This is just for kicks and is something I will often do on a new [to me] board to learn a bit more about the denizens. That said, since many of you have firearm, hunting, competition, or military/civil service/occupation related handles it'd be interesting to hear about how you got 'em. Did you make it up, or was it "hung" on you? I've seen some pretty interesting nicks out there, so 'fess up! ;)

Got dive qualified back in 1985 for the Army and dove for the Army for the next 15 years. Just got back on dive status a week before I came back out here to Iraq.

CD

Excellent! I got wet for Uncle Sam myself back in the early eighties. One of my best friends in the world is the Navy detailer for all west coast EOD personnel. You keep it real and stay safe CD, and remember: Always come up the same number of times you go down! ;)

OK, who's next?

O...

445supermag that say,s it all. Just could not think of any thing else than duuuuuua?

Yep, 445Supermag is pretty self-explanatory ain't it? :) I don't know how you get by with such a tiny little pee-shooter. Naw, just joshin' ya Supermag! :D 225-300gr. movin' at 1300-1500fps! Man, how do you hold on!! That's a handful by God!

Thanx 445Supermag! OK, who's next?


O...

Mine is not gun related at all, but a nickname that I acquired my freshman year of college, or a derivation of.

Living in the dorms I would put witty quotes/lyrics/pictures up on my door (door dec) I do not know why I did, just something to do (I think just to piss off the other residents :)) Well I guess my door decs were controversial so people would write crude things on them. One guy in particular wrote "Jason is a son of a b****" Except he wrote the 'J' like a '9' so it would be '9ason' and he wrote the 'b' like a '6'. So when my friends saw it they started calling me '9ason' making fun of the guy who didn't know letters from numbers. 9ason then became 9 and then 9r, other variations are nineason, the__9, niner, etc. just depends on where I am and what rules that place has for nicknames.

Mine is short for Hatchetjack, a name that was hung on me in my "rendezvous" days by one of the guys in our club.

Mine is as close as I could come to what my wife calls me and still post it among civilized people.

My first name is Walter, and my deer rifle is a 30-06.




Walter:cool:

My name is Bill and I owned a 1986 Ford Bronco

My folks named me after my alcoholic great uncle!

Swany is short for Swanson my last name, my father got hung with the same nickname. I have been car pooling and working in the same area with a fella by the name of Ed my first name is Ed so it keeps it simple elsewise we would both answer. Used to be known as Telegrapher, this was back when I was into ham radio but has nothing to do with that. 1973 we up in Morley, Mich hunting whitetail on a potato farm and had doe permits for that land. We were taking a break at noon, and some of the guys noticed a herd diagonal across a 40 and started to kid me about being a benchrest shooter and as good as I was I should be able to shoot one of them. Guess it got the better of me, so I lined one up offhand aimed 8inches above it's head which was straight up. Took my shot, seven people seen the dust kick up behind the deer and proclaimed a miss. My ex father in law was hunting the woods edging this property and was glassing the deer. He walked out of the woods and said you shot her come and get her. Five of us paced that off and came up with an average 534 paces. My father in law called me telegrapher proclaiming the only way to get a bullet that far was to send it. That handle stuck with me until I outlived most of them.

Hey Operator,

you never gave us the origins of your nick.

In 1913 or so my grandparents got married. Now that Granddad was a man with responsibilities, cowboying in the panhandle of Oklahoma just did not pay enough to support a wife and any children that might result, so he had get a better job.
They moved to New Mexico were the Santa Fe was laying track. Granddad being a rather large Irishman it was his job to carry the cross ties from the flat car to the point they were laying track. He set up Grandmother on a little spread outside of town with a few chickens and cows. So when Granddad got paid he'd come home and they would go into town to the general store for supplies.
During one of these trips to town Granddad struck up a conversation with an old fella ,scruffy is what Grandmother called him. Some how the conversation got around to Grandmother being out at the place alone without any firearms, because they could not afford any, being newly weds and such.
Since the Mexican revolution had ended and there were numerous occasions where Mexicans came across the border for a little neighborly rape and robbery, the scruffy old fella was outraged that Grandmother was alone and unarmed.
So he went over to his horse pulled out a single shot Winchester, pulled a box of cartridges from the saddle bags and gave them to Grandmother. He told her to keep the rifle until she didn't need any more, or if he needed it he'd come and get it.
At some point in time Grandmother, in the morning, saw a couple of sombreos out by the ranch gate. So like any straight thinking woman she lifted up the rifle and shot the men out from under the hats and went about her chores. When Granddad got home he buried them and told the local law man. Shooting Mexicans didn't cause the law any problems, may have earned her a good citizenship citation.
Seems this old fella had buffalo hunted, worked for the Army, rode in Buffalo Bill's Wild West show and went by the name Arkypete.
My aunt is still waiting for him to come by and pick up the rifle.
Jim

Back in the 1970's (when Gore was starting the internet?), it was pretty common for every one to pick a handle that wasn't easy to place with a person or location.

