online handle/username

[redhawk0]

OK...out of curiosity...where did your online handle come from.

mine....redhawk0, came from the first revolver I ever purchased. a 1983 Ruger Redhawk in 44Mag.. The zero? I couldn't find any other number that wasn't taken when I first signed up on the old castpics.net site several decades ago.

share your stories.

redhawk

[MinerJohn]

MinerJohn- Spent lots of time gold prospecting and rock hounding in TN & NC

[oneofsix]

Mine came about from my fondness for Star Trek and revolvers-at the time I only had a 6 shooter; now I haz 5 & 7 shooters too!

[Driver33]

I am a professional steering wheel holder. That's where I got mine

[OS OK]

'OS OK' One Shot One Kill...it's a Marine thing.

But since, after joining up with some other sites like this and getting a little older and milder it's been 'CharlieBrassStuffer' . . . kinda self explanatory there.

[Land Owner]

Real Estate holdings.

[Thundarstick]

I guess mine is self explanatory?

[Bookworm]

I think mine is also self-explanatory.

[swamp]

Last name is Marsh = swamp.

[Walks]

Mine comes from my SASS alias; Walks Fletcher. Who was my Maternal Grandmother's Great Uncle. A Captain in Stand Watie's 2nd Cherokee Mounted Rifles during the War for the Southern Confederacy.

[Hossfly]

My dad called me hossfly, I guess cause I would pester him to cock the BB gun my uncle sold to my mother for $5.00 when I was 4yo. And didn’t have the strength to cock it.

[TaylorS]

First name last initial kinda messed up when I created the account most of the time I go by DOA21 with some variety of DA at the end that came from when I started gaming and couldn’t get off a spawn point alive. Was 21 then. DA was the squad I played with. Now I have things to do and places to be so it’s not as relevant a name anymore.


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[Smoke4320]

In my younger days raced sports cars. While we gathered for a prerace drivers meeting one competitor said my driving was as smooth as smoke. It struck

[Minerat]

I have owned a mining consulting company for 45 years.

[dakotashooter2]

I live in Dakota the rest is obvious.

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[Sig556r]

I retained mine from prior forum (Sig)...556R is my go-to rifle when ****...

[fast ronnie]

I run a top fuel dragbike. Neighbor gave me the handle.

[nun2kute]

Well ... I don't wear make-up OR perfume [smilie=l:

[condorjohn]

While living on an avocado/lemon ranch in SoCal I had the opportunity to view 2 Condors in the wild. Magnificent creatures. Too bad the gun grabbers use them to further their agenda.
Later on I named my small business "Condor Screen Printing". I never advertised, just sat around and waited for business to present itself. Turned out I was always busy...235135

[Hogtamer]

a fellow told me I flat knew how to tame a wild hog with a sharp arrow

[Blammer]

Blam, blam, blam... the sound a gun makes

and the plural is blammer

:D

[rl69]

Well I don't have much imagination Ronnie Landry born 1969

[Conditor22]

Latin for a builder.
I was in a contractor for 35 yrs

[Idaho45guy]

Self explanatory... I'm from Idaho, own a couple of .45 Colts, and am a guy...

[BobT]

First name and first letter of last name, easy for an old guy to remember.

[blackriver]

I dive for megladon teeth and fossils in the Edisto River, which is called a blackriver.

[Rich/WIS]

When I joined I was living in Wisconsin.

[Winger Ed.]

One of the first forums I joined was The Few.com. There was another Ed. there who was a Grunt.
They dubbed me Winger Ed. to tell us apart. I've carried it around since then out of habit.

[pertnear]

I'm a Texan & we like to contract & run words together as part of our vocabulary. In this case "pretty near" turns into "pertnear".

[Tom W.]

First name and first letter of last name, easy for an old guy to remember.

Same here........

[StratsMan]

Variation of my last name. A coworker shortened my name to "Strats" as a nickname 40+ years ago, and another coworker added "man". I liked both... Some old friends still call by those names...

[country gent]

Lived in the Country all my life. and was brought up to be a gentleman.

[Beagle333]

Got it in a yahoo chatroom in '96. I wanted "Beagle" but it was taken and the auto suggestion added 333 behind it and said that was available, so I'm that now on every forum that I'm in, because it's never taken. ;)

[trails4u]

Spent many years early in my career building trails, designing trails, mapping trails, maintaining trails, fixing bad trails...… Worked for feds, worked for states, worked for county/city/local folks....worked all over most of the country, just being a trail guy. Trails4u. :)

[MaLar]

Sister's kids couldn't say LaMar called me MaLar kinda stuck as a nickname.

[Markopolo]

I live remote and am always exploring remote places, so MarkoPolo being the explorer he was it kinda stuck.

[Treetop]

Treetop has been my nickname for my entire adult life (I'm 71 years old) because I'm 6'7" tall and weigh 240#.

I'm 14" taller than Mrs. Treetop but it must not bother her, we've been married since June 1972.

It runs in my side of the family, our daughters are tall and our 2 grown grandsons are 6'5"/210# and 6'8"/ 325# (this one plays football).

