What's your screen name?

[Baltim0re28]

As I cruise through here, there is a wide variety of screen names. Most have some relation to air guns or shooting in general. Just wanted to start a thread to see how you came up with your screen name and the meaning behind it. (If you don't mind telling)


Mine is a screen name I started on other sites a few years back. I just carried it along and used it on multiple sites because it was easy to remember that way. I am from Baltimore and I was 28 years old when I created it.

[Ol'DeadEye]