Mine is from my time in the Air Force. Amn is the abbreviation for airman and Douglas is my last name.

Wow, what great stories. Especially SWANY and ARKYPETE! Great stuff! Keep 'em comin'! NINER: Hey Operator, you never gave us the origins of your nick. Yeah, you're right. Fair's fair I guess. OPERATOR is actually a second to GUNNER (there's already a GUNNER on this forum), but they come from the same period. Back in the eighties I got myself tangled up in various silly and nafarious exploits for the US Navy, and we were all required to adopt a radio call sign. Traditionally one's handle is bestowed, or "hung" on one by the rest of the guys in the outfit, so you're at their mercy. As a newbie I quickly got two nicks hung on me; GUNNER and PUKER (I couldn't step one foot into a helicopter without hurling in those days. This does not go over real big with the crew chief. :o) The choice was real obvious, I was not gonna be called PUKER for the rest of my career! But then GUNNER became confusing in certain situations, and since I had a rep for being kinda hard on equipment the techies would gripe and complain. They used to say that there were two kinds of people; technicians and operators - technicians fixed things and operators broke things. I broke things. Hence: Operator. It just kinda stuck after that. Somehow it's just not as "cool" once you know the back story, huh? :D That's OK, my kidz love to remind me that I'm old and un-cool now anyway!

Mine is pretty easy to figure.
I kinda like the smoothest bolt gun that I ever saw,an I was 71 years old when I got my new computer.
Frank

My small wildcat Is the 458 Hubel Express or HE,
thus the name hubel458.It is used all over all the internet forums and ebay.Ed.

Somehow it's just not as "cool" once you know the back story, huh? That's OK, my kidz love to remind me that I'm old and un-cool now anyway!

My kids don't know anything about Daddy's past, and Daddy is pretty uncool now so Daddy must have been uncool like since forever.

"Ahh, back in those days agone there were giants walking the Earth and all that lived trimbled before them. There are but a few giants left and they are passing from common memory."

Jim

I guess mine is sorta plainjane compared to some of those listed, first letter of first name and last name put together, LOL

Michael Grace

jb12string is the combination of my intials with the hobby i was most affiliated with at the time when i established my internet existance which happened to be playing guitar, and i happen to play a 12 string guitar so i just kinda kept it. my alter internet ego is BigJebDaddy which is another play off of my intials hung on my by the youth pastor at our church when i was in high school

My kids don't know anything about Daddy's past, and Daddy is pretty uncool now so Daddy must have been uncool like since forever.

Like, omigod! Totally! My two middle kidz are both teenagers and they both have conniption fits when their Mother and I kiss or dance 'cuz we're "old" and it's "gross". So we do both, frequently, and in front of their friends whenever possible. :D


These are all great folks! It doesn't matter whether it's fancy or not, they're all interesting! It takes all kinds, right? Keep 'em comin'!

Gents,

I was late for a Command and Staff, because I was with my guys in the woods instead of coming in early to polish my boots and scrub my fingernails the night prior, as the rest of my peers evidently had done.

The XO had started the meeting when I walked through the door, and he looked over at me, still camouflaged, wearing all of my rig, none too pleasant smelling, and remarked, “Gentlemen, the mighty white hunter returnth.” I’m not sure if he intended it as a compliment, but I sure took it like one.

35 is my caliber, and I can bore you to tears on the superiority of all things 35.

Welcome Operator, I have an inclination on how you got your call sign.

Steve

Operator

My daughters are both near thirty years. Dad was the sometimes grumpy, preferred reading, working and spending time hunting and shooting, who answered every question with no, according to them.
Now I've got three grandsons, to the oldest I'm the grandfather from **** who answers any statement with 'Not in this life time!' The other two boys I'm a favorite playmate, we throw rocks, get muddy and dirty, we learned to spit, whiz behind trees all to the horror of their mothers.
So I've become 'cool' to the grandsons.
Jim

Good stories guys, keep them comming. Mine is pretty plain also. My name is Matt Pair. I know, real original.

As a newbie I quickly got two nicks hung on me; GUNNER and PUKER


I have an aquaintence who is ex navy, current DEA. He was christened FLOUNDER. He's tried to run away from the name, but it follows him everywhere he goes!

I guess I will join the boaring story club, I am a cop and my stress releiver is to hunt . My mom nicknamed me the great white hunter and My department was amazed at the sight of my 8 3/8 inch taurus Rb and so I combined the two and named my self 454-hunter. I know not that original but, that is how it came about.

Stan H.

I try to keep things simple...I used my initials. ;)

I'm from Idaho and I like to shoot!

Once while in basic training I was standing waiting to use the pay phone to call home. A guy asked if anybody had a quarter to give him for a call.

