Maybe this has been talked about before, but I don't remember seeing it recently.

I always grin at some of the different login names and try to guess what their significance is. If it is the person's name I guess it is rather obvious, but some are intriguing. If it is not too much to ask, what is the meaning of yours. Mine goes back to the time I lived in North Idaho. It seemed I was constantly at odds with tree huggers and bunny huggers so I was branded an Idaho Redneck. I simply shortened it to Idared. <img src="/ubbthreads/images/graemlins/laugh.gif" alt="" />

Not much mystery here. <img src="/ubbthreads/images/graemlins/grin.gif" alt="" />

Bullwnkl....I just woke up one morning and there it was.

Bullwnkl

It's my real name... "Ron Txxxxxx". <img src="/ubbthreads/images/graemlins/smile.gif" alt="" />

My name is Bart(I had it before that little cartoon bastard),and I raced motocross for a number of years.# 185.

First part of my rather long last name. Short for schrecken, which is to scare. As in shreckenpistolen(cap gun) or panzerschreck(the original RPG).

When I joined 24hr I'd just gotten a 458 Lott, which I was rather fond of, so used it for my handle. I go by Paul H on other forums, which is my real name.

Eyesore is sorta silly, I know. Heres how it was concieved....

'Bout 5 years ago I joined walleyecentral.com. Lotsa guys with "eye" in their handle (ie Eyeguy, etc) This is also the same time when nobody was taking things too serious, as per message board etiuqite (cant spell that word) Me included

I have considered changing it MANY times, but I've "sorta" made a name fer meself, as dumb as that may sound.

BTW, I can go to ANY messageboard and the name "Eyesore" is always available (grin)

I just signed up about a week ago, and started down my list of favorite cartridges until I got the "congradulations". I almost went with Wool Lover, but figured that would start things off on the wrong foot with a ton of Montana jokes.

nothing of interest here. always been interested in snakes, rattlers facinate me more than most plus they are local.

Mine is two part. I started shooting service rifle several years ago and they give a series of range commands.

Shooters stand
load
ready on the left
ready on the right
all ready on the firing line
shooters watch your targets


The second meaning has to do with my slightly to the right political leanings<img src="/ubbthreads/images/graemlins/grin.gif" alt="" />

When I first joined shooters many years ago real names weren't really used much.

Mike

I do remember that command.
Only we got,
ready on the right
ready on the left
all ready on the firing line
shooters you may commence firing when you see your dog targets

I used to be BCBoy on Shooters.com, but somebody took that name here by the time I got here. So I picked 350Mag here because I love my 308 so much. <img src="/ubbthreads/images/graemlins/smirk.gif" alt="" /> When I signed up to a Canadian board, darned if 350Mag wasn't taken. So I became Wiserfool on my other two boards.

My handle came from the fact that I am pretty much a self taught hunter/shooter/reloader. I am very interested in all gun things and I am keenly aware of my ignorance. I picked the name because that is what I was. In the several years since, I have learned a lot, but I still consider myself a �New Guy�. I am always interested in learning and I try to contribute some knowledge when I can.

It's the name that appears on my paychecks. Now that's pretty significant.

Paul

Every time I shoot one always seems to go blam, not bang......

Mine is my cattle brand... <img src="/ubbthreads/images/graemlins/cool.gif" alt="" />

Rockinbbar

Mine is kinda lame, but an uncle I used to hunt elk with all time would wake up every morning and say, "Today's the day we kill the great waputi". I know it's actually spelled wapiti, but he would put heavy emphasis on the "u"......kinda like wapuuuuti.

I go by the name "buster" on a couple other boards, but it was already gone when i tried it here, so I figured no one else would use GW. "Buster" stems from an old joke between a buddy of mine where I used to call his house and ask if Buster Hymun was home. I don't think his wife ever got the joke..... <img src="/ubbthreads/images/graemlins/grin.gif" alt="" />

Just, one Alaska hunter, here.

Get ready for one of the lads from Paradise if they decide to chime in (grin)

Idared, A good subject here. Whe I first started using forums I signed in as 'Dan P" after my name. But that "P" part just bugged the heck out of me, I kept picturing a little yellow "P" stream right after the "Dan" part. Strange huh. A weird mental image to say the least! So, I switched to Nevada Dan, after my most recent home for the last ~30 years. Kind of getting tired of "Nevada Dan" now, too. S. there's the story!

About six or seven years ago I started doing internet searches for shooting forums such as this. A couple years later, one of the search engines finally stumbled upon Shooter's Talk. After lurking there for a while, and getting an idea of the currents, I signed on. At that time the boards seemed bereft of proclaimed Idaho residents.
Board---Shooter's
Favorite hobby---Shooting
lifelong residence---Idaho

My wife has always proclaimed my lack of imagination. <img src="/ubbthreads/images/graemlins/laugh.gif" alt="" />

Combineman.

For 15 years I custom harvested Wheat, Corn, Milo and sunflowers and Malting barley from Texas to Idaho and North Dakota. My Dad did it for some 15 years before I got into the business myself. It is my first love. I loused it up in some very unforgiving years (1992-1996). I mismanaged it when there was no room for error. I am eternaly sorry for what I did to Dad's business. I hope he will forgive me. HE seems ok but I still am discusted with it.

