Trad Gang

Just how did you come up with the name that you use as your user name. Stave after being bent; Reformed

dorris . is my last name helps me remember my name .  :bigsmyl:

My 31" draw and 33" arrows- woodies of coarse.
Denny

Named myself after the first Custom Bow I ordered. A Cascade Golden Hawk Magnum.

Nickname was Hap since I was a yonker. Was playing basketball about 40 years ago and had a good game, a razorback called me Hot Hap and it stuck. Hap

I was trying to come up with something no one else had so I could use it everywhere. I ending up trying a combination of the county and city I was borne in and discovered it was unique "DarkeGreen".

I like to look for stone points and tools, so i came up with the name Stone Knife. I think it is cool to pick up an old point that was made in 2000 BC, and be the first human to touch it in over 4000 years

I'm me!

With my blackpowder rifle I cut a playing card in two peices edgwise at40 ft., at three different matches. At the thrid a friend said here comes another cardcutter.It stuck.

It's what I drive.

great grandfathers name and birthday
Brian

I used to work in a spice factory. I had a hard time smelling the coffee at rondevous my friend Bones stuck me with the moniker.

i absolutly the area i live in!

I'm a birdwatcher.   :campfire:

Curveman. The double entendre between liking the curve of the bow and the curves of the ladies!      :D

Mystic(Islands, NJ)Guido(Old nickname)

Well both sides of my families are from Poland. Back in the High School days[late 60's early 70's] if you were a little crazy you were considered "bent".When my brother in law first saw my traditional bow he said "you hunt with that all that is is a bent pole" AND not that it matters but when I fish hopefully I get a bent pole.

LCB, short for "LowCounty Boy" I gone by flatlander for years on a few other sites, but it was taken here, hence Low Country.

I sure would like to change my handle here without re-registering. Any one know how? Lots of folks think I work for the Liquor Control Board.

WTT (Wildlife Treasures Taxidermy) are the initials of the name of my side business. 03 is the year I started it.

I got my name from my hunting buddy Maggie McGee who said I was small and fast and usually got what I was going after.

Well

now I'm fat and slow and usually come home with nothin so I'm thinking about changing it to "the Sloth"...whatcha think?   :bigsmyl:

I had a tree step fail hence Fallguy.

Most people in my neck of the woods don't have all thier teeth when they call me by my name which is (Keith) it sounds more like " Keef" so I decided to use Keefers as my handle.No that's not true but this is what my old pastor at church always called me and I liked the way it sounded. God Bless! <")))><

My favorite time of year

"the Sloth" nope can't see it  :bigsmyl:  

One day at work years ago, a good friend said you look like Dano on Hawaii Five 0, so from then on it's been "book em Dano" it beats the heck out of Danny Boy like my uncles tagged me with.  :rolleyes:

When I first joined Tradgang, my favorite selfbow was a cherrybow from a tree that I harvested on a job site. The bow survived 2 years of hunting and 3-d shoots before it developed a crack in one limb and I gave it away for a wall-hanger. I love living in the Ozarks....Ozarkcherrybow

Mine is a deveation of bois d ark. Don't know if I spelled it right but as you know it's a real good bow wood pronounced bowdark. I'm kind of a dork (that's what my girls always call me) when it comes to bows so bodork seemed to fit.

Last year I was at the Royal Ranger Camparama.  There were about 5000 young men there and I was helping the learn to shoot a bow.  Mathews donated a bunch of money to build them a range and the kids were shooting the Mathews Gensis.  The camparama is something that takes place every four years and a bunch of older kids came by and saw the new bows were a contraption with wheels and cables and those kid kept asking where all the "onestringers" were, we want to shoot the "onestringers".  It only took about 2 seconds to figure out they were looking for the recurves they shoot four years earlier.  I liked it so much I took it as my screen name.  

Scott

That is the name of my offshore boat.  Haven't used it much since I started playing with these bows.  It is for sale now.  Oh Well...out with the old and in with the new....

Favorite thing to do is shoot my "bow", "mac" is my nickname.