Well, I flipped the guy a quarter and later he asked me what my first name was and before I could get it out of my mouth another recuit yelled out 2bits, now lets go get a beer. I went along and had a Dr. Pepper after making my call home. The name stuck all through my military years unto present.

So, Operator what gives? What is the origin of your name? The responses have all been very interesting. What's yours?

Terry

Ribbonstone, I have wondered numerous times what your screen name may have originated from.

No wife or children of my own, but I'm uncle to 22. They have lots of aunts and uncles, but only one Tio, (Spanish for uncle)
Darrel

i used to interact with the customers more when i started with simmons,for years people thought i was the person behind the name,we all get that,pops died in the 70's and his kids sucked the life out of the company and than died.nobody left to be the name.the handle just stuck to tough to explane that you arn't a simmons,it kinda puts people off.so i just use it,my name is paul salchow,and i have a gun habit.

A special occupation tax (payer) class II

Welcome Operator, I have an inclination on how you got your call sign....
Hey Steve,

If I'm not mistaken those are Masters wings, eh? Ahhh, Beautiful Benning... So, I assume you're either Airborne or a JSOC troop. Great story BTW - and you may be right. ;)
O...

Now I've got three grandsons, to the oldest I'm the grandfather from **** who answers any statement with 'Not in this life time!' The other two boys I'm a favorite playmate, we throw rocks, get muddy and dirty, we learned to spit, whiz behind trees all to the horror of their mothers.
So I've become 'cool' to the grandsons.


Maybe the "coolness" factor skips every other generation. It'll be interesting to see if my grandkidz think I'm cool, but not too soon! :D My oldest is a 21 year old Marine, and I've threatened him with bodily harm if he makes me a granddaddy before I'm 50! I say this knowing full well I have exactly zero say in the matter, just like his mother's folks and my folks didn't! ;)


O...

Operator..."As a newbie I quickly got two nicks hung on me; GUNNER and PUKER."


I have an aquaintence who is ex navy, current DEA. He was christened FLOUNDER. He's tried to run away from the name, but it follows him everywhere he goes!

I swear they stick like glue! The problem is that I kept the same bunch of knuckleheads who gave me 'em as friends for life...should'a dumped 'em and picked new ones. ;) There is no escape.


O...

I guess I will join the boaring story club, I am a cop and my stress releiver is to hunt . My mom nicknamed me the great white hunter and My department was amazed at the sight of my 8 3/8 inch taurus Rb and so I combined the two and named my self 454-hunter. I know not that original but, that is how it came about.

Stan H.

Aww, it's not so boring! And besides, if you hadn't 'fessed-up, we might have all just thought you had it out for big blocks!;) So, when you bag a 454, do you just gut 'em on the spot and leave the crankshaft and rods and stuff behind? Or can you make summer sausage out of 'em?:D Just ribbin' ya Stan! Glad to have heard from you!


O...

I'm from Idaho and I like to shoot!

Now, see? That's the thing with Idahoans...short and to the point! :D

Where in Idaho? I was just BSing with Marshall about my family having just moved from the Panhandle; Coolin, up on Priest Lake. Hoodoo Valley before that, near Oldtown.


O...

So, Operator what gives? What is the origin of your name? The responses have all been very interesting. What's yours?

Terry

Ribbonstone, I have wondered numerous times what your screen name may have originated from.
Hey Terry,

Yeah, NINER already made me cough up my dark (embarrassing) secret! :D I think it's #17 or so on this thread.

O...

Operator
I like the term 'retroactive birth control'.
If I had known how much fun grand kids would be, I'd have them first!
Jim

I found an engraved 1894 Marlin in 32-20 cal in a field while I was stationed in Washington. ( Back in the 50's ) Stock was broken and full of brass tacks, so I rebuilt it and made a maple stock and fore end and refinished it. Wife said I spent more time with the old gun than I did with her. but for a long time whenever we moved into a new home, ( Military Transfers ) it was the first thing hung on the wall in the front room. Now it hangs above the rear View Mirror of the Motorhome. Even my cell phone number is 1894. Wife always referred to the Marlin as our third child.

Lee L.

This is just for kicks and is something I will often do on a new [to me] board to learn a bit more about the denizens. That said, since many of you have firearm, hunting, competition, or military/civil service/occupation related handles it'd be interesting to hear about how you got 'em. Did you make it up, or was it "hung" on you? I've seen some pretty interesting nicks out there, so 'fess up! ;)

Well my handle more automotive related...I'm into drag racing older mustangs. IMHO the '66 Shelby gt350 is one of the finest cars out there.

Because all smurfs must be exterminated.

Well my handle more automotive related...I'm into drag racing older mustangs. IMHO the '66 Shelby gt350 is one of the finest cars out there.

