We all got a name we sign in with and they kinda intrique me as to why some were picked.
Alscalls kinda speaks for itself like msmith does but there are others I'm not sure how they come about.
5shots is that how many it takes at most coyote stands.
Blueduck is there such a thing.
Baconnut kinda/sorta speaks for itself
Finsnfur is trying to tell me the price of hides.
Tikanni I'm still trying to find in my dictionary
Huntncarve really makes sense after you have seen his work.
Coulter is an instrument up here to open a furrow in the ground so I guess he shoots low.
Hawks feather intrigues me as I'd like to know which one.
Silencer I think I could figure out if he didn't talk so much.
The varminter section I think I've got but cathryn has me stumped.
Hammer I'm guessing is like wishing.
Lorddal I haven't figured because of the Charles part.
Canine is as easy as coyote101 but possumal isn't.
The first time I saw Todd Rahm I thought of a sheephunter
Golfertrout is just as easy as Coon Hunter.
If I've made you cranky I'll apologize now but I don't have a radio in my sprayer so I have time to think a lot. If you wish to explain your name I'll enjoy.
pitw
well Barry mine is from my roleplaying days I had a character I played all the time named Lord Dalamar Darrius and I just carried the Lorddal over it was either that or use my Nick name Loki cause I have always been a practical joker so I earned that name even got a Tattoo of it on my right arm in old germanic runes and mirrow imaged in regular letters right about my Mandolorian Mercs metheasosaur skull Tattoo so yeah I am a geek from way back in the day from duengons and dragons and paintball to computer hackin with a war dialer im just your OLD SCHOOL NERD :roflmao: :roflmao:
besides just look at my avatar one of my heros is the crazy pilot from THE A TEAM how old school can ya get after that :roflmao:
As you said Barry some are easy some are not.......
Alscalls is what it is cause if I sell ya something you aint happy with I want ya to know who to send it back to and I WILL bend over backwards to make it right.
But what the heck is PITW? I am sure I could come up with an acronym for it but I would rather know the true story......
Quote from: alscalls on May 30, 2009, 07:51:30 PM
As you said Barry some are easy some are not.......
Alscalls is what it is cause if I sell ya something you aint happy with I want ya to know who to send it back to and I WILL bend over backwards to make it right.
But what the heck is PITW? I am sure I could come up with an acronym for it but I would rather know the true story......
Well Al I've been spraying now for 15 years and ever since I started I'd pull into a field and the farmer would meet me to talk and invariably they'd say go to it but we are probably just pissing in the wind. When I bought my own machine and needed a name it just seemed natural to call it pitw. It works well for other customers as well cause when I pull into a known religous persons place and they aask what it means I say "peace in the world". For the customers that can squeeze a nickel so hard that it becomes a Loony I tell them when they ask what it means "Price includes the water".
So now you all know.
Barry
Cathryns my first name :biggrin:
first forums i ever posted on were for saltwater fishing, me being new to that part of the sport told it like its was; therefore frshwtr.
Tikaani means wolf in Athabaskan, the language of the natives people that inhabit this area.
John
Quote from: pitw on May 30, 2009, 07:59:16 PM
For the customers that can squeeze a nickel so hard that it becomes a Loony I tell them when they ask what it means "Price includes the water".
Having a Dad that could squeeze silver from a penny I find that hilarious! :roflmao: :roflmao: :roflmao:
BTW What's a Loony? :wo:
Quote from: Tikaani on May 30, 2009, 08:08:45 PM
Tikaani means wolf in Athabaskan, the language of the natives people that inhabit this area.
John
Now that's cool! ;yes;
A Loony would be any Canadian politician or our Canadian one dollar coin.
Silencer I think I could figure out if he didn't talk so much :roflmao:
We had a guy last year I think who went by Arse. Even showed up at one of the LBL hunts.
Met Bopeye, and never logged in again. :roflmao:
BlueDuck as in the movie "Lonesome Dove". He wasn't a very nice guy, but it had a ring to it.