[Bazoo]

My dad called me Bazoo. It means mouth. One of the only memories I have is of being in a Chevy van doing donuts in a field, he said "hold on Bazoo". He died when I was 5. My avatar is the Chippewa eagle. I'm Chippewa from the Sault Ste Marie tribe in upper Michigan, although I'm not enrolled.

[JBinMN]

Self explanatory, I'd reckon, but for those who aren't sure, my first 2 initials are J. & B., & MN is the abbreviation for Minnesota, where I currently live.
;)

Unfortunately, I am one who doesn't have a good story to tell about my member name, although I sure have liked reading the ones that do.
:)

[jeepyj]

I had a thing for jeeps for a while. When I signed up I had a bone stock mint jeep YJ for a toy. I recently sold the last of them a built up V8 CJ7. Interesting thread.

[Dusty Bannister]

I work in a historical building and had an uncle that went by Dusty that did a lot of wood working. During the extensive renovation of the building, I was walking down a stairway and running my hand on the bannister to keep from slipping on the debris on the steps. Reached the bottom and looked at my hand and thought, that is one dusty bannister. I still go places most others do not so still find the dusty bannister.

[Omega]

While in the Army, many couldn't pronounce my last name, so was just called Sgt O. When another "O" was assigned to my section, they would call out Sgt O, and both of us would answer. Because I was taller, they just changed me to Big O. When I started getting online, I needed a screen name, I didn't want to use Big O, (didn't want it to sound sexual) so I changed it to Omega, when available, otherwise O-Mega.

[lightman]

I retired as an electrical Lineman. I spent the last 25 years as a Serviceman. Basically the guy that kept the lights on. My customers called me Lightman.

[charlie3tuna]

Wanted the name charlietuna, my name plus nick name, but it was taken. Tried using a number, the program took it, wouldn't let me change it, so....

While playing Hearts my "good friends" said "Sorry, Charlie" as they dumped the Queen of Spades (negative 13 points) on me. Since that line was used in the Starkist Tuna commercials, I became "tuna."

[Pressman]

Because I own nearly 500 reloading presses. Plus 1000's of scales, powder measures and other tools.

[winelover]

What can I say..............I love wine.:bigsmyl2:

Winelover

[hd09]

The first new Harley I bought, had a few used ones before It.

[sav300]

My savage 99 in 300 savage,as we have letters first on our rego/licence plate.It became sav300

[Thin Man]

Many years ago I visited a friend who worked at a desk just inside the front door of his business. As I walked in I saw he was kicked back in a reclining chair and was all spread out in it. That made him look even wider than he was. I eased up to him and said "Lard ***." He grinned and answered "thin man." It kinda stuck.

[Ole Joe Clarke]

Old Joe Clark is the name of a Bluegrass tune. I am not old yet, (only 75), hence the "Ole."

Have a blessed day,

Leon

[CastingFool]

I really enjoy casting lead, and I was born on April 1st. I only use this on this forum. I really don't cast boolits all that often, only have one caliber I cast for, at this time.

[Snow ninja]

We lived in Woodland Park Colorado for a while growing up, when I was about 12 dad and I were out rabbit hunting in some knee deep snow. We split up for a bit with a plan to meet at this old deadfall pine that was one of our landmarks. Little while later, I'm coming up to the tree and see Dad sitting there leaned back against it. I didn't call out because I figured he heard me trudging along. When in went to sit on the log, it moved and startled him. He looks up at me and goes "**** boy, you snuck up on me like some sort of... Snow ninja!"

I know Dad said that just to be nice cause I was always practicing trying to move silently through the woods. Pretty sure the real reason was because he was a little hard of hearing and probably also taking a nap...

Either way, I liked the way it sounded and it's been my login handle on pretty much everything with sometimes a variation at the end like Snowninja13 cause my birthdays on the 13th and I've always considered it my lucky number.

[quack1]

I hunt a lot, but ducks have always been my favorite. This past season was my 54th. When I signed up here, the site said quack was taken so I added the 1.

[Finster101]

I adopted a dog named King from a shelter. He was a great dog but a little mischievous from time to time. He would always give you that innocent look so he was dubbed "Baby Face Finster" after the Bugs Bunny character. It got shortened to Finster and that was his name for the next seven years. 101 because Finster seems to be a popular name.

[owejia]

Wife's first name, never seen or heard it anywhere else, kinda one of a kind thing.

[MrWolf]

Mine is from David Eddings books The Belgariad. What Garion called his many times removed grandfather. Was my gaming handle for a long time. No time for computer games anymore.

[dh2]

it was the cheat code to Deer Hunter computer game for some that was not much in to computers in the 90's , I still remember it and a forum is about as close to a computer game as I get

[redhawk0]

Old Joe Clark is the name of a Bluegrass tune. I am not old yet, (only 75), hence the "Ole."

Have a blessed day,

Leon

My wife learned to play the bluegrass mandolin. One of her exercise pieces was "Old Joe Clarke". I tried to post an mp3 of it but it wasn't an "approved" extension on the forum. She played multiple parts and mixed them together for her track. She did real good for only playing 2 years.
I wish I could post it.

redhawk

[Camper64]

I like to do a lot of camping and the year I was born.