Each letter is the first letter of the names of myself, my wife and two children.  Used it for years and this is the first time I can remember telling anyone - probably cause no-one else has asked!     :bigsmyl:

now I'm fat and slow and usually come home with nothin so I'm thinking about changing it to "the Sloth"...whatcha think?


Now thats funny...
Geno

BlackTail Hunter...been hunting blacktail deer all my life out here in California. Lots of success with modern rifles so I decided to make it much harder on myself and change to hunting them with a bow. It has been a journey to say the least.

A guy work pointed me out when I was making bows. "He's the bow dude".  Now it's my licence plate, name here, name on that auction site (modified) and yahoo.

My buddy said I had a drawlength that was shorter than short so he called me Chortdraw. Has stuck with me ever since. Just how short is chort?  :bigsmyl:

I'm a cop, hence five-oh.

a lost lake is a archaic blade with beveling on both sides I like to hunt for relices

Got mine from my fire to bring dead,useless and thrown away items Back to life.. my car show friends gave me the name voodoo.....see....
built this bike from junkyard digs.
(http://i47.photobucket.com/albums/f175/voodoofire1/mytoys004.jpg)
and found this old piece of junk laying in a field, given up for dead 17 yrs.ago..
(http://i47.photobucket.com/albums/f175/voodoofire1/MYTRUCK001.jpg) (http://i47.photobucket.com/albums/f175/voodoofire1/mytoys006.jpg)

Owls are my favorite bird, I've been attacked several times by them while hunting, the computer is challenging for me  and the mouse is part of that problem, all together, owlbait. I guess i could go by sloth if ferret doesn't take it.

Friends gave me mine. I got into turning my own arrow shafts (hardwood) and making them for friends. The boy were always asking if I had any pointy sticks around they could buy ..... Hence, Pointy Sticks


It's funny the boy will see a tree and start to figure how many staves they could get out of it, I usually answer I don't know but I see thousand and thousands of shafts LOL

"FFLINTLOCK"

Use to be all I hunted with for a long time, "FF" is the granulation I used in my loads and primer in the pan.
Made it up to get a Yahoo account years ago and have been using it ever since.

Named after the Beatle's song that my dad loved  but my baby brother could'nt pronounce Michelle at such a young age and so Shell stuck with my family and friends.....
except for my dad who stayed with my full name or lovingly.... My Shell.      :)

swp is my initials...Scott Ward Parson

My wife and I were looking for an e-mail address one time when we relocated. My name is Dennis hers is Dee we were trying to combine them but everytime we tried it was already taken, finally we stuck an a in front of them creating adeeden. I have used it every since!

I'll let ya guess how I came up with mine.

My first name is Samuel after my Poppa and his and his.  My midle name is Brant,  After no one just a name that no one else had allready in our neck of the woods. Also there is a water fowl called Brant and mom did not know that until I told her years ago.  And Osborn is also after my Poppa and Papaw.
S. Brant Osborn

Seems like I can never make a string that does not stretch.....lol.

Well, I was signing up for Tradgang and they asked what my on-line name would be.  I froze.  
I thought...hmmm let's see.. "brawny one"...um  no sorry;   "long hairy dude"....hahahaha;   "dragon slayer"  ..right....  OK, then, outta the blue....it came to me.

Chuck C

Hockeyref - because I am one..... and that and work I don't get to hunt as much as I would like...

My initials: Bret M Fuller

Saltwater fishing for reds.

Years ago when I got hooked up to the internet I was looking for a good email address name and everything I tried had been taken. There was a Billy Joel song on the radio "You may be right". One of the lines in the song was 'Cause you might enjoy some madness for a while'. The first part of the song talks about riding a motorcycle in the rain and it just so happened that I rode mine in the rain that day and thought 'madness' + my birthday was pretty good.

I got mine from my family hunting ground in Herkimer.

My name is Rob. I have tattoos! Simple really  :D

Drifter2, cuz I own a brack drifter "too".

C2 is from constantly having to say "Curtiss with a c and 2 esses" and also from how they called Ann Arbor, where I used to live, A2 or A squared.My being Curtiss Cardinal = C2 C^2 was too clumsy to type. it all worked together to get my nick.
The "@TheLibrary" was added after a lightening strike fried my home PC while I was away from home.