Semp is short for Semper Fidelis which is Latin for Always Faithful and is the motto of the U.S. Marine Corps. I was in the Marines from 1966-1970. I started using that name years ago and I only use it online.
SITW (Spraying in the Wind),
Mine came about in the early 70's when I was enjoying the black powder trade. I made smoking tomahawks and somehow feather became the second part of the name - Hawk's Feather. I really can't remember how or why, but it was a trade name that I used. Quite a few of the people that I knew then just called me Hawk since I was the one making them. When I started making calls I just kept the name of Hawk's Feather and sign most, but not all, of my calls Hawk. While you can't see all of the hawk it is in this picture - along with a feather. :biggrin:
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That's my story and I am sticking to it.
Jerry
Quote from: Semp on May 30, 2009, 09:27:36 PM
Semp is short for Semper Fidelis which is Latin for Always Faithful and is the motto of the U.S. Marine Corps. I was in the Marines from 1966-1970. I started using that name years ago and I only use it online.
Man am I glad I didn't write down what I was thinking about this one :doh2: :innocentwhistle:
Quote from: FinsnFur on May 30, 2009, 08:37:43 PM
Silencer I think I could figure out if he didn't talk so much :roflmao:
We had a guy last year I think who went by Arse. Even showed up at one of the LBL hunts.
Met Bopeye, and never logged in again. :roflmao:
I do miss Arse. :eyebrownod:
Quote from: Bopeye on May 30, 2009, 09:47:48 PM
Quote from: FinsnFur on May 30, 2009, 08:37:43 PM
Silencer I think I could figure out if he didn't talk so much :roflmao:
We had a guy last year I think who went by Arse. Even showed up at one of the LBL hunts.
Met Bopeye, and never logged in again. :roflmao:
I do miss Arse. :eyebrownod:
Speaking of glad I didn't guess well I was afraid of getting one from Bop.
Back in the early days of the internet hunting boards I started out using the moniker Coyote Hunter but soon found another person was using that handle. :doh2: To avoid any possible confusion I decided to change to something else. I figured coyotehunter_1 would be pretty appropriate since I was the first guy crazy enough to try calling coyotes in my area. Besides “that darn crazy fool that hunts coyotes†was just too much to type. :rolleye:
:biggrin:
Quote from: coyotehunter_1 on May 30, 2009, 10:07:01 PM
Back in the early days of the internet hunting boards I started out using the moniker Coyote Hunter but soon found another person was using that handle. :doh2: To avoid any possible confusion I decided to change to something else. I figured coyotehunter_1 would be pretty appropriate since I was the first guy crazy enough to try calling coyotes in my area. Besides “that darn crazy fool that hunts coyotes†was just too much to type. :rolleye:
:biggrin:
I hear this one as I didn't think there were many coyote hunters anywhere until I got on the net. Wow you guys are crazy.
QuoteI didn't think there were many coyote hunters anywhere until I got on the net
pitw, I know where you are coming from too. :wink:
Over the years the net has brought many of us together. I first encountered guys like Bopeye, my coyote hunting partner, on the old Shade Tree. I do believe it was also that same board where CCP and I became acquainted. Later on other sites I became friends with many other fine folks, some are here on FnF today. Internet birthed get togethers like the LBL allow us to meet fellow coyote hunters in the flesh. :highclap: With the .www at our fingertips our world is a lot smaller than it was just a few years ago. ;yes;
QuoteWow you guys are crazy.
When it comes to hunting coyotes, being a little crazed isn't a requirement... but sometimes it does seem to help. :laf: :biggrin:
Kinda like Lordal I didnt role play but years ago I played Blackhawk Down / Delta Force on-line and was with a group called Bowhunters 4 Life. To join the squad you had to have picture proof of a buck bow kill and come up with a name dealing with bowhunting. They were a great group of guys, A few owned their own archery shops. Havent spoke to them in years, BHD/Delta Force isnt even around anymore. I should look up a few of them and see how they're doing.