[jonp]

First name and first letter of last name, easy for an old guy to remember.

me too

[jsizemore]

Parents.

[Skunk1]

Our Boston terrier. He is called skunk for obvious reasons. And are they powerful for a little dog.

[Three44s]

Me?

Well, I think mine is obvious what it refers to. But the path is a bit of a winding road .....

Way back when I started reading gun rags with an obsession there was Elmer .... and there was just about all the other gun writers. Elmer and very few others seemed pretty smitten on the 44 Mag cartridge. The rest of the pack weren’t.

Being a cautious sort I was brainwashed by the majority that not only was the 44 capable of blowing a criminal’s head clean off, but the shooter’s arm off in the process! As a result, I pretty much drew a line in the sand with the 357’s. I was not into handguns much anyway so it did not matter much it seemed.

Now about 1993, there were rumors about a Grizzly hangin’ around our cattle range in the mountains. That got my attention but we never saw or heard anymore about it.

Then I got to talk to some individuals I know and trust and respect very much that had a close encounter with it back then (about three years later).

Now my radar is going full tilt! So starting about ‘96, I begin pondering what defensive measure should I consider. The pondering leads me eventually back to the 44mag revolver.

I traded in my Smith 4506 for a Ruger Redhawk in 44 Mag. 7.5” in April of ‘97. At first I was not real fond of it, but changing the wood stocks out to the then available Uncle Mikes rubber grip and learning how to download the cartridge and adding a Smith K22 really brought things around in a big way.

Well, I found out that a 7.5” revolver was not really ideal as a self defense weapon. So a Smith Mountain gun in 44 followed me home but the Redhawk was and is kept. Later I got the bright Idea to also buy a SRH 44 in 9.5”. That SRH was intended to get pruned to 5” or so but the long sight radius was just too cool to lose.

So there were three 44 revolvers in the hands of some who had shunned the cartridge for many years!

I got on the net about then and rest is history.

Three44s

[1911sw45]

First 1911 I bought. 1911 Smith and Wesson in .45ac. so 1911sw45.

[mold maker]

39 years as the pattern and mold maker for a plastics mfg.
mm

[snowwolfe]

I was a professional wildlife photographer for 20 years and named myself after a photo of a wolf I captured. This photo was my
most popular image with customers and generated many sales for me.

[poppy42]

My granddaughters

[bedbugbilly]

Bedbugbilly - I performed "first person/living history" programs for close to 40 years. I traveled all over MI - schools, colleges, festivals, museums, etc. - had a number of Civil War, early Michigan History programs - one program I did for many years was "Daylight In The Swamp" - the story of life in an early Michigan lumber camp. Bedbugbilly was my "persona" for that particular program -

[1616s16]

Good lucky number and the address of my body shop. All retired in 2009 and living the dream
with family.
Thanks 16s

[Nueces]

I have an appreciation for the South Texas border country, being from the Rio Grande Valley. In the 19th century, the land between the Rio Grande and Nueces Rivers was called the Nueces Strip, generally a lawless part of the state eventually tamed by the early Texas Rangers. Sometimes it was called the Wild Horse Desert. Considerable of that old time "independence" remains in the culture of the area. Years ago, heading south on State Highway 16, there was a sign reading "Welcome to the FREE STATE of McMullen County." The Nueces flows through there. The county has no more than 1000 residents and is the richest county in Texas - oil, gas, gravel.

In the middle of the eastern end of the Strip are the King and Armstrong ranches. Armstrong is a family name and I killed my first deer there.

I flew F-100s, F-4s and F-16s for the Texas Air Guard at Kelly in San Antonio and for the Air Force Reserve at Bergstrom in Austin. Our gunnery range was south of San Antonio in McMullen County and near the Nueces River. Some of our high speed low level waypoints were river crossings.

J Frank Dobie's stories sometimes featured references to the Nueces country. It always calls up Comanches and hidden Spanish silver for me, and dark, dark nights such that you can see stars down to the horizon.

Like other Texas place names, it's pronunciation is not obvious unless you grew up in Texas or can speak Spanish. It's "New-aces".

[bikerbeans]

Named after the fiery hot beans the "cook" at a local M/C club would make when he roasted a hog. I got his recipe 25 years ago and i have been making my version of bikerbeans for deer camp and get togethers ever since.

BB

[Omega]

Like other Texas place names, it's pronunciation is not obvious unless you grew up in Texas or can speak Spanish. It's "New-aces". More like "new eses", which means "Nuts" in Spanish.

[redhawk0]

I love hearing you guy's stories....reminds me of Paul Harvey and "The rest of the story". Some really great stuff here.

redhawk

[Bazoo]

I too have enjoyed this thread quite a bit.

[472x1B/A]

472x1B/A It's a military thing. Was my AFSC while in the Air Force. I was a special purpose vehicle mechanic, as in aircraft fuel servicing trucks ( B ) and fire trucks ( A ).

[popper]

No clue, just popped into my mind. Got called 'red' a bunch as a kid, didn't like it. Yea,my kids are redheads. 'Hey you' was the other 'name' I responded to.