I could not agree more. Tho I'm still kind of partial to the '70 Roadrunner. Yes, I'm a Mopar weirdo. :D


O...

Because all smurfs must be exterminated.

It is true. Smurfs are a plague upon all of mankind and should be terminated with extreme prejudice.


O...

...Wife said I spent more time with the old gun than I did with her. but for a long time whenever we moved into a new home, ( Military Transfers ) it was the first thing hung on the wall in the front room. Now it hangs above the rear View Mirror of the Motorhome. Even my cell phone number is 1894. Wife always referred to the Marlin as our third child.

Lee L.

I think we may be married to the same woman. :D


O...

I think we may be married to the same woman. :D


O...
Could they be twins?

Had to build her a sewing room in order to keep my gun room. She said that the four gun safes took up too much room, and she had no place to store her cloth. Now that we have become full time RVer's I had to buy a 20 ft trailer to convert into a sewing room and wash room, so I could take over two of the closets and convert them into gun storage.( Can only get 30 long guns guns in each )but thr bottom halves will store all the handguns and accessories. Had to give most of my collection to the kids and grand kids. Just kept the Marlins and Martini's, 2 bolt actions and my rolling block.

Lee L.

Forgot to mention I did keep 6 shotguns.

Lee L.

A new gun for a new life. My wife bought it for me as a wedding present. 1895GS

I'm sorta from Arkanasas(born in Texas)...love the Razorbacks(football team)....have been in west central florida for over twenty years...and seldom miss a Buccaneer game...so..I'm a Razorbuc

A new gun for a new life. My wife bought it for me as a wedding present. 1895GS

You, my friend, have what is called a "dream woman"! This bodes well for the continued success of your matrimony! :D


O...

I'm sorta from Arkanasas(born in Texas)...love the Razorbacks(football team)....have been in west central florida for over twenty years...and seldom miss a Buccaneer game...so..I'm a Razorbuc


Glad to meetcha RAZORBUC!


O...

I go by a couple different user names on various boards. Here, I'm The .41FAN as that is my all time favorite caliber. At last inventory, I had 43 firearms in .41Magnum counting shooters and safe queens. I've also got around a dozen .41 caliber wildcats. I've got a serious Jones for the .41! :p

I go by a couple different user names on various boards. Here, I'm The .41FAN as that is my all time favorite caliber. At last inventory, I had 43 firearms in .41Magnum counting shooters and safe queens. I've also got around a dozen .41 caliber wildcats. I've got a serious Jones for the .41! :p


43 in one caliber, YIKES. does your wife know?

I go by a couple different user names on various boards. Here, I'm The .41FAN as that is my all time favorite caliber. At last inventory, I had 43 firearms in .41Magnum counting shooters and safe queens. I've also got around a dozen .41 caliber wildcats. I've got a serious Jones for the .41! :p

Sounds to me you got 2 too many 41s, I would be willing to take one off your hand and I am pretty sure Mattpair will also. Then you could say you have 41 .41s, sounds so much cooler than 43 .41s :D

I prefer to shoot long-range on overcast days to avoid glare caused by the sun... Otherwise, I suppose my handle would be Bluesky. :D

Sounds to me you got 2 too many 41s, I would be willing to take one off your hand and I am pretty sure Mattpair will also. Then you could say you have 41 .41s, sounds so much cooler than 43 .41s :D


GREAT idea niner. I can always give a loney gun a good home. :D

Mine is a fairly simple one also, due to my fondness of the Springfield M14-M1A....just combined the two.....M141A :P

Or how's about Chris~

Mine is a fairly simple one also, due to my fondness of the Springfield M14-M1A....just combined the two.....M141A :P

Or how's about Chris~

And here I was thinking it was a Rem. 141A pump rifle that got you your handle.

My dear sir, I would not even know a 141a if'n i tripped over it! :D

I honestly thought your'n was sumthin bout a sharp'nin stone :P

Mine is just because I can't remember anything else. I only participate on two forums, this and FTE, where I moderate two subforums. I try to get in on every gun related thread.

Anywho... its because my name is Matt, and its my email... and I've been surfin' since 1999.

M141a:

Shame...the Rem. 14 and 141 were neat pumps. Used a sprial magazine tube to allow spitzer bullets in a tube mag. Worked well...and I've always had the urgr to mate a sprial tubed Rem. 14 magazine to a Marlin 336 action just to seee what could be done with spitzers in a 25/307Win.

It was a dark and stormy night...Nah! Me and my best buddy many moons ago; got goofy on substances at Long Beach on Vancouver Island 25 yrs. ago and the roles we were playing kinda led him to see me as 'Greystoke'-'Tarzan'...whatever. He was 'Woolsey'-loyal friend; and of course... Ya hadda been there! It was,Dare I say,kinda romantic-gag!
Greystoke

Mine is self inflicted. I like doing odd things to guns. The model that really stretches my imagination is the CZ52 rifle. I have put several into M14 stocks, I made a sheet metal "lower" for one with a full barrel shroud and underfolder (looks like a mongrel AK / sten mutt) and I even made a complete "receiver" for one that looks like a miniature 1919 / Bren mutt.