I used to be all into grouse and quail hunting. That's were I got weedwalker.
bnccont ok now lets break that down
B-N-C Contractors
How Weedwalker ever came up with baconnut out of that,I have no Idea :laf:
Quote from: Bills Custom Calls on May 31, 2009, 04:34:03 AM
bnccont ok now lets break that down
I always thought it meant Bobcat N Coyote CONTrol :biggrin:
While filling my pockets with ammo one day, my dad told me "you don't need more than five shots, if you can't kill it with them you should be using a knife"
5 Shots I never looked at it that way but you could be on to something there :laf:
:laf: :laf: Interesting stuff for sure. I always figured pitw was short for Barry. :shrug: :laf: :laf:
I always used my 1st name on Forums until I joined a rimfire site one day. I used HaMeR as a way to mess with another internet buddy from another site. Then when vvarmitr told me to check this site out I decided to join. But I thought it would be fun to mess with him a little & signed up under HaMeR. My handle comes from the venerable 17HMR round. I've shot a ton of groundhogs with it & once I started using the 20gr XTP rds & took head shots only I couldn't believe how hard that little rd would hammer em. :biggrin:
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Quote from: HaMeR on May 31, 2009, 07:54:02 AM
:laf: :laf: Interesting stuff for sure. I always figured pitw was short for Barry. :shrug: :laf: :laf:
Me too some complicated Canadian word.......... :roflmao: :roflmao:
Yep, interesting info. Semp I understood correctly, with respect, and though I didn't know the meaning of the word, knew where Tikaani was coming from. Okanagan is the Canuck spelling for a tribe, their language and the valley and river where they come from. It straddles the border and is spelled differently on each side. Kind of like Chippewa and Ojibwa is the same word, as spelled by different Europeans trying to spell what they heard spoken. Anyway, I used to live in the Okanagan area and when I needed a screen handle the first time I ever logged into an Internet forum, the old Shooter's site, I used it on the spur of the moment and have never changed.
Seems Barry has mine figured out. I didn't think anyone could figure out that acronym...msmith = Mike Smith, mean, indestructable, tall and handsome. :eyebrow: OK, OK, it's my first initial and last name.
With all of these interesting handles, I feel somewhat generic now. However; when msmith is already taken, I go by the handle Lineman.
i like 2 golf n fish for trout
Mine came about from a stay in the hospital. They were going to put a catheter in if I didn’t pee. I told them I was peeing already but they said they had to see me pee. So when I had to go and pee I screamed see, see pee !!
Well not quiet how it came to be. CCP actually has 2 meanings. I had a cap with Coyote Control People on it and a number. Then when coming up with a name for the CO. Aaron came up with CrowCreekProductions because we were driving by crow creek and talking about the first coyote I killed when I moved to the area was from there. So CrowCreekProductions it was and CCP I am.
QuoteI do believe it was also that same board where CCP and I became acquainted.
Not sure of the board but do remember you sending me a picture of a setup outside of Nashville on a hunt you did. Dont remeber when the shade tree went down but do remember it seemed to be Nov 2001??? my first week on the web and was on a webtv little did I know then I would spend so much time on the internet. I went by PLUMBRICH for a long time as in the Plumber named Richard.
slagmaker came form my grandpa. I was forge welding some metal and he called me a slagmaker. Due to the large amount of slag sparks I was making. I was trying to figure out a good screen name one day and looked up and there was a pic of my grandparents, all of a sudden the name popped back into my head and there you have it.
The first "V" stands for Victor.
The rest is from my license plate ...
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Victor,
Glad to see that the snow is letting up on your side of the state.
Jerry
When I first joined FnF I was brand new to coyote hunting. I hoped to get a basic coyote hunting education from more experienced hunters on the site. Kind of like a first semester freshman in a beginning level class. I was taking Coyote 101 at FinsandFur U. That's my story.