After. I drove truck till 2004. I run all 48 states and owned two trucks. Well, I sold out vollenterily when fuel prices got high. "Combineman" is a CB handle that friends gave me back when I was a lad and first driving trucks (I was 14 and didn't even have a drivers lie. yet.) The name has followed me much of my life. I love Combines.


I now work Construction for a Sub Contractor for the US Dept. of Energy...

CM

My first choice, (I really don't remember what it was) had already been taken. It was deer hunting oriented. Not being keyboard or computer friendly, I figured that the easiest resolve would be to go somewhere that nobody else would go. Hence, quebecrun; known for greenbriar, rattlesnakes, native brookies, and the occasional big buck. For the less adventurous, there's some well marked trails. Oh, how I hate civilization!!!

Hey Nevada Dan how is your B-Day cake?

noticed it by your name....

The Siskiyous Mountains of Northern California are my home. Then on the Kifaru site everytime I would do routine deletions of cookies from my PC I couldn't log back on. I was Siskiyous 1 through 6 very shortly. Since the local forest service District is the Six Rivers District, I sort of stopped at 6, except at Kifaru where I am Siskiyous6.1

I was the rifle man on my Police Department for years, and although we were called snipers, in the civvy world it has a rough go, so the shootist kinda stuck. Anytime the crew needed some accurate shooting done, they called in "the shootist." Apologies to John Wayne - the real shootist.

If I told you, I'd have to kill you.

simple. I was to stupid to properly fill out the login information.
my log in name is hidden and my real name is public. <img src="/ubbthreads/images/graemlins/crazy.gif" alt="" />

to lazy to try to change it now. and since I just broke 200 posts no one notices me much.

I've loved Model 70's since looking at one in 1962. Also love any rifle with a bolt, stock, trigger and barrel! Thanks...Bill. <img src="/ubbthreads/images/graemlins/grin.gif" alt="" />

Overwhelmed by a massive bolt of creativity, I used my initials...

I brought BCR with me in the exodus from the old Shooters.

I settled on that name for two reasons. First in the old days of the Republic of Texas there really was a milita orginization known as Boggy Creek Rangers. Based in Ft. Boggy (now a state park).

The deeper reason is this: Boggy Creek runs through some of my land. Been in the family for generations. When I was a kid things were so different.

The land was wide, the fences were few, the neighbors were friendly. I knew miles and miles of Boggy Creek. Knew all the creeks that fed into it. Yellow branch, Spring, Langford, Bull, Mustang, Cedar.

I knew the holes where the big yellow cats lay. I knew where all the native pecan trees were that the squirrels loved. And higher up the hickory groves. I knew where the muscadine grapes hung heavy on the vines. I knew the good trapping places. I even knew where the violets would first show in spring.

A kid could take a fish pole, a 22 and followed by a yellow fice dog just ramble. Knew where the springs were for a cool drink of sweet water. Knew where you could always find a swamp rabbit and the kitchen matches in my pocket provided lunch. Wild plums, persimmons, chinquapins pears from old abandoned homesites woud fill in the belly wrinkles. Knew that I was not expected back at the house before supper and nobody worried.

So, that's what I was. The Boggy Creek Ranger.

Where has it all gone. Well, the big places were split up so city folks could fence off their ten acre ranchetts. Put up posted signs. Bulldoze the timber. Grind the springs to death under iron tracks. Let the creek silt up because the ponds they build catch the runoff. Look at you crosseyed if you walk down the road with a rifle on your shoulder. Use old Boggy as a trash dump so that I would not take a drink from it on a bet where I used to love the taste of tin can coffee made from it's waters. I ain't seen a violet in years.

That is the reality now.

But somewhere way back there the Boggy Creek Ranger still lives with a fish pole and a single shot 22 and a yellow fice dog at his heels.

I just brough him here to meet some still good folks.



BCR

I had wanted a Whelen for years and couldn't find one. I finally settled on a 350 Rem. About 6 months later I found a new Ruger 77 in 35. My wife bought it for me for Christmas. gotta love that woman. So I just grabbed the name.

Ah, not significant. Don't have all my digits, can count in fractions. You can figure out the rest.

BCR-- Man how I'd love to let you guide me through those woods in East TX. Having just started hunting there in the forest I could learn tons of info.... FWIW I was a part of a group of shooters that called ourselves the PlumRifles for some time. Was the same as your old militia in days gone by.

Now to my name. As others mention, I also shoot highpower. I went by the name of Xman for a long time for my affinity of Barnes X bullets. But then changed to rost495. Rost being my last name and the 495 being the highest score out of 500 I've ever fired in a no sighters Excellence in Competition match, commonly called leg match. Hoping one year it could be rost 499 or 500 too.......

Jeff

I've used mine for years and years. Comes from the Biblical account in Judges 4.

As a high-functioning autistic, I've always worked much better with machines than people. When I met the woman who is now my wife, she began pushing me to attend various social functions. At that time in my life, sitting down to eat at a McDonald's would have qualified as an unaccustomed, uncomfortable social function. Sitting down to eat at McDonald's with another person would have been nearly unthinkable.

