a rifle was a .303 or not was to see if the bolt would close on a standard .303 round.

As a result, a huge number of "wildcat" rounds appeared, 303-22, 303-25, .303_short etc. and a booming business for gunsmiths to rechamber rifles. Eventually the goverments realised that they were looking foolish and repealed the laws.

Andre
 
Very interesting, Andre. I knew that there were lots of wildcats in Australia but I didn't know the reason. Learn sumthin' new evry day!

Mike
 
Hee!

I pop back on bladeforums (7 weeks left of police academy...c'mon baby, this is getting old fast), and I see a discussion of naming knives (an interesting topic) and all these newfangled icons everywhere. Progress...blink an eye and you're lost.
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Anyway, three points:

1. Someone asked on one of the other forums on bladeforums if anyone named their knives. The general response was 'no' and quite a few people kinda snickered at the idea, or so it seemed. But on the HI forum it seems to be more common. Perhaps a different sort of person congregates here. Dunno.

2. I have not yet named any knives, it's more due to lack of thought than not liking the idea. I'm eventually going to dust off my JRR Tolkien (the guy who wrote Lord of the Rings and The Hobbit) and come up with some good Sindarin or Quenya names for my bladed weapons. So much nicer to call it 'Macilromen' than 'sunsword' (or whatever).

3. I have more guns than knives and I've never thought of naming them. Somehow they don't seem to have the same 'soul' as a knife or sword. Dunno. Differ if you wish.
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Just checking in!
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Mike

PS I take that back...on a day of heavy shooting with VERY cheap ammo I called my Browning HP several not-so-nice names...it was jamming quite a bit.
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Still, it has never jammed since, so it shed those nasty monikers. It was just cranky with me for feeding it bad food.

PPS Perhaps they do have souls after all. They at least have preferences in ammo.
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Welcomeback, Mike. Just remember, when you hit the street you get to throw out all of the crap they teach you in the acadamy and learn how things are really done. I hope you have a good FTO. There is definitly a different sort of people that hang out here than in the rest of the forum. Perhaps one day their eyes will be opened and they will join us.

Hang in there!

Mike
 
Here are few unused Nepali names suggested by Pakcik Bill in one of his email to me:
  • Gaundai ie. village big brother (gow -- village + dai -- big brother).
  • Gaunbai ie. Village little brother (gow -- village + bai -- little brother).
  • Motoketa ie. fat boy (moto -- fat + keta -- boy).
  • Motoketi ie. fat girl (moto -- fat + keti -- girl).

 
As my training supervisor at Adult Parole and Probation said, he loved his job "because sometimes you get to help someone, and sometimes you get to help someone get exactly what's coming to them".

Neither has to happen often, but when it does it sure makes up for an awful lot of bovine byproduct.
 
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