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capt ed was the name of each of my boats. naturally i had three, all at different times. the third was my last, sold this past may.

-ken

My inlaws are all city-slickers.. I'm a country boy, through and through, so they feel I'm the 'Redneck' of the family...

I'll be a redneck over a slicker any time..

just a guy named dave from up north.

I had no idea this place was so big. come to find out.... I aint so far north compared to our AK & Canadian posters.

Carry over from another board...F150online, have had 2 F-150 King Ranch pickups-an 2003 and 2007 thus kingthing0307.

Looked in the mirror one morning just after getting up and decided I looked a bit Grizzly. Just tacked it to my first name.

My name is Virgil. Middle inital is B. Mom always called me Virgil B. and I have a 100 yard shooting range on my property. Thus vbshootinrange.

Red is a nickname hung on me by a fellow baseball coach, 44spl is my favorite cartridge

Back in the Republic of Texas days there was a Ft. Boggy on the banks of Boggy creek. A place of refuge in time of indian raids. There was for a time a ranging company Boggy Creek Rangers there who rode when the Keechi, Comanche, or Kickappo were on a tear.

When I was a kid I used to poke around the ruins of that old place and imagine I was one of them.

The skies were high and the world was wide and I knew all of Boggy Creek from its head to where it joined with the Trinity River but mostly the upper part. Just wandering, ranging with a 22 a fish pole and a yellow fice dog.

All gone now, land gobbled up, timber dozed, springs crushed, little streams damed to make ranchette lakes. Boggy is silted, no holes any more. No Tresspassing signs instead of Howdy, come on in.

But still way back in my mind is a kid with a fish pole, a 22 and a yellow fice dog rangeing over the country.

Boggy Creek Ranger.

BCR

Grogel, old nickname. Deluxe comes from a question about a vintage scope.

Someone on the forum asked what made one model a deluxe and someone commented that they just added the name deluxe to the same old scope.

when I saw it was that easy I had to try it.

When I changed to "grogel deluxe" it was going to be a one day joke. Never bothered to change it back.

"get over here!"

Got my first beagle when I was 14. Never been without them, for the past 52 years. Hunt, trialed, showed, and judged them, along with a breif 30 years running the big game hounds. Labs in the house, hounds in the kennel.

Mine is the name of my preferred brand of saxophone. I'm a trained sax man with a degree in music ed - saxophone emphasis. Can't beat a Selmer Reference 54!

Red Mtn is also known as Grizzly Bear Mtn by the natives here and for good reason i might add.

I figured using my name would make it easy to remember when signing in.

Just a nickname since 3rd grade. I guess because I was always the biggest guy in class, and my first name is Colin. I think more people know me by Big C than actually know my name, or at least use it than my real name anyway. C-

Mine is the initials of both of my boys.

Clyde

Short for a business I own called Wildlife Control Services

Or,..I could have used needle-driver .

Not a diver, but a Jethro Tull fan.

The name of their 1971 album.



And that isn't a self-portrait and the song doesn't describe me...

Aqualung

For many years I would meet a group of friends in the Sonora desert east of Phoenix for a week of camping out to hunt javelina and quail on one of the Apache reservations.

Midday was usually reserved for lunch, naps and general shooting fun and games, we had a 100yd range set up.

A couple of the guys were into TC Encores at the time, hunting javelina up to elk with handguns. One guy brought out his .338 JDJ to fire and asked if I would like to take a shot. My only experience with handguns had been with handgun cartridges, I had never shot something like this before...

It's incredible how fast the human mind thinks, I remember hearing the gun go off and having time to think to myself "Man, this is gonna hurt!"

I wasn't holding it properly, the recoil sent the gun back into my face, the hammer took a chunk out of the side of my nose and the rest of my face got some nice cuts, blood everywhere.

After my buddies ascertained I was going to be OK, we had a laugh about it, they started calling me "Recoil" and I've used it for my handle since then.

Wish I had a picture of that....my face was black and blue and scabbed over for about a week, scared the flight attendant on the way home.