As time went on, she pushed me into more and more such experiences; eventually I was going to cocktail parties with her and her friends from work, and even holding up my end of the conversation for--oh, one or two minutes at a time.

So there were a lot of times I said to her, "No, I don't want to go; but I'll go if you go with me."

In Judges 4, the Israelites are being oppressed by Jabin king of Canaan, and God sends word to Deborah the prophetess to summon Barak bar Abinoam to lead a rebellion. Barak says, "If thou wilt go with me, then I will go; but if thou wilt not go with me, then I will not go." I identified with that.

Sometime after I adopted the name, clear back in the pre-Internet days of local BBSs and FidoNet, I got mixed up with a bunch of Messianic Jews, and at least one guy I remember got the impression that by using the name Barak I was trying to pretend that I was Jewish. So I added the O'Reilly: I'm not Jewish, I'm a fundamentalist Gentile Christian who enjoys hanging around with Jews.

Neither name has anything at all to do with either Ehud Barak of Israel or Bill O'Reilly of Fox News. I've been using both names since before anyone knew who either of those two were. They also date from long before my conversion from a nominal Republican to an activist libertarian, so they imply nothing about my political views.

Occasionally I have used my old CB handle, "Okie," but usually that's already taken.

'cause I am....... Dutch.

"fish" for Christian, "280" for the .280 remington chambering of a rifle i had when i joined. ain't got the rifle any more, but no need to change the handle for sport.

Just most of my name, never felt the need to hide behind a nickname.

Same as T LEE, except more of my name. miles

I carried the same name over from Shooters.com. I love grouse hunting. I live in MANitoba. I liked the 'Batman' 'Superman' connection, plus the fact that I can 'grouse' about things with the best of 'em when I'm in a mood.

Should be self explanitory - I shoot a 45-120 and a 50-70

from SW Montana

"Teeder" is a play on my last name, and it was my Dad's nickname. We did a lot of things together, and I got to be little Teeder. Since he died in 1989, I've carried it on with pride.

I'm a hunter born 1960. <img src="/ubbthreads/images/graemlins/smile.gif" alt="" />

My wife says it fits. <img src="/ubbthreads/images/graemlins/smirk.gif" alt="" />

Well I was born and raised and live in Northern Wisconsin. And,Yes I am a Packers fan. My team name for fantasy football is cheezeheads. I got a t-shirt for a gift that read
"Green Bay Fan"
"Cheese Head By Birth"
"Packer Fan By Choice!"

I grew up on the Rogue River and hunting in the Rogue Unit of Southern Oregon. My favorite job I ever had was a light infantry battalion recon platoon leader. My non soi call sign was Raider 6 but I changed it to Rogue 6 because I was in charge and I could. Rogue for Recon platoon and 6 for OIC. The first squad ldr is alway 1, the second 2 and so on. A first sargent is 7. XO's and plt sgts are 5, you get the picture. But when I had to re-register here I had to drop the 6.

Billy is my real name. When I joined I was hunting with a 336 Marlin. Now by the grace of the Savage gods, I have a 99 that I carry on every hunt.

Blammer, Thank you, fifty-six yesterday. I still think I'm in my early 40's, but my body (repair frequency) says otherwise!

As my name implies I like the 284 Winchester.I have two,one a rechambered Remington 7600 7/08 the other a Browning Micro Medallion.The 284 is a lot of fun to load for and too shoot and I'm always amused when people say 284 what ? Is the the 284 a general unknown amongst the general shooting public much like the 358 Winchester?

My other hobby is drag racing Harley-Davidson motorcycles and if it gets any more expensive my screen name at the Campfire might get changed to 22 Long Rifle <img src="/ubbthreads/images/graemlins/laugh.gif" alt="" /> <img src="/ubbthreads/images/graemlins/laugh.gif" alt="" /> <img src="/ubbthreads/images/graemlins/laugh.gif" alt="" />

Thanks for taking the time to write all that, BCR.

Macrabbit precedes the Campfire. I don't recall how I came up with it, but it's because I'm a dyed-in-the-wool Macintosh user and shooting jackrabbits with large handguns is my favorite hobby.

I have two versions.

First is that I always wanted to be at the top of the list so, 1A
would do it. Then I mistyped it... I am infamous for typos!

The other is true. Ruger 1Bs are my favorite rifle so I'm 1B here, oneb and wunbe on several other lists.

Same guy.

1B

Because I'm never shy about showing off my lack of creative writing skills.

I shoot an old M70 winchester rechambered to .30 Gibbs by
a local gusmith. He built / re-barreled rifles for 4 generations of shooters until going to his final reward in 1992.

Bob

I live in Canada and cold weather seems to be our No.1 export <img src="/ubbthreads/images/graemlins/wink.gif" alt="" />.

Kentucky Windage should be a common term for all good riflemen and appropriate since its where I live and hail from. In addition it was the title of a hunting/shooting column I wrote monthly back in the 1980s for the Kentucky Department of Fish and Wildlife's magazine.

I like to fish for northerns.

Bending Iron...
It's what I do as a hobby anymore. I used to shoe horses, but now mostly only do my own. I like to forge steel (blacksmithing) when I have the time and weather is conducive to hammering outdoors. A shop is in my future!

--Mike

BCR-

Thanks for posting those recollections. I enjoyed reading them.