[redhawk0]

No clue, just popped into my mind. Got called 'red' a bunch as a kid, didn't like it. Yea,my kids are redheads. 'Hey you' was the other 'name' I responded to.

hahaha....I respond to all sorts of names too...I'm married.

redhawk

[Gunslinger1911]

My sister hung gunslinger on me when I got my first gun as a kid. 1911 is my favorite platform.

[dragon813gt]

Bunch of random letters and numbers.

[woodbutcher]

[smilie=s: Seems like I tried to build some shelves once upon a time.Was a complete bust.That is until my Dad got involved.Thank God for small favors.I do much better now.This is a neat thread.Thanks to all for posting.
Good luck.Have fun.Be safe.
Leo

[Reverend Al]

My wife and I were very involved with Cowboy Action Shooting for many years and my alias was "Reverend Al" while hers was "Temperance Tilly" ... our "alter egos" were "Revelry Al" and "Temptress Tilly" ... (all in good fun) ...

:wink:

[brass410]

the local gun shop/smith hung my name on me, at the time I was looking for a way to be able shoot 410 shotgun and not always be dealing with burned up plastic hulls, I was kidding around and said too bad there weren't brass 410 hulls available. That night I was schooled on the merits of fire forming 303 and 9.3x74 right there in the shop, cost was box of donuts and large double double. Since known as Brass410

[lead-1]

Was always curious about casting my own bullets so when I joined here I wanted a simple user name, Lead as what I wanted to know about and 1 for only one caliber I was interested in. Well that changed as I do at least eight now, it's addicting.

[Harter66]

Perversion of my first Email to imply deer hunter as in red stag .

[BrassMagnet]

Let's go shooting and see if you find any of your brass.

[rking22]

Nice thread, I am a boring sort, last names King and I like 22 rimfires. Sometimes use rkingk75, rode a BMW K75 for 25 years!
Really enjoying everyone's stories.

[MrHarmless]

I needed a online handle for the game Delta Force 2 in 1998. I've been MrHarmless in every game since.

[Ohiopatriot]

I'm a Patriot, from Ohio.

[John D]

First name and first letter of last name, easy for an old guy to remember.

Same here.

[obssd1958]

Years ago, I got my wife a personalized license plate for her birthday. She decided to return the favor to me, on Father's day, and asked me what I wanted. I told her I love hunting, and shooting, and most anything outdoors, but I wouldn't want to narrow it down to just one thing, so I was stumped. She said I was obsessed with all of it - I couldn't seem to do any of it just a little!
Well, obsessed wouldn't fit the 5 digit maximum that Idaho had for it's personalized plates, so I shortened it to obssd. 1958 was added for my handle here, because it's an amazing year in history for me (bein's I was born then!).

[Der Gebirgsjager]

This is an interesting and entertaining thread, and because I read all of the stories posted so far, and hope to read many more, I figured I owed it to all of you to explain mine. It is probably one of the more complicated "handles" to fully understand, so if this gets lengthy please bear with me.

O.K. then, the name is obviously German in origin. "Der" means "The", "Gebirgs" are "mountains", and "jager" is "hunter". Therefore, The Mountain Hunter. I was raised in the Sierra Nevada Mountain foothills where I became an avid deer hunter.

However, my father (at age 6) and his mother emigrated from Germany to the U.S.A. in 1923. My paternal grandfather was in the Kaiser's army, but a year or two after the war they divorced. Although I was born in the U.S.A. in 1942, I have a Germanic heritage/connection. My father served in the 3rd Division, U.S. Army, in the 1930s, and 30 years later I served in the same division, renamed the 3rd Infantry Division during WW II, in the early 1960s.

In the Europe of a couple of hundred years ago the shoulder weapons were smooth bore, just like here. But the hunters who lived in the mountains developed rifling which resulted in greater range and accuracy. These "jagers" were in high demand for military service, and they specialized in mountain warfare since that was where they were from and what they best knew. Eventually regiments were formed consisting solely of hunters and their rifled weapons, and they were known as Gebirgsjagers. They were really no different than a Marine Recon or an Army Ranger, in that they were just a certain type of soldier with a certain specialty. They were considered an elite corps because of their weapons and mountain skills, and being a Gebirgsjager in WW II no more guaranteed that one was a member of the NAZI party than being a Marine guarantees that you are a Democrat/Republican/whatever. Their symbol was, and still is, the eidelweiss flower which grows high in the Alps near the snow line. It is said that only the best soldiers will climb that high to pick one to wear in their hats. At age 76 I'll just have to settle for the wish that I could do so, and admiration for those who can.

So, for me, the name which really has two meanings, seemed to fit. I used it for 30 years as my trade name in the gunsmithing business. I am of Germanic heritage, grew up in the mountains, learned to hunt, and served in the Army Infantry stationed in Germany. Over the years the name became part of me, and I'm not at all reluctant to use it as my handle, as I doubt if I could come up with anything else anyway. There is a lesson here, in that one should always listen to the counsel of their wife. Mine told me, "Why don't you name your business something like 'The Silver Possum Gunshop', since you're grey and kind of look like one. No one will be able to pronounce it or spell Der Gebirgsjager." She was right about that........but George Jones was already known as "The Possum".

