[arinvolvo]

ANd I am sure it is gun related....otherwise, they will lock this thread.

The reason I ask, is because I was looking at my own screen name..."arinvolvo" And its history isnt all that interesting...My name is Arin, I drive a VOLVO....It was an email address I came up with when I got my first car (a volvo)...and it stuck.

But I realized...some people may misconstrue it, and think that I have an AR in my VOLVO..Which is sometimes true, but still not the real meaning of the screen name.

Anyway, there are a few of you with cool gun-related names....how did you come up with them? Is there something special about them?

[Skunkabilly]

Hillbilly skunk = SkunkABILLY **NOT** SkunkABILITY i.e. ability to be a skunk!!!

[Beav]

short for Evil Beaver, my old online gaming alias, got it from an old Miller Lite commercial.

[TechBrute]

I'm a tech, I weigh 225 pounds, and I use it.:D I thought it up in desperation a long time ago since all the good names on the board I was trying to get on to were taken. It stuck.

[JOE MACK]

:scrutiny: Took the name of the hero in Louis L' Amour's book, "Last of the Breed." It's about an American Indian pilot that is forced down over the Siberian wilderness. RKBA!

[SRYnidan]

Shoshin Ryu Yudanshakai: My Black belt assosiation
Nidan: My Rank

[Sylvilagus Aquaticus]

Genus and species name of the swamp rabbit.

It sometimes makes folks think I'm from Cameroon or someplace because I use that name in correspondence occasionally. Some folks are just funny like that.

Regards,
Rabbit.

[DontShootMe]

Self Explanatory? ;)

[Norm357]

My name is Norm and my first carry gun was a .357.
Norm

[spacemanspiff]

i'm a 'spiffy' dude that hails from the emptiness of space? and i have my spaceblaster with me at all times to fight off the evil minions of my archenemy "Nollij" and the Zorgs?

i used to be occasionally spotted in the sunday morning comics, being tortured by school teachers or forced to eat plates of hideous food by alien captors.

what i do when i'm supposed to be 'working' (http://www.alloftheabove.net/cahr/spiff/spiff950827.jpg)

[cslinger]

My name is Cslinger and I am an alcoho........ooops wrong meeting.

I have done some writing for Palladium books for both Rifts the Roll Playing Game, the Rifter Magazine and other Palladium megaverse stuff. One of the books I wrote was called the New West.

In the New West there are futuristic gunslingers who are part man and part machine or cybernetic gunslingers. Cyberslingers or Cslingers for short. Hence my name.....Cslinger.

My wife is also on the forum and she goes by Sheslinger. So cute it makes you want to puke doesn't it?:barf: Sad thing is I came up with Sheslinger. Double puke huh?:barf: :barf:

Chris

[Andrew Wyatt]

My body has a first name, it's A-N-D-R-E-W, my body has a second name, it's W-Y-A-T-T...</oscar mayer song>



My alias is my name. Seriously.

[Boats]

I'll just leave you all guessing.:D

[Hkmp5sd]

Mine is real simple. One of the subguns I own. :)

[oldfella]

"Oldfella"... simple - I'm an old fella :D

[41mag M&P]

.41 magnum millitary & police (aka model 58)

my favorite handgun

[Brian Williams]

I was a teacher at one time, still do some small group teaching for some of the equipment we use, but my online name at that time was Waccy PerfessR cause I was a little bit of an off the wall teacher. Taught Shop class, got older and lost some of the waccy and am now just the Perfessr. I don't know it all but I want to keep learning.

[priv8ter]

once upon a time, I wanted my Yahoo screen name to be Privateer! Couldn't do it, but priv8ter kind of worked. And, since I ain't so smart, I use the same ID everywhere.

At the risk of drifting the thread: Joe Mack great taste in Books. Last of the Breed is the only L'amour book I've read, and I loved it.

greg

[Sisco]

Sisco is my last name, that's what all my friends call me. Come to think of it, some that aren't my friends call me that too.

[gbelleh]

My nick name is Gino Belleh, but there's a really stupid story about how that became my nick name.

See, in high school, my best friend (who is Italian) got the nick name "Guido" and it stuck (still to this day). So, I decided I wanted a cool Italian nick name too, so after watching "Out for Justice" with Steven Seagal (his character in the movie is named Gino Felino), I decided to call myself Gino.

Here comes the really stupid part.

I had this friend named Chris who had a really big, old pink Cadillac (no kidding) with a loud speaker system mounted in the grill. One day, we were driving past a girl's house who went to our school and she was practicing a drill team routine. She did a cartwheel just as we were driving by, and her shirt came up exposing her belly. Chris got on his loudspeaker and announced "EXPOSE YOUR BELLEH!" really loud.

After that, Chris would drive down random streets saying into his loudspeaker:

"If you build it...they will have a belleh, a belleh, a belleh, a belleh..."

Eventually, I added "Belleh" to the name "Gino", and there it was:
Gino Belleh.
:D

[keyhole]

ok
Inbetween stints in law enforcement, ( 9 years city, now 3 years+ county) I did 6 years as a PI. Good friend started calling me Keyhole, since I did a lot of surveillance.
:cool:

[jmbg29]

John Moses Browning my patron saint and hero.

G29 my carry gun.

[M38]

A Swedish M38 rifle was the first firearm I bought with my C&R FFL.

[QuarterBoreGunner]

That's easy. QuarterBore. What caliber range I shoot the most.

lil' teeny bullets that go really fast are cool.

[michiganfan]

As if you couldn't figure it out. My little heart pumps maize and blue blood. Started UM the same year Bo started coaching. Was there when the Wolverines Woody Hayes team of the century.

[280PLUS]

my goal for .22 pistol match scores because thats what i can shoot in practice regularly and have shot the same in matches on the good nights but not consistently.

my best round since i started shooting target again was a 291 in practice

best slow fire in a 50 ft match was 96, too bad the timed fire was a fiasco. probably because i said to myself, "well, you got a 96 slowfire so now all you gotta do is RELAX and shoot your normal timed and rapid fire scores (95 is normal on both)

i think i relaxed a little too much :rolleyes:

So its just to remind me of what i'm capable of and to let others know that i'm not that much of a slouch on the range...

:D

[willyjixx]

got stuck with it in high school.....................7 yrs later an people still remember.

[feedthehogs]

From the book, Unintended Consequences.

A must read...................

Period.............

I started using it to sign off a 2 hour radio show I did here in Florida for two years called the Constitution Hour.

I got a couple of hundred people to read that book from the curiousity the sign off generated.
The disscussion lasted a whole week on the book.
One of the best times in my life.

Sudafed for your brain. :cool:

[Darrin]

Mom was watching the TV show "Bewitched" when she went into labor.... :uhoh:

[Logistar]

1. I could NEVER seem to find a name that wasn't taken.

2. I worked with digital LOGI c circuits and my hobby was astronomy (STAR )

In desparation I put the two together and nobody had THAT handle... I kinda used it ever since. - Works on every board I have tried. :)

Logistar

[Safety First]

I just tried to think of a name that sums it up for me regarding firearms, safety first was taught to me by my father and grandfather,so that was the sign-on name I chose.

[geekWithA.45]

I'm a Geek. (No, I don't eat live chicken heads, not that kind of geek)

I carry a .45, everywhere the 2nd is respected, which sure in hell aint NJ.

Nuff said.