--Mike

I served as a paratrooper in the 82nd Abn. Div. and had my tab. The 1 was just added on another message board because ranger was already taken. I keep it the same in order to avoid confusing myself.

"Boiler"- What I have been working on / in for the past 25 yrs.

"pig" - because I have been "rooting" around in boilers for the past 25 yrs. Never bothered me to get a little dirty.

"1" - because I am only one of three remaining boilerpigs. <img src="/ubbthreads/images/graemlins/cool.gif" alt="" />

Boggy - Great story! I spent a lot of time around San Augustine as kid. But when I was there they already had the fences. But most land owners never cared if you hunted or fished their lands if you treated it as your own.

BP...

Initials. BMT

I'm a huge Lonesome Dove fan...Capt. Woodrow F. Call especially.

I am AvAgadro ... not to be confused with the one of the famous scientists of all times AvOgadro. Ok it was actually confusion.

Back in freshman chemistry we had an exam and I scored a 99/100 on it .. we had a question on that exam which required us to write Avogadro's name, we (all but one person in the class spelled it Avagadro ... because that is how the prof put it up on the board ... or at least his "o" looked a lot like an "a". Those of us who spelled it wrong lost a point on the exam ... couldn't get that darn point back to save my life .... and caught a lotta grief for it from my friends ... kinda like an inside joke!!

Well my friend Steve just got online about a year afterwards ... around 1995 or 1996 .. we were looking around on the web and he showed me a chat room (Yahoo! Chat to be precise) ... So I went to log on as Avogadro, and he gave me a rash of [bleep] for being a nerd ... so I changed it to Avagadro and we had a good laugh about it. So I just use Avagadro ... every now and then someone has to tell me I mispelled ... I tell them they're wrong. Its spelled just the way its supposed to be!!!


Boggy ... boy am I feeling stupid ... for the longest time I read your handle and thought it said "Boggy Creek RANCHER" .... I know better now!... BTW Great story. I can remember the days when I was a kid and it was nothing to walk down the street with our BB guns (& later 22's) and nothing was said. I remeber stories my grandfather told me when he was a kid ... road the trolley outta town on Saturday morning with shotgun in tow ... came home in the evening with same shotgun and 10 rabbits (dinner for the week during the depression). And this was normal. I always tell Sara how cool it would be to have lived back then ... at least as a child! <img src="/ubbthreads/images/graemlins/smile.gif" alt="" />

I have collected coins for many years and my CB radio (remember the CB fad?) handle in the 1970s was Silver Dollar. I graduated high school in 1978.

When I decided I needed a new "handle" for the internet age, I just combined the two items. Nothing fancy - seems to work OK for me.

The name comes from my interest in North American Bighorn sheep, both the Rocky Mountain and Desert variety.

Skalkaho is the name of a crick (not a "creek") and a pass in the Sapphire Mountains on the east side of the Bitterroot Valley in western Montana. Although I've spent most of my life in central and northern Arizona, I'm a native Bitterrooter, and I really miss Montana.

To me, "Skalkaho" just has a ring to it.

I killed my first bull elk and my buddies hung that nickname on me. It's easy to spell, too.

Mine is what I have done for a job for the last 18 years , 363 days/yr. I take the place of the 24 hr watchman. I artificially inseminate bovines (cattle). Hence the bull.

batch is much easier than batchelder, the rest of my name. Ever since I went public, i.e. started school, no one could get my name right so it's always been batch; shorter to write and easier to spell.
batch

That's where I hunt

I came over in the Shooters exodus, and brought the handle with me.

The "Stars & Bars" was the First National Flag of the Confederate States of America. It is Not the Battle Flag (which is the crossed "X" flag that most folks think of as "the confederate flag"), but rather is similar in appearance to the federal Stars & Stripes, except the stripes are fewer and very wide and thus called "bars".

I adhere to the Strict Constructionist interpretation of the Constitution (i.e. I believe it means what it says), including the States Rights guaranteed by the 10th Amendment, of which the Confederacy attempted to defend, so chose the flag as my handle. I hope that federal disregard for the 2nd Amendment won't ever get to the point where this union of States finds itself again in a similar situation.

Doug

Mac - first part of my last name and some old friends called me that. The 84 are the last 2 digits of my phone no.# that comcast stuck on to my email.



Mac

'Cause I just love hunting those big dark-bodied muley bucks in the snowy pine timber...

If you want to know my real name, all you gotta do is look...no big secret... <img src="/ubbthreads/images/graemlins/cool.gif" alt="" />.

It's what I am...what I do. Been a Coast Guardsman for almost 26 years and I still love it. When I don't I'll go. But I'll always be a Chief. It was hard earned.

A guy at work started callin my bike I rode a Suicycle, instead of motorcycle. Kind of fitting. 180 HP at the rear tire and 380 lbs dry wt. It is kind of spirited to ride.

Same handle at several spots, just somebody got it ahead of me for email <img src="/ubbthreads/images/graemlins/mad.gif" alt="" />

The name was given to me 30 years ago by my high school calculus teacher/scoutmaster after a 70 mile Grand Canyon hike. Some days became a race to a couple of us wanting to reach our destination before the December sun vanished over the rim. And I have red hair (or should that be hare?).