Because I play with a laminated wood LB, or Recurve and tapered Cedar or tapered Ash arrows.  Wood sticks are my passion.

<")))>< Michael   :thumbsup:

HO'NEHE was a name given to me by franks wife shell she calls me brother HO'NEHE which is wolf in indian. any way i have a thing about the timber wolf.i feel as one with them so if ya see or hear any its just me saying hi and looking after ya.  :thumbsup:

All my biker friends called me Big Paul. I didn't think it had as good a ring on the archery sites so I switched.

I spent over 35 years tracking and  trapping Greyfox in the Jersey pines , My first real outdoor passion followed closely by my love of bowhunting . I have shot a bow since I was about 8 years old and still haven't gotten to where I want to be with it , Fred

#247 was one of my badge #'s. It was also the house # where I lived in Va. UH! was that ever wierd.

Well when you are in the service and no one can pronounce your surname... They give you a nickname...
Slasher sounds a lot like it... so I became known as Slasher... Because of my German name, not for any psypathic homicidal tendencies....  Made my Dad and Mom real proud!!!

I cant seem to have enough Bigriver Bows, hence "Bigriver". Not very creative, but it works.

I have always salvaged feathers, points and sometimes shafts from broken, discarded arrows at various shoots I attend. I also use cane and ramin wood arrows quite a bit. So some of my shots are pretty cheap.

My name comes from all the trees I've shot with arrows . I have also been told  by friends that it is an Indian word for respect.   :rolleyes:

My grandfather who started me hunting and was the greatest mortal influence in my young life. His name was BENton HAney.

I love the story about the great white buffalo and the song gets me going too,,JB

I live just south of Palm Springs California. Man It's hot in the Desert..........Dude

My grandfather's name was Poinsette Mallard.  He preferred "Pine".  I was nuts about him.  Hence   "pine nut"

I am a Drill Sergeant and prior to this assignment, I put alot of .308 lead downrange.

According to the official history, the Xia Dynasty was founded when Shun abdicated the throne in favor of his minister Yu, whom Shun viewed as the perfect civil servant. Instead of passing power to the person deemed most capable of rulership, Yu passed power to his son, Qi, setting the precedence for dynastic rule. The Xia Dynasty thus began a period of family or clan control.

I like Chinese history, and myths.

702 is my badge number and I work for the Prince's Lakes Marshal's Office.

I took the name off my wood stove after all other display names were rejected.One of these days I will change it to something more me.  :coffee:

I think that mine is pretty obvious  :D

Kevin.

College baseball coach gave me mine. Because I'm big, white, and hairy.

Well....my usual screen name (Lobo, my nickname) was taken, so I chose a name that discribes what I do for a living....attempt to teach high schoolers math.  :banghead:  

Lobo in West Virginia

From Mom and Dad, 41 yrs ago.   :thumbsup:

Mine is not creative; but for sure original.

John Sanderlin III

I am mexican in texas and can cook texmex too  :bigsmyl:

I keep it simple. Mine is my first two initials and last name:
Matthew Michael Grode

The first deer I killed was with a slug shotgun...and I'm only 5'7" tall, rather.. short!

My name is James William, but I go by my middle name. My aunt and uncle started calling me Jwilliam years ago.


Bill

It`s where I live. Highway History sign says this area along the San Gabriel River was a favorite camping ground for Indians for close to 10,000 years. Bluffs on the north side kept the North wind at bay,huge oaks kept it shady with unobstructed South breese,and excellent water. I was so proud to live here Ikept telling people about it till they started to call me Draco Bob. I like just Draco better.

My son give me the name when he was 2.We were feeding the mules.

I happen to have been called "Yoda" by friends for years. I'm told it's because of the way I ponder things - often for to long - and the way I tend to speak: disjointed, convoluted and backwards. That sounds better than the short gimped-up funny looking guy.
Yoda was taken here so it was Jedimaster. One of my favorite things to say is a Yoda quote: "Do or do not... there is no try"

It's my initials

My first email address I ever used was "flatbow..." because that is the type of bow I like to build and hunt with the most.