[Kobun]

In Japan, the underworld meaning of "Kobun" is "soldier".
Found that out from the Cold Steel web site.
Not that many people using Kobun, sounds good (to me anyways) ;) and it is close to my interests, so I guess I'm Kobun. :)
The sad part is that I don't yet have a CS Kobun... :o

[BowStreetRunner]

BowStreetRunner:
The Bow Street Runners were a "police force" in London back in the day before Robert Peel and the bobbies......kinda like a posse or a gang
and since I majored in criminal justice i like crime and justice stuff
BSR

[DragonRider]

From the Dragon Riders of Pern Series by Anne McCaffery, love dragons and now I breath fire :-)

[TheFrontRange]

"TheFrontRange" refers to that purple mountain majesty, the Front Range of the Colorado Rocky Mountains! I'm not from Colorado but I've had family out there since I was a kid. Colorado Springs is perhaps my most favorite spot in the whole world. (Forget that "perhaps"...it IS my favorite!) We (me and the wife and our three kids) all went out there last summer, drove the whole trip to and from Alabama...we had a great time! That was my ninth time out there.

To all you 'Springs residents on the board...HOW do you folks get any work done with the beauty of Pikes Peak and the surrounding mountains right there all day and night?! :)

At some point I'd like to relocate there. When that happens, I think I'll be roaming the Garden of the Gods on a weekly basis...and following that up with a regular trip to Fargo's Pizza!

[Phantom Warrior]

I'm a kumdo guy. That is, I study the Korean sword martial art called kumdo. One of the team cheers we do at the end of class is "Phantom Warriors." I'm not sure how that got started. But I like it. And I humbly consider myself a warrior, so I went with it. And it's not very common, so it wasn't taken.

[Wildalaska]

Im a meek quite accountant from Rhode Island, hence the name Wildalaska

WildaccountmeoutAlaska

[hksw]

hksigwalther (from TFL days) is just too long for me to type to log in and I'm lazy. Note the postscript below my signature.

[gburner]

My last name is Godburn...in a previous life I worked in juvenile corrections/
substance abuse counseling. Some of the kids called me Mr. G or Mr. G'burn. One of them came up with G'burner. It stuck.

[Majic]

Majic= short for black magic. My best buddy would joke about me reloading as practicing voodoo ( since he knew nothing about it). Had to change the "g" to a "j" and been using it everywhere, along with blkmajic.

[4Truck]

4Truck-The ladder truck I am currently assigned to at the firehouse, been there for 2 years and don't see a transfer coming anytime soon.....

(that, and it wasn't taken already)

[gypsy3]

Ex Air Force Forward Air Controller during vietnam era.

First call handle was gypsy3 (01 birdog)


3 Months later stepped up to the 02 skymaster and became Nomad35.

[KeysBear]

Keys = piano keys I groove on, saxophone keys I rip on, and Florida Keys I fish on. Bear came from my Dad. Take one look at me and you'll know why. Regards, Keys :cool:

[sig970]

My old TFL handle and hunting rifle

Sig Arms SHR 970 in 30-06

[Sven]

My real name is Steve - there are too many "Steves" out there... here's how it get's shortened:

STEVEN
SteVEN
S--VEN
SVEN

It's pronounced "Seven" because that's how my gunsmith says it. ;)

-s

[Feanaro]

Feanor was a character in the Silmarillion by J.R.R. Tolkien. He was a Noldorian Elf, who was basically the best craftsmen in the know world while he lived. He created the Silmarills(Hence the name of the book) which were so precious that the fate of the world revolved around them till they were lost.

He also had certain characteristics that I sometimes share. He was proud, arrogant, courageous, powerful (In character and combat) and head-strong. He was also know as the Kin-slayer, because he killed some of his own kind for their ships(This characteristic, I am happy to say, I do not share with him :)). He was also seemingly fearless, indeed, his charge straight into an army of Balrogs(remember that big thing at the bridge in LOTR? :rolleyes: ) was his undoing. He had been called by many Feanaro, "Spirit of Fire". And true to his name when he died such was his passion and fire that his body turned to ashes.

I have always been very passionate about many things, been interested in the martial arts of every kind and I liked the character so I have always used this name.

/Tolkien geek mode off

[makdaddy03]

I like Makarov pistols.:)

[Edward429451]

Well I'm Edward and it was taken. Edward1 was taken, Edward2 was taken, you get the picture. Fast forward to Edward429451 and voila'... not taken.

429 = 44 Mag

451 = 45 ACP

I'm a reloader. Maybe I should've made it 430452 since I use so much lead.:D

To all you 'Springs residents on the board...HOW do you folks get any work done with the beauty of Pikes Peak and the surrounding mountains right there all day and night?!

Oh, I get my work done. I just seem to get a lot of speeding tickets because I watch the mountains instead of the speedometer.:o I never tire of this place, tickets or not.

[RAY WOODROW 3RD]

:neener: My Mommy gave it to me! :neener:

I'm named after my Dad and his Dad.

[bad_dad_brad]

Where is Catsdienow when we need her? She has a great internet moniker!

bad_dad_brad means bad are my initials, dad because I am a dad, and brad because that is my first name (nickname).

Co-workers used to call me bad dad when I was raising three teenage boys (try it some time) and I had the habit of treating young miscreant men I had to work the same as my sons.

They are all grown up now thank God (my sons that is - the miscreants I have to work with still abound.)

[Powderman]

Powderman--because I do lot--and I mean a LOT of reloading and shooting.

Also because the guy that handled explosives in the mines of the early 1900's was called the powderman. Kind of a tribute to my military days when I engaged in my favorite pastime--blowing things up in really spectacular fashions!!

[Ian Sean]

Ian Sean is my youngest boy, I'm Patrick Sean, been through a lot of different forum handles over the years with all kinds of meanings. Keeping it simpler now.

A touch of the Irish in name only, 1st generation German actually.

[JohnDog]

Many dogs at this house - I am the one named John:cool:

JohnDog

PS - "TheFrontRange" it's a tough job, but someone has to do it! Two weeks ago the AF Academy had their graduation ceremony - Damned Thunderbirds rocketing around disrupted our staff meeting - had to go outside and watch them till they stopped;)

[Crimper-D]

A compression tool used in leatherwork, also a plierlike device used to set fuses into blasting caps/detonators for demolition work. Worked (briefly) in a quarry, and helped set chages, also do leatherwork. The "D" refers to a 'D ring' I've used to make gun harness. I had trouble when registering finding an unused nickname... this worked:)

[Fly320s]

I fly airplanes. Airbus 320's to be exact. Not really work, but it pays well.

[Devonai]

Devonai is a name I made up for role playing back in 1995 because it "sounded Jewish." Turns out it really is a Jewish name. Go figure. Plus my real name is Dave so it's easy for my friends to remember.

[Glamdring]

Glamdring: from The Hobbit a book that I read a long time before I ever heard of Jeff Cooper. Then I read Cooper. He likes to label bad guys Goblins. Makes sense to me :D

Also read a short story Frost and Thunder about a guy from the bigdays of IPSC that gets dragged back in time long enough to help vikings using his cutomized 1911. The vikings called him Thor...and his friend from current days felt that guns should be named. When he comes back to the present he names his 1911 Mjolner (sp?) after Thor's Hammer.

Glamdring was a sword made to fight Goblins. The name is supposed to mean "Foe Hammer". And it is easier to spell :) than Mjolner.

[Feanaro]

The name is supposed to mean "Foe Hammer".

It does mean that, though it's slightly complicated. "1 Actually, the literal translation of glam is 'noise', not 'foe'. 'Foe-hammer' comes from glamhoth dring, 'noise-host hammer' - glamhoth is an Elvish term for Orcs. "

And yes, Elvish is a real language and yes there are people who can actually speak it. ;)

[P95Carry]

Fascinating!

Well ..... if you need an explanation for mine ............:rolleyes:

Tho in fact ........ Ihave now switched to P97 but hey .... either one fits the same Fobus!!!:D

[hops]

HOPS

I memory of my faithful e-commerce server that I had to retire after 5 years of 99.99 pct up-time service, 6 months ago.