Cobbler: I sort of thought that you had a habit of making something diffrent out of spare parts, or else you were a shoe maker.

Lee L.

I am going to wait until you get a reply from Goatlips.
This ought to be interesting!

Cobbler! - I 2 like CZ's - a little roughly finished perhaps but solid bargains...nothing a few elves can't handle eh?
Greystoke

Cobbler! - I 2 like CZ's - a little roughly finished perhaps but solid bargains...nothing a few elves can't handle eh?
Greystoke

I've been trying to accumulate the needed parts (cheaply) put put together a cz in 357 magnum. A buddy of mine did one in 300 Savage but it is necessary to seat the bullets very deep. I did one over to 223 and got it to run with reasonable reliability.
A CZ52 sporter in a 6.5 x 39 wildcat sounds very interesting.

Cobble On!!

The first 4 letters of my first name are Rand and the first 2 of my last are Ga. I was in the Army for 4 years and always liked the M1Garand (though I don't have one). I just reveresed the letters and added M1.

Mine's simple. I'm into VWs, specifically buses. Here in Oz they call them Kombis & the first model I ever bought was a Kombi camper built in.........yup, 1976.

And NO, I'm not a pot smoking hippy who wears tie dyes and listens to Peter, Paul & Mary. My preferences run more to black clothes, Led Zeppelin and primered, slammed VWs although the present vehicle is a GM 4x4 pickup. After all, you can't rip across a paddock shooting roos & pigs when you only have 2" of ground clearance ;)

I do have plans for a camo painted, raised VW pickup though. If it ever happens I'll post the pics :cool:

How'd I get the name, "Gatofeo?"
Welllllll, I was raised in Spokane (Washington). One day, while enroute to Seattle (300 miles west of Spokane), I got stranded in Snoqualmie Pass in a blizzard.
The large van in front of me held an all-girl topless accordion playing band.
In the trunk of the Gatmobile I had spare food and a few bottles of brandy, so I got friendly with the accordion players. :D
Gatofeo means, "ugly cat" in Spanish. I can't go into the details of how I earned my name during those four days in the blizzard ... I'd get booted from here ... :D

That's one version of how I got the name, Gatofeo. Here's another one:

When I was a reporter in northern Idaho I adopted a stray cat in front of the newspaper. Though he had a different name, I used to call him "Gatofeo" at times, as a joke.
The very first night I went into a chat room, out of curiosity, I was forced to adopt a nom de net, as it were.
I tried to enter variations of my name, but they were all taken. Even my cat's name was taken. But when I tried Gatofeo, it was accepted. So, it's been Gatofeo for more than six years now.
My old cat had to be put down a few years ago, he'd grown so feeble. He was the nicest, most behaved and affectionate cat I ever had. I miss him. So, I kept Gatofeo as a name in his memory.

Now, pick whichever version you prefer.

I chose the name Kanuck because, you guessed it!, I'm Canadian. Not only am I Canadian, I am an unabashed patriot, serving as an officer in the Canadian Forces. Although I am Gunner/Bird Gunner by training, I have been relegated to a position as a Staff Officer. I hope all the real soldiers out there will still speak to me!

I spell it with a K rather than the proper Canuck as an hommage to Mr. Pat Buchanan, an American politician who made a reference to "Soviet Canuckistan" which I found amusing. I corrected the spelling since K is found more often than C in names from the Evil Empire.

Suffice it to say that I like my American brethern much more than Mr. Buchanan seemed to like us Canadians.

Any handle that was 'hung' on me prior to my forum life wouldn't be suitable for posting purposes. So I opted for the handle that I am forced to use for ID in my corporate life..... initials and the last four of my SS#........use the same one on all forums cause I have a bad case of CRS.

Any handle that was 'hung' on me prior to my forum life wouldn't be suitable for posting purposes. So I opted for the handle that I am forced to use for ID in my corporate life..... initials and the last four of my SS#........use the same one on all forums cause I have a bad case of CRS.

Using the same user name for everything is a bit risky from a computer security point of view. You might want to talk to your system administrator about changing your corporate user name now that you have told everyone what it is.

Got four kids. The first two wore me out on "Daddy", so the next two were told to call me something else. The neighbors picked up on it, and pretty soon I was either "Sarge" or "Papajohn" to my fellow officers.