But when I signed up here,that name was taken, I had always in years passed been accused of hunting with nothing but "sticks & strings" so I changed it to "Flatstick".

Barry Wensel was already taken so I used my name.

Earned my name back in my blackpowder days.

I out grew my hair at a younger than most age and a huntin' buddy started calling me kojac. (besides the fact that its one of the nicer names I've been called)

who luvs ya baby!

Well, my mommy and daddy gave me mine.  On a couple other sites I am known as "venor ergo sum"  It's latin.  Translates to: "I hunt, therefore I am"

-Fritz

Mine came off a bag of chewing tobbacco.

I had a contest with my fly fishing buddies to name my dog.  Winner got a case of beer.  Since I paid for it, I decided to get double my money's worth.

A couple of vets, and a misspelled archery reference...  :rolleyes:

I got a 1963 model 670 nova tote gote that I rebuilt from the ground up. Its the same one I use to ride when I was a child. It had been in the woods behind my dads house for over 30yrs. It runs great. I ride it 4 to 5 times a week.

When I used to be a compound shooter, I wore one of those camo face masks that had a slit for the eyes... it reminded my buddy of a ninja (his looked more like a bank robber to me), and he started calling me elk ninja because of it.
Mike

Morningstar is the model name of my canoe.  I always liked the name because it reminds me of the peaceful darkness before sunrise.

After missing the same cow elk twice , yes...first over her and then under,  my pops started calling me that and it stuck.

I'm from MI and I like to Bowhunt, nuff said.     :archer:

What I'd have to get to shoot "split vision".
 ;)

Small town in Suriname where I do most of my work.

Mine is from the Model A Ford I have owned for 40 years (been in the family for 50 years). It is now in pieces in my garage as I continue to mold it into a hotrod (355 Chevy, 350 turbo, 8" Ford rearend, etc.). It takes time and money, both of which I have been short of lately, but I'll finish it eventually!

My screen name is my initials Timothy Hewes Peter.  The middle name is my paternal grandmother's maiden name.  I've always liked it because a great-great-great-etc. uncle, Joseph Hewes, was a signatory on the Declaration of Independence.

Mine is the first two letters of my first, middle and last name.  I've used it for years as a userid on various sites.

High School nickname with my number

Just because most people that have known me for a long time-------say I am.

When I first started shooting bows, shot split finger. Too much pinch, somebody suggested shooting 3Under and it worked. Then came "Tradgang"

                      3Under

MANDOLIN PLAYER!!!

From the Warren Zevon song of the same name.

Back in school a friend started bastardizing my last name Hren pronounced Ren. He started calling me Hrenegade & it stuck.

After drawing two of the most coveted elk tags in NM, in consecutive years, and coming home empty handed, my said "No elk?" and I replied "That's me, the No elk man!"

Karma emphasized the point by not drawing a tag for the next 3 years.

Paul Bruchalski New Jersey: My first intials from first and last name and the state I live in: Hence, my displayed name....PBNJ And I bet y'all thought I just like peanut butter and jelly sandwichs!!

I'm a firefighter...station 43.

I used the name of our local archery club!

Mine is actually the name I used when I frequented compound sites. I shot a PSE bow then. When I came to Tradgang, I didn't want to have to remember several different user names and passwords, so I just kept the name I had. Not very traditional, but easy for me to remember.

I carphunt alot during the non-game seasions. There was an old man that use to catfish up on the lake were I carphunt alot and anytime I would float by him he would look at me and say theres that carphunter how many have you killed about 100 and he would laugh. I don't no his name and I have not seen him on the lake the past 2 years. But thats were the carphunter100 came in at.

In some versions of the story of Robin Hood, "Reynold Greenleaf" was an alias used by Little John.  I thought it would be cool to use an alias that already had an established history within archery.

Grant

Just my name.....

It is my name! Easy and simlpe. Shawn

Buckeye is our state tree in Ohio and I hunt the hills of the SE here as often as possible.

