I see quite a few interesting screen names on here. Just thought it would be cool to hear how you picked it. My last name means bear heart so that was easy.
This could be interesting....
Mine comes from a video game that me and some friends used to play at lan parties back in the early 90's. If anyone here could name the game I'd be impressed.
Pretty simple for me, I'm from Michigan and I like to bow hunt.
I live a couple of miles outside of a tiny crossroads town (Irma) that has about 20 houses and a post office... suburban Irma.
Deadsmple would that be level 7 of Doom 2? I played and still play way to many games.
:coffee: Great thread..Mine is just my last name with the first initial of my first name on the end.
mine came from a documentory from the discovery channel walking with dinosaursbut i didn't plajorize it was about sabertoothcats
Guess why mine is what it is? :p :goldtooth:
My last name is "Milano" and I one day I was helping a trad friend tune his bow and when we got it perfect he said "Thats Mint ...Milano" playing on the cookie. And it stuck. Of course when I was hunting with Fred Eichler and his wife Michelle Fred didn't like "Mint" and dubbed me "cookie" and Michelle immortalized that name at the Muzzy shoot so now I have "cookie" as well.....@#$%.
(http://i369.photobucket.com/albums/oo137/jm9862/MintMilano.jpg)
QuoteOriginally posted by Deadsmple:
Mine comes from a video game that me and some friends used to play at lan parties back in the early 90's. If anyone here could name the game I'd be impressed.
DOOM II
My number and nickname from high school is how my screen name came about.
I am a male resident of the great state of Tennessee. Western side of course.
Hey Mike you just made my day! Spot on. :clapper:
QuoteOriginally posted by vermonster13:
QuoteOriginally posted by Deadsmple:
Mine comes from a video game that me and some friends used to play at lan parties back in the early 90's. If anyone here could name the game I'd be impressed.
DOOM II
My number and nickname from high school is how my screen name came about. [/b]
Dave,...Football??
My screen name was given to me by Van Harrell (Van/TX) many years (at least 15) ago. We were at a 3D shoot in South Texas (actually it was the Hill Country Shootout 2 years before it moved to the Bugscuffle Ranch in Vanderpool). I was shooting so bad... :banghead: could not hit the broad side of a barn. I mean I was spraying arrows everywhere all over the targets. On at least three occasions I managed to hit tree limbs and the arrows glanced off and into the 10 ring. One time the arrow hit a tree, went to the ground and into the target. Standing there scratching his head and smiling, Van said, "We're just gonna have to start calling you 'ricochet'." The handle stuck so I just converted it over to Ric O'Shay in honor of my Irish ancestry......
Danny
My most favorite vehicle ever. Still have it too.
I have to keep mine as simple as possible so I can remember. Doug Gilmore here
A Finlander from Minnesota.
From the movie "The Outlaw Josey Wales".
Tim
Some friends and myself were floating the Rogue River and I was catching all the steelhead...they said I must be "snagging" them. Just stuck.
Mine came from my Mom and Dad :thumbsup:
Well, me and a couple buddies were sitting around the pool one night with beverage's in hand. I had set my cup down, and when I picked it back up to take a drink, a tree frog had crawled up on the lip of my solo cup, and I was eyeball to eyeball and nose to nose with him. Needless to say, him and the cup used some frequent flyer miles... guess it scared the hockey out of both of us.. that's how I got the nickname...
Froggy
I would write Onehair on my top limb for years to remind me to pick...onehair.
I'm actually a Canadian raised in the West Kootaney's in the Southern interior of B.C. I,m married to an American and currently living in Tucson. I sometimes miss the forrests up there,
hence shade seeker. lol I'm getting real good at finding shady parking spots though!
Rob
Mine's simple, not much thought involved. I'm Brad Cayton from West By God Virginia.
Nick-name growing up was "Whit", my niece was born in 1986, so my friends began calling me "unclewhit".
This thread is going to be very interesting.
I have 14 letters in my last name so using the first 5 is easier.
Bisch
Mine is actually from my compound days. I shot a PSE then and PSEMAN was my name on the various internet boards I frequented then. When I switche to trad gear a couple of years ago, I just kept that name because it was to much trouble to have to remember multiple usernames and passwords :o
I should probably change it to something else, but I probably won't.LOL
I read an article in one of the archery magazines about southeast indian two fletching and played around with it for awhile. At one time I shot a tournament with an arrow made of dog fennel and with 2 fletches. I was surprized that the shaft survived, and continued to shoot 2fletch for awhile afterwards. Eventually I came to the conclusion that 2 fletch was kinda like halfa$$ 4 fletch and wasn't as forgiving. The name just kinda stuck.
Mine is the name of a specific color phase of an interior grizzly bear in the state of Alaska. A blondish color with dark colored legs and dark circles around the eyes. I actually saw one of these in the wild just once. I had a grizzly tag but the season wasn't open for another week. I was and still am intrigued so I just used that name. The number 1 means absolutely nothing! I used this as a passwor from something once and it was easy for me to remember!
people used to call my Dad Uncle Funff, apparently when I was little I called my self Jeff Funff
I was always impressed with Ishi(and other original Americans), and would love to know all he knew...
Oh boy I get asked this all the time! A long time ago me and my wife Dee were trying to set up an e-mail account for a new provider account. We tried to combine our names (Dennis and Dee) dennisdee, deedennis, dendee, deeden, every way we tried was already taken by some one. So I threw my middle initial in there (A) and we ended up with adeeden! I have used it for screen names every where so I won't forget it when I sign in somewhere!
I am about as successful hunting as the cartoon character, Wiley Coyote, chasing the road runner. Bagging game doesn't come easy but I appreciate it when I harvest something! :help: :wavey:
Lieutenant with PD, badge no. 51. Lt Dan was already taken on the forum, just as well. If I ever meet the person who wrote the Forrest Gump line "Lt. Dan, you got legs!!" line I'll kick his a$$. I must hear it ten times a day.
Lt. Dan
The story surrounding mine leaves a very bad taste in my mouth after certain events that have transpired since then with the parties involved. So all I will say is on an elk hunting trip I missed the same cow twice, first shot went over her back and the second went under her belly.
I would change it if given the chance, but cannot, besides everyone knows me by it on several sites, so better left alone.
I am a faithful Mizzou Tiger. Living in Iowa that isn't exactly anything to talk about. I have a couple of elitist Iowa hunting friends that claim Iowa should cede the lower two tiers of Iowa counties to Missouri and it would raise the IQ and average income of both states. That is supposed to be an insult to someone from Missouri but it is hard to argue around their logic because they may be correct.
I have hauled thousands of pounds of hunting camps and camp gear deep into the mountains and have guided otherwise novices to some great hunting, like a Sherpa guide so my hunting comrades call me the Sherpa. Missouri Sherpa is a backhanded term of endearment while still being respectful of what I do for them.
Gatekeeper comes from the origin of my family surname Porter. A surname may have come from a families location, occupation, or predominate physical feature. In my case it comes from the occupation.
The English, Scottish meaning of Porter is keeper of the gate, gatekeeper or doorkeeper.
I thought Gatekeeper sounded cool!
Mine's simple. It is my favorite of all terrains. I love the smell, the sun rises, and the wind in the open country.
I have a cabin at the base of Sharptop Mountain thus...
"Long Arrow" comes from a Black Foot indain legend......Long time ago the Black Foot's didnot have a name for the horse, so it was called, Elk Dog and other names...Long Arrow was deaf orphan boy...taken in by Runnin' Chief..anyway Long Arrow got his hearing back..and went to great spirit and brought the horse back for his people! Good story to read. just search for "long arrow" idain chief. :archer:
I had several others in mind but they were all taken so, considering I live in Shady Spring West Virginia....walaaa....sswv I am.
:archer:
"I'll keep my guns, freedom and money. You can keep the change."
I didn't find archery on the net till the late 90's, and I was registered on a couple forums but always kept losing my registration, so I'd have to re-register (I was not very computer savvy in those days).
Around 2000 I bought a 15 year old all wood Martin bow. I loved that thing and shot it exceptionally well but it was slooooowww. I killed a bunch of game with it anyway. So that's where SlowBowinMO came from, that old bow. I stuck with that as I no longer had computer issues and registration problems.
I love longbows its simple.Wiley coyote thats funny. :biglaugh:
Mine is simple. Where I live, owls are nocturnal hunters whose wings make no noise when they take to the air or are in flight.
Mine did not take much thought.. I am named after my Grandfather and my Dad.. Of course my Dad and I still get each others mail even though we live in different zip codes.. LOL
John III
My main hunting grounds are behing my house in the Bergen swamp can you guess what always seems to hide in there LOL
Ok Ill play...bayoulongbowman , Im from south La. ( alabama guys thinks thats lower alabama ) its Louisiana ...sometimes I sign off mark #78...that numbers has alot meaning , old fooTball number, year I started back with traditional bows, and 78 th person signed on the gang....AND NOW YOU KNOW THE REST OF THE STORY! :wavey: :clapper: PS almost forgot...Bayou bodies of waters streams creeks all around Louisiana lots of us cajuns hunt and fish around...did anyone say boiled crawfish , its whats for supper tonight!!!
Fun Shooter... sorta like shooting for thrills! This thread has been enlightening and enjoyable.
I live in the Desert south of Palm Springs, California.
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I'm a bit partial to longbows, and my nickname probably wouldn't be allowed on a family site (or any of the names my buds usually call me).
Chad
Mine was given to me by Mom and Dad, I have had other screennames but it has always been Shawn Leonard on this site. Great thread!! Shawn
My handle comes from my first name combined with a nickname that I have had for a long time.(Hammer down Henry) Let's just say that I have a heavy right foot.
Bone-shortened from red bone.Hunting buddy I hunted with years ago said I tracked and moved thru the woods like a Redbone hound.All that was said in camp in front of everyone so it stuck.----------Bone
I was going on my vary first hunt to Catalina Island in 1981, they stuff all of your gear in the bottom of the boat with 30 other hunters gear.
My friend was writing his name on his arrow box with a magic marker, I handed him my arrow box and asked him to write my name on it for me.