All my nieces and nephews call me "Juncle Ohnnie", at the behest of a silly sister in law. If you look up "Dysfunctional" in the dictionary, our family portrait is next to the definition. :rolleyes:

PJ

Pretty simple....my first rifle website http://ruger22.com

I have elevan sites now, so that would make for way tooooooooooo long a handle....so I'm sticking with ruger22com

Bob

This thread was fun the first time around and since we have a bunch of new members since the last time it was near the top, I thought it would be fun to see again

and while it is at the top, one thing I want to know is is it Ribbons Tone or Ribbon Stone

I go by Sixgun on every other forum I belong to, but that was taken here so I had to come up with something else. My favorite type of guns are "cowboy guns" - lever actions and single action revolvers, so I went with Cowboy gun nut.

Incidently, I always think people probably read it as I'm a cowboy who is a gun nut, not a nut for cowboy guns.

Not alot of cowboys in amish country are there? :D

and while it is at the top, one thing I want to know is is it Ribbons Tone or Ribbon Stone


Ribbon Stone

Ribbon Stone

Like the formations found in caves?

My name is from a character created by Robert E. Howard (also the creator of Conan the Barbarian).

Its been a little while since I read the stories of El Borak, but I believe he was a Texas gunslinger who went to the Middle East (Afghanistan area) in the early 1900s. He became famous as sort of a bandit and a very good swordsman. El Borak is Afghanni (I think) for The Swift.

Of all Howard's characters, El Borak really stuck out to me because not only was he strong and good with gun and sword, he was also very smart and used tactics, where some of the other Howard characters used pure force.

Like the formations found in caves?


Was a spelunker in my 20's...had to travel a good distance to find any good caves (I live where there isn't any exposed rock anywhere), but a couple of buddies an I would gt out (well..get in) four or five trips a year. Am still thin, but back then I was skinny...and that's not a bad thing for that sport.


But...unless it was on a subconcious level...that's not the reason for the name.

I'll give you you all three guesses....

I'm not overly concerned about anonymity. If people really want to find me, it's not all that hard these days, try as we might.

I don't yet have that much to hide, or protect. Yet...

jonas

I used Kansas because that is where I live and that became my dad's nickname when he got sent over to Vietanm.

Leverite is as very special mineral. If you're out prospecting with a knowledgeable geologist and you pick up a piece, he will tell you to "leverite there where you found it". Similar to an "indian love stone", leverite is just another rock!

Also a name for someone fond of lever action rifles.


Edited for content.

kdub

Model 29

Its my favorite revolver, chambered for my favorite handgun cartridge. :D

Chris

Jeeper's I've missed seein' this thread but yer right mighty interestin' and some good tales too....
Mine ain't one of em as my handle is just a copy of our ranches name...Double J&K Livestock...
I'm John...My ever cool wife is Julie and our daughter is Kristy
Therefore DOUBLEJK... :)

While working overseas for a few years in South America, the locals took to calling me Gringo Loco. Since I came by the handle honestly, and being from Texas, it just seems to fit. There you have it :p.

My Name and state! Why woulsd a true Mopar man call himself a wierdo? I think you have more sense than most. JP

Former coworkers liked to call each other by their initials rather than names. My inititals are K.W. They thought that had too many vowels, so I became "K-Dub". Simple, really.

Using the same user name for everything is a bit risky from a computer security point of view. You might want to talk to your system administrator about changing your corporate user name now that you have told everyone what it is.

Kanuck, my father and uncle were both "Canucks", they also served in the Canadian Army back in world war 2. My uncle was the middleweight boxing champion for the Army for 3 years straight.

- It's a tag I picked up in the Philipinnes...Given to me by one of the "locals" who was my driver at the time.

After I retired from the AF, I got hired on to teach Technology Education at Hugo Junior High. Being a Republican/Conservative I don't hang out much with my fellow teachers (mostly Dem/Lib's), so all my close freinds in the area are former military/gun/hunting types. They all call me Teach.

Swamp Collie - just another name for a Golden Retriever. Mine is 9 months old, and his name is Dutch.

I like singleshot rifles. I think they can be the most elegant of all firearms, although the 98 Mauser has to be in the running too.

SSB

One of the fella's I rode with years ago hung it on me. I had a habit of carrying a 10X Stetson hat on the rear fender rack of my motorcycle.

ACRSAVED = Alec, Chi (wife), Ritchie, Saved (Jesus Christ).

Now that we have children, it might as well be ACCCRSAVED... Acts 16:31-34

I am what I am. :D

I use the same handle on other forums also. Was surprised when I found that no one else has used it anywhere else yet.