Nothing fancy just my initials

Mike   :campfire:

Bought and fell in love with my first stick bow, which was an Allegheny Mountain Bow. See....I actually do know how to spell Allegheny. :)

PBNJ, I assumed your tradgang name mean "Peanut Butter N Jelly".  Since I like peanut butter and jelly sandwiches, I thought you must be a real cool dude   :biglaugh:

Graduated from Texas A&M, Home of the Fight'in Texas Aggies, in 1993.

My name - of course! Given to me by my father who was a falconeer. Falk = falcon.

My friends started calling me OSAGETREE because everytime I would go hunting I would talk about finding another osage tree.  

Quote from a friend before going hunting;
"Yo, OSAGETREE, you going after deer or trees?"

Famous..or is it infamous? for oneshot kills, rifle or bow.

Just want to know how to make my own stuff...live off the land....etc etc. You know....like Ishi did.

It's what I am.. at least the nut part. Wasn't to much of a stretch from there.

I love to shoot longbows....but it was taken. I meant to do LongBow but added the space by accident, now it looks like I can't spell!  :knothead:

Anthony Ross Wallace 2nd seemed a little formal, so I went with "TonyW." I could have used my tribal name, "Breaks-arrows-like-white eyes," but I thought TonyW was easier to type.

It's what I am.

MY STIK BOW....just a little play on words

Got pegged with the nickname "Hawkeye" by my lifelong hunting buddy at age 12 when I was death-on-two-legs to any rat, sparrow, or squirrel I shot at with my old iron-sighted Remington .22.

About 1993, when I started poking around on the Bulletin Board that later turned into the old Bowsite, it was the Wild, Wild West days of the Internet, and all advice was to stay annonynous if you posted because of the "dangers".  Even though I'm from Illinois,(NOT Iowa) I picked up on the old nickname.  Also, I always loved "The Last of the Mohicans", and the protaginist's name is Hawkeye, so...

This nickname has followed me to several sites for nearly 15 years, now, and it is the only way a lot of good online friends ever knew me!

Daryl

I chose Jim in Maine in hopes of getting connected with other trad folks in Maine. Didn't work directly, but I do know some now.

I've been called Peanut all my life, matter of fact most relatives and friends don't know my real name and cacahuate is spanish for peanut. The Waylon Jennings song "I've always been crazy" seems to apply to me so the loco part.

When I signed up for membership I naturally neede a screen name. So in a hurry I thougt hey, I hunt on Block Island. So I logged in a bihunter. meaning block island hunter. But a friend of mine, who likes to kid around said it looks like something else.Trust me brothers of the bow it does mean what I said.

I was fortunate enough to catch a blue marlin once. Unbelievable experience!

Jerry

Former debt collector... just kidding?

When I was trying to come up with my first email address, everything related to my name was already taken. So after some pondering a while I came up with jchunt4ever.
JC is my initials and hunt4ever is a my life long passion which I plan to enjoy forever.

My last name is "Raine" and my friends used to call me a walking phone book for my uncanny ability to remember phone numbers.

When the movie "Rainman" came out, they immediately pegged me. Hence "Raineman"

I have always liked Osage Orange (Bodark).
When I joined SASS, I chose the alias "Bodark." When I signed on here, they wouldn't let me use "Bodark," so I just added my home state. "BodarkOkie"

Besides shooting and hunting with trad bows, I also collect and shoot the old model Ruger Blackhawk revolvers.

i missed a banded pintail drake (at 20 yards)during the 03-04 waterfowl season. my buddies havent let me live it down yet. Keep asking why i can kill ducks and geese at 50-80yds but when they are within 20 i seem to miss??

It is much easier for people to put a name with a face instead of a handle with a face so I choose my name. Sure do get reconized every where I go.