When we got to the Island and the deck hands started to unload a mountain of archery gear, he yelled out Kingwouldbe....... Kingwouldbe......
My friend said, that's your arrows box, everyone had a good laugh as I had to walk up and get my arrow box.
Mine comes from the Wisconin Buck and Bear Club's theme of "Let 'em go. Let 'em grow."
I like the concept and put LT M GROW on my truck license plates long ago as that is all the letters they allow on the plate.
So when I signed up on here and needed to choose a screen name, all I could think of at that time was Lt-M-Grow and just threw it on there.
If I would have known how much I love this place and how long I would be here, I would have thought about a heck of a lot more. And since you cannnot change it, it is what it is :-)
QuoteOriginally posted by vermonster13:
My number and nickname from high school is how my screen name came about.
Dave, are you related to Al Bundy? still living the high school dream LOL :biglaugh:
Hello, my name is Dave :D
And,,,I used to trap for a living (nuisance wildlife control operator)....before the economy started tanking.
Last name Is Schultz, friends call me Schultzy.
QuoteOriginally posted by LBR:
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Chad
I always wondered Chad what LBR stood for.
My name is simply my last name, Koger, use it on all the forums i visit.
Well I was just born with the name and it stayed with me my whole life... Man I wish I could change my name....... LOL
Great thread, Huey was also my grandfather.
Well mine comes from my Marine Corp days. It's a common term used to describe a Marine. Between 1798 to 1872 Marines wore a 4" piece of leather(sometimes called "The Stock") around their necks to serve two purposes. One to protect their throats from being slit in combat and the second was to keep their heads erect during parade drill. Hence "Leatherneck".
I better go clean my mess in the kitchen before my wife gets home or I'll need more than a piece of leather to protect me! :scared:
I have no idea...bd
Bowdoc, you are just an original...the real deal! :thumbsup:
mine is simple.
I was born to poor southern hoosier hillbilly's; they couldn't afford a William ;)
I've been a river runner most of my life, up and down the Meramec in central Missouri. The cottonmouth lives on the river, and hates to be disturbed...even had Bodork make me a bow by that name ;}
I owned/operated a booking agency called Hunt It Expeditions for many years. My license plate was HUNT IT.
Mine was given to me by a friend and co-worker,the name just stuck.
Mine is the callsign I was given when I flew fighters in the Navy. Maverick was allready taken! I was given the callsign following a loosing confrontation between my rear end and a bee while strapping into the cockpit of an F-4 Phantom. The maintenance troops that worked for me made a big deal out of it when I came back from the flight and it stuck with me for the rest of my career.
Got mine from an old indian movie when i was abot 4 yrs old. Guess i really liked it!
I live on Saltwater Drive. Now you know how to find me when you are here. ( cept I'll probly be out hunting or fishing)
Most friends call me biscuit and that is usually taken on most sights. In the 90's I had ridden home from work in the rain on my motorcycle and the Billy Joel song You may be right was on the radio. I like the line 'cause you might enjoy some madness for awhile' so I stuck my birthday on the end and am now madness522.
Mine was a radio call sign while in the Army.
As you can see by the motto on the bottom of my posts - I was an EOD Technician in the military (Bomb Squad Guy) Now I clear munitions from military impact areas as a civilian UXO (Unexploded Ordnance) Technician. Hense - "Blaster" .... The JDH is my initials....
Well mine is doe boy, and it comes from my reputaion in the wheelie days of shooting alot of deer, mostly does.....and i got a belly! so doeboy stuck!
All of the strings that I make stretch....
Well being from Canada, hence "Canadian" and since I've retired my wife tells her friends -QUOTE- "Lloyd, he's the new CANADIAN IDLE". She then proceeds to spell which "Idle" she means. :biglaugh: :biglaugh:
I live in Carroll County, and the Whitetail is a no-brainer.
Zenzele - Loosly translated from the Zulu word means 'provider' or 'to provide'
Decided to use this as my screen name cause it's one of my bows names...
pebowbender...I'm Page Eldridge and I bend bows.
Tank-in the 4th grade my teacher gave it to me.I was 4'6 and 240# and ran over people ..
All by the way the KVTA should be apearant..
well i have always consider my myself a good guy so goodolboy plus the year of my truck 94
Simply the Italian translation for Hunter
Fresh out of the Navy in '93, I ran a small sensor assembly shop.
Most assembly fixtures had to be made by me out of whatever we had around. A lot of them involved wood or plastic, my pocket knife, and a hotmelt glue gun.
Well the Ladies started calling me Mcgyver, I had no idea what it meant. (I was out to sea for most of the shows run)
One night in a hotel room with cable, I caught a rerun of the old show and realized that it was some kind of complement.
I kind of like it (until the Superbowl add that is) :biglaugh:
No tricks or cards up my sleeve. Both hands on the table. Fair shot too.
Yup, climbed all 46. Mis-spent a good deal of my young married years in a tent in the mountains with a buddy.
Mine came off a bag of chewing tobacco, nasty habit!!
Mine is my Favorite way to hunt... Stalking.
The screen name Stalker was already taken so I added the year I was born,58.
Mine is short for Vermonter, which is what a local from VT is called. As opposed to people that move here with there messed up politics :banghead: who are called flatlanders.
Work Mon--Thur= aka Weekend Warrior
Been going by "Hap" since I was a yonker. About 40 some years ago I was playing basketball and was having a pretty good game, and a razorback called me "Hot Hap" and it stuck. Hap
Curveman. I love the curves of a woman and the curve of a bow! Two of my favorite pleasures! :bigsmyl:
Mine is my last name. None of my friends call me by my first name so that is what I've always went by!! Covey, with a long O :wavey:
I shoot three under hence the name. But it is also a popular name so I had to get creative with the spelling. :readit:
-Leonard-
ozyclint.......you work it out :)
I got mine from one of my shooting buddy's son who was just learning too talk at the time. We were out shooting at his place one day,and we were doing pretty good at sticking the bullseye,which after awhile got boring. So we started to mix it up picking out shots for each other. Well my first shot was to be at an empty Skoal can my buddy would toss up in the air, and as luck would have it I drilled it on the first toss. my buddy asked me how I managed to pull that one off, and my cocky reply was "because I'm Bad Sh**". And of course his son just had to be within earshot of us and started calling me "Bad Chit". Thank God his (S) sounded like a C or else his Mom would have killed me!
QuoteOriginally posted by Deadsmple:
Mine comes from a video game that me and some friends used to play at lan parties back in the early 90's. If anyone here could name the game I'd be impressed.
Doom 2?
I'm a woman in flatland Iowa... :D
When I was in Iraq as a contractor,there was another civilian there from Kentucky.He loved horses,cowboys ways and and all that.I always wear boots,suspenders,carharts,stuff like that.Well we'd pal around the base,work together,and whatnot.One day he told me everybody was asking where cowboy and mountain man are?(They were having a cook out).I liked it and it stuck as an online name,just abbreviated it and added the VT.
If you know me and what I like to do and things that intrest me,you'd say it fits perfect. ;)
Mine is fairly simple I'm a lush for the rush.
Mama's white, Daddy's Mexican (born in the states). Even though I'm a half-breed, I still pulled off the super sexy skin tone! :thumbsup:
My callsign while in beautiful SE Asia on an all expenses paid trip courtesy of Uncle Sam.
Don Thomas dubbed me alligatordond years ago. Kinda a play off of Crocodile Dundee
Bronz I like the attitude. My wife and I adopted our daughter and she was from a Mexican man and a Caucasian women born in the states. She has the sexy skin tone as well and is an absolute doll. I don't think I'm going to like it much though when she's of dating age.
My handle of choice was taken so I didn't put much thought into it after that. The TJ part is my initials.
I was the flagman at our stock car dirt track. A good friend didnt like it when I thru him out one night. The next day he saw me and said "Here comes the Blind one". The name has been with me every since..Heck my mom even calls me blind one... :D
I grew up in Oklahoma and still have most of my family and ties there but am living in and loving Oregon. not too tough to figure out eh?
I was active duty Air Force for 20 years. Paquette is sort of pronounced like "pocket" and I heard it pronounced so many freeky ways I just told my friends to call me "Pac" for short.
I've heard Pac for so long when someone calls me Duane it doesn't sound quite right.
This is FIDO and he's my dog. Damn he's handsome! :biglaugh:
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While hunting one evening I had two fawns a button buck and a doe feeding directly beneith me. After gorging themselfs on acorns they both bedded down right below me. I started messing with them by dropping bark and twigs on top of them. The button buck looked up, stared at me for about a minuet then put his head down and fell asleep. I guess They figured they where safe around me, That I was "Harmless"
It just fits with my last name.
I fix heavy equipment.
Guess what my favorite fishing fly is.
When I was younger, I played baseball. I was pretty fast -- Smokin' Joe...
Michael Ciccone... and I love to stalk deer. :)
The Northwest is where my heart is and my first name is Jamie.
6'4" 285 pounds. Not much more to say.
Its my email. I love to hunt Elk, just can't afford it to much!!
I make arrows and Fletcher is the old name for the guy who made the arrows. The Arrowsmith made the points.
some of my wood arrows are not very straight,some tree deflects,off top of targets.friends give me hell...chris
My last name is German and starts with 4 constonants... So while in the corps I became Slasher.. Just kinda stuck I guess
How do you fit four consonants into "Lee"?
Killdeer :confused:
i went to the university of minnesota.
go gophers!
I fix things that fly (aircraft mechanic),also I like to fly fish and tie flies.
Sipsey River- That is the name I chose for my Trad Archery Company. Our home and shop is on the Sipsey River arm of Lewis Smith Lake in Alabama.
QuoteOriginally posted by Killdeer:
How do you fit four consonants into "Lee"?
Killdeer :confused:
Now that's a good question :confused: Is that all that was left from the Slashing?
I just looked on my license and there it was. Actually it says Greggory, but the only person that ever called me that was my mother when she was mad at me. As in, "Greggory Michael Dudley, get in here and clean your room!"
Mine is explains itself.
I don't know.. ask my mother.