[Flatfender]

I'm into 1940s Willy Jeeps. The flatfender MBs, GPWs, CJ2As. I collect quite a few of them and only have time to restore a few. Simple, elegant, fun.

I also collect and restore 1960s Honda motorcycles. Mainly the Dreams and the Trail series (Z50, CT70, CT90, ect).

I used to use HondaDream as a name, but flatfender is less used.

[Telperion]

I'm small, or maybe just slight, as anyone who was at the bay area shoot last weekend can testify. :)

[12-34hom]

12-34 is my numerical designation that i use as a peace officer in the county i work in.

hom = the first three letters of my last name.

Hence = 12-34hom.

12-34hom.

[Greybeard]

Surprisingly, not taken when I signed on at TFL and GT. But ... I'm shaving rather regularly again these days (thinking maybe some extra growth might go back north ;) )

Name already taken at 1911forums, so I went with "DCSA RSO". Denton County Sports Assn. Range Safety Officer - quite a mouthful for a "grunt".

[Unisaw]

Unisaw = a reference to my other hobby: woodworking.

[Tamara]

Mine was factory equipment. :)

[Martini13]

Martini equals my first dog...It was taken so added my birthday...13 ergo Martini13. :evil:

[CatsDieNow]

Here I am - home from school.

I was very upset with my roommate's cat after it decided to start calling my name while I was home alone one night. Scared me half to death. Coincidently, I needed a screen name shortly afterwards that same night.

For some reason it's never taken. :D

[jsalcedo]

Same name as I had on TFL.

Didn't feel creative at the time.

[benEzra]

After the character in the poem "Rabbi ben Ezra" by the Victorian poet Robert Browning, which famously begins

Grow old along with me!
The best is yet to be!
The last of life, for which the first was made . . .

The entire poem pretty much sums up my philosophy of life. I first encountered these lines in Isaac Asimov's "Pebble in the Sky" while a lowly 7th grader, then discovered a copy of Browning's complete works years later in the Atlanta airport while waiting for a flight home from college. BTW, Robert Browning was husband of Elizabeth Barrett Browning, of "Sonnets from the Portuguese" fame (unfortunately no relation to either Mr. Barrett of .50 BMG fame or John Moses Browning:D).

[glockten]

I carry a Glock 10mm, and I live in TENnessee.

[amprecon]

AMerican for the PREservation of the CONstitution.......I thought it was creative and well, I just so happen to love our Constitution. If only the rest of America did.

[Dorrin79]

it's from a book
if anyone guesses which book, by whom, I'll be VERY impressed

[cool45auto]

Beretta Vertec = "cool" pistol

92FS = "9 mm"

Nothing fancy.

[Baba Louie]

First name... Robert

Nickname... Bob

Last name... Ballew

Run Bob quickly with Ballew for a BobBallew...

Hence... Baba Louie

Quickdraw McGraw was my hero.

The burro was the smart one :rolleyes:

Adios

[Mike Irwin]

No special meaning, other than the fact that it's my real name.

[wendy]

Mine was given to me by my mom who loves the book
Peter Pan :)

and no it is not short for anything, Wendy is on my
birth certificate :D

[Recon By Fire]

A combat technique to locate your enemy while under fire is called "Recon by Fire". There are several applications for this technique.

1. Possible Ambush- If you are moving and suspect and enemy ambush ahead and are not sure of the location a quick "Recon by Fire" will get an undisiplined enemy to expose his position by movement or return fire. Once you identify the suspected position, put several members of your Team in an overwatch position, and have a small section open fire with 10 to 15 rounds each into the suspected position, then cease firing. If enemy moves or returns fire you have accomplished mission and can now fire and maneauver on the target.

2. In Contact position identifacation- Once you are in a sustained contact and need to ID the positions and types of weapons firing at you, you need a disiplined "recon by fire". Pick a suspected position and on a signal troops open fire with a "Mad minute" of 10-15 rounds each and then all freindly troops cease firing. Enemy troops will continue firing allowing you to ID their positions and weapons types, and then you can prioritize your fires.

[eotp]

In order to better understand this handle please read or see the play by Henrik Ibsen titled "An Enemy of the People "

[Ian]

Mine's pretty basic. :) I like it, it's familiar, my friends already use it...so there we go.

[DigitalWarrior]

Every Marine is a rifleman first.

I was a dataTek Marine with specialties in Network Engineering and Computer Security Protocols. That included training in offensive analysis and countermeasures. I fought on a Binary Battlefield.

So I am:
DigitalWarrior

BTW is the book "The Magic Engineer" by L. E. Modesitt, Jr.?

[Hand_Rifle_Guy]

Mine's a leftover from TFL also.

I'm also known as "Target Guy", from DSP infamy, but somehow that seemed a bit...'inappropriate'...for a gun/shooting forum.

But I collect Hand Rifles as one aspect of my collection bug. That'd be handguns chambered for rifle rounds, or handguns that share fundamental characterisics with rifles, like a 16" barrel.

F'rinstance:

Springfield Armory S.A.S.S. conversion kit for 1911's, calibers .243, .308, and .358 Winchesters. All of these shoot and handle VERY differently, so I think of the as three different guns. That, and I got 'em spaced out over time, also.

A 16" .45 ACP barrel for that same Springfield Armory Milspec 1911. Goofy fun. Makes my 1911 do, like, 9 different things with all the rest of the different calibers it runs.

An AMT Automag III in .30 Carbine. (Started the whole thing, really.)

The Monster. You know, my STUPID gun. That's an ADC double derringer with 8" barrels chambered for 7.62 x 39. Here I am shooting the silly thing. (http://www.imageseek.com/sven/2003_04_19/7.62x39.mpg) Clip thanks to Sven and Hakan Grips! From this thread. (http://www.thehighroad.org/showthread.php?s=&threadid=17013)

With a bit of a stretch...;)

S&W 629-4 Mountain Gun. Put those insane Remington Yellow-box 180-grain softpoints in this thing, and it's DEFINITELY Hand Rifle territory.

The Taurus M-425 Tracker in .41 Mag. Medium-frame, FULL power. As the 629 above, with any factory load I've put in it.

S&W Model 1902, 2nd change, in .32-20. You shoot it, you know. Brilliant white flash, loud crack, respectable recoil. All this in 1902, no less!

My AMT Automag V .50 A.E. qualifies here, also. I said s-t-r-e-t-c-h...;) (Not that far, though. All you gotta do is shoot it. Then it's no question.)

A Traditions .50-cal Muzzleloader. 'Sgot double set triggers, fer cryin' out loud. I plan to run rifle-weight .44 or .45 caliber (350-500 grain.) bullets in sabots, one of these years. The thing's got a rifling twist of 1 turn in 20", that's faster twist than in my .45-70 Traspdoor Springfield that is set up for 405's! I have such dangerous plans...

Speaking of dangerous plans, I'm going to make a set of Howdah Pistols by cutting down a couple of those 12-guage muzzle-loading double rifles that Cabela's has. 1-1/4-ounce roundballs ought to be a barrel of monkeys, doncha think?

Of course, I definitely want all of those OTHER Hand rifles too, like T/C's of both flavors and all sorts of calibers, Lone Eagles, XP-100s, Ruger Hawkeyes, Pachmayr Dominators, Savage Strikers, That 16" Glock conversion I read about, Mechtec conversions that I can't own in my stupid state, Magnum Research BFR's Wichita Silhouette pistols, that $2500 Blaser pistol you can get in .375 H&H, an Anschutz Exemplar, ALL of those cool Taurus revolvers in calibers from .218 Bee up to .454 Casull, and any other high-powered single shot you care to name. Plus I need a set of SAA's in all the rest of the old WCF "dash" cartridges like the .44-40.