I know the name is hard to spell, harder to pronounce, so I've encouraged everyone to call me "DG". I've intended to sign my posts as DG, but just seem to forget.

Thanks for sharing all of your stories, and there's mine.

[Bazoo]

Thanks for sharing that DG. Really interesting, so is the whole thread.

[captbligh]

Family came from England to Massachusetts colony early on. One of my ancestors changed the spelling of last name from Bligh to Bly which I understand was a common practice. I was an Air Force pilot and when I made Captain people would see my nametag and ask some dumb question about Mutiny on the Bounty and Captain Bligh. My tactical callsign in some squadrons was Bounty, so I've just used the old English spelling online for many years.

[Lloyd Smale]

mine came from my ma and dad
OK...out of curiosity...where did your online handle come from.

mine....redhawk0, came from the first revolver I ever purchased. a 1983 Ruger Redhawk in 44Mag.. The zero? I couldn't find any other number that wasn't taken when I first signed up on the old castpics.net site several decades ago.

share your stories.

redhawk

[Taylor]

My dad

[dale2242]

dale: My first name
2242: My birth date 2/2 /1942

[.429&H110]

I should have picked .430&H110
Moved to North Pole 2003 and never had shot a pistol
Found myself packing a SRH
.429 j-words just scatter everywhere
That SRH does not like jacketed
So I studied everything I could, Ruger forum is no help
referred me here
Now I am on a gong at 100 yards with Keith boolits
Beats me why they don't lead up the barrel
During the drought there was no ammo in Alaska
So when it came around I got a lot of H110
I don't post much because all I know is what I read here.
Elsewhere on the interweb is a lot of weird ideas about reloading
Presently hanging out in Arizona, Alaska winters hurt my hands
Arizona in February is a treat
Thanks for the Forum!

[Calamity Jake]

Calamity Jane is in my family tree, my CASS alisis also.

[redhawk0]

dale: My first name
2242: My birth date 2/2 /1942

Happy belated....a groundhog's day baby huh? hahaha

redhawk

[redhawk0]

I should have picked .430&H110
Moved to North Pole 2003!

I've been there. Its an interesting place with the huge candy canes everyplace. The wife and I took an AK vacation 7 years ago. The Fairbanks area is beautiful.

redhawk

[Pigboat]

The first three Subs I rode in the Navy were old WWII diesel boats aka "Sewer Pipes" or "Pigboats" because of the smell.

[Hick]

Needed a nickname so I adopted my Grandfather's. His first gun was a Remington Model 4 rolling block that he bought in 1907 when he was 16-- and my first gun was that same Remington that he gave me in 1955 when I was 9. I still have it and my grandchildren have shot it and will eventually inherit it.

[Echo]

When I was a little kid (MANY decades ago!), I would repeat what others said. And there was a song around at the time called 'Little Sir Echo', so the family started calling me Echo - and it stuck...

[Chainsaw.]

Used to be on a local 4x4 forum, used my last name spelled backwards, no one could read it correctly so it never stuck. Well I worked at a crappy little equipment rental shop for a while and picked up a free mcculloch chainsaw, one day out 4Xing a tree was across the trail, I (eventually) got the crappy saw running, cut the tree out of the trail, my buddy Mike looked at me and said “Chainsaw”. Its stuck since, everyone of that era calls me Chainsaw, even my buddy Mikes Kids now, to whom Im “Uncle Chainsaw”. And my other buddy Eric who introduced me to my Wife, he told her my nick name was Chainsaw, she said to him “I dont want to meet your stupid friend named Chainsaw!” Well, she’s snoring next to me now, so I guess the name didnt bother her that much.

Oh, and only after I gained that nickname did I then get into tree work, that adds to the confusion!

[dale2242]

Thanks redhawk0.
I didn`t see my shadow here in SW Oregon on my birthday.
I`m hoping for an early spring to get over on the east side to shoot sage rats...dale

[pworley1]

There was already a pworley.

[Isaac]

My handle is my grandfathers name. A coal miner from Pennsylvania who enlisted in the Army prior to WWII. Went from N. Africa through France. Retired as a Sgt.

Thanks,
Isaac

[fixit]

I am a fixer, as in I tend to fix whatever I get my hands on. A lot of people have me on their short list of who to call when something breaks, and I enjoy making things which is just an extension of all the other stuff, so I figured mr. Fixit would be fitting, and it later got shortened to just plain fixit.

[4rdwhln]

I used to 4 wheel a ford ranger around the continental divide Hunting and camping.

and am a Ford nut.

[LaPoint]

I was referred to as "Officer LaPoint, the chubby one." in court by the defense attorney right before I gave testimony that sent his client to prison. A couple of my partners were in court and the nick name stuck.

[Chili]

I like chili!

[Panman213]

Back in my younger days, I ran heavy equipment, I ran scrapers and heavy earth movers, the company I worked for called them "Pans". The number on the side of mine was 213.

[rockrat]

Rockrat-----Geologist-------Its also was my Road Name in our H.O.G. chapter.