I went to The Citadel for college and was a part of a drill unit called the Summerall Guards. Your place in formation was determined by your height. The shorter guys in the rear were called "The Duckbutts". I have a different screen name for each forum. That's just what popped into my head when I signed on here.
Mom and Dad are more creative than I am!
My handle is what I do all year.
Mine is my nickname given to me by a freind that I rode Harleys with just before he died. Seemed fitting as parts of my bike were held on by ductape. It is a name I wear proudly (and a bike I refuse to part with).
around here most female game we call suzies ducks, deer and all that. i like shootin all of them and am far from above shootin a mallard hen or a big ol' doe
My screen name reflects the MOS I had in Viet Nam. I carried the M60 Machine Gun for 9 months. The nickname just stuck with me.
Well I guess mine is pretty much self explanatory. Its where I live and what I do.
Pat Brennan I'm Pat B on other sites too.
(not Pat B.)He's the other dude.
Wow.. really interesting thread, mine is my age of when i join what ever site (16 is this year) and undercontrol because my friends always look to me for leadership and to know what to do and such, also because i have myself (usually) under control.
Alright it was like this,
I was lurking one night right after I found Trad Gang. I found a beautiful bow that I wanted and I wasn't registered, After trying several names that were already taken in desperation I saw my Taurus Raging Bull .480 still sitting on my desk from an afternoon shooting session. I shortened it and thus.....Ragin Bull
And just so you know......I still have the bow! :biglaugh:
mine comes from a computer game, mechwarrior, my friends and i spent many hours playing in college in the 90's, when we should have been studying. my friend's named me mechslasher because my specialality was taking their knees out at 1000m. it was the only name i could think of when i signed up for forums.
Mine came along in the late 70's. I love to fly.
My getaway machine I used to own.
(http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v511/aeronut/1941J5ACub.jpg)
The picture I took of my friend over Baxter Springs, Ks. around 1977. His camera jammed and he didn't get any pictures of me.
(http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v511/aeronut/DocSkydive.jpg)
Dennis
mine is kind of a play on words. It started out as MY Stik BOW but I decided to take out the spaces. Hence the name MYSTIKBOW. It is often mistaken for mystik bow but thats ok with me I'll answer to either one.
my sons name is Jacob....im trying to set a good example and raise him right...so that makes me "Jacobsladder" :)
Mine started 40 years ago because I was big and clumsy the guy's called me buffalo and when my hair turned gray so did my name :biglaugh:
The state I live in, and my last name!
:wavey:
Way back in the old days when you piced up AOL discs in the grocery store with "free time" and took one home. I was doing something in the next room and my fried Ray was loading the software and came to the screen name part and he came up with it. Combination of first initial of first name with the first three of my last name and then 315 (which is what I was bench pressing at that time....way LONG time ago!) That has been my name everywhere so I can keep it simple. Thanks for asking...brings back some memories.
Mine is just an abbreviation, Flat Rock Shooter.
Mine comes from an old car dealership commercial: "Come see Cowboy Al at Festival Ford". I'm not really a Cowboy although I did try to chew snuff once, I still get squimish thinking about that vile tasting stuff!
Got the name "Stoney" from the Texas Sweat hunt from 05. The short version is that I had the fortune to take a nice Javelina right at sunset. Curtis & Charlie as well as others helped me on the blood trail. When we found her, we also found a surprise and my screen name as well:
Look above her head, midway along the nose on the ground.
(http://www.tradgang.com/terryimages/havi2.JPG)
Close up:
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I still have the stonepoint and always will. I also still get chills thinking about it all.
The full story can be found at:
Archive Highlights Texas Sweat 2005 (http://tradgang.com/cgi-bin/ultimatebb.cgi?ubb=get_topic;f=90;t=000031;p=8)
Mine comes from one of my other interest. The 4 wheel drive Ford trucks of this era were often referred to as highboys, mine is a 1972. Hence the 72highboy. This was my first truck, it didn't look like this when I first owned though. It has taken a lot of work to get to this point and there is always more I would like to do. I hope I will always have it.
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I live on an island and love shooting longbows :)
the bowmaster part came from compound days was teh best shot out of all my friends and could fix and set up their bows the 12 comes from the buck with the most points ive shot a 12 pointer
I tried using my real name when I signed up for Tradgang..I couldn't use just my name without adding something. :banghead:
So I tried bowhunterfrompast and it worked.
Now..the reason I tried this is because I have not bowhunted for the last 8 years after bowhunting for 27 years. Looking forward to getting back into bowhunting.
QuoteOriginally posted by Stoney:
Got the name "Stoney" from the Texas Sweat hunt from 05. The short version is that I had the fortune to take a nice Javelina right at sunset. Curtis & Charlie as well as others helped me on the blood trail. When we found her, we also found a surprise and my screen name as well:
Look above her head, midway along the nose on the ground.
(http://www.tradgang.com/terryimages/havi2.JPG)
Close up:
(http://www.tradgang.com/terryimages/havi3.JPG)
I still have the stonepoint and always will. I also still get chills thinking about it all.
The full story can be found at:
Archive Highlights Texas Sweat 2005 (http://tradgang.com/cgi-bin/ultimatebb.cgi?ubb=get_topic;f=90;t=000031;p=8)
Now that is just freaking COOL!!!
...ocean fishing in my kayak...
uhh... is this a trick question? :smileystooges:
Trapper was taken :(
Trap
At our old house, I used to have friends and neighborhood kids over to shoot bows in the back yard. All the kids started calling me PaPaFrank...it stuck...
Well my friends call me jear bear so I always sign out that way. Sorry it wasn't anything flashier.
jer Bear
Well lets see-- "31 draw and "33 arrows- there ya have it.
Denny
My hunting buddy, Molly. "The guy with the Yellow Dog" as I'm known by some folks on Saginaw Bay.
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In addition to trad shootin', I run...a lot!
K is for my first name (Kyle)
hard is the first four of my last name (Hardenbrook)
it all flows right I guess!
Always liked the legend and I live 3-4 miles from there
You know!!!
tecumtha, falk and our other 'off-shore' friends need to get in on this....
Mine is simple. I live on a creek, and I shoot a bow. Put the two together and there it is..."CREEKBOW".
i live in oklahoma raised in ohio love deerhunting and the buckeyes go bucks OH IO!
Had my nickname since grade school when smokey the bear was my hero. My father was a forester and I graduated as one too.
hi i'm Ray any ? :biglaugh: :biglaugh: :biglaugh: :biglaugh:
Latin for left handed, at least a variation of it. Thanks for the interesting post.
S. Brant Osborn is how I sign my name. The S is for Samuel which also belonged to my dad, grndpa and great grandpa and I am proud to carry it but my dad wanted me to have my own identity so I would be Brant. Not many of those. Most family call me Bubba, some people I do buisness with call me Sam and one has always caled me Sammy. Now my new co-workers are callling me Ozzie.
You all can call me any of the above. I'll answer.
Love bowfishin! :archer:
I hunt using a mountain bike for Elk. Seemed fitting, and also the fact that I have used the bike to get 2 elk out, in quaters.
My full name is George Kipling Manuel.A very english name for a Spanish,French decendent.Been Kip all my life.Kip
My grandfather Benton Haney first took me hunting. It is to honor his memory.
Stripstrike1....the name of my offshore boat. I love to flyfish inshore and offshore. Used to fish alot more than I do....until I started bowhunting.
my 3 grandchildren are:sofia,evan,and ethan.
Mine means Silvertip in Cheyene. I have silver in my hair so liked the name.
my tradname comes from a hunt i was on with my friend carl,we were working in on a large elk herd and i had worked my way into the herd and was walking along with the herd cow talking back and forth with them.carl said to me later that i was herding them along and the name stuck.
Some of you folks are pretty creative.
When I got started back to Trad, buddy got me into using ash for arrows. I bought one of Dean Torges' v-block set ups to taper arrows.
The danged ash had so much "runout" in the grain we used to get, that if I forgot to mark the grain orientation before I ground the nock taper, I played He2Xhockey sticks to find which way to orient my nock perpendicular to the grain.
I got so ticked off one time I hollared at my preacher bud and said, "What the devil? You need a Ph.D. to figure out which way to orient the nock or what?"
Doc Nock kinda eminated from that. I'm not a real doc, I just play one on the internet (Another euphemism from KillDeer-the-sharp-whit)
With the right set up, tuning, and release the bow and arrow will do it's job well, but when you I factor in myself I am my own worst enemy.
Archenemy
I was raised hunting and fishing in the greatest overflow swamp in the US. The Atchafalya Basin! Hence Basinboy! lol
My goal someday is to live the rest of my day's on a house boat in that swamp!
No interesting back story for mine. I wanted a name that had something to do with archery and figured pointystick was a simple way of describing an arrow: a pointy stick. :thumbsup:
I always liked hunting things from the ground instead of in treestands. i remember when i was a kid i saw a picture in a bow magazine and a buck or a ram was walking on a little ridge path and the archer was perched about ten yards above him on the rocky ledge that image has always stuck with me no tree stand for that guy.then i stalked an 8 pointer one year in a soybean field wearing my predator camo with-in 15 -20 yards and nailed broadside not the biggest dear ive ever gotten but one i will never forget that ground experience was awesome !
My mentor
During my younger years I used to shoot the first deer with antlers that walked by. My brother in law always made fun of me for shooting "SCRUBS". So I ended up with scrub-buster.
my nick name is Boone and i'm a hunter, the rest is pretty self explanatory
I use to shoot my shotgun alot (1000+ rounds/week) with my brother and some friends after school. We would go do alot of hunting together and i had made some pretty good (or lucky) shots. My first goose was at 80 yards and i dropped him dead with my 12ga. I even shot clays with deer slugs on a regular basis. In 2004 i was duck hunting with some friends and a banded pintail drake came fluttering in at less than 20 yards. I missed that bird 3 times (i blame it on my extra full choke). my buddies were laughing so hard they couldnt even shoot. though i have redeemed myself many times over since that miserable day, they still wont let me live it down!
I live just a short distance from the most westerly point in the lower continental united states.
John
Pronghorn is my favorite large game animal. 23 is birthday.