Hmmm. I best invest in high-quality wrist brace. Be nice if I could arrange to win the lottery while I'm at it. Hey, I can dream, can't I?

[Schuey2002]

I'm a shoe fanatic... .. . NOT!

It's the nickname of my favorite Formula One driver, Michael Schumacher.

The date? Don't ask me why I put the date on the end of it..

Kicks and giggles, I guess.;)

[bluecowdawg]

i have Blue Heelers

[Combat-wombat]

I just kinda came up with it. BTW, good taste in comics, spacemanspiff. Bill Watterson was a brilliant cartoonist, too bad he had to retire. Hey Recon by Fire, you live in San Luis, PRK? Let's talk sometime

[Sindawe]

Sindawe: 2nd in command of the Nar, heriditary keepers of the tratitions of The Black Company in Xar-Gle. One of the few Nar to sign up with the Company after the disaster at Dejagore. Fell to the shadows on the Plain of Glittering Stone. Was in the service of the Lady, Lt. of the Company when commanded by Croaker, when the Company was in the Service of the nation state of Taglios in war against the Shadowmasters.

Derived from the Annals of The Black Company novels by Glen Cook

Picked up the handle years ago after re-discovering my attraction to The Dark Side, and realizing that the former handle (Valentine Micheal Smith) no longer fit my view of the world. Sindawe fits better my views of Honor, Duty and Service.

[LiquidTension]

Liquid Tension Experiment was a group of progressive rock GODS that got together and made two of the most amazing albums ever recorded (the second one being better than the first). No vocals, just pure odd-time goodness with some of the best playing to ever grace the world. I try to give them free advertising any time I can, they're just that good. IM me if you want some mp3s. IM name LiquidTension769.

John Petrucci - Guitars (Dream Theater)
Mike Portnoy - Drums (Dream Theater)
Tony Levin - Bass (Too many to list (http://www.tonylevin.com/discography.html), most notably King Crimson)
Jordan Rudess - Keyboards (solo at the time, currently with Dream Theater as well)

They stopped making albums after Rudess joined DT since 3/4 of the group was DT anyway.

[Salpalinja]

Salpalinja is a series of fortifications in Finland, and they are located on the russian border. It was build in WWII and it was meant as a line of defence against the russian invasion.

[NIGHTWATCH]

Defender of the people against the Dark forces of EVIL!!! Watcher of the NIGHT!!! :D
http://blake.prohosting.com/yrumad/S_exile.jpg

[six 4 sure]

If I ever have to pull a pistol on someone, I'm going to have six shots for sure.

[Gray Peterson]

My name is rather known, it's just my first and last name.

My other THR name, Gray Fox, is based on Gray Fox of Winter, a chosen "native" name. Also, Gray Fox is based on a Metal Gear Solid character, the code name for Frank Jaeger.

[GTKrockeTT]

born in houston, texas, ate up all of it's history, especially the fight for independence (alamo). davy crocket was a childhood hero, and i loved the houston rockets. krockett became my "nickname" that friends would call me.

GT portion comes from my subaru legacy 2.5GT...first car i ever bought and paid for myself.

[Kevlarman]

Kevlarman, named after the miracle fiber from DuPont. When I was a kid, I was always interested in science. Kevlar really piqued my interest because it was so unbelieveable that such a thin fabric could stop bullets.

My AIM screen name, NomexBoy, was made along the same reasons. :)

[BallisticTip]

When trying to come up with a name, I looked over to a box of Hornady .30cal Ballistic Tip bullets, setting on the shelf.

[winwun]

As a buyer at the University of Tennessee, we had to have a password to enter the system. I chose win as mine. Early one morning the Director was in my cell and needed to use my terminal, and asked what my password was.

I told him, "win", and he was very impressed. "Oh, does that indicate your desire to be first in your endeavors?" "No," I replied, "It is short for Winchester, my favorite gun maker".

I lost points, but ask me if I gave a krap.

On THR, at least 6 letters were required, so in the interests of easy memory, I added the "wun" (one)

Fly320s, Hi, neighbor ! I live about a half mile from the Old Louisville Boat Dock.

[SapperLeader]

My screenname is pretty easy. Im a combat engineer in the US Army, and combat engineers have a leadership course that is our equivaliant of Ranger School(or maybe pre ranger). Its called the Sapper Combat Leadership Course. If you complete the course but fail something, your a sapper graduate. If you pass everything you become a Sapper Leader. Hence the screen name, out of 60 guys, I was one of four to finish the course and pass all the requirements, so i started using it as my screenname on most of my boards and accounts.

[stevelyn]

My screenname is a contraction of mine and my girlfriend's name. Steve & Evelyn.

[Raistlin]

From the "Dragonlance" series. Raistlin is a Red mage who, in time, becomes a Dark archmage, but ends up saving the world from an evil goddess.

[Matt1911]

Matt1911=Matt(real name)plus 1911,first pistol i ever owned and start of this addiction!!
Matt

[New_comer]

About two years ago, I was really new to owning a handgun. I had just bought a USP9...


Seeking affirmation on the wisdom of my totally "unsupervised" purchase, I happened to browse the net - and lurked - at the very first forum of any kind I have seen: the TFL. :D


I then made it a point to come visit it regularly, eventually joining it.


Hence, my alias then - and now...


Though I was a bit surprised that no one has yet adopted such a simple pen name... ;)

[Legionnaire]

Same handle on TFL. I like to say it's because I'm one of legions of gun owners. Not very creative, though. When I signed on to TFL for the first time, I had just seen Gladiator.

[Leatherneck]

Umm...something to do with career choices made in the past. Proud as ever. Trying to get my sweetheart to log in as Leatherness, so don't take it! :D

Tom carter
TFL Survivor

[haukehaien]

Hauke Haien was a character in a novel I read in German Lit class. (Der Schimmelreiter.) I liked the name, no one ever takes it so I can use it anywhere, and I liked the novel too. Hauke Haien lived in northern Germany and was in charge of building and maintaining the dikes that kept the sea out. He built a new one that was too large, it failed and he was cursed to spend eternity riding his horse through Germany. Sometimes I fell like I've been cursed to spend eternity riding a computer ...

[Billy Sparks]

My name...I'm not very inventive

[waynzwld]

Mine was given to me by everyone. When the movie "Wayne's World" came out, everyone started yelling "Wayne's World, Wayne's World". I got tired of fighting it and used it to name batch file programs I wrote to fix all the problems with Windows 3.1, Shortened it to an 8 craracter DOS name. I called my batch file program waynzwld.bat. :D

[tiberius]

I'm a "Romaphile" - Tiberius was the first of a string of famous "bad" emporers whose actions gave the whole imperial era an undeserved negative reputation. I wanted something not too obscure (cap't Kirks's middle name remember :)), so I just grabbed one and used it on several on-line fora.

When I first picked it, I had just finished re-watching the Masterpiece Theater mini-series "I Claudius" so so the Julian-Claudians where on my mind.

[12 Volt Man]

12 Volt Man
I am a huge Parrothead (Jimmy Buffett fan) and he has a song called 12 Volt Man. He told the story once that it was written about a guy who left the states for Mexico and lived in a place where all he had was 12 volt batterries to run his blender and cassette player. He made Margaritas and listened to Jimmy Buffett.
Any other Parrotheads here?

[Solinvictus70]

It means "the unconquered sun". The reference is from the Mithras cult that flourished among the legionnaires during the latter Roman Empire.