[Mal Paso]

It was a Sign! I was driving home from a trip to town and right there on the side of the road "Mal Paso Creek Bridge" There was another local guy who did well with that name, probably got it the same place. My favorite target gun is a S&W 629 6" half lug, not blue but close in style.

My Carmel address is amusing too. I'm a bit South of town, up a dirt road, on a ridge in Big Sur. Winds were over 100 mph a couple days ago. I turned out the lights before the power went out as watching the windows bow and flex was unnerving. Still my post office is Carmel.

And what's better than having "Bad" for a first name?

[No_1]

Ruger single shot rifles.

[Hickory]

I really can't remember how I picked up the handle of Hickory, but the kids I went camping with when I was 8 or 9 years old started calling me that and I have been called that by my closest friends for 60 years.

[super6]

Super6, I am a pyro and 6" ball shells are my favorite to build.

[Traffer]

I had a friend (now deceased) who used to play word games all the time (yeah he was a strange duck) Larry was his name. Well Larry was on a spell naughty words backwards kick. Puke became "ekup" And guess what "traf" came from (don't want to spell it out...might get banned) Anyway a person who traffs is a "traffer". As long as no one knows where the word came from, it sounds pretty good. Now that you know how I got it I am sure I will lose what little respect I have left on Castboolits. Sigh

[Traffer]

I really can't remember how I picked up the handle of Hickory, but the kids I went camping with when I was 8 or 9 years old started calling me that and I have been called that by my closest friends for 60 years.

Hahahaha...A Hickory Handle. Yup good ax will have a hickory handle.

[sigep1764]

Sigma Phi Epsilon is my fraternity and we are known as SigEps or a SigEp. 1764 is my pin number from particular chapter. My nickname was and still is Rev. I had a 1989 Dodge Dakota with straight pipes and when I revved it up it shot flames out the pipes.

[owejia]

My wife's name never have heard or seen it in print anywhere. Was suppose to be named after a Native American Princess. A nurse at the Cooper, Texas hospital was the one that named her, that is the story I was told and I'm sticking to it.

[Elroy]

The Jetsons

[Rufus Krile]

"Snake River Rufus Krile" is a character out of one of my favorite westerns... "The Life and Times of Judge Roy Bean"

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=C2r5pNGNXpU

[Texas by God]

Because I'm from Texas, by God! [emoji41] It seemed fitting as there was talk of taking "under God" out of the pledge at one point - and I like the story of John Wesley Hardin's capture. He was on a train in Florida when the Texas Rangers got on. He recognized them and yelled "Texas, By God!" and tried to draw but his pistol got hung in his suspenders and the lead Ranger conked him in the head and arrested him.
I love my state. Hot as hell for 3-4 months but like heaven the rest of the year. Except for tornadoes and hurricanes.....


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[tinhorn97062]

Because I'm from Texas, by God! [emoji41] It seemed fitting as there was talk of taking "under God" out of the pledge at one point - and I like the story of John Wesley Hardin's capture. He was on a train in Florida when the Texas Rangers got on. He recognized them and yelled "Texas, By God!" and tried to draw but his pistol got hung in his suspenders and the lead Ranger conked him in the head and arrested him.
I love my state. Hot as hell for 3-4 months but like heaven the rest of the year. Except for tornadoes and hurricanes.....


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I was there for a spell.

Tinhorn, a rock band from Portland Oregon. It’s a thing with my brother and I, and although I don’t listen to the band, the name stuck. 97062 is the Tualatin, OR zip code.

[eveready]

eveready, because my wife said I was

[MaLar]

malar my nieces and nephews couldn't say LaMar but called me malar or gamar

[OldBearHair]

OldBearHair---- Boys at the NMBoys Ranch named me with that one after the first time I went around to "bedcheck" the first day on the job. The biggest, toughtest kid in the building and a little guy who thought he was tough, jumped me from behind as I was standing in a doorway to their room and began to push me into the room. It was a long hard day and I was pooped to say the least. It seemed for sure that I had help from above as the thought came to me to just help them along as fast as possible. As we went through the doorway the little one banged his head on the side of the door. Us other two went barreling in toward the bed on the far side. With my arms pinned I dove into the bed and jumped as high as possible with 270 lbs on my back. The kid went flying over me and body slammed the wall, then fell off the end landing on his rear in the corner. I asked "let me help you up" and grabbed a headlock just hard enough to let him slip out and reddened his ears quite visibly. We went out of the room and all the boys in the building were peeping to see the outcome . The poor kid was almost in tears and the little guy was OK. Word got out that "pop Barrick was an old bear and don't mess with him." Then it just morphed into OldBearHair.

[Traffer]

OldBearHair---- Boys at the NMBoys Ranch named me with that one after the first time I went around to "bedcheck" the first day on the job. The biggest, toughtest kid in the building and a little guy who thought he was tough, jumped me from behind as I was standing in a doorway to their room and began to push me into the room. It was a long hard day and I was pooped to say the least. It seemed for sure that I had help from above as the thought came to me to just help them along as fast as possible. As we went through the doorway the little one banged his head on the side of the door. Us other two went barreling in toward the bed on the far side. With my arms pinned I dove into the bed and jumped as high as possible with 270 lbs on my back. The kid went flying over me and body slammed the wall, then fell off the end landing on his rear in the corner. I asked "let me help you up" and grabbed a headlock just hard enough to let him slip out and reddened his ears quite visibly. We went out of the room and all the boys in the building were peeping to see the outcome . The poor kid was almost in tears and the little guy was OK. Word got out that "pop Barrick was an old bear and don't mess with him." Then it just morphed into OldBearHair.