My brother and I used to call each other Shleprock Homes when our wit out witted ourselves.
A little piece of "heaven" where I grew up and the year I entered the world
I had a treestep fail I fell and shattered my right ankle. After that I got the treestand safety portion of the bowhunter ed classes I help teach.
Mine is of 2 parts.
Mystic is short for Mystic Islands, NJ where I lived & have Family
Guido is an old Nick name that I had back when SNL had Father Guido sarducci.
Guido was also used by me before the net went world wide. So I just added the 2 after I moved back to Jersey in 1996. So now I am MysticGuido
Mine is from my work. WTP...OPS...Water Treatment Plant Operations. Over the years it has evloved into WT..POPS and some people just call me POPS
I miss you, Father.
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Emily
My last name is Rau, also the last name of the two little ones in my avatar.
Donald W. Rau
Being 5'5" and squatty built it just seemed to fit. 91' was the year I graduated from school.
Well I thought I posted to this but I am unable to find it so here goes again, I was hunting with my brother and we came up to a large flat and the steam was rolling off the elk but they were all beded down and when the bull stood up fast I knew we were going to get busted so I drew and shot. I was using a wheely bow at the time and after shooting, about fifteen elk got up an boogered out. We went up the hill a little farther after 30 mins or so and when we got to the top there was a cow laying there with my arrow sticking out of her neck. The bull I shot had run off along with the rest of them. After a bit of looking I found the bull about 100 yards away and he was down. The cow was on the other side and when my arrow passed through the bull it spined her in the neck. Two elk one arrow and my brother called me ELKSLAYER that day and it stuck. luckily my brother had a tag so we tagged them both but he wanted the bull. I was fine with it as I am mostly a meat hunter. The funny thing is the mount still hangs on his wall and the story of how he got it changes each year. Or at least when I am there...
Sorry, guys. No funny stories from me. I used my last name, Moen. Boring? No, no.. Proud:)
My name is Paul and I live in Kansas...
Boring, yeah, I know... :)
Ive shot my fair share of "forkies", (or Ybucks as they call'em out West) so the name just fits i guess
Jdog comes from my Lab that passed going on 4 years ago now. They say the Good Lord gives only one good dog per lifetime and he was it. Jdog was everyone's nickname for him.
J
Mine refers to the need for razor sharp skills, ethics, and broadheads. Armed with those three things I feel I will be a successful hunter and ambassador for traditional archery and hunting.
My nick name is Otto, but that was already taken by Otto. So i took doubleo cause some of my friends also call me that. I got my nick name from an old guy named Otto Pipcorn way back in 6th. grade.
J-dog...you CAN get more than one good dog. They revised the rules! :readit:
Won't ever be another J-dog, but there will be more good dogs.
Killdeer ~been there, living it. :wavey:
I live on the edge of a cedar swamp hence the name.
Well, Alex was taken, so Angus was next! I've always liked the name, and was blessed to have known the real Angus MacDonald some years ago. Maybe it's time to change?
Well i tired to use BULL this is life long nickname i had since football an baseball days in school but was already taking. Had a hard time putting other names together, then it hit me when i was in Africa Bow hunting i pulled a hattrick 2 days in a row on game 1st was a water buck ,zebra an impala,next day pless buck,red hartabeast an a jackle an PHs nick name me Hattrick the rest of the hunt.. The only bad thing is someone else had the same name before me but spells it different.. Sorry Hatrick #1
'bout 20 years ago, I was terminating primary cable (in an underground transformer) around dusk, when a redtail hawk landed on a fence post several feet from me and started screaming at me....so I became NightHawk on the internet boards
I've been riding crotch rockets for years,the kids at work started calling me Todweelz, it sort of stuck and I used on the FZ1OA web site as well it was easier to use one name instead of a couple, it has nothing to do with wheel guns!
QuoteOriginally posted by Killdeer:
I miss you, Father.
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Emily
lol... Now that's Funee.....She is my #1 fan.
I have been flown at on several occasions by owls while hunting. I even have them hitting my window in the winter time. I just feel like owl bait. Plus my ineptness with this computer stuff, the mouse, ==owlbait.
My name is Shane Champion, so my handle is my last name plus my age, Very original I know...has nothing to do with the way I shoot.
Mine came from the name of our horse operation the JAG Ranch.
Combination of mine and my Bride's initials...Johnny and Angela Gottler.
Also have a Red Heeler by the same name. She's my truck parterner, wether its a Toyota or my 18 Wheeler, she just has to go. Dogs Love Trucks!
Hmmmmmmm, 24" draw, not the tallest tree in the forest. Called Chort for chort :rolleyes: Sort of covers it all
Well mine is pretty self explanatory, seems i'm always in the right place at the wrong time. If I see a nice buck come out each night in one area and I move a stand near by, he'll come out where I was before. Figured the name fit most things in my life.
Mine is the name I hope to give a ranch when I retire.
My name is Jeff and my wife is Stephanie, so it stands for
Rocking JS
Cause I do my elk hunting on the upper reaches of the Santiam river...
In high school, I was at baseball practice and we wee practicing our sliding technique. Well I combined a head first slide and a foot first slide and the coach said I looked like a wounded duck landing in a parking lot. Combine that with my last name being Drake, and the nickname Greenhed was born. A typo removed the a at an early stage. :saywhat:
"Cinghiale" means Wild Boar ...my preferred game.
:thumbsup:
my favorite movie with dustin hoffman
When I was in school in Nebraska, fellow Wyomingite Matt and I missed the mts so much....we watched Jeremiah Johnson oh, about 25 times, enough so that we had the entire movie memorized. When Johnson and Delque ("with an e")meet up with Flathead Indians, the greeting is "Kwa-hay'" as all die-hard JJ fans know. We just started greeting each other that way, too. That was 25 years ago and it stuck. So, hello!
Kwa-he'!
I used to own a 50#Recurve but now I don't. I saw no need to change anything.
Mine is just to throw people off. I'm really a spy from a third-world rouge state with dreams of world domination. I thought I'd start with the intellegencia on TradGang. You are all very well connected.
LBOW!!!!!!! Whats to know??? Of course I've been a trad ganger for along time wasn't so hard to come up with a name then. MIKE
i started out as gaffey-27. when i was 27 years old. but a asked the mods to switch it to just Gaff. its what all my buddies call me around here.
I grew up on a onion farm in Michigan. Now I work for a vegetable seed company, as a onion/carrot/pickle crop specialist.
Ironically, I hate eating onions!!! Guess I had too many as a kid, but I love to watch them grow!!!
chris <><
"If I have to explain, you probably wouldn't understand".
I've been INTO IT(archery) for 50 years, thought about opening my own shop and figured "Intuit Archery" explained it all with a somewhat Indian ring to it. I was surprised the name wasn't taken.
Doesn't matter what I do, it's full tilt all the way, it's just that full tilt has a little different meaning than it did 30 years ago!
What is extra cool about this tread is I am seeing a lot of folks chime in that don't usually comment. Keep it going.
Mine's pretty simple. I'm from Arkansas and my name is Bob. Several of my hunting friends from Missouri call me Arkansas Bob because there are other Bobs there that they hunt with, so I just shortened it.
BOB
I got mine during my time in the military(army), lifetimes ago, and have kept it ever since.
I like to look for stone tools and points so it seemed to fit.
Since this is a traditional only web site mine derives from a type of arrowhead commonly found in the midwest.
Mine came from a book by Louis L'amour. About a guy shot down in siberia, then survives by making an ash bow and eluding the russians.
good book
My second passion besides bowhunting is raising show cattle.
Brett
Well, mine is from my first car, a 1930 Ford Model A Coupe. I still have it, though it is in pieces right now. I have been working on turning it into a hot-rod/street rod for several years now. When the time and money happen at the same time (rarely) I work on it a bit. I have the frame almost done, the engine is ready to go in, and the body is close. I started using this handle on a car site and just decided to stick with it.
I'm not a dentist if that's what you're thinking.
When I was trying to decide on a screen name for this site, I was watching the news. They were showing a clip I had seen before of a particularly despicable and traitorous politician lying about our servicemen. He is a bit of a moron but I guess he thought it sounded bright to pronounce Genghis Khan (to whom he was comparing our troops) 'jen jis'.
I remember thinking the guy needed a smack in the mouth so I suppose that's how a pompously pronounced Genghis morphed into Gingivitis. Every time I see the name, it reminds me of the complete and utter contempt with which I view all politicians of his particular (yellow) stripe.
Wow - I think that's the grouchiest thing I've ever posted here. Good thread.
Mine is what it is!!!!!
im a beaver speacialist for the state of texas. basically im a professional trapper.
Beaver#1,
Now that's the funny, "beaver in Texas" those ain't beaver them's javalina.
QuoteOriginally posted by Billy:
tecumtha, falk and our other 'off-shore' friends need to get in on this....
I took some days off of TradGang - but found this at last ...
Well, there is not much to say as
Falk is just my real name - and I dont see a reason why I should use an other identity here :readit:
My name was given to me by my father, who's main hunting interest always has been in
Falconry / Hawking. Falk is just the German form for first name use of 'Falke' - which means the bird of prey: Falcon
I teach high school students a foreign language called geometry!!
my two favorite pastimes,shootin my stykbow and working on my "67" bronco and more recently building my own stykbows
Mine is from a particular prototype (expensive) big tuna fishing rod that was custom wrapped by a friend. Well, you guessed it, I pulled on that thing and snapped it in 3 pieces. This was on the same day it was to leave on a 17 day tuna trip. When that thing snapped, I almost fell into a pile of 100-300 pound tuna waiting to be weighed.
Mine is the Norwegian word for a person from the community where my grandmother originated. It also happens to be the place where Norway's first constitution was drafted and signed. Not sure how she pulled it off, but my dad was born on the same day of the year as the signing -- May 17th -- which is celebrated as Norway's national day. And my parents' wedding anniversary!