From the Roadrunner Cartoons. Seems most of my attempts at being a stealthy predator end up like his did. LOL

At the Time I Picked Archery back up, I got a "Wheelie" Bow because I had found a "Small Wheelie" Set at a "Garage Sale" for my Son!!
 So We could Shoot Together, and Naturally in the Beginning, My Bow Arm  SHOOK ,My Son Said "Hey Dad, You got the Shakes!" Bless His Heart!   :thumbsup:  
  The 602 is June 2002, when He and I Started this Activity, so I used it to Always Remind Me of The Fun We had! Now He and I have Abandoned the Wheels, and Shoot Traditional!!   :thumbsup:  
    I Bought a Blackhawk, Cravotta Bros. Recurve, which He Claimed Real Quick, You could See the Fascination in His Face when I shot it, Amazed He Was, so I have Kept at it with Him and now  I  am Amazed at how Good a Shot that Boy has Become!! Funny Thing, Now is  HIS  Bow Arm Shakes!!  :archer:    :goldtooth:

Humm

hormoan

        Feelings & passion that run deep.

                       Brent

Private pilot.  I love to fly.

Dennis

My favorite longbow, Navajo Caddo, by Roy Hall.

LD

My name is Levi and I have an addiction. I buy too many bows. Hence, bow-fiend. People always mistake it for bow-friend, but if you knew me you'd definitely know that it's "fiend". Just about the time I get arrows perfectly matched to a bow, it's time to get another one.   :knothead:

I'm John and I live in Alaska. It's a handle that I've used for years before TG

Last name is Rice and when we raced snocross it was "Riceburner Racing" so the Riceburner just hung with me.


Dave Rice-burner

-Burnsie-
My Dad's friends, and me and my brothers friends
all call us Burnsie. "Hey nice buck Burnsie", "I wish I could shoot like Burnsie", "Burnsie, let me buy you a beer" ...etc. Or was it "Burnsie you stupid#!@#!" - I forget.
Just kinda comes natural with the last name I guess.
Troy Burns

It's a variation of my name.

I have been known to paddle a few of the local rivers.  Since the water up here isn't always the warmest, neither am I.

We doin' this again - just to show my lack of imagination   :knothead:  

ber643 = first half of bernie + second half of bernie - in telephone dial numbers (I have such a fertile mind -   :goldtooth:

I just love long bows so LBOW it is

Just plain ol' me.  Used to use neat little nicknames in the past, but here I just like to be me. Tim

Let my beard grow out real long one year during duck season to keep the wind off my face. Buddy of mine at work one day said " Man you sure look Grizzly" It stuck.....had to throw in the year I was born cause Grizz was already taken.

Started trad bending too many aluminum arrows. Buddy talked me into ash. Dean Torges sold me a gizmo to nock and/or barrel taper shafts at Denton.

Danged Ash shafts had so much " grain run out" on em that once I tapered the nock and point ends, I had a hard time figuring out which way the grain ran to orient the nock against the grain, and I blurted out to someone, "Dangit! A guy has to have a Ph.D. in Ash to figure out the grain to orient the nock" and Doc Nock moniker was born.

Hardly worth all that typin, huh?  :(

And yeah, Bernie, you do have a FERTILE mind...but that just opens sooo many doors I can't go through...  :bigsmyl:    :thumbsup:

what i do for a living

Mine is the model of motorcycle I own. I found a 1942 Harley Davidson WLA Military Police bike in Belgium while stationed in Europe and restored it from the ground up. I've had it five years now.

I found the avatar in one of my Daughter's Richard Scary books and liked it.

It's a long story......
Mine is a holdover from my high school days (many many years ago    ) Rocky and Bullwinkle were popular cartoon heros. My last name of Lasch fit well with the villian of the series - Snidely Whiplash, the archnemesis of Dudley Do-Right.

Last names Crow.Was sorta the black sheep.. ugh.. bird of the family in my younger years so...

FubarFred....Names Fred and I am the rest....
Fubar = F***ed up beyond any repair

I do some raft trips with some friends on the Rogue River from time to time. We got into the fish one year and I couldn't keep them off my flyrod. The other guys weren't doing so well. So, they said I must be snaggin' them. Every since then I am Snag!

I'm a medieval reenactor and handgun enthusiast.  Geoffrey " Hawken " of Huntingdon is my medieval forester persona, and Colt  1911 's are my favorite semi-auto pistols.