RJ

I actually have 3 handles in use the oldest is -Ojo' Muerto -given too me by members of my weapons platoon in the Marines partly due to my abilities with weapons ,particularly the 1911A1 .45[It got me TDY to the2ND MAR Div.pistol team for a while]It was also due in part to my lazy left eye!It was originally given to me by my good friend and A-gunner Sebastion Montanio of San Antonio,TX.- Shootrj2003 - was given too me as ""shooter" from a friend at work who also shoots [shotguns are his thing]and I had too modify it due to someone else using it on websites I use.-Troutman- is what I use on the C.B. at work on the road and it is a Modification of my name "Treutlein"shootrj2003

The native americans carried medicine bags with them full of good luck omens and charms. I have a little leather medicine bag I have carried in my hunting fanny pack for about 25 years with small keepsakes such as spent bullets dug out of deer, small turkey beards, a bear claw, a fosselized horses tooth, arrowheads, and small sawed off deer spikes from an incredibly lucky shot 20 years ago. I rub the bag before I hunt for luck. I hunt with some catawba indians who do the same.

Parents had one boy....then 6 girls....then me...my dad called me Thomas-Bonus...sisters just call me Bonus...

Something about this made sense to me. A portable "shadow-box" of the good times.

The native americans carried medicine bags with them full of good luck omens and charms. I have a little leather medicine bag I have carried in my hunting fanny pack for about 25 years with small keepsakes such as spent bullets dug out of deer, small turkey beards, a bear claw, a fosselized horses tooth, arrowheads, and small sawed off deer spikes from an incredibly lucky shot 20 years ago. I rub the bag before I hunt for luck. I hunt with some catawba indians who do the same.

Two guesses as to how I picked my "handle"?

"Goatlips" was taken?

Ya gotta love it, some people just have a mean streak in them. But it is funny.

Ya gotta love it, some people just have a mean streak in them. But it is funny.

Wait...there was a "goatlips" that posted...or was it another forum...anyway, excuse me (use Holloween and a candy overdose as an excuse).
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My bad...Goatlips last post was on 8/2004....now that makes me wonder, but I'll be darned if I post "Whatever happened to goatlips?"

Ribbon is right, there was a goatlips that hung out around here for a couple of months or so about 2 years back, ya don't forget a handle like "goatlips"

Ribbon is right, there was a goatlips that hung out around here for a couple of months or so about 2 years back, ya don't forget a handle like "goatlips"


Like a mionor crime...the statute of limitations...do I have to wait 7 years before "goatlips" becomes cleared for adoption?

I think I last saw goatlips over on the Marlin Owners Forum.

I've really enjoyed reading these. My chosen name is pretty self-explanatory. I grew up with the outdoors, hunting, fishing...etc. But I've always remained a "NUT" about hunting most of all.

Two guesses as to how I picked my "handle"?

First name and year you were born?

I had to retire from Law enforcment,due to vision problems (no such thing as blind justice i guess) while on this board had to use my first name because my old nick of blinddog was rejected by the server here, but on most other boards I go to I am know as blinddog, that was also my SASS alias when i was doing that, several years back

My wife is Filipina from the central region (Visayas) of the Philippines. When we moved to Missouri last year we both instantly realized that the local 'Ozark Pavement' looked like the land in her home barangay (village) of Bagtic (one of three that I have located on the Philippines map so far). Its about 90 % rock and 10% mud. Got more rock in my 'soil' that concrete has aggregates.

During our last trip to her village I had learned that the Visayan word 'bagtic' means hard. I figured we were in a 'hard place' so BAGTIC it was.

oneonce the size of shotload in my twelve guage sporting clays loads, and the bullet weight of the slugs out of my 500 Linebaugh. Both at 1200 fps.

Twisted my left ankle several times, torn ligaments and all. Swelled to impressive proportions each time. Hence dubbed Bigfoot by my miscreant friends at the time.

I got my handle courtesy of a hard-of-hearing posse leader in a Cowboy Action Match. When I first started CAS competition, I was going to go as an old-west preacher named Textus Redceptus, a play on the latin term for the Received Text (the document used in the translation of the King James Bible) and my red hair. The posse leader, an older gentlemen, couldn't understand what I was saying and called me "Red Pepper", and the name stuck. I like it anyway, because I love hot peppers and it was much easier to say than my original handle!

Real easy one here comes from my choice of game animals the great columbian black tailed deer.

Same here. The fallow is the deer species that I mostly hunt here in Ireland

Paul

Howdy,

I used to visit here several years ago, but then got out of cyberworld for a while, and this seems like the perfect post to come back to.

OldBaldGuy.

'Nuff said...

Howdy,

I used to visit here several years ago, but then got out of cyberworld for a while, and this seems like the perfect post to come back to.

OldBaldGuy.

'Nuff said...

If I had to guess, I'd say "OldBaldGuy" on this web site wouldn't make you very distinct from a lot of us :D

Dan

Hey everyone. Newbie here. Looks like a good spot for my first post. I was born and raised on the Little Southwest Miramichi River, pretty well-known salmon river, that's where the first part comes from. And ghillie is a Scottish word for a guide. That's what I do for a living, guide bear and bird hunters and salmon fisherman. I just point and say "go that way" :D :rolleyes: .