(Also half "Finlander" as well, MnFn . . . )
Mine was given to me in the late 70's. I was the only one that I know of in the county where I lived that didn't shoot a compound. (And to this date still never have). Had hair halfway down my back, ( holdover from my musician days ) and was shooting longbows and recurves in the 80 to 100# range. When I showed up at shoots or hunt camps everyone just started calling me Bawana Bowman mostly because I looked like an Indigenous native, and could draw and hold more weight than everyone I shot with.
The name just stuck and people still remember me by that name more than my real name!
what i do for a living, the most exciting job ever!!!!!!!!!
Traditional in SC, TRADNSC..
David
I make quivers and always put a natural barred turkey feather on each one. Also, I only use natural barred feathers on my arrows, although almost always dyed. So........barredfeather.
Jerry
Mine is a nick name my grandmother gave me when I was, well, a little tyke. Stuck with me ever since. Now most people who I've met as an adult call me by my real name, Joe, everybody in my family still calls me Tyke.
Mine was my nickname in high school. My last name is hard to say fast or write, so a coach started calling me cville and it stuck. It is just slightly ironic that I go to UVA and now live in charlottesville.
the first part of mine was given to me by sticshooters wife shell she told me it was cheyene and means brother wolf. so its stuck and i love wolves they are an awesome animal i have even had dream of running with them. yup i know sounds weird ok i have changed it since to JEFF B my first name and surname
i've been a fan of Bob Marley since before he was ever famous. My friends nicknamed me rastaman...
I hunt along Iron Creek in Southern Michigan...thats all there is to it.
It is a translation of my surname from Italian into English,'Kiss of the wolf' abrieviated to Wolfkiss.
My last name and call number
I was posting on a professional wannabe Bass Fishing site about 15 years ago using the name "Van" which is my middle name. Someone on the site suggested that we add the 2 letter abbrev of our state to our handle so that other folks would know where we were coming from when we posted our Bass fishing tips, lies, etc.
I started using Van/TX. Shortly after I posted my recipe for fried Bass Fillets and changed my Handle to "Bass Eater" I was booted off the site. Seems that none of the wannabe professional yuppie bass fisherman had ever actually cleaned a bass much less killed or cooked or eaten one.
They thought I was out to exterminate the Bass population of the entire US because I kept an occassional bass to eat ;-)
Anyway, I left the site post haste
I kept the handle "Van/TX"...
Danny, you bring back some memories for sure ;-)...Van
I had a bet with my fly fishing buddies to come up with the best name for my dog...case of beer to the winner. Tippet, the end of the fly line attachment to to fly. Well we all drank the beer and I miss spelled tippit! Some think it's really the number of beers tipped :)
PS: Tippit is now 13 years old. The two tippits...Doc
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Worked the South Rim of Grand Canyon for 17 years.. When I showed up at the main office I was referred to as the Canyon guy. I also love to hunt large Canyon Country spot and stalk style.
OK...but don't tell anyone about this. I gotta a reputation to uphold ya know.
Back in the winter of 1980 I was guarding a cabin in the Rockies. Just me and 40 square miles of wilderness area.
I used to go into town to the library and get books to read, and got to be friends with the librarian.
Now at the time I was pretty shaggy, beard and long hair-I looked like a "mountain man".
So one day I invited the lady to come up and visit with me at the cabin over the weekend, and she accepted.
When she came up she told me that she had told another girl at the library that she was going to be coming up to the cabin with me. She said the response she got from her friend was "With HIM? But he looks so dangerous!" What? ME? I'm a pussycat!
So she, and everybody I knew, started calling me Dangerous Dan the Mountain Man.
I am a Special Agent with Immigration. When Hispanics that are in the country illegally see Immigration coming, they yell "Migra" and run. My name is Bill. hence..
MigraBill
Mine was a nickname in high school and I Hunt ALOT.
first 3 are my intials and the last three were my rate when I created it.
Plum run out of name ideas for Bow forums
and before you ask, She is from a 1966 Martin Venom Bow ad.
Makes me want to buy one too
PKB are my intails, on MWC I am known as UPATREE because I spend over 300hrs a yr in a treestand
Morningstar is the model of canoe I use. I always liked the name and the predawn piece it represents. What hunter can't relate to a dark blue cold morning sky with those crisp stars hanging up there.
LPM was hung on me during an ELK hunt in Colorado in the mid 1990's. I was camped with three of my traditional hunting friends. There was a camp a mile or so away made up of some good o'l boys from Arkansas. One's name was Jimmy. We called him Arkansas Jimmy. I tend to become somewhat of a mad man when it comes to Elk hunting. I leave before daylight and return often after dark. Back then I covered as much ground as posible, always on foot. It just happend that I crossed paths with Jimmy a long ways from camp. He would travel by Quad runner hunt an area then travel to another mountain for an afternoon hunt. We parted ways and I felt pretty ambitous that day and decided to hunt Porter mountain about 5 miles north east of where I had met Jimmy. Yeah you guessed it I bumped into him again on Porter mountain and then again when I was finnished hunting and returning to my camp passing by his camp on a trail. He had later told my friends that I was the "walkenest" man he ever saw. Well the guys started making a joke about it and calling me the "Legend of Porter mountain" LPM.
I came up with mine from two different ideas..I am the anchorman on our bowling teams and when I shoot I have to remind myself to anchorman. I know corny but that's the way it is..
Because that's what I do for fun, make turkey calls.
My Grandfather gave it to me...used it all my life
My two sons came in from playing one day and gathered up a handfull of potatoes from the kitchen.
"Where do y'all think y'all are going with those?" I said. I knew the answer would be very interesting. It was.
My youngest son said, "The knew boy down the street has a whole sack of potatoes, and when we walk by, he whops us with them."
"Yeah," my oldest son said, "and we are fixin to give Mr. Jo Jo Tater a taste of his own medicine. Hey, let's use sweet potatoes; they're bigger."
That was 15 years ago, and I still laugh about it. Oh, I didn't let them take the sweet potatoes; I like em too much. However, my wife didn't miss a few red spuds.
"Jo Jo Tater." I liked that. :goldtooth:
Actually my Bubba's nick "Nakohe" also means Bear in other indian languages. Fits him as well as he is a bear of a man.
Mine is just my name. Been thinking on changing it to "Yannashchito" my Choctaw name but seems kinda long, sides, everyone knows me as Danny.
Danny
Well, MY name is DAN OWEN WILLIAMS..ie DANO. But you would be very suprised how many DANO'S are out there. So ..Since I'm pretty savvy about golf clubs > I took the name GANDGOLF !!! :biglaugh: :biglaugh: :biglaugh:
I used to play the pipes.
when I was first registering I was having some trouble finding a name when in comes my wife. she looked me square in the eyes and ask
"are you feeling ok because you look a little pale"! :saywhat:
"Sure honey I feel just fine now that you gave me my screen name." :pray:
she said "Huh?" and walked out of the room and paleFace it was.
Wary Buck. Felt it kind of described my normal mode of operation. I'm pretty wary of many things: any newfangled 'trend' at work (education), ANY politician, most of the women in my life, etc.
When I got remarried, I got a note from Steve Hohensee who just said, "Not Wary enough."
I cut timber for living. One time an Earth Firster shoved a video camera in my face and asked how it felt to be an environmental criminal, and the guys I was working with began calling me a "tree killer". So about 10 years ago when began looking at hunting websites, Tree Killer was a little unique and it stuck.
TK
One early bow season I was trying a little "still hunting" and crossed the main dirt road in and out of the property I was hunting on. Directly, my good friend, mentor, and avid rifle hunter came driving up the trail from the power line where he had been sighting in his rifle for the upcoming general firearms season which would open in a couple of weeks.
I thought he saw me and I made what I thought was a show of getting out of the road and out of his way. But as he got closer and started driving by I quickly realized that he had not seen me. I was up against some small trees and I had my head net on.
His window was down and as he got close to me I yelled, "HEY! PHILIP!"... After I stopped laughing and after he got his pulse back under control he said something to the effect of, "Man, you just came out of that timber like a ghost! Scared the hell out of me!"
Some years later I needed a handle for my "alter-ego" character in the XBOX game HALO.
"Timberghost" just came to mind.
I was talking with a partner while on a hunting trip. He told my he read that a place in USA it was madantory to have a frearm in the house. I asked where. He answered (I wish I knew). I'm hard of hearing and I heard (Awishanew) and asked what state that was in. The name stuck.
When my daughters were kids we watched a Bugs Bunny/Yosemite Sam cartoon in which Bugs has to go retrieve a sword from The Black Knight (Sam) who rides a fire breathing dragon. The dragon goes well, but doesn't stop nearly as well, so Sam is always screaming "Whoa Dragon." Whoa Dragon became our shorthand phrase for any situation that was out of control.
Fast forward a bunch of years and my older daughter had her son, my first grandson, using "Whoa Dragon" when things were getting out of control. So, I went out and got a "WOA DRGN" license plate for my truck (PA only allows 7 letters so it was the best I could do) and became a "dragon rider." My avatar is only slightly goofier than Sam's dragon.
On an only marginally related subject, JDog, Killdeer is right. You'll never have another JDog but the rules do allow more than one really good dog. Of the 8 dogs I've had in my lifetime, 5 have been (and fortunately for me three still are) great. They've all been different, but all great.
My name is Mike Vigueria, but most people call me "Vig". No surprise, most people also call my brothers "Vig"...so my younger, Joe, took that screen name. Venator is Latin for "hunter". Since my initials are MV it made it easy and natural for me to sign off as "MV" for M. Venator. What's the M...memories, of course. Memory Hunter - M Venator.
Clear as mud? :banghead: :)
-MV
I like to flyfish....I like it olot.
If anybody has ever chased the sulpher hatch on the Hiawassee river or the green drake hatch on slick rock creek, then you know what I mean.
I lost my left eye in a bowhunting accident back in 1983. Therefore, I only have "one eye".
Dan
Well....for many years I have had an email address that began with countrygirl....because that is what I am.... just a country girl at heart. So most places I sign up as countrygirl.
