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the_king
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i was wondering how you name your guns, and also does anyone know how the military names their guns?

i have a gun i want to name, but i dont know what to name it.
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i might name it somthing like nk-22 "hornett"
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i name my guns, "pneumatic cannons" and "combustion cannons", i dont really have names.
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How about 'The Pigionator', or 'WindowBreaker'
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mine called nervous and minime. i'v build 2
the nervous shoot nerfs (building progres)
and the minime is a pill botle combustion mini
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The military usually names their guns after the designer or the type of ammo. IE: Barret .50 Caliber Rifle.

Other things like the M-16 started at the M-1 and got upgraded to the M-2, M-3 and so on up to the M-16 now.

Acronyms are usually a good way to name something.

Me and my friend went for the obvious and named our first one the Boomstick, my new one is the Patriot because its painted blue with a red/white striped barrel. Be creative.
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i usually name guns by their ammo and the design, or some component on the gun that makes it unique.

like you could name an over under pnuematic with a 1.5" barrel the spudwinder or something like that.

i named my burst disk paintball gun the grafiti rat. grafiti because it shoots paintballs and rat because it kind of looks like a rodent with the extension hose attached. check it out in the submit pnuematics section.

names come easy when the gun looks a little different from other guns that youve seen.
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i cant decide wheter to call my gun RPT: Rocket Proppelled Tuber, or Spudnik. Im not sure, but somehow, i think RPT is better. :lol: 8)
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dougie-lampkin wrote:i cant decide wheter to call my gun RPT: Rocket Proppelled Tuber, or Spudnik. Im not sure, but somehow, i think RPT is better. :lol: 8)
is it pnuematic or combustion?
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spudnik, lol, like sputnik, the first man made satalite that all it did was go ping. ping. ping. WOW i just said somthing that everyone probably knows :oops:

huse_spud iowa totally rules!
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I name all my guns in the HK series, KH being my initials. Even when I become a gunsmith one day it will still be the HK series.
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my guns name is old betsy
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When you fire it, it dosn't go bang,it goes,'MOOOOOOOOOOO', :lol:
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Acronyms are the best i call my guns M.H.I.S makes holes in stuff. And i named my first combustion spanker becuase my intoxicated friend called it so and it stuck...lol.
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yo, the_king

iowan too eh? that's cool
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)DEMON( wrote:I name all my guns in the HK series, KH being my initials. Even when I become a gunsmith one day it will still be the HK series.
won't that be copyright infringment of the HK (hecker and koch) company?
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