[buzz_knox]

Mine comes from a combination of a nickname stemming from an encounter with a hive of angry yellowjackets I disturbed while investigating an inverse condemnation claim in Mississippi along with my location.

[Mikel]

It's just my name, that's all :p

[TrapperReady]

"Trapper Ready" is a phrase often uttered on the trap field at the start of a round, or when getting to a new station during sporting clays. I have an affinity for little orange puffs of dust, so it seemed appropriate.

BTW, I really, really hope that Art Eatman's name is just his name. If not, I don't want to hear the story.

[Colt46]

There's an old story about a barber who asked an old prospector "Why do you carry a .45 Colt?" The reply was 'Cause Colt don't make a .46!'

[keithernTN]

Keith is my name. The "keithern" is a nickname I got in high school from my drinkin buddies because I sometimes acted like a heathen. And I live Tennessee hence the "TN"

Fly320s, winwun, Hi neighbors I work in Maryville near DENSO live in Knoxville. Any outdoor ranges in Maryville?

[jade]

jade is the name of one of the voices. :uhoh:

[bobdobalina]

It's from a song by the monkees.

[buzz_knox]

I'm not sure about Murville, but there are a few outdoor ranges in the area. There's Volunteer off Rifle Range Road in Ktown, a TWRA range in Norris, and the Oak Ridge Sportsman's Association range.

[TABING]

TABING
SAS slang for "tactically avoiding bullets",
picked it up flying these guys around the Dhofar region of Oman in the former Shah of Iran's helicopters in the 1970s when they were helping the Omani government put down communist terrorists infiltrating from the then "Peoples Republic of South Yemen".

[Hazwaste]

Hazardous Waste. I've worked in chemical plants for 17 years, so I thought it would fit. Been my pseudonym since the old BBS days of yore.

[cool45auto]

Raistlin: Those books are some of the best fantasy I've read.

Laurana and Sturm were two of my favorites.

[SaintofKillers]

Everyone says its a little spooky for the web, I say deal with it, go down to yuor local comic book store and ask them guy behind the counter for the comic book "Preacher" within these pages of the most excellent comic book ever written is the Saint of Killers. He is pretty cool character in the comic book.

[mephisto]

My grandmother called me a little devil, Mephisto. I went to ASU, Sun Devils. I am on my feet all day long so I bought the best shoes in the world, Mephisto. That is my story.

[shermacman]

My first name is Sherman. I run a Macintosh consulting business. I becam,e known as the 'macman' which evolved into 'shermacman'.

[Henry Bowman]

This thread is waaaaaay too long . . .

But, for the record:

Henry Bowman is the principal character in John Ross' book "Unintended Consequences." The book didn't change my way of thinking; it changed what I do about it. Before reading that book, I didn't know that I was part of the "gun culture" and didn't even know about TFL (and then THR).

Soon after, I read Ayn Rand's "Atlas Shrugged." All of the good names from that book were already taken and UC is gun-related anyway.

Who is John Galt?

[TonyB]

When I went to school there was me:Tony Barbaro,and Tony Clement....I became TonyB....also Big Tony,but TonyB was my first try at a acreen name on TFL and it wasn't taken....:cool:

[kalibear45]

kali = My home state :barf:
bear = My home state's flag icon :cool:
45 = 45 other more gun-friendlier states I could've lived in :D

[RTFM]

I am tech support for a nation automation manufacturer.
Most of the questions I have can be found in the tech manuals that are supplied with the product. My first question to the customer is "Did you read your manual' usually followed by "NO"

SOoooooooooooooooo. RTFM = Read the F-ing Manual

[Black Dragon]

I love Dragons. I have a collection of them all over (that my wife hates). Black Dragon is from a book called "Dragons Bane". The Black Dragon was soft spoken, smart, and very nasty when you managed to tick it off!

[Missouri Mule]

Mine is fairly simple.

I am from Missouri.
I am stuborn, a.k.a. Mule Headed.
Show Me!!!

:neener:

[Chuck Dye]

Huck Finn was a pseudonym I used from junior high days in honor of Huck’s attitude toward the truth, which was flexible. Huck was not against telling the truth but thought the technique best used by those lacking the wherewithal to make up a good story. The spelling change I acquired by dint having the privilege of frequenting a drinking establishment that bears some resemblance to Callahan’s Crosstime Saloon. For a brief time there was a coin-op trivia machine on the bar. One slow evening, the owner and the cook and I were playing for free ("someone" having jimmied the case and racked up several dozen credits) when the three of us together achieved a record score. Disgruntled Dave, the cook, was driving the gadget and at the end of the game had the opportunity to enter a player name. Dave decided that I had contributed all of the correct answers (may have, but the effects of several Russian imperial stouts prevent verification) and entered my nick name with a twist. It stuck.

[Spackler]

Carl Spackler is the name of the Bill Murray character in Caddyshack. I like the film.

[Nando Aqui]

Although from German+Italian+Irish ancestry, I was born in Havana, Cuba. My given name is Alejandro, which I changed to Alexander when I became a U.S. citizen many, many years ago.

I am told that when I was about two years old, I entered a room where I wasn't supposed to be, or more accurately, at the wrong time. Anyway, since those in the room didn't pay attention to me, I yelled "¡Nando aquÃ*!"

Nando was what my Dad used to called me, and 'aquÃ*' means 'here' in Spanish. The phrase "Nando aquÃ*" is not grammatically correct, but it worked for a two-year old. Oh, by the way, I was instructed to leave the room immediately.

That episode and my saying "Nando aquÃ*" became sort of a family inside joke.

Alex

[bd]

Mine is not a happy story. It comes from a friend who is deceased. He coined my nickname, bd is short for "blackdog" and it is my token way or remembering him. He was a great guy, genuinely good guy with a very big heart.

Here is some background to help explain. He basically slipped in the shower and broke his neck and died instantly. He was only 33 years old....and left behind a 12 year old daughter....Saddest funeral I have been too lately in the past 5 years....

Anyway, his name was Jeff and was a very good close friend, ironically, when we first met, we hated each other, but then became very close when we found out our love for music and shooting.....we also worked together too....

God bless,
blackdog

[powerstrk]

Short for "Powerstroke" the engine in my diesel truck:)

[happy old sailor]

obvious, or, nearly so. have been a retired sailor going on 33 years and am happy that i can still hobble down to the range and bust a bunch of hot stuff. then, 23+ years ago i found a good looking, gun loving woman that reloads. more happy stuff.

therefore: happy old sailor

[OEF_VET]

I'm a veteran of Operation Enduring Freedom, hence, OEF_VET.

Frank

[Correia]

Correia is my last name. Pronounced like the country, Korea. It is Azorean Portugese.

[BlackJack]

I'm retired Army--parent regiment is 10th U.S. Cavalry, "Buffalo Soldiers," formerly commanded by John J. "Black Jack" Pershing. I tried a bunch of possible names from that basic information and BlackJack is the first one that worked.

[lee n. field]

Is a pseudonym (which I hope would be obvious to gun enthusiasts) that looks like a real name. A useful alternative identity.

[Steve Smith]

It is what others call me. I am unsure of its "meaning."

[Labinnac]

Labinnac *picture a mirror here* cannibaL

From a period of time during my mispent youth when my friends & I decided to give each other "Caveman" sounding names. Mine was Labinnac which didn't sound very caveman but it stuck anyway and I've used it ever since as my callsign.

[themic]

old nickname from college...

"the mic" technically a deragatory term of slang for an Irishman.

shortened to one word, it sparks confusion, oft pronounced as "theemic". i don't know why i use this name. fun, i guess.

[Cliff]

Cliff as in Clifford.

[Raistlin]

From cool9mm:

Raistlin: Those books are some of the best fantasy I've read.