Bowhunting accident :confused: need to hear this if you don`t mind
I like hunting squirrels,..(if I'm not hunting deer or turkey... :)
QuoteOriginally posted by Hattrick:
Bowhunting accident :confused: need to hear this if you don`t mind
Another bowhunter mistook me for a deer at dark while hunting on public land and shot me in the head. The arrow damaged most of the left side of my face and destroyed my left eye. I never lost consciousness and walked out of the woods with my dad and another hunting partner, who drove me to a local hospital. It took 2 years and several reconstuctive surgeries to rebuild my face and my eye socket so I could get a prosthetic eye.
I was told that I should not have survived given the trauma and the amount of blood I lost.
I can tell you the whole story with more details if you want, but I don't want to hijack the author's thread.
Dan
I am french canadian and my first name is Guy.In french Guy is pronounce Gee in english.Since I was educated in english, in school they had a hard time promoundsing my name so my friends decided to call me the next best thing and it was
GEEZER (GUYZER).Since then i am GUYZER THE WOODSMAN!!!!!!
MAY THE SPIRIT OF FRED BEAR GIUDE OUR ARROWS.
I don't remember where it originated, but I get my screen name from a phrase (acronym of) I've written on each of my bows.....
God Make My Aim True
I hunt deer on Block Island,here in Rhode Island, so the bi stands for Block Island. I just typed it originally in lower case. So, bihunter(block island hunter)
Mine was suppose to Mooseran ( nick name + first 3 letters of my last name ). But I hit one to many O and it came out as Moooseran......
Reynold Greenleaf was an alias used by Little John in Howard Pyle's version (and perhaps other versions) of Robin Hood.
I hunt with Rifle, Gun, Spear, Arrow, ML, Deadfall, Snare, Revolver and camera. Not strictly a Trad shooter.
Rifle wise I am a user of Weatherby's near exclusive.......so........no one else had this screen name.
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pretty easy for me...I love bows...BLM
my first and middle names are Kevin Paul
I live in California and I love to Bowhunt Ca Bowhunter.Blake
My nickname is/was Paulie and the unit I deployed with in 2003-2004 for OIF I was the 771st Mt. Co. (DS).
I used to play dungeons and dragons as a kid, my favorite character was an elven Archer that I got up to the point he became a king and an arcane archer the characters name was Vinyari Pen'drakoon, I am know over most of the internet as Vinyari, if you see the name it's probably me.
Randy
first, "saumensch" means pig-man. Tat is not because i hunt pigs but because a friend of mine once said while i was brushing my teeth and washing myself during a trip: " Well, look at this, that biggest pig of whole franconia is strting to wash himself!" since then...
Well my name is Clayton Williams.An i guess you could say my name comes from the fact i live in HAWAII and im the only TEX that i know of in my unit and my group of friends. That and i was told by my father GANDGOLF to join and talk about bows and stuff.....
QuoteOriginally posted by Deadsmple:
Mine comes from a video game that me and some friends used to play at lan parties back in the early 90's. If anyone here could name the game I'd be impressed.
Is it Doom or Doom2 ?
My real Name is Svein Håkon Dyrnes, so I shortened it to SveinD.. Not that exciting ^^
I have never made a string that did not stretch...hense....stringstretcher.
We got our first PC in 2004 and I shoot stickbows, and needed a log on name at the time :confused:
It was my first nickname as a young man/laboror. I was loading some very heavy kegs of spikes on a truck (first day on the job) and the rest of the crew was doing it with 2 men. At the time IGOR was the name of a pro wrestler that claim he was the strongest. The foreman called me IGOR and it stuck.
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Glenn
a weekend building selfbows at howard's in blackriver falls with the WTA
Ripforce was a pre-work out energy drink that was sold at our localfitness center. Me and my three boys played a lot of paintball( Limblover on this forum is one of them) and I always brought Ripforce drink to the the local field when I played! I was one of the oldest people there so they all started calling me Ripforce and my birthday is 1956! FYI Limblover shot is first trad kill with his new Bama longbow a nice 150 lb plus doe! Nice Christmas present!
My parents LOL
Glory be to God
I have a 14 yr. old Rat Terrier "Guss"!
Different spelling of my last name "Gracie"
Love to walk a freshly plowed field and find one of those pretty flint arrowheads.
I've used the same name for multiple forums over the years, and mine is a combination of two of my main interets/hobbies. 'Hawken' is short for Geoffrey Hawken of Huntingdon, which is the persona name for all of my 14th century reenactment. I currently portray a forester in a medieval hunting group...St. Hubert's Rangers. '1911' refers to the Colt M1911 and M1911A1 .45's, my favorite handguns. I'm an avid shooter and NRA firearms instructor.
Merry Christmas!
I've used the same name for multiple forums over the years, and mine is a combination of two of my main interets/hobbies. 'Hawken' is short for Geoffrey Hawken of Huntingdon, which is the persona name for all of my 14th century reenactment. I currently portray a forester in a medieval hunting group...St. Hubert's Rangers. '1911' refers to the Colt M1911 and M1911A1 .45's, my favorite handguns. I'm an avid shooter and NRA firearms instructor.
Merry Christmas!
Hawken1911, was Robin Hood an Earl of Huntingdon, or is that just from the british series from the 80s?
LONG haul freight transport for a while. Long days covering an insain amount of miles. FAR RIDER! I kinda stole it from the movie "Hildalgo" when one of the characters called him far rider. It just kinda fit.
I could tell you but it's a secret and then I'd have to hurt you!
Hooper is just another name that we have called cottontail rabbits since I was little. My hunting buddies gave me that nick name because I love to chase the Hooper's.
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Been shooting the air gap system for as long as I can remember. I know anytime someone uses the name "master" it sounds kind of cocky, but that's not what was intended. I just felt it glorified what I do best. I don't do alot of things very well but felt I could take advantage of that name at least for a while. :)
I wanted to join a forum in 1998 and they wanted a screen name so I chose a beer that was on a hat and T shirt I recently won, Red Dog. That was taken and the only thing close was "reddogge". I've been reddogge on every forum in all hobbies since 1998.
And no, I don't have red hair either.
Mine comes from the first ever Elk hunt with my Dad.
He was doing the acual hunting and I was just tagging along. I was helping him look for Elk through a set of binocs and saw a bull at the top of a ridge.
The sun was behind him and there was still some velvet on his antlers. It was a beautiful site that sticks with me after all these years.
I still look for another scene like that evey time I go up.
So going back to my ancestoral roots Highelk it is.
MERRY CHRISTMAS TO YOU ALL
Looper is my last name. Not too imaginative, I know. I've used it on several different forums over the years. Several years ago, I attended an outing for a golf forum. I found it amusing that the other members called each other by their handles, instead of their names. It was also incredibly confusing. I was almost ostracized for calling john897, john1975. Nerds.
Anyway, I was glad I was not the one everyone was referring to as "LongBall" or "PutterLover".
Bear1336 comes from my hero FRED BEAR and 1336 was my street address at that time.
Louisiana State Police for 25 years; 7 more to go and I'm done with 100% retirement!
The Bent part - as in pulling a bow back & the bending of the wood . The Rig is the first 3 letters of my last name - hence Bent Rig .
artfaker1 or art1faker, is a take on the idea of taking a derogatory name made up for you.
Like the Led Zeppelin, Gratefull Dead, the bikers with 1 percenters and so on.
The arrowhead collectors made up artifaker for flintknappers due to some people selling fakes for originals.
The one part was not intended to imply that I am the best, but just that I was the first to use the moniker.
Now I hunderstand,nice post this one. Mine means Hunter in Italian.
Bowshier is my last name,I was the oldest and largest of 8 kids so the nickname bigbowsh was mine.
Mine is easy to:
My name is Ronny Margly Edvardsen so I use my middle name: Margly
My name is Pat Brennan so Pat B is easy for me to remember. I'm Pat B on other sites too but I'm not Pat B. on TradGang that is the other Pat B.
No period in my handle
My last name is Champion and I was 38 when I joined TG. Has nothing to do with my shooting.
I started out using Dick in Seattle in hopes that someone local would notice and I might find someone to shoot with. I hadn't been in archery for 30 years and didn't know a soul. Got a shooting buddy for several years from it, but he moved back to Alabama this year. Also had a couple of guys come by to learn to build bows, so it's been a useful contact idea.
Shot Snuffers for many years but it was taken.
SS Snuffers are great too and work even better with carbon arrows. Snuffed alot of deer with Snuffers!
I am decended from Highland Scots and my clan was known for its willingness to fight and not back down. I thought it was cool, but most people think its dumb :(
My oldest son and his friend sarted calling me "OUT DOOR DAN" several years ago. They said I was always gone fishing or hunting. So I became "oddan".
Mine was about the only thing I could think up quick,last name twitchell and I like most things that have do with sticks(fly rods,bows,and the hills). I find it funny because I have allways hated my user name. Most people that hang out with me usally find some kind of play on my name, Twitchfish, Twichingstick.
Leatherneck is a military slang term for a member of the United States Marine Corps. The dress blue uniform still bears that stock collar today, while the service uniform's standing collar was changed to a rolled-flat type prior to World War II. Now accepted by Webster as a synonym for Marine, the term "Leatherneck" was derived from a leather stock once worn around the neck by both American and British Marines—and soldiers also. Beginning in 1798, "one stock of black leather and clasp" was issued to each U. S. Marine annually.
My avatar is a photo of me placing the American Flag in the sand in Kuwait after we took it back from Iraq.
tall and skinny last name crowe.got the nick name back in high school 40yrs ago and just stuck with me.
Hi Svein,
In some versions of the Robin Hood legend, Robin was the Earl of Huntington...with a 't', which is a fictional place. Huntingdon...with a 'd', also know as Huntingdonshire, was a real place in medieval England.
Paul
May I explain why I don't have a screen name.
When I signed up I was brand new to computers and to Tradgang so I didn't have a clue about the reasons for a screen name.
I also thought that using my real name might make it easier for old friends and acquaintances that I have lost touch with through the years to recognize me. I guess when you get older you become sentimental about things like that.
Someone started calling me Rufus 40+ years ago when I was a wet behind the ears apprentice with the power company. It was either that or R² from then on. Sometimes I wonder if they changed Dufus to Rufus just to make me feel better.
