Our new SKS stock naming giveaway contest!!

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Voxx Boxx said:
Rasputin.
If you read about his life, he's truly remarkable. I first learned about him when I was a child. In a run down shack in the woods behind our village, there lived a Baba Yaga (not to be confused with Baba Ganoush). She might not have been a witch, but as kids we were insensitive to the elderly, especially if they were strange looking, or ate children.

One night, my older brother and I snuck out of the house and through the woods to spy on the old hag. She had a big bonfire blazing away and was dancing around it, chanting an ancient poem about Rasputin:

There lived a certain man in Russia long ago
He was big and strong, in his eyes a flaming glow
Most people looked at him with terror and with fear
But to Moscow chicks he was such a lovely dear
He could preach the bible like a preacher
Full of ecstasy and fire
But he also was the kind of teacher
Women would desire

RA RA RASPUTIN
Lover of the Russian queen
There was a cat that really was gone
RA RA RASPUTIN
Russia's greatest love machine
It was a shame how he carried on

He ruled the Russian land and never mind the Czar
But the cassok he danced really wunderbar
In all affairs of state he was the man to please
But he was real great when he had a girl to squeeze
For the queen he was no wheeler dealer
Though she'd heard the things he'd done
She believed he was a holy healer
Who would heal her son

RA RA RASPUTIN
Lover of the Russian queen
There was a cat that really was gone
RA RA RASPUTIN
Russia's greatest love machine
It was a shame how he carried on
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Well let's just call it the "Nightflight To Venus" stock then.
 
bud69 said:
ARES (Arês), the god of war
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I considered Arês, but ultimately my choice was: JANUS

I think the name is appropriate, not only because it sounds cool and is easy to say and remember, but because the imagery works.

In ancient Roman religion and myth, Janus (/ˈdʒeɪnəs/; Latin: Ianus,pronounced [ˈjaː.nus]) is the god of beginnings and transitions, among others. He is usually depicted as having two faces, since he looks to the future and to the past. (i.e., taking the traditional design of the venerable SKS and transforming it into a new iteration of the modern sporting rifle.)

Janus presided over the beginning and ending of conflict, and hence war and peace. The doors of his temple were open in time of war, and closed to mark the peace. (The SKS has a long and proud martial history, being born in the fires of WW II, but now transitioning to peaceable sporting pursuits).

As a god of transitions...Janus frequently symbolized change and transitions such as the progress of future to past, from one condition to another, from one vision to another...because he could see into the past with one face and into the future with the other. He represented the middle ground between barbarism and civilization.... (Again, the visceral dichotomy of transforming a weapon of war and "barbarism" into a simple tool of peaceful sport and recreation, in the hands of responsible civilian sportsmen, as the JANUS stock/system or JANUS Chassis System just plain works.) Or, at least it does from my perspective. :)
 
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