Mispronounced gun names

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@Doug Hamilton
Auto correct pisses me off no end
Bob

Auto-correct is faxing infuriating.

;-)

 

[FlyGuy]

Sako is Sah-ko
Blaser is Blah-ser

 

[cajunchefray]

Not really a mispronunciation but I was rather too old to have it pointed out to me that there was a double meaning to “Mannlicher”….

Reminds me of a funny incident at the LGS in South Carolina 29 years ago. The shop is a pawnshop, but often had many interesting guns. The owner was a gun guy.

I asked “ Do you have any Ruger 77 Internationals?
The clerk, a guy I regularly dealt with, was puzzled.
I said “You know with a Mannlicher stock?

He firmly looked me straight in the eye and in his distinctive South Carolina drawl said:

“We don’t have any Man Lickers in here!”

I laughed my ass off, and he did too.