Zman...short for Zimmerman
There's some pretty good stories behind some pretty origional handles on here. Mine however...is not one of them.
Not sure if I shoot arrows or fling arrows.
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I once split my friends arrow at a 3d shoot.He thinks it was an accident,lol. :biglaugh:
Maybe this will explain mine :p
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my sons name is Jacob...so i've become Jacobsladder
My last name starts with a D and when we start telling hunting stories, it can get quite windy (Wind D) :campfire:
It was also my registered brand when I had horses and mules.
I've had the nickname "peanut" hung on me since before I was born. "cacahuate" is spanish for peanut.
well the bowmaster came from my friends back in my wheelie days and the first buck i shot was a 12pt
My name is pretty simple I'm an American hunter, and my lucky number is 7.
My name is Brent but I have been called Brently by friends for @ 35 years so it has kinds stuck so that is what I am known by.
I live in Alaska and I am a directional driller.
My dear ole daddy used to say "Boy iffen you do(whatever) your name is gonna be mudd" and "Boy iffen you don't(whatever) your name is gonna be mudd" But the most fearful was "Iffen I have to I'll stomp a muddhole in your arse and then I'm gonna walk it dry!"
I got to the point that when folks would ask me my name my reply would be :about half the time it's Mudd. That's my Story and I'm sticking to it...lol God bless, Mudd
Carlie, David, Ryan hence CDR my kids names.
Wild Bill was taken.
So Michigan Bill was just fine. I probably should have taken Muskegon Bill as I do note that good old Muskegon, Michigan is well represented on Tradgang.
Bill Norman
Hunter is my son's first name, DF are the initials of his two middle names, and K is the initial of our last name, hence Huntrdfk......
David
Was the name of my best hunting partner and friend. An English Springer Spaniel. He was a true hunter.
Another oldie but goodie....
Again for the newer members
Mine is from the old European times when Outlaws were referred to as Wolfsheads. Robin Hood was also referred to as a Wolfshead, and with all the connection he has with traditional archery/bowhunting
Also it kind of has a connection to Native American beliefs for me.
Designed my avatar for these reasons too.
How about you?
:goldtooth:
My screen name represents my simple unsophisticated nature and appreciation of the great outdoors...
My first name backwards and my high school football number
I'm 6' and 300+ lbs. and my name is Tony (short for my middle name since my grandpa, dad and I all share a first name).
Also a reference to one of my favorite Simpsons characters.
And I was born in '77.
Fun thread!
I'm not so great in the creativity department. jebeckjr = John E Beck Jr
Achigan is the Algonquin word for "fierce". It is the word thye use for the Smallmouth bass.
FDLZ58= Lake Zürich Fire Department, badge 58. The other part of my life that makes me who I am.
-Jeremy :coffee:
I am from Oklahoma... was living in Oregon... now in Utah so I guess I just can't change....
Might change it to bad hunter soon the way things are going....
I'm a hobbiest knifemaker, so I thought "blade" plus my last name would work. Didn't realize how pretentious it was until I joined Trad Gang and started hanging out on the Hunting Knives and Crafters forum. Found a sense of humility there, but didn't want to be one of those guys that changes his name :(
QuoteOriginally posted by Highlandwarrior:
I am decended from Highland Scots and my clan was known for its willingness to fight and not back down. I thought it was cool, but most people think its dumb :(
That's their problem. :thumbsup:
In a former life I was a flyfishing guide. I got the nickname trout in college when I was going fishing early the next morning and my friends said that I would rather hang out with the trout than them so they started calling me trout. It wasn't available here so I added guide.
When I first got into trad archery I went to a little piece of ground just south of my house. I was running a little late so I just kinda still hunted in. When I got to a little corn field in the middle of the property there were a couple deer feeding so I ducked in by a cedar tree. And here came a little buck, he came straight to me and fed at 10 yards for about a half an hour. He would look at me and never picked me out at all, I was having so much fun that I didn't even want to shoot. I later told my buddies that I felt like a mountain lion watching my prey so they started calling me mountain lion!
It tends to be what I am every October & November...
Missed this one... Well mine is obvious too... I am from The Netherlands an my arrows fly, so Flying Dutchman... It is nice that that was a name for a ship too, because I was on the merchant navy once...
Waylon "Watasha" Jennings, and I live in Arizona, so did Waylon.
I want to hear what's behind the screen name "Rod Stiffler"
When I opened my first email account everything was taken and AOL suggested emac with some numbers so I stuck with emac and added 396 from bigblock Chevy. Even though I'm a ford guy! Lol
I Like looking for flint heads in plowed fields...
Mine's simple , when I joined tradgang I shot my blackwidow all the time & I'm from england :cool: .
Although I could change it to grey hair uk now :laughing:
Years ago I realized that when you say my initials -- RG -- quickly, it sounds a little like "Archie". Has nothing to do with "archery"!
I live 1mi. North of a creek named Soap Creek. I've spent a lot of time fishing and hunting in and around it.
'nineworlds9'
For the Nine Worlds that make up the Universe in Germanic/Norse mythology and the number 9, being the luckiest number in Germanic folklore. It is an homage to my heritage and spirituality.
I came up with Drifter (old screen name before I became a sponser) because I have lived in so many places, 13 I think. Moving again in Sept but just down the road this time. We love where live now and the kids are starting school so now ill just have to travel for work and hunting more.
Mine is my sons name, 01 being the year he was born. And no we're not originally from Australia!
Well I have hunted hogs for many years using dogs and we usually took the hogs out alive. There are certain places that we hunt that have to kill the hogs on ranch. I caught then hobbled (tied-up) the hogs.
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My name's Sam, and I don't give a ... Actually that's what Mama named me.
The stick bends as I draw, 98 the year of my first traditional kill...so stickbender98
My name is Caleb but everyone calls me K-man and I graduated highschool in 2007. How time flies ha
My first love.....flintlock rifles!
My dad and uncles use to call me Scotty Boy when I was a wee lad. So skotyboy it is.
I started working in the woods in 1974. We heard of a real good chopper known as "Caledonia Pete", I guess he could really lay the wood down.
Anyway, one weekend I'm driving to our camp and I picked up a guy hitching. He's a runt and looked pretty hung over. While chatting, he claimed to be Caledonia Pete!
The next week at work, I'm telling my friend the story and said that maybe we needed a nickname and a legend to go with it.
That day the mighty Earltown Dave and the equally impressive Hopewell Tom entered the Nova Scotia Loggers Hall of Fame.
Legends in our own minds...
Mine is derived from the area in which I live and hunt, Southeast Missouri. My username was chosen accordingly.
~MO~
Well, when I joined TG, I needed a screen name. I happened to look over on the table next to me and saw the mouse chewed leg bone section I had found in the woods a couple of days earlier. So Knawbone it is. :dunno: Good as any I guess!
My Mom and Dad gave me mine! :bigsmyl: Shawn
Longbowray ? Was shooting for are fishing and game showing how to shot stuff out of the air . The head F&G leader say thank you , longbowray . That was 20 or so years ago .
LOL Shawn. We got lots of bunnies this year, big and small and they are "Literally Breeding Like Rabbits" LOL
Might invite you and a couple of buddies down this winter to chase some cotton tails. Might even do a predator hunt for coyotes?
Send me an email and we will hook up this fall.
Later,
~MO~
Mine is based on the cartoon character after the road runner. I am persistent but not very successful in my hunting. Constantly back to the drawing board.......... :banghead: :laughing:
just a nickname an old friend from highschool gave me. Karate Kid was popular then
I am a Marine Corps CH-46E pilot. If you ever saw one, you would know why they are called "phrogs". Since I drive phrogs... phrogdrvr.
Tom
My dad was a trapper here in wi, mainly muskrat and mink, when I was small I always called the muskrat, Mooshkat, which is what he began calling me, and he was the only one in our family of 7 that would call me that.
Got it from a varmit hunting forum. I do a little rabbit hunting. Besides speaking coyote I can speek jack rabbit also :rolleyes: .
Other than family, my two main hobbies are my Stykbows and my "67" Bronco
Steve
Mine is from another forum I was on. I have a "76" Bronco with some fiberglass body panels.
Scott
The first four letters of the names of my sons..
Hunter and Holden
When I joined I lived in the desert by Palm Springs Calif...........
Mine is borrowed from a dwarvish archer in C.S. Lewis' book, "Prince Caspian".
I have been shooting Monster Iowa bucks for 35 years here in SW Iowa, Got the nickname from the local hunters. "The Buckmaster" Chasing big bucks is in my blood.
Troy Burns - Burnsie. Nickname my dad and brother go by with their buddies also.
My middle name is Elmo (named after grandfather)
and I like "huntn" so.....>>>---->
A few years ago I was topping a tree at dusk and I lost a gaff and cut the tip of my index finger off. When it healed part of the fingernail started growing sideways below the nail. A hunting buddy asked if it bothered me, I said only when I dig at my ass! They all call me Digger since, JC is my initials. Ya have to hang out with us to get us.
Jacobsladder.....my sons name is Jacob......and "I" raised him.
OK, I'll play. Favorite Beatles' song. And, ever since I became a family man, most of my hunts were day trip.
QuoteOriginally posted by jacobsladder:
Jacobsladder.....my sons name is Jacob......and "I" raised him.
Steve,
Well played. I like that a lot. My son is also Jacob.
I've been hunting Wheeler Wildlife Refuge for about 20 years now and love the place
I like Daytripper too...I've had to do a bunch of them :)
I'm a rocker and I love shooting bows.
I am boring, my initials.
leftyfred came about because I was a Fred fan and also shoot lefthanded like fred. Took me about 3 seconds to think of it. Mike
I do cardiac ultrasound for a living. We are called echocardiographers and the study is called an echo for short. I've done over 60,000 echos and I was born in 62.
BassBow
I play the upright bass or double bass with a Bow of a different sort in jazz and classical ensembles.
That's it.
Id just as well shoot a doe than a buck
Also Im loosing my hair :saywhat:
It's my favorite place to hunt one of my favorite animals, elk. For me nothing beats slipping through the dark timber of a north slope full of fresh elk sign, I can almost smell it now. Come on September!!
after trying several that were taken, Could not think of a good name. I just bought a new truck, A Hummer 3T hence the name.