Great Story. thanks for sharing.

[8mmFan]

I’ve always really liked the 8x57 Mauser. I like reloading for it, shooting both jacketed and cast in it, hunting with it, souping it up with hot reloads, etc. It’s just a great, great cartridge with a lot of history. I’d probably have felt the same way about the ‘06, but I got my 8mm decades before my first ‘06.

8mmFan

[facetious]

Facetious. Becouse that's just the kind of guy I am![smilie=1:

[Bad Ass Wallace]

Registered SASS alias is "Irving 'Bad ***' Wallace"

Yall remember Irving, big fat Irving, the 142nd fastest gun in the west.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CD8EtvWW8nw

[Pressman]

Because I have 800?? reloading presses and hand tools.

[FISH4BUGS]

I had a 16' Amesbury Skiff rigged out for lobstering for some 25 years. Lobstering has always been referred to as fishing and I fished Portsmouth Harbor. Lobsters are also called bugs....ergo FISH4BUGS.

[William Yanda]

My parents gave me mine. Not ashamed of it. This is the first forum I joined, hadn't learned about "handles", wasn't concerned about security. Elsewhere I am Bill VonSteuben, after my location in Western NY, on that often despised online marketplace my username refers to a previous occupation. I suppose I could appeal to the mods for a change.

[Traffer]

I have had several handles on different websites. Mostly gaming places (Used to do gaming) My favorite nickname was on the now defunct "Combat Arms" game.
I was Bernie Madoff. After a year or so nobody knew who he was anymore. I kind of liked being called Bernie. hahahahaha. Most places won't let you use the name of a living villain. So I don't even try to use it anymore. Besides not many people would appreciate me if I used it here.

[redhawk0]

Ruger single shot rifles.

And here I thought maybe it was your member number on the forum...seeing that you're the owner....hahahaha

Or...you have an inflated ego.....

ok....seriously...I actually figured it was that you were a Ruger owner too. I also love 'em. I have several in my arsenal.

redhawk

[redhawk0]

I love the creativity of some of you guys/gals...I especially like the stories that go with them.

It's been fun getting to know you all just a little bit....a great bunch of guys/gals on this forum for sure.

redhawk

[Traffer]

And here I thought maybe it was your member number on the forum...seeing that you're the owner....hahahaha

Or...you have an inflated ego.....

ok....seriously...I actually figured it was that you were a Ruger owner too. I also love 'em. I have several in my arsenal.

redhawk

He's lying about the Ruger, It's really an inflated ego!
:kidding:

[1eyedjack]

lost vision in my right eye - NAION is the acronym for the occurrence - went as a spectator to a SASS event & we all decided we needed a "cowboy" name - seem to remember an old western movie named one eyed jacks or maybe it was a card game in the movie don't know but having one eye working it seemed appropriate at the time. still shoot fair enough but have to go lefty with rifles & keep both eyes open when I am shooting.....:wink:

[Traffer]

lost vision in my right eye - NAION is the acronym for the occurrence - went as a spectator to a SASS event & we all decided we needed a "cowboy" name - seem to remember an old western movie named one eyed jacks or maybe it was a card game in the movie don't know but having one eye working it seemed appropriate at the time. still shoot fair enough but have to go lefty with rifles & keep both eyes open when I am shooting.....:wink:

Sorry about your eye. It is a cool name. just FYI in cards a one eyed jack is either the jack of spades or the jack of hearts because they are shown in profile which only show one eye instead of the others showing both. Poker players like to make up names like that. (don't even ask me how I know that stuff)

[No_1]

He's lying about the Ruger, It's really an inflated ego!
:kidding:

I also like #3’s and I have all but the 30-40 Krag which I did have until I sold it to Typecaster. One day I will get another.

My favorite #1 (at the moment) is a HP commemorative chambered in 357 Mag. My favorite #3 (at the moment) is one which started life as a .223 that has been rebarreled in .22 TCM.

Good Stuff!

[tunnug]

On the show "Frazier" there was an episode where they had a play, a lady friend had to yell out "Look out he has a gun!" except that she had dyslexia and said nug for gun, from then on my wife would ask if I had my nug when we went out so if anyone heard they wouldn't know what she was talking about.
I'm a gunnut so it became that backwards, tunnug.

[beemer]

I rode old BMW motorcycles for years, love'm and still have them. Haven't rode for several years for various reasons but I do miss it.

Beemer

Dave

[skeettx]

Skeettx

I shoot LOTS of Skeet here in Texas

I go through about a 25 pound bag of lead shot every two weeks :)
NOW THAT is shooting boolits !!