When I was about 20 years old and used to hunt with a rifle, me and my hunting partner and best friend came to within 100 yards of two REALLY nice SoCal Blacktails that anyone who has hunted Blacktails would be envious to see let alone harvest such a nice buck. I had buck fever so bad that I missed three slam dunk shots in a row as they just stood there and looked at me and finally walked off!! My buddy named me the Deer Slayer in honor of my shooting prowess!! I still hear about it to this day LOL! Memories!!        :rolleyes:

Oh man, you have ruined my image of you Deer Slayer! lol   I thought you had a wall of racks to drool over !

I moved from God's country in the foothills of north central arkansas between white and norfork river and a short drive to buffalo river.To the delta flat farm land of north east arkansas.so  I have been called a  hill boy a time or two.There ya have it!  ;)

I live in Vermont, I shoot trad and Vermont is rad...

KCTreeman  I'm a utility forester in Kansas City.

I strive to make good wood arrows.  Fletcher is the old English term for the guy who makes arrows.  The arrowsmith made the points.     :archer:

my favorite longbow,shoots where im thinking not where im looking!!!

QuoteOriginally posted by Fletcher:
I strive to make good wood arrows.  Fletcher is the old English term for the guy who makes arrows.  The arrowsmith made the points.      :archer:  

Yes and no: "fletcher" and "arrowsmith" are sometimes the same thing. "Pointer" and "Poynter" (and all the other variations), on the other hand, are sometimes names for those who made/installed the points.

Source of information on which I base my opinion: "Toxophilus", by Roger Ascham, and various sources of information dealing with the etymology of family names.
http://www.searchforancestors.com/surnames/origin/a/arrowsmith.php
http://www.ancestry.com/learn/facts/Fact.aspx?cj=1&sid=originsabtext&o_xid=0000703401&o_lid=0000703401&fid=10&fn=&ln=Fletcher
http://www.ancestry.com/learn/facts/Fact.aspx?fid=10&ln=Pointer&fn=&yr=&cj=1&sid=originsabtext&o_xid=0000703401&o_lid=0000703401

Those three webpages are from a 20 minute 'net search. By the way, Old English, Anglo-Saxon "English", is mostly derived from Germanic languages -- Middle English has French mixed in.
http://www.wmich.edu/medieval/resources/IOE/index.html
http://www.soon.org.uk/page18.htm

Anyone who has seen "Beowulf" written in Old English (see  http://www.heorot.dk/  for a good Beowulf website) knows what the written form of the language looks like -- as opposed to the form Geoffrey Chaucer and Roger Ascham used (a website with The Canterbury Tales, in Middle English:  http://www.librarius.com/cantales.htm  ).

My apologies for the digression from the topic. I just feel that a person should do the research before claiming to know the subject inside-and-out -- not that you did any such thing as claim to be an Expert on the subject, Fletcher.

Yes, and remember that "Beowulf" means "bee wolf" which is Old English slang for bear. All of us Fred "Beowulf" fans should be grateful that the language evolved so our archery equipment wouldn't remind us of our senior high school English teacher.

i am just me

mrkbsm?  Mark Bosma without vwls.

Dank, short for last name Dankovich

I got mine when shooting compounds, a bunch of us were shooting and one of them said no nockhunting, I was up to shoot and you know what happened, POW right in his nock.

Mike(aka nockhunter)

Actually it was my Dad's nickname for me but then I had the Best bud Jake, a black lab who I called Jdog. After he passed 2 years ago I took it back as my own nickname in his honor.

We walked alot of woods together, will again in the end.

Later

J

I am a dog handler for a law enforcment agency. My partners name is Arrow.

It's the one my Parents gave me.Frank

"duncan idaho" was the supreme swordmaster in the science fiction DUNE series. a childhood hero whose actions spawned a life long pursuit of the martial atrs.

As a youngster, my father would take me to every archery event we had time for. He picked up the handle "Bowdad" and I was eventually "Bowson." The names stuck. I have been shooting for almost 20 years and I have had the nickname for at least 10.

What happens when I have kids? Any suggestions?