Pat
Quote from: coyote101 on May 31, 2009, 09:00:08 PM
When I first joined FnF I was brand new to coyote hunting. I hoped to get a basic coyote hunting education from more experienced hunters on the site. Kind of like a first semester freshman in a biginning level class. I was taking Coyote 101 at FinsandFur U. That's my story.
Pat
Geez I guessed that one wrong too :doh2:
FinsnFur isn't trying to tell you the price of hides. He's trying to tell you something, you got that part right, but it isnt the price of hides. :laf: :laf: Naaaaaa I'm harassing ya.
FinsnFur came cause thats the short version of the sites name. (FinsandFur)
Back when I was trying to come up with a name, and buy a domain for it, I had a lot of good names. Unfortunately most of them were takin.
The one that sticks out the most, and I really had my heart set on it was HookandBullet. But it was taken, still is in fact and they have yet to put a domain on it.
Just think instead of all you guys being FinsandFurians, you could of been HookandBulletians. :biggrin:
Quote from: FinsnFur on May 31, 2009, 09:47:18 PM
Just think instead of all you guys being FinsandFurians, you could of been HookandBulletians. :biggrin:
Keep on telling yourself that and you might start believing it.
I go By coon hunter , well because I coon hunt . EVERY CHANCE I GET. :yoyo: :yoyo: :yoyo:
well mines pretty easy...mandi is my name, and the 48 is for jimmie johnson :biggrin:
jimmie johnson ......................... :puke: :puke:
Frogman is easy too. I have been interested in scuba diving ever since I watched "Sea Hunt" and Mike Nelson (Lloyd Bridges) on TV when I was a kid. I became a certified diver in 1974 and an instructor in 1976. Openned a scuba shop here in Parkersburg in 1977 called Scuba WV Inc. We teach scuba classes at the local YMCAs, sell diving equipment, fill tanks, and organize scuba trips. I have been fortunate enough to travel to lots of exotic destinations leading dive trips. Thus . . .
Frogman!
Interesting thread, I too have wondered about some of your "handles".
Jim
mine is pretty obvious as well....Wayne C is for my last name (Crabtree) and the 308 is 'cause I hunt with a winchester mdl 100 308.
It has been intersting to read the how & why of the handles..
My screen name came about when I was reading a lot of old mountain man stories...the story I happened to be reading at the time I joined another forum was about John Colter. He was a member of the Corp of Discovery and the Lewis and Clark expedition, After being discharged on the trip back east he joined up with some other trappers and headed back west into hostile Blackfeet territory to trap beaver. The story of his harrowing escape from certain death impressed me and left its mark on me for quite a few years. He was also the first white man to discover Yellowstone...hence the name Colters Hell. He later settled down and married a woman named Sally if memory serves me correctly. Instead of dying a valiant death at the hands of indians, it is believed that he passed away due to jaundice. I added a "U" in my screen name just to throw people off a bit :innocentwhistle: Actually, I have seen his name spelled both ways, but it seems the more common version is Colter.
So there you have it...it is not my last name as so many people have thought in the past...oh and it doesn't refer to a digging tool either :eyebrownod:
Steve
Quote from: Coulter on June 01, 2009, 09:01:17 PM
The story of his harrowing escape from certain death impressed me and left its mark on me for quite a few years.
Steve
Kind of makes you want to take your clothes off and start running with a tribe of indians after you doesn't it? :rolleye: I think the wife's name is spelled Sallie. That spelling sort of stuck since it was the first time I had seen Sally spelled like that.
Jerry
You may be right on the spelling of his wifes name Jerry. I was just happy to remember her name without looking it up :eyebrownod: I think I'll keep my clothes on and avoid trapping beaver near any Blackfeet tribes. Come to think of it the portion of the Jeremiah Johnson movie where he is running from the Indians and hides in the beaver lodge is more or less derived from the Colter story.