Mike

[tdoor4570]

someone all ready had trapdoor 4570 so I shortened it down to tdoor4570

[David2011]

David is my name and I shoot an STI Edge which STI calls a 2011 design. It’s a double stack pistol based on the 1911. It’s the gun in my avatar.

Mal Paso, I had noticed that another Carmel resident had done well with the moniker.

Nueces, all Texas residents know it’s pronounced “new-aces.” I at least learned that much in 4 years of Spanish classes, taken in the Great State of Texas. That “e” in Espanol is always pronounced like a “long a.”

[Omega]

David is my name and I shoot an STI Edge which STI calls a 2011 design. It’s a double stack pistol based on the 1911. It’s the gun in my avatar.

Mal Paso, I had noticed that another Carmel resident had done well with the moniker.

Nueces, all Texas residents know it’s pronounced “new-aces.” I at least learned that much in 4 years of Spanish classes, taken in the Great State of Texas. That “e” in Espanol is always pronounced like a “long a.”Umm, no. Nueces means nuts, which is pronounced nu eh ses.

[mac60]

My nickname is mac and I was born in 1960.

[abunaitoo]

When I was young, I would do so many dangerous things.
Never got badly hurt. Just lucky.
Grandma always used to say "abunai" when hearing what I've been up to.
As I got older, and smarter (?), I stopped doing dangerous stuff.
Some say I stopped doing fun stuff.
Only dangerous thing I do these days, is drive.
Abunai means dangerous in Japanese.
I just added the Too.

[10x]

10x - 10 in the x ring..

[David2011]

Umm, no. Nueces means nuts, which is pronounced nu eh ses.

Not getting into a “contest” over it. Pronunciation in Spanish is very consistent and straightforward.

[midnight]

When I was asked to pick a handle here. It was my first time & I didn't even know what a handle was. My email address was just my name. I didn't give it too much thought but I had just buried my 20 year old cat named midnight so midnight it was.

Bob

[glaciers]

Glaciers was my email address since 1993 until the local provider screwed me out of it, so I got a different address now, but still has glaciers in it. I spent a lot of time in Prince William Sound up in the north end and west side which has lots of tide water glaciers. Great place to shrimp and just float around, so that's where it started I guess.

[labradigger1]

Got mine because my main hobby has been metal detecting for 25 years. My yellow lab at the time would dig the holes if I told him to.

[bayjoe]

My name came from a bay horse named Joe
Meanest horse I ever owned

[Buzz Krumhunger]

Character in a Firesign Theater skit from the 1970s.

[Wild Bill 7]

This is the first form I joined and had no idea what to use as my handle. There are plenty of Bill's on here and I have been called Wild Bill most of my life. Added the 7 cause I like that number.
Panman I also drove pans, bull dozers, and front end loaders when I was in the Army and for a little while after I got out.

[Mr_Sheesh]

I use "Mr_Sheesh" as I had a girlfriend who didn't like swearing, OK, so I changed over to sheeshing things instead if swearing. Seemed to turn out that she wanted me just to have no opinion and be a good little slave, basically, so that didn't end too well for her, but I kept the habit. It more matches my sense of humor anyways; I'm not sarcastic very often (unless shown an extreme example of total stupidity) but to like to tease folks, so I'm not much of a Don Rickles fan, but like enjoying life. Humor definitely helps us survive :)

[myg30]

The first pistol I purchased when I can to Tennessee was a North American arms 22, lil ol pocket pistol. From there I bought any gun that was a good deal ( cheep). I really liked Glocks and had a couple but when the compact glock 45 came out it was my favorite glock at the time. When talking about guns at work, I always said I liked my G30 the best !
So myg30 was my screen name and use it on all the firearms forums I’m on.
I also like to sign with my first name Mike !

Enjoy this reading here too, Mike

[BMW Rider]

I rode old BMW motorcycles for years, love'm and still have them. Haven't rode for several years for various reasons but I do miss it.

Beemer

Dave

A kindred spirit. :drinks:

[Traffer]

A kindred spirit. :drinks:

I always wanted one of those old beemers. Impressed with the opposed engine. Quiet and smooth. I always hated loud bikes.

[Zingger]

Zingger- Was the license plate on my 67 Mustang. After it was sold I had it put into pioneer plates and it will reside on my 69 factory K20 Chevy for as long as he wants to keep running. Great stories everyone!!!

[PS Paul]

I was in sporting goods/rods/guns/marine for years and i fish a LOT. Puget Sound Paul was my handle on a long gone fishing forum, so i shortened it and used it here.

[Big Boomer]

Had Hamilton Bowen build me a 5-shot Ruger Bisley in .45 Colt with line-bored cylinder chambers along with some internal goodies like bolt-bearing block. Locks up tight. Shoots great, and is very LOUD! Guys at the gun club would ask me if I was going to be shooting the big boomer (on account of the noise) and then started calling me … Big Boomer.

[Briantllb]

Well mine is my first name first letter of my surname and LL.B (without the dot) LL.B is Bachelor of Laws, but fear not I'm not a practising lawyer. In fact despite having family connections to one of the largest Law firms in the UK, an attorney cousin in Chicago, and a barrister nephew and a niece who is a judge, both in Brisbane I am not too fond of lawyers generally.