Laurana and Sturm were two of my favorites.


Indeed, although I must admit - Raistlin is my second-favorite wizard. Elminster (of Forgotten Realms series) is my favorite. :D

[ZekeLuvs1911]

ZekeLuvs1911 needs explaining???? :confused:
Call me and I'll explain it to ya. ;)

[Frohickey]

Supposed to be after one of the 'Lone Gunmen' in the X-Files, but they spell it Frohike. Melvin Frohike (pronounced Frohickey :D ) is the one that gets to the dangerous jobs, while Byers and Langley sit at the command post. :D

[STAGE 2]

...something to do with the black buick in my garage (said with a sinister grin)

[aerod1]

Actually I am am a bowhunter. It stands for arrowed one. Actually I have arrowed more than one but the name kinda "stuck".

Jim Hall

[meathammer]

Meat + Hammer. No real reason for it. Kind of brutal sounding isn't it? I guess I just like the way it sounds. :D

[riddleofsteel]

The answer is on this page;

http://www.yerfrockethellhound.com/ENTERTHERIDDLEOFSTEEL.html

[fmjcafe]

fmjcafe = eat lead
Kinda sings, don`t it?

[agony]

My original TFL name was "spleenandideal" based on the epic Baudelaire poem, and also the Dead Can Dance album.

"agony" comes from the book, "The Romantic Agony", regarding love and death and associated symbolism in the era of european romantic art.

[MessedUpMike]

My first name is Mike,
and I can't get through an entire day without somebody telling me I'm "Messed Up". Some days it's physical, most it's mental.

[AZTOY]

AZTOY

Arizona Toyota :scrutiny:

[Miss Demeanors]

I plead the fifth :evil:

It's really a long story but to make it short, I wrote "I love Ed" on a bus when I was 13 and got busted. I had to go in on a Saturday morning and clean the bus or I would have been charged with a misdemeanor. So when trying to find a handle at TFL... Miss Demeanors was chosen over Miss Informed. :D :D

[FPrice]

FPrice. My initial and last name.

Yeah, I know....real imaginative. :D

[Flashpoint]

I was registering on packing.org and was trying to come up with something gun related. Every thing I tried was taken accept flashpoint. Not really a gun term but I was thing of the flash of fire that bellows out of the barrel when a gun is fired, the point being the end of the barrel. Hence flashpoint. It works everywhere I go.:D

[Kingson]

My name is Erik and it means son of king. It was also the name of my favareite D&D character

[Black_Talon]

Black Talon.

From the very un-Politically Correct WW ammo of the early '90's. I hope a liberal gets upset every time they see it in print. Meantime I'll be shooting "RangerT" a very warm and fuzzy, higher performance (more lethal) version of Black Talon ammo.

[KFD147]

K- K******, Texas
F- FIRE
D- DEPARTMENT

147= Badge #

Proud Texas Firefighter / Paramedic

You plug 'em. I patch 'em. :D


Thanks
Jason:cool:

[Sodbuster]

Sod' - bust - er (n) 1. a person living on the prairie of 19th century America who makes a living farming dry ground with no irrigation water in a hostile environment, totally self-reliant and self-sufficient who asks nothing from the government. Non-existent today, an extinct species. 2. A believer in freedom. 3. A Death Merchant and Drug Lord according to certain members of the Brady bunch, although this has never been verified. But who knows.

[Wild Bill]

Born as William. Popularized to Bill. Throw in a proclivity to jump into arguments just for fun and somebody's bound to tag you. We play the cards we’re dealt I suppose. :rolleyes:

[lapidator]

This one works... though there are others.

http://www.hyperdictionary.com/dictionary/lapidator

lapidator -- n : an attacker who pelts the victim with stones (especially with intent to kill)



I always thought the .45ACP was much like "huckin' rocks" at people. :cool:

[Mizzoutiger]

Well for those of you who don't follow ncaa basketball and live nowhere near the midwest, Mizzou is the University of Missouri.

Our beloved mascot is Truman the Tiger. I am, for the next year and half to two years, a tiger... from Mizzou... so "Mizzoutiger" fits.

[Don Gwinn]

Well, I'm named Don Gwinn. . . . and I'm a plodding, unimaginative sort of fellow.

Also, my earlier screen name seemed to make most people assume I was a woman.

[Greg L]

Mom & Dad came up with Greg 30 odd years ago. I'm 36 right now but only 6 of them have been normal. The other 30 certainly have been odd and I wouldn't have it any other way.

Greg

[sm]

I forget ;)










Oh wait , I graduated HS in 1973 and my first name is so common, and my last name is always misspelled, mispronounced-or both.


where am i ?

[Schuey2002]

You're here, Steve.

:neener:

[Miss Demeanors]

Also, my earlier screen name seemed to make most people assume I was a woman.


http://www.familyfriendsfirearms.com/vB/images/smilies/lool.gif Oh I remember that! :D

[12.7x99mm]

self explanatory

[sm]

Thanks Schuey :D

Tethered b/t a laptop and another pc...and I still get lost...they told me this would happen when I got older...I ain't older that's the problem...dragging tether to coffee pot...drag ...drag...drag...bump bump goes the laptop... :p

[Mil Novecientos Once]

If you know some Spanish you will notice that my screenname means the name of the best gun in the world.

BTW this is my first post. Great forum!

[sm]

Welcome to THR !

and your screen name is not in my 20 yr old paperback of foreign terms-btw, umm, I tried tho'

[Horny Toad]

My Dad's old CB handle. :D



Horny Toad

[Smoke]

I'm the guy that always hung a nickname on someone. Lots of people have tried over the years to hang one on me with no success.

I go to gun school to learn to be tactical and the head man and I hit it off and become friends. He invites me back as a Range Officer and says I have to have a nickname. HE comes up with "Smoke". My brother-in-law returns with me to the next course and hears this and it stuck.

For clarification: I do not now, nor have I ever smoked, tobacco or anything else. I do not now, and only have a couple of times experimented with black powder. Go figger.

http://www.powderhornedge.com/images/smoke_1s.jpg

[brownie0486]

Brownie0486:

Brownie---nickname given when I got old enough to have it.
Dad has the same handle since I was 5 to my knowledge.

0486-------The number assigned my PI license by the state.

Brownie

[Rock45]

My first 1911 pistol is a Rock Island .45 Compact...

[braindead0]

I was legally dead for a short while... in 1989... my 'real' name is brenden.. a friend called and left a message, trying to get my attention (assuming I was there) and kept saying my name faster and faster, which kinda morphed into braindead....

it stuck.

[Pilot]

I'm a pilot.

[GlocksRock]

Because Glocks Rock!

[Pebcac]

It's an acronym for when there's nothing really wrong with someone's PC - see signature line. :D

[GlocksRock]

LOL, that would be the ID 10 T error.

[ArMa]

Well I live in California so I have an affixation with AR’s. Since colt is so well known, I went to the next best thing (in my opinion) which was Armalite, took the “lite� out of it so it would be original, and then came out with Arma.

[2nd Amendment]

Obvious, eh? :D

Actually it's not. Years ago when I first got online ('95?) I hit political boards, almost always leftist ones...and made the mistake of using my real name. Ignorance is NOT bliss. Anyway one of the nuts, erm, fellow posters, decided to take things beyond the internet, finding out personal information, making threats, etc.

Long story short he wound up banned from that board, banned from his ISP and with the cops at his door and I left that board...only to return later with the one monicker I could think of that would absolutely infuriate the resident hoplophobic leftists the most. In one form or another, 2A, 2ndA, etc, it's stuck ever since. Only place I don't use it is a couple gaming sites where I'm Chimera or FMCAChimera, my name and rank from my favorite(and now defunct) online game, Terra

[Khornet]

a wildcat cartridge based on the .22 Hornet, invented by Lysle Kilbourn, hence the K. Was working up handloads for one when I joined TFL.