Steve
Quote from: Coulter on June 01, 2009, 09:01:17 PM
oh and it doesn't refer to a digging tool either :eyebrownod:
Steve
Well it could have :shrug:
Barry-- Does this answer your question as to why they call me HaMeR??[/color]
:laf: :laf:
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That female prolly weighed 10lbs & the little 17HMR ripped her a new one!! :eyebrow:
disclaimer-- no wet bitches were harmed in the making of this video. the younguns were all on beans.
Quote from: HaMeR on June 12, 2009, 07:27:28 PM
Barry-- Does this answer your question as to why they call me HaMeR??[/color]
:laf: :laf:
Sure helps and it's a lot better than the picture I had in my mind of a guy with real big thumbs :laf:
:laf: :laf:
It's not my thumbs that get in the way!! :nono:
http://finsandfur.net/forums/index.php?topic=5909.0
Quote from: HaMeR on June 12, 2009, 08:05:56 PM
:laf: :laf:
It's not my thumbs that get in the way!! :nono:
http://finsandfur.net/forums/index.php?topic=5909.0
Dang :argh: If I'd a had teeth I'd a bit my toungue off, gritting them after seeing that again. You should maybe cut that one off and it won't get in the road like that again :wink:
Quote from: HaMeR on June 12, 2009, 08:05:56 PM
:laf: :laf:
It's not my thumbs that get in the way!! :nono:
http://finsandfur.net/forums/index.php?topic=5909.0
If you had not posted that link .......I was gonna! ......... :roflmao: :roflmao: :roflmao:
Boy I needed to see that again. :doh2:
:laf: :laf:
CB handle.Cause when I was driving a truck a friend of mines wife said I was like an old stray cat............never knew when I would show up or what I would drag in when I did !
:roflmao: You dirty ole man, Stray~
Quote from: HaMeR on June 12, 2009, 07:27:28 PM
Barry-- Does this answer your question as to why they call me HaMeR??
Well, that sure is a let down for me. I thought that was your stage name and your first name (on stage) was MC. I have been telling all my friends (both of them) that I KNOW
Jerry
:laf: :roflmao: :nono:
If they keep believing you Jerry just keep telling them!! :roflmao:
When my daughter was just a toddler, I was just starting my debut on the internet. I was more into deer hunting then, but was also doing some coyote calling near my deer hunting grounds.
I was signing up on my first forum ever, which was a deer forum. It asked for a username and so I was setting there pondering a name when my baby girl came toddling up to me. I wasn't wearing a shirt and was considerably thinner then...... :rolleye: ........anywho, she looked at me, pointed at my belly button and in her sweet little voice said, "Bopeye, Bopeye". Hence the name Bopeye became etched into history...... :confused: or some crap like that. :doh2: :laf:
That's been ten or eleven years ago now and what a ride it's been. :highclap:
Lots of things have changed in the last decade, but some things have went full circle. I went through the not knowing crap, but having a blast stage. Then into the thinking I knew something and getting my first E-caller which was a Johnny Stewart 512 tape player. I thought all my problems were solved with an ecaller. Then went into the everything on the net was serious stuff, hand calls, all kinds of guns, camo, fancy hunting equipment, coyote piss, decoys, etc. etc.
Now I'm back to realizing I still don't know crap, but having a blast anyway. I like this stage real well. :biggrin: :wink:
Enjoyed reading this thread.
While my mom was fat with me ,my parents went to one of those shady chicks that look in to that crystal ball thingy for $1 and she said when he is 25 they will invent the internet, with forums and he will be required to have a member name (Dad: they name their members in the future?) there for you shall call him Todd Rahm.
Who would have believed it? :shrug:
:laf: :laf: @ Bop & Todd!!
I think Todd has started using the wacky backy....... :roflmao:
Thank God for Al Gore inventing this thing. :innocentwhistle: