Giving a bow a name

[pinky]

My first longbow came with the name "Beginnings." It is a Wes Wallace "Royal" that I found used on the internet. A serendipitous name for my first longbow.

   

I have a Howatt Hunter that I bought used years ago. This Hunter had/has a slight twist, likely from its being strung without a stringer. I named it "twisted companion."

[Thumper Dunker]

I have two red wings one 58" and other 52" big red and little red, My self bow was being finished while watching avatar so its called Neytri after that blue girl. That's why it has all those colors on it after those dragon like things they flew around on. One of my rainyday recurves is Thore  ,It spits arrows out like lightning. Another rainy day recurve that has carp skins on her is named Matsuba after a Japanese koi with the same scale pattern .

[stillhunter]

Gonna name my next bow "GROUND SHRINKAGE" for the bucks I saw on an all day hunt yesterday. Four bucks that still had milk dripping from their lips. Rattled a buck in at last light that I could have made toothpicks out of his antlers. They sure come in close and personal on the ground but I think I will just hunt for a while. The 68 in. longbow I have hunted with for 20 years is called "THE MOON OF MADNESS" when everything comes together and the buckrut goes bezerk.

[Tajue17]

all my new bows get named     "Us vs Them"

[Gunnison]

I have a Leon Stewart r/d longbow that was made in 2002. It's 70#@28, 65" long. The first time I shot it I said to myself "That'll thump something." So I named it Thumper.  

[ChuckC]

Name I call it depends upon if I just missed or not !
ChuckC

[damascusdave]

I just bought a Black Widow longbow that has a name written on it...now I need to google that word to see if I can determine what it means...I have an RER LXR that has a couple of different names according to which set of limbs I have on it...all of the bocote veneers on those limbs include an image of a lemur or bushbaby face...with the recurve limbs it is called Zoboomafu and with the longbow limbs I call it the Bushbaby Bow...that bow is a huge tribute to the care Kevin took in cutting his veneers

DDave

[saltwatertom]

My Thunder Child 54 inch is " Ursa" the pig killer.

[Friend]

An anticipated Thunderchild, also known as ‘Kapitikow’ has already been blessed with that name,…Plains Cree Chief… meaning… “the one who makes the sound”…The sound of silence.

[Walt Francis]

I only name my selfbows if they inspire me while being crafted and shooting them in.  I have named four of them, all Osage:  

Vlad (my wife named that one) the first selfbow I took an animal with.
 
Max, a sweet shooting bow that reminded me of my old yellow lab. Neither were much for hunting but you just had to love the old love pigs.

Budster (the bow I took my kitty with), named after my black lab that was nine years old, but acted like he was still six months old, neither ever learned to take/make it easy.  

Last is Pigger, named after my chocolate lab. A little slower on the hunt, but steady, true, and reliable; she always got the job done until time took its toll.

[two4hooking]

I only have one custom and I am pretty traditional so I let the bowyer Nate name my Sunset Hill.  He came up with "Bright Eyes II" named after John Schulz's exhibition Bow.

Has some good mojo as I broke it in with 4 deer so far this year.