Someday may use John Waldron: LCDR USN skipper of Torpedo 8, who flew unflinchingly to his death against IJN carriers ar Midway, thus keeping the enemy gunners and fighters on the deck while the SBDs arrived above and changed the course of the war in the Pacific. That's a MAN.

[Gus Dddysgrl]

My nickname is Gus and I'm a daddy's girl. I took all the vowels out of Daddy's Girl and got Dddysgrl. Plus I like to shoot daddy's(his screen name on here is perfessr) guns since I don't own any yet.

Gus is a longer story. Since I was born my daddy has called me squirt. When I took Latin in high school he made it Squirtigus. That's the Latin form of squirt(so he says). And then in Mexico on a missions trip he was yelling for me and got no response. He got lazy and yelled Gus. That's the time I heard him yell and came a runnin'. So it stuck. I am now any thing along those lines. (Squirt, Gus, Squirtigus, and my sis added Gus Gus.) I don't like the Gus Gus cause that's the fat short-tempered mouse in Cinderella. (I'm not fat)

So that's how Gus Dddysgrl came about.

Gus

[TheMariner]

One of two main names I use on the net and in the games...

TheMariner-because I'm a merchant mariner in training right now.. I come up for another sea run here in July...

the other is CrepitusMors, a not quite correct translation to latin, roughly, it is suppose to mean 'Noisy Death'. My brother, took teh name SilereVita (Silent Life) to be an opposite of me when we fight together online...

[Skunkabilly]

My nickname is Gus and I'm a daddy's girl.

Awwwwwwwww :D

[rock jock]

Colloquialism for a geologist.

[Sgt]

Pretty simple actually......
It's the last grade I held in my Beloved Corps:)

Semper Fi, Sgt

[DrDremel]

I picked my name after taking a solid casting and making an AR15 with only a Dremel and some files. Not an 80% casting, a 0% casting. Worked 16 hours straight to do it. Went through 5 endmills and pretty well wore out my Dremel.

[QuarterBoreGunner]

So...is a 0% casting just a chunk of billet aluminium?


Oh yeah, and this is the longest thread I've ever seen on THR. Neat.

[geegee]

I played college football in Canada during the mid 1970's. The team name? The GeeGee's (no, I'm not kidding! ). It is apparently a sort of French Canadian pet name for a team of horses (the team logo is a sort of horses head with a flaming mane, with the letters "GG" on it). The team colors are also G arnet and G ray. I just found out a few months ago that an old teammate even built a website devoted to our team of 1975, when we won the National Championship. That team is still regarded by many in Canada to be the greatest Canadian college football team of all time. Here's the link, if you're interested:
www.lks.net/~tiger/1975gghome.htm
geegee

[Don Gwinn]

Re1973, my Spanish is very rusty, but I believe "Mil Novecientos Once" would translate to "One thousand, nine hundred eleven."
:D

[sm]

Don Gwinn ,thanks! :D

boy do I feel stupid :o I only CCW and advocate those things.

I keep telling you people I ain't that smart...see?

Spanish I had in the 6th grade...around '67...I can count to 3 , know whata taco is...my big Spanish phrase is "Satillo plate"....
where's the back door so I can leave without further showing my stupidity...

[Mil Novecientos Once]

Re1973, my Spanish is very rusty, but I believe "Mil Novecientos Once" would translate to "One thousand, nine hundred eleven."

That's correct my screen name is the marvelous gun 1911.

[CB900F]

CB900F

I used to roadrace a CB900F motorcycle. Well, not a stock one. It wound up being an AMA legal 1025 superbike. With the engine built by a Mr. D. Zickrick esq, who also used to build them for Mr. Wise, Mr. Spencer, Mr. Baldwin, et al at HRM. Mr. Velasco built the chassis & they all worked for Udo.

[NRA Instructor]

:) Mine is an easy one and only one guess needed.

[Atticus]

http://www.orlandosentinel.com/entertainment/movies/orl-ent-afi-finch,0,5404250.photo?coll=orl-calmoviestop

I like the name - I respected the character.

The book and movie made a lasting impression on me. Atticus Finch was truely fiction - an honorable lawyer. And he was a good shot.

[300NOSLER]

Spent a lot of years "looking" for the perfect'06 deer bullet/round. Reloaded since 1969, & still that"perfect" eluded me. Bought a 300 Win. Mag(700 BDL) & got accuracy I'm not supposed to have, & found a 180gr. Nosler BT will leave 'em layin' where you shot 'em EVERYTIME-11 deer/not 5 steps in all..........Wayne:D

[faustulus]

Took my name from Ovid. Faustulus was the farmer who found and raised Romulus and Remus -- to famous twins one of whom founded some famous city some where.
After reading the bloody thing in Latin in college, I just started using it for my screen name.
People at work simply refer to me as the prince of darkness.

[Stetson_CO]

I used Stetson because hardly anyone would understand, without lengthy explanations --

Langenberger

Plus, I own 5 I think...maybe 6.

And the CO is for my location.


c):{

[arinvolvo]

Quarter bore, I think you are right...it is at least the longest thread I have ever seen on THR....I am glad to have started it.:D

[arinvolvo]

Actually, the "pics of you and your guns" thread is way longer.

But we are catching up.;)

[tomkatz]

my name is tom and my wifes name is katz, everything associated with us has become tomkatz, I know :barf: . I tried changing names on a couple forums to something catchy and gun related and she was all :mad: , oh well why fight it :rolleyes: ....tom

[KPersimmon]

KPersimmon: No, it's not (necessarily) due to my sour disposition. :D

Due to a bad domestic situation between my birth parents, I was adopted by my grandmother and her second husband (both of whom will always remain my "real parents," my Ma and Pa.) I was the apple of my Pa's eye, the son he never had, and I was probably more dear to him than his own natural daughter. It was thanks to Pa that I have my great passion for the outdoors.
On one of our outdoors adventures in mid-fall, Pa and I chanced upon a wild persimmon tree. Taking two of the dark orange berries, he explained that persimmons were very bitter before the first frost fell on them, but since a frost had already fallen they should be very good to eat. He popped one in his mouth and nodded in satisfaction as he ate it and then handed me the other.
Well... I guess the frost hadn't hit my persimmon!

:what:

Seeing my reaction, Pa dropped to the ground and rolled in laughter. For years afterward, this would remain one of his favorite stories to embarrass me with.

"Hey, Bub!" he'd say. " You wanna persimmon?"

The initial K stands for kumquat, another fruit that Pa introduced me to, with equally hilarious results.

Anyhow, it's in honor of my Pa, who died in 1989, that I've taken the silly handle of KPersimmon.

[sctman800]

I figured with my real name being James Brown, I should come up with something different enough so I could use it on all the boards I frequent. That is to simplify my life, and give this old brain less to remember. I have allways been a lover of International Harvester Scouts, sct=scout, man=no gender confusion, 800=model # of the 1966 Scout I drive.

[Okiecruffler]

When I was a baby I used to chew on the table legs, and since it was an old oak table, my mammy started calling me Okie. Now eating all of that wood made me kinda gassy, but we were a poor family and I had to wear newspaper as diapers. So when I broke wind it made this "CRUFFLE" sound. It just kinda stuck.

[CZ-100]

It was the last gun I purchased before I joined THR. :o

[axeman_g]

My friends named me Axeman years ago when we where teens. It comes as a mixture of my last name and their percerption of me that at the time I might have been better suited to living in the times as axe wielding vikings. I believe they where implying my manners and looks needed some culturing.