Doug~Red Rabbit

I guess mine means "man of foolish pursuits" <img src="/ubbthreads/images/graemlins/grin.gif" alt="" />

Took up playing the resonator guitar (aka "dobro") several years back - thus "picks a reso".

My picking sucks and I shoot a Sucks.

"Howdy, Cat in the hat! " is what my buddy used to say whenever he came over for coffee or supper.
When he got my computer hooked up to the internet it just kinda stuck.

On benchrest central I go by myreal name, because target shooting is a very serious thing for me, and i really would rather people know who they are talking to sometimes.

Nicknames can be strange things, I guess.
I recently showed up at a black powder shoot after a very long(years) hiatus.
Most treated me like a Pilgrim (newby) , mainly becuase they weren't around when I was shooting!
Some guy asked me my name and I told him.
He asked me what I was known as and I sid "Bushwjacker".
He said "oh, no you can't use that mane , So and so has that name already!"
"So and So was in diapers when I was give\n that handle by two guys that I had tarcked a moose for , ya young whippersnapper, and you weren't even around when I was shooting this stuff!"
Kinda wrecked my day, so I don't like
"Handles" a lot.
Just use them on here 'cause I'm too lazy to change everything!
Catnthehat

I was a strange kid back when who was forever going back into the woods with binoculars, now I'm just a strange guy who finds his avocation inundated with mostly Liberals.

Like with Boggy, most of the places I knew and loved back then are all drained, levelled and suburbanized now.

Birdwatcher

My name is a two part equation comprised of geography and physiology .



1. I am from the deep remote recesses of SW Virginia's Blue Ridge Mountains therefore I am a real Hillbilly
<img src="/ubbthreads/images/graemlins/grin.gif" alt="" /> <img src="/ubbthreads/images/graemlins/grin.gif" alt="" /> <img src="/ubbthreads/images/graemlins/grin.gif" alt="" />

2. I am about 6ft 5 and weigh around 300 lbs thus many years ago I acquired Bear as a nickname.

See its totallly logical <img src="/ubbthreads/images/graemlins/laugh.gif" alt="" /> <img src="/ubbthreads/images/graemlins/laugh.gif" alt="" /> (If you really believe the logic BS see me about owning your very own piece of swampland in the central Gobi Desert <img src="/ubbthreads/images/graemlins/grin.gif" alt="" /> <img src="/ubbthreads/images/graemlins/grin.gif" alt="" />)

Good Shooting,
HBB

-I'm just a deer huntin fool. Nothing gets me going like deer season. I'm jealous of the guys in the states that have real long seasons. If I could, I'd hunt every day in the fall. My job and my wife don't permit that though. Now my boy hunts with me, and that just makes it that much more fun. My daughter's just a couple years away from becoming the first female in our deer camp, and I'm all ready catching flak from the guys-all in good natured fun. I see a nice little .260 Remington in her near future. The guys better watch out-she's got a pretty good poker face and wouldn't think twice about taking their money!

Wyoguide- because I'm a hunting guide from Wyoming. I used to go by Bighorn, cause I lived (at that time) on Bighorn Street, and own and operate Bighorn Construction. There were a couple other "Bighorn's" around, so I changed my handle 2-3 years ago. The only place I'm still Bighorn is on Kifaru, cause I'm member #17 and I don't want to re-register and lose my low #. Jim.......

One of my kids couldn't pronounce my name when he was a wee lad. Actually pronounced it "Karnith", eventually ended up as Karnis (when he was a bit older!). Now my nickname at the homestead.

Ya! hey der. Packer fans forever

Hello,,,It's my name,,,easier to use the same one everywhere for me with it.

There are two reasons for Shaman. The first is relatively prosaic. I was a practicing shaman back in my days as a New-Age Yuffie (Young Urban Failure). In some respects, I still am practicing. However, I am not doing so as openly as I once did. The basic role of a shaman in a group is:

1) Intercedes on behalf of the group beyond the veil
2) Interprets the collective dreamworld for the group.
3) Performs healing for the group.

As the head network/computer guru for my company I'm still fulfilling that role, but in a far less conspicuous way. Nobody has to see me in the back room with my rattle and drum trying to get a downed frame relay link re-connected. They just wouldn't understand.

The other story is a bit stranger and considerably funnier. It's been over ten years now, I guess it's okay to tell it:

I had moved back in with my folks while my divorce was in process. I had been involved in the online community for years (much before the Internet became popular). However, I had never thought about dating online. I was unattached, I had a very demanding job, I didn�t want to do the bar scene, and so I decided that an online search for companionship might work. I asked around, and somebody suggested I try a place called �The Jungle Vine.� It was a local bulletin board. I figured it had something to do with the Cincinnati Bengals. In those days, online dating was a little weird. It was like everyone online had something wrong with them. From those days, I met more blind people, shut-ins and transplant recipients than you can imagine. My own clubfoot was that I�d married Satan herself and was trying to gnaw my own arm off to get away. I was also the 35 yr old troll living in his parent�s basement with a life dedicated to computers. This was not conducive to meeting nice women.