If I had to guess, I'd say "OldBaldGuy" on this web site wouldn't make you very distinct from a lot of us :D

Dan
Speak for yourself! (and Kdub and Lee, of course)

Speak for yourself! (and Kdub and Lee, of course)

Actually, we've got lots of hair, it's just all in the wrong spot(s).

Dan

Sure wish we could rotate the crop, DOK - :p

SWghillie & OldBaldGuy - Welcome to the board and welcome back to the board.

Only hard and fast rule we have is be respectful and courteous to each other, plus please read the posting rules for each forum prior to posting.

My name is Maori for "it is death' which was a kinda cool name when I got into playing shooter games on Xbox live. It kinda stuck and now all my internet stuff is done on my handle.

Speak for yourself! (and Kdub and Lee, of course)

Still have mine, but it is changing colour. (getting lighter.)

My name is Maori for "it is death' which was a kinda cool name when I got into playing shooter games on Xbox live. It kinda stuck and now all my internet stuff is done on my handle.

And here I was thinking it was for your Austrailian residence.....

sort of slang for saying "ok mate"
'ka-mate"

boy was I off base on your handle....:o

I run under either Stoffa or chris_stoffa which are both derived from my first name "Christopher" - How I got mine was a little odd, many years ago just as a joke and a bit of an entrance when i walked into a local computer shop I would call out "it is I, Chris topher" with just a slight pause between the two syllibals as they were usually down the back of the shop. ( they are now real close friends)......So how did I get the handle from that you ask, well I had them do some computer work for me and Lewis in sending me the invoice for the work knew my address but thought my name was actually Chris Stoffer , so he sent me a bill with that marked on it, I went back and gave him a ribbing over it, his wife , Sue, and son nearly died laughing as a result ( they knew my surname) and the name has stuck ever since , even to my workplace and home.

Stoffa :D :D

I have an odd vision problem that essentially prevents me from using Reticle-Pattern Optics (I can use Red Dots) - so I simply don't use them.

It is also an obscure enough Pun that no one else is likely to have picked it.

Makarov- Russian type pistol. I saw a guy twirl one some day on tv and he was amazing with it. I liked the name and look of the gun and Im part Russian so I I've been Makarov on every website that I've visited since. :)

Once thought I'd make my living as a coyote trapper, back in the mid-70's. After getting to know the critter I came to admire it. Coyotes are so smart they make the fabled fox look plumb stupid. Coyotes have a sense of humor, I've had many of them play tricks on me and sit back to watch and laugh out loud! Coyote is the great survivor, man has wiped out all other predators but coyote flourishes where he was never known before. I learned the Native American legends of the Coyote trickster. Just like "Wiley Coyote" cartoons, Coyote was always trying to take advantage of other critters and always ended up out-smarting himself. I said "hey, that's me, my most carefully laid plans seem always to go wrong".
I adopted the name CoyoteJoe, have publish magazine articles and a book of poetry under that name and most people in the small towns where I've lived don't know me by any other name. I've never legally changed my name but for all practical purposes I am CoyoteJoe.

Yes, the Navajo and Hopi Indians revered the coyote as the trickster of the animal world.

When the world ends, the last two life forms will be the coyote and the cockroach - and the cockroach had better watch out, as the coyote will eat ANYTHING! :p

Guess mine's pretty self-explanatory.

Welcome Magnumitis, always nice to see other board members from PA.

Huge oldschool watercooled VW & Audi nut. An old timer once asked 'who's krautwagen is that out back?' at a shop I worked at. I liked it and it stuck with me.

Got mine from my boss about 12 years ago. We are both Louis Lamour fans, read everything he ever had in print. Just a few weeks after the movie came out on TNT we had an arrest warrant to serve on a guy that we weren't to sure if all his marbles were still in the sack so when he barricaded himself in his single story house my Sgt. wasn't in a mood for a stand off. This was before our dept. had a SWAT Team so he watched this suject pace back and forth in his front room while I snuck around to the side of his house and laid a ladder up the side and stuck a metal bucket over his chimney. Then as luck would have it, he left the keys in his pickup so I just drove it up to his backdoor and blocked it from opening, got out, took up a posistion in his back yard and just waited for him to try something stupid. He must have been burning some fairly green fire wood because it only took about 15-20 minutes unitl he crawled out of the front door and surrendered. My Sgt. got him cuffed and stuffed in the back of the car but he started laughing so hard that it was another five minutes before we could leave and head for the jail. And ever since that day he has called me Conagher. Might have to see the movie to understand it. Old Conagher smoked out some cattle ruslers from thier cabin about the same way.

Now, if that story don't win the Grand prize, main prize and the door prize, I don't know what would! :D Great story, Conagher. Greg

I think that mine doesn't require much explanation.

I agree greatnorth, conagher wins my vote for best story-not something that you hear every day!