I few years ago I was out hunting at Avon Park Air Force Range.
Well, there was a football game on my brother counot not miss so for some reason he brought out a 32 inch flat screen TV and a small generator. So here we were sitting outside my beat up old camper with this TV proped up on a table.
A ranger drives by, stops gets out of his truck walks over looking at us like we are just plain nuts and says, Are you some kind of High Tech Rednecks. We all had a good laugh
There you have it
I grew up on the Ninnescah river. My nickname from my baseball days was Hog.
Mine comes from reading about longbowmen shooting greygoose shafts, when I was a kid.
One of my other hobbys is building plastic airplane models. I've always been impressed with the Sukhoi SU27 fighter plane. Just a backward spelling of Sukhoi. Thought it kind of went with the avatar.
My first name is CRISPIN & last is HENRY, hence CHENRY, the IV comes from Shakespeare's Henry V act IV - "St. Crispin Day's Speech"
"We few, we happy few, we band of brothers;
For he to-day that sheds his blood with me
Shall be my brother; be he ne'er so vile,
This day shall gentle his condition:
And gentlemen in England now a-bed
Shall think themselves accursed they were not here,
And hold their manhoods cheap whiles any speaks
That fought with us upon Saint Crispin's day."
http://youtu.be/Ptqev-KEmhU
A friend was telling of a place in USA that was mandatory to have a gun in the house. I asked where it was and he answered (I wish I new). With my bad hearing I heard (Awishanew). Where is that? The name stuck.
QuoteOriginally posted by CHENRYIV:
My first name is CRISPIN & last is HENRY, hence CHENRY the IV comes from Shakespeare's Henry V act IV - "St. Crispin Day's Speech"
"We few, we happy few, we band of brothers;
For he to-day that sheds his blood with me
Shall be my brother; be he ne'er so vile,
This day shall gentle his condition:
And gentlemen in England now a-bed
Shall think themselves accursed they were not here,
And hold their manhoods cheap whiles any speaks
That fought with us upon Saint Crispin's day."
http://youtu.be/Ptqev-KEmhU
That is very "Traditional" of a name! I love that speech I loved it when C. Carwood Lipton spoke it on the Band of Brothers MiniSeries
Very cool!
I saw this a little late but here goes, I am a huddle leader for F.C.A. ( Fellowship of Christian Athletes ) and on the back of one of our shirts we have our creed... " I am the Lord's Warrior, a competitor by conviction, and a disciple by determination. The results of my efforts must result in His glory! "
words to live by.
I can remember my Dad taking me to the local Dick's Sporting goods store. I was 10 at the time which means it was 1969 and on the gun rack, at eye level, were two Browning A-5 shotguns! It was at that moment that I promised myself, one day I will own own Browning A-5. 43 years later it is still my favorite bird gun.. everything from upland game to waterfowl.... you just can't fix perfection!
Comes from the way I like to hunt. I always access
by water when possible. Love to hunt from a canoe or just walk a creek with hip boots.
I'm a coach and a high school teacher... the kids call me Griff.
My screen name "WAC" is the initials for a ministry I founded, Wild about Christ Ministries. I lead adventure retreats in the upstate of South Carolina and do archery demonstrations and speak at churches throughout the Southeast.
After shooting a deer I love to see "WET FEATHERS" on my arrow. My wife jokes and says I swim with chickens.
Love my re-curves and live in Maine.... pretty self explanatory
After many years of fly fishing the Bighorn River in Montana, a fly fishing buddy started calling me the Bighorn Angler and I have been using it ever since.
When I was in college I had a part time job working with the full timer's in the facilities maint. department. One of the older guys started calling me bisket. They all started laughing when he said, "It is because you soak up all the gravy jobs". It stuck.
QuoteOriginally posted by bisket:
When I was in college I had a part time job working with the full timer's in the facilities maint. department. One of the older guys started calling me bisket. They all started laughing when he said, "It is because you soak up all the gravy jobs". It stuck.
Good one
A "Jackdaw" is a British bird...similar to a raven. My sister had one when I was a kid....I used to take care of it for her.....my friends called me Jackdaw John....Jackdaw stuck.......just sayin'...............John
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When I started deer hunting,I always hunted the swamps or its edges. Had the longest walk out so I usually was the last one out and they would say Here comes swamper.
I dabbled with archery as a kid , not serious. Then in 1989 bought a compound , got bored with it and bought a bear recurve in 1991 and have stuck with traditional ever since.
I've always walked everywhere. Even on the farm I don't tend to use vehicles unless necessary. So for the last 20 years my nickname has been Shanks, or shankspony.
Traditional Archer, I guess it says it all for me, I was pleasantly surprised to see no one had picked it when I was trying to find my signature for this great sight. :clapper:
Derived from where I live and my hobby :saywhat:
Couldn't think of anything clever. At the time I joined I was getting into Striped Bass fishing on the Hudson River. Its also called MUH-HE-KUN-NE-TUK or the River that flows both ways.
I started thinking Of the paradoxical idea of a circle river, then realized its a Monotheistic idea of All Is One. Not only that its an old Native Ideology of Wantan Tanka.
It basically means "what comes around goes around". Karma! If you poison the river, you poison yourself. Hence the name Circle River, or the river that goes both ways therefore I decided to be Cyclic-Rivers. I felt it fit the way I try to look at life and how I treat others.
Victory as in victory in Christ. Hunter as in I'm a hunter but that I also "hunt" so to speak, daily for the path that God has set for me.
John 1046 new member nothing fancy birth month and year. I am not new to archery but computer challenged
Fightin' Texas Aggies.....Whoop!
got mine by being the better shots of us kids while squirrel hunting with 22s and being able to hit anything no matter the distance-within reason- while just plinking with any item (snyper) but wanted to spell it a bit differently hence the y. the shot is mainly cause it sounds cool but i like to shoot often and then 317 consists of my three fav numbers which are all primes too..so a combo of nerdiness :rolleyes: , nicknames and hobbies i guess...lol :archer:
Mine comes from the name of a slow couples dance form music style from the Renaissance. Some of my best music has been written on this ancient form. Surprise, it has nothing to do with archery, my real full time obsession is classical music.
put simply my screen name is the name and draw weight of my longbow at 28"
Redstag5728 =
Redstag - my longbow is a CTA Redstag
5728 - it's rated for 57# @ 28"
NightHawk was the cow hand that rode with the herd at night.I grew up with animals and watching/ reading westerns.
Some of these are very creative. After trying a few that were taken, I thought about the conversation I had with my 5 year old niece. She had asked about the tattoo on my right arm, and I told her that it was a pheonix and explained about rising from the ashes and such. Sounded pretty at the time. There is a lot of meaning behind that tattoo, plus my initials are PH.
I was eating some homemade deer bacon while thinking of screen names.
Well I enjoy duck/goose hunting and I enjoy the old hostess powdered donuts with the raspberry filling. After eating several one morning in the blind (with my facemask on)I realized by my hunting partners expression :eek: something was not right. sure enough, nose to chin, all the way around, powdered sugar!
Hence quacker+snacker.
fubar- old military term, f/up beyond any repair, I'm handicapped. Fred...ya'all can figure that part out yerselves...
When registering, I had jammed my toe on the leg of the chair. It just seemed fitting.
First bow I ever owned was an Acadiana Woods, hence awbowman
Cahaba comes from the Cahaba River in central Alabama. The word cahaba is from the Choctaw Tribe and means "river above". I have floated this river several times. Jerry Hill told about one of our float trips on this forum titled Old Man River.
Easykeeper is a term horse people use to describe a horse that doesn't have any complicated food requirements, gets along well with minimal rations, and is generally easy going and gets along well with their herd mates.
The first two characteristics apply quite well to me, although I am a bit picky about my choices in adult beverages. The third characteristic something I think is good to aspire to in general and also makes for pleasant 'net time.
Mine just came to me one day.....48 years ago! :goldtooth:
I came up with mine because it just seems all the bow hunting I do I'm alone. Not necessarily by choice, just the way life has turned out(lost club leases, moving, etc.). I'm okay with it though. I do miss shooting the breeze around the campfire with old friends but they're only a phone call away.
I'm a lifelong and multigenerational Vermonter and pretty proud of that, we are of course the Green Mountain State.
Was listening to the Doors song "LA Woman" when I discovered this magical website known as TradGang.
Favorite bow I own is a Morrison......coincidence?
:archer:
Little Black .243 win. Its the name I use on forums. I know its not bowhunting related and thought about changing it but I like it. On a side note I dont get to use that pretty little remington near as much anymore. This Trad bug has bit me pretty bad.
Double post.
My full first name is Evan and my nickname is evy.
suppose there is worst nicknames out there. :)
When i started shooting Trad bows, I was going out and shooting 7,8 times a day. The bow i was shooting was giving me really bad finger pinch and the skin on my ring finger turned black and then started falling off. I couldn't stop so i just wrapped tape around it until i got a new bow. Ouch!
"Duncan Idaho" is the master swordsman and warmaster from Frank Herbert's classic work "DUNE".
Mine is my favorite animal to trap and my age.
the name of my favorite black lab that is no longer with me.
matt
QuoteOriginally posted by Deadsmple:
Mine comes from a video game that me and some friends used to play at lan parties back in the early 90's. If anyone here could name the game I'd be impressed.
Quake??
Mine is pretty simple..
My family is Irish on both sides. (I'm also a Notre Dame fan)
I'm an ethical computer hacker by trade.
I picked mine because this is a trad site and I couldn't believe nobody had chose longbowman yet.
Mine is from the Bible
Genesis 27:3 NKJV Now therefore, please take your weapons, your quiver and your bow, and go out to the field and hunt game for me.
Mine screen name comes from when I was in the corps. I am from Kansas. So my buddies called me Kansas and 0311 was my MOS.
I picked mine because I live in north Idaho. That reminds me - I need to change my user name.
Wazu was the name of my setter and we got him in 2002. Just been going with it ever since