In my day, I was a fixture in the local bulletin board community. My little BBS had grown into a monster and had 10,000 users worldwide. I was getting regular press coverage, local as well as national. So that I would not be messing with that rep, I went incognito. For my online persona, I adopted SHAMAN. I was a Siberian (Cyberian) tiger. I�d been human once, but a run-in with Siberian shaman had got me changing into a tiger uncontrollably. One thing had led to another, and now I was having trouble changing back.

Online chicks dug that sort of thing. You tell stories about waking up in the neighbor�s yard, unable to remember, with your breath reeking of dog, and it hits a chord in the female heart. They want to take you in and feed you and take care of you. You have to remember that in those days women were not common online. If you wanted success, you needed to be unique. I started getting immediate results at the Jungle Vine. Life was good.

Then came the moment of truth. I had been corresponding with this woman for a while, and I suggested a face-to-face meeting. The more we got into the details, the fishier her story got. I finally agreed to meet her at a McDonalds near her house. It turned out she was:
a) Nuts�a recent psycho discharge from the Army
b) Married.
c) Sneaking out of the house on her husband. He knew me, and wanted to negotiate with me to publish his novel online.
d) Possessed of a set of eyes one only sees in a lock ward.

I drove her home and called another online friend to let her know I was all right. It then dawned on me: Jungle Vine was not a reference to the Cincinnati Bengals at all. What do you do on a jungle vine?

Swing? Holy 4th and Long Batman! Here, I�d been corresponding with a bunch of horney married women. Oh well.

As they say in 200 Motels: �Don�t tell Zappa, or he�ll make you do it in the act!� I finally confessed my sins to my online community, fully repented my actions and went back to being SYSOP, Lord of the Black Hole Literary Review BBS. However, I started a new add-a-paragraph story in the forums about a bar called �The Hole in the Wall.� Two of the regulars were a voluptuous woman known only as Red with a pet Siberian tiger named Shaman. The part of Red was quickly taken up by a highly imaginative red-haired ex-hippie chick, who was waiting for a liver. I wrote frequently as SHAMAN. It was a hugely popular story and attracted a lot of attention. HOLENWALL was a regular feature of the BHLR until it�s demise in 1998.

Capitalizing on the fact that the BHLR had gotten its start in Charlie Manson's hometown neighborhood of Clifton Heights, SHAMAN and SYSOP got their own online historical novel in 1996 as a spin-off, as they tracked down the real evil behind Charlie Manson and the Tate/LaBianca murders.

I was born and raised in the hills of West Virginia. I've been all over the world since, but that is my roots and I'm glad to be country.

Boggy,

It's funny what haunts us. My Mom was raised on a farm in a very close family. Both of my parents were teachers, so as a kid I would spend a large part of each summer playing and working there. Just about my first "hunting" anything occurred on that farm. As Grandpa grew older, brother and me would take the train to the farm to help him out any time of year. My Mom later explained that most of the time Grandpa told her to "send up the boys" just because he was lonely - she always did and never complained no matter how much school we missed.

When Grandpa died it tore a hole in everyone that knew him. The family wasn�t thinking clearly and couldn�t decide what to do with the farm. The memories were still too close and too painful. None of the family could envision going to the farm ever again � things would just never be the same without Grandpa. A realty agent made an offer a week or so after Grandpa�s funeral and the farm sold for $13,000 � a pittance even back then. Hearts start to heal and a couple of months later the magnitude of the mistake began to dawn on everybody, and it has grown to one of Life�s Great Regrets.

I drive by the farm every few years and expect to see a new development or shopping mall, but time has passed the farm by. With permission from the owners, I�ve walked the farm with my own kids and the little that has changed seems to have been completed by Grandpa�s hand. The chicken coop is new, but it looks just like the old one � and the cement stoop is still there with �Irene 1935� that my Mom scratched into the wet cement with a youthful finger. The house is the same color, and buried in the cement near the door is Grandpa�s axe head, blade up, where Grandma used to make us scrape the mud off our shoes. Standing in the barnyard I half expect to see Grandpa sitting on the porch with Gypsy Rose Lee, his cherished golden retriever. Heck, he probably is sitting there.

On the drive there I sometimes hope the farm has changed. I wouldn�t trade my memories for anything, but a place so tangible of times past forever can cause too large a flood.

la....Lousiana
4wd...drive a 4-wd truck
54... birth year

Mine is a reference to the model trains that I operate and collect==Marklin trains.

I�m kind of, sort of fond of the Remington 7600 and 870 pumps lol. tom

Tom,

Of these which are pumpguns? Couldn't imagine a 338WM at a pump ... let the shoulder abuse begin!!

Hey what county? I'm from Raleigh. Thanks...Bill.

Simple, mostly. VA, 'cause that's where I was born and raised (and by the grace of all that is good and some that ain't, where I'm back to now and stayin' for good), and "nimrod" 'cause that's an old name for "hunter" - that's what I am at heart (even though I have to do other things to be one when I can).

After a very (too) long absence, I'm back, and glad to be here. Thanks for all y'all keepin' a seat warm by the 'fire. Now, where's TLEE? And, I think that I need to talk to a man about a Stith mount or two...