[Big_R]

Big_R

Big = 6'8", 275#
_R = First name is Ryan

[jacketch]

Jack Ketch after the 16th century London hangman, a guy with lots of motivation but lacking the ability to do the job in a painless manner. Used to yank their heads off at times too.

Ya gotta love the guy:D

[5ptdeerhunter]

I am a deer hunter and the first deer I shot was a five point.

[boogalou]

When I was a kid, my two favorite baseball players were Boog Powell & Matty Alou. Put the two together one day while enjoying some cold ones at a party. I was a pretty good dancer back then so every time we got together, I'd have to amuse my friends by doing the "boogalou".

[Kodiak]

I have this habit of very softly growling when something strikes me as stupid or when someone or something does something very annoying or perturbing.

Because of that trait half the planet calls me Bear. So the few screen names I have seem to be bear related with Kodiak being the most common.

[Jack19]

Once upon a time, I was involved in a shooting; the bad guy took 19 rounds to the chest.

Some friends gave me the nickname.

[M90A1]

M90A1 is the model designation for a very rare Barrett 50 that I happened upon several years ago. They were primarily made for the east coast SEALS, but five more were made than the SEALs wanted. Those five were released to the civilian market. The model was later designated the M95 for general civilian consumption.

[Mr. James]

My name.

When I first registered at TFL, all the zippy gun-related handles I tried were taken.

I also happened to be irritated at all the young children in the neighborhood who presume to address me by my first name.

Come to think of it, they could call me far worse.

[King]

"King" ....because I ride a Harley Davidson "RoadKing". I like guns, scooters, pickup trucks and Texas. And there you have it.

[hoppinglark]

"Indian Name" some friends gave me when i worked at a Boy Scout camp. I was good at being loud and spirited when leading the kids in the camp fire sing alongs, and I enjoyed doing the goofy campfire skits...
Hopping Lark

[FXR]

That was the model type of old Shovelhead Harley I used to ride, before I wised up and had kids. Sold the motorcycle and bought a bicycle.

Had to lose the 'doo rag and the sneer, too. No matter how hard you pedal you just don't garner the same sort of respect on the road....:cool:

[ACP]

It's a no-brainer: Automatic Colt Pistol.

[Freightman]

What I did for 35 years! Freight handler for Old Yeller.

[txgolfer45]

I'm txgolfer45....

tx is for texas
golfer is for my other favorite pastime
45 was my age when I started hitting the various forums.

so, txgolfer45!!!

Scott

[tex_n_cal]

<-----because I am a Texan who lives in California:evil:

[Orthonym]

by looking at my sig file, even if you have little Latin and less Greek, as do I.
I think it means something like "correct name". I agree with Confucious, who is reputed to have said that before we can even begin to talk about anything, we must first call it by its right name. As in, "They're not bullets, they're cartridges!", "It's not an assault rifle, it's an ugly carbine!" , "It's not a light bulb, it's a lamp!" etc etc.

[cookhj]

my name and initials....those of you who went to VMI or the Citadel would understand.

i stood tall before the man quite a few times for my various exploits while at VMI.

[Moparmike]

I was a big Dodge fan (the old stuff, like Chargers, anything with the word 'HEMI' after its displacement, etc.) when I first got on the internet and still am. Its just helpful to use the same one everywhere, so people can assume its me.

[MicroBalrog]

Wow, cool thread!

Well, remember the cool big fiery thing on the bridge in LoTR? MicroBalrog to that is what Micro-Uzi is to an Uzi

Solinvictus - you're here too, I see! Welcome aboard!:D

[mormonsniper]

Well, yes I am:rolleyes: , AND I enjoy shooting little targets far away though I am no longer very good at it. While shooting one day this year, at our local range, I was asked if I had ever tried out for a job as a sniper (local or state police). I said no....

The wife thinks we should have a years supply of ammunition as well as a years supply of food.... Isn't she an angel?

Retired, US Army (10 years now). Daughter is currently serving in the US Navy (recently returned from the Iraqi conflict). Yep, proud Dad I am :cool:, She is (I believe) 5th generation military in my family linage.

shameless plug www.mormon.org;)

Be Prepared:scrutiny:


(edited for spell'in)

[bigjoegood1]

My name is Joe Goodwin and I'm a big fella. It's just a cool way to spell my name. If you say it fast it sounds right!

[outfieldjack]

My first name is Jack and I always play leftfield in softball.

[DorGunR]

US Army.......Vietnam......helicopters........my handle was my job.;)

[corncob]

I love corn. It's good for eating, drinking, and smoking tobacco out of.

[grampster]

Grandkids started calling me grampster. I liked it. Everybody calls me that now. I am a hockey nut too, and have my screen name on my hockey sweater that I wear to the games here in my hometown....Grand Rapids Griffins.....primary farm club for the Detroit Red Wings.

[QuarterBoreGunner]

AHHHHH!!! ZOMBIE THREAD!!!


It's back from the DEAD!!!!! QUICK! Get a shovel!!!

[synoptic]

A combination of the words Synapse (from the movie Anti-trust) and Optic (as in Fiber Optic). I thought I had made it up, until about 2 weeks ago when I saw it written somewhere and found out what it meant. I am slowly transitioning away from it now, but it is difficult cause I was using it everywhere.

[P95Carry]

I thought I had made it up, until about 2 weeks ago when I saw it written somewhere and found out what it meant. Hmmm .. could have been me guilty of blowin that one away for ya ... sorry!:p I wrote up the report on our PA Fall shoot as a ''synoptic''!

But anyways ... from where I am .... it is still a good and viable handle ...... different, unique ...... it's yours and I reckon you should keep it! Doesn't matter the ''how'' and ''why'' as to the inception of it!:)

[Schuey2002]

because I am a Texan who lives in California
Pretty soon it'll need to be changed to..

tex_n_cal_n_carolina

:neener:

[RocketMan]

My other hobby is High Power Sport Rocketry, another one that makes fire, smoke, and loud noise.
And yes, that hobby is also oppressively regulated by the BATFE. :cuss:

[longeyes]

Far-sighted.

[GM7RQK]

Well started out on this board as Lone Gunman, since you feel pretty lonely if your into shooting in the UK :uhoh: but it was pointed out that a long time user of the board already had lone_gunman so changed to my amateur radio call sign.

Stephen

[Brigrat]

Brigrat: When I was in the USMC I spent most of my time WORKING in the Brig. No, I was not locked up!!!

You may also see me on other boards as Nukerat, as I am currently The Nuclear Security Operations Supervisor at a Decommissioned Nuke Plant. Fun Fun Fun!!!

That explains the Nuke, and Brig parts, I am not sure where I got the rat part.

[ojibweindian]

Mine's quite easy. I am an Ojibwe indian. I belong to the Sault Ste. Marie tribe of Chipewa Indians located in Sault Ste. Marie, MI.

[Fudgie Ghost]

self explanatory

[utahminirevolver]

North American Arms of Provo, Utah made my mini .22LR, which
has turned out in the last decade to be about my favorite handgun.

[Hypnogator]

Among other things, I'm an investigative hypnotist. :cool:

[synoptic]

Thanks P95Carry. Actually, I do think it was your fault :D Nah, I mentioned it to my girlfriend and she was like "You mean you didn't know what that meant?!?!" and gave me a nice hard time about it. I'll keep it where I've got it, and I'll continue to run at my LAN parties with it. But it's about time for a new name anyways...

[P95Carry]

and gave me a nice hard time about it. Well - what can I say?!!!:p :eek: :D :D

[care-less]

care-less, Two meanings depending on my mood or what we are talking about: first is that I have no worries or cares; second is that I really could care less.