Hey guy, I ain't far, still stirring the big pot.

george,
just the whelen is a pump. I never said I only used pumps lol. tom

vbshootinrange here!
First name Virgil, Middle name Blaine. Mom used to call me Virgil B. when I was about to get a 'licken!
The shootinrange part is a bit of braggin 'bout my 100 yd. shootin range 'long side my home.
VB

Du bist ein dummkopf: a phrase which my Kraut Granny liked to invoke when I annoyed her, back in my toddler days.

Rural PA farmboy cousins, (5 of 'em in that family of 8) that I spent summers with for many years, just shortened it to dube when I was about 6 or 7. There are only a few of them left now, but they still call me that on occasion. No one else at family reunions has a clue WTH they're talking about.
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Used it when I first logged-on at Shooters, forget why I had to add the PA to it here. And all this time ol' pumpgun likely thought I was just another long-haired, maggot-infested, dope-smoking FM type.
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JOG, It's strange what things will call up the shades ain't it. Years back I stopped by my (maternal) grandparents old house on Lake Worth. Just wanted to remember the boat house and dock now fallen in.

There was a concret slab poured at the front door whit "Jim- Bill-Frank scratched in surface and the date 1956. They were my unkles and all gone now.

The Lady living there, when she finally answered the door, had always wonderd who those people were. <img src="/ubbthreads/images/graemlins/grin.gif" alt="" />



Birdy it makes you sad to think what our kids will have to remember in fifty years don't it?

BCR

I brought the name with me from shooters.com.

It's a multiple pun. Once upon I time I poked a .458-sized hole in one of the Rio Grande bulls that Wooters and Aagaard used to write about; more large male bovines are on the agenda. Occasionally I shoot in formal rifle competition with a printed black circle as the target. The rest of the puns relate to the oral and written discourse in which my friends accuse me of engaging too frequently.
--Bob

Born and raised in Harrison. Took a nice 7 point out of Harrison this season, and a fat doe for eatin out of Preston county. I do feel at home in those hills, and get back whenever I can!

Take Care,
Kevin

Many thanks to all who replied. It is always a fun thing for me to actually hear what is the significance of the user names after seeing them so many times. This group have some very, very interesting backgrounds and I for one would love to read a book on a collection of them.

Thanks again to all.

I was trying to come up with a name on ebay, of all places, to make an account and kept trying and I kept thinking of those ?'s they ask you (favorite stuff, ect. ) and I enjoyed fishing and I was in the market for a new pair of hunting boots at the time and wha la! ..Bootsfishing ...but the neat thing about it is, that I realized after, my father's nickname is Boots......so I proudly get to carry on his name.....(he's still living and thinks it's a hoot.....)....Boots

because...

1- I desperately wanted a big non-typical muley for my wall... and kept trying the first few yrs of big game hunting (it's only been about 8 total); finally last yr my 12 yr old daughter got a beauty (that was even better than me getting one)

2- I try to think unconventionally, and am happy to run against majority opinion on a forum/thread... which sometimes raises hackles...

I think my handle had its origin in west Texas where I grew up.-------we saw a hell of a lot more muddy water than clear water.

Well, my name "AggieDog" really should be pronounced "AuggieDog" and maybe spelled that way. I expect ole Ken to lecture me any day now on my spelling.

It was the name I was given when I was in the 17th Cav, 82nd Airborne div. Usually, most had a nickname that someone gave you, and mine stuck in the Army. Remember the cartoon character Auggie Dog, and Doggy Daddy? OH Heck, anyway, that was my army nickname.

Rusty Gunn - because I figured it was a cool enough alias to go with and I don't care much for rusty guns.
~~~Suluuq (my Inupiaq Eskimo name. Named after my grand father. I've a young nephew with this name, too. It refers to the fletchings on an arrow.)
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<img src="/ubbthreads/images/graemlins/grin.gif" alt="" /> cuz I live in Ohio and my name is Louie...no that's not it...cuz I live in Wisconsin and my name is Mohamed...no damn it that's not it either...Oh Oh I know cuz I live in Indiana and my name is..........................................

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Aggie,

And here I thought you must have been a Texas A&M grad...

I'm a great fan of the .41 Remington Magnum and also greatly enjoyed Elmer Keith's writing. I call it the .41 Keith to honor him.

I was born and raised in western Pa were I spent more time hunting,fishing and traping then being at school.I some how managed the graduate highschool and enlisted in the Air Force. They sent me to Wyoming and I never went back. About the time I started playing on computer's I went to a class reunion and one of my class mates stated that I really had gotten lost.
For the record I have never been so lost in the backcountry that they had to come find me.

Marty is a nickname that has been imparted to many members of my family. From my father to myself, brother his sons, and my sons. Just part of the last name, Martell. I really enjoyed reading all the replies to this thead.

My favorite firearm - Savage model 24.

I now own and am very fond of a Borden 280AI. Since most versions of saying 280AI were taken, I just came up with this crazy one.

I have a Sauer in every ones favirote caliber 30-06. The ball came from when I shoot it a ball of flame comes out the end along with a big concussion. It's always fun on the range shooting with those smart azzes that think they know and are everything. :-)) Scares the hellout of them, and they don't bother me or my friends while cap off a couple 100 rounds each. Of course my friends play it up just to ensure they stay away.

Rooselk = roosevelt elk, my game of choice. Simple and easy.

creepingdeath, that's who I am!! If your a critter and I'm creeping your dead! Fit's me perfect my favorite thing to do in this world is hunt!! Also back in my high school daze it was the name of my favorite song. I started hunting back in high school and the name of the song fit my new found love for the hunt perfect. I've been creepingdeath ever since. Thanks CD

Metallica fan i take it.

It's my initials and my badge number. I've had the initials for 51 years and the badge number for almost 26 years.

I am a Breton from Brittany, Brittany. "Peau rouge" is a nickname among ourselves, we don't see the sun very much over there...
But it's ok I'm a Husker now.

It is what it is... about all I've been using in the field for the last 15 years or so, either a drilling or a shotgun/rifle o/u.

Mine is my Alaska license plate number. Also the rifle I carry

<img src="/ubbthreads/images/graemlins/smile.gif" alt="" /> <img src="/ubbthreads/images/graemlins/frown.gif" alt="" /> <img src="/ubbthreads/images/graemlins/smile.gif" alt="" /> <img src="/ubbthreads/images/graemlins/frown.gif" alt="" /> LONGBEARDKING isn't really mine. It was my sons. I was with him when he shot his first turkey. Since that time, he and I have shared many many turkey hunts and both have shot our share. Well he has grown and left home and we do not do near enough together anymore. I STOLE his handle and use it everywhere I can. It's here, on eBay, on CGN, and a couple ice fishing sites. Everytime I type it I think of him and how very much I miss him. He is really the king of whatever he does, not me. But there you have it. <img src="/ubbthreads/images/graemlins/smile.gif" alt="" /> <img src="/ubbthreads/images/graemlins/smile.gif" alt="" />

I have always been facinated by deer with droptines so I just started using it a long time back.

I do all my hunting riding mules. Have been for 30 + years and I have rode for over 50 years. Took the name when CB's were all the rage, and just stuck with it. Any greenhornthat hunts with me alwasy asked me why I don't get saddlesore. Guess I'm just use to it . I always figured that if God wanted you to walk and carry things oyour back, He would not have invented stirrups and pack saddles

My wife give me the name....not sure why?

No imagination required for mine. I used to have sevral at different websites. I can remember this one My first name (Martin)and the initials of the company I work for (BNS).

When I was a kid I had to buy all of my own shells for hunting. Learned very quickly to "make the first shot count". Still have to buy my own shells.. <img src="/ubbthreads/images/graemlins/smile.gif" alt="" /> and still believe in making every shot count.

firstshot

I joined up here when shooters.com folded and it must have been about the time the Supreme court ruled against Texas in Lawrence vs Texas. The nest day I drove over to Gettysburg and bought two Confederate battle flags. One is tacked up on the side of my house. Lots of folks don't stop by much any more, and they even had some probs selling the house just down the road next door. HAH!

I ain't no racist but I DO believe in the 10th amendment. Let the sodomites in NY and CA do what they will, leave the rest of us alone.

Bron and raised in VA I was taught at an early age that only tyranny comes from north of the Potomac. Now I live there. ARggggggggg! The IRONY!!!

I've averaged well over 100,000 air miles per year in my business for over 2 decades so I wanted something to relate to that. I plugged "traveler" in an on-line thesaurus and the first return was "journeyman." I then entered "journeyman" into Merriam-Webster and got "a worker who has learned a trade and works for another person usually by the day", which seemed perfect for a consulting engineer...

I think this explains mine. They are my passion.

Hey...ain't that a scene from one of them Alien sci-fi flicks?

jackfish, I tried to do this once, hit some damn key and lost the whole thing. It will probably show up partically done. I just wanted to say that I was glad to see someone out there who realizes the value of a true game fish. I love catching them! The big ones swim away again, but the small ones hit the pan. I think that they are just as good a walleye (do you think I will be struck down for that?) and would rather clean one anyday than a walleye with those tough ribs.

I am kind of posting late to this thread but hear it is anyhoo.
I partake in a cigar every so often. So I took a the name of a fav for a handle. Use it on a few trad archery sites and a some others as well.

I live on the coastal plain of southeast Georgia, about 50 mi. WNW of Savannah, and grew up in and around the small black water rivers of the area, particularly the Ogeechee (pronounced just like it's spelled). When I decided to quit using my real name and take a handle, it was just the logical thing for me to choose.

I know you guys who've spent time at Ft. Stewart learned to hate the place, or at least its bugs and biting stuff, like the snakes, but .... well, it's a darn fine place for a boy to grow into a man. You Ft. Stewart guys were pretty busy, but if you'd had time to mess around the rivers and creeks and surrounding country, try to catch rattlers from gopher turtle holes - or hunt foxes that take up residence in them - and dabble around the creeks with a screen wire net stretched over a flexible limg, finding strange stuff like little Johnny Darter and Pirate Perch fish you never knew were there, and a jillion other things, you'd love that black water, too. Haven't found a sasquatch yet, but I keep looking. Heard a Whumpus Kitty once. Real close. TOO dang close! It didn't sound really contented, so I guess it hadn't been eating Carnation's cows???? Dang fine place to discover the mysteries that lie all around us, that we never realize were there until we go a'plundering about .... like kids tend to do. Never even came close to getting snakebit until I got older, and "knew all about them." Funny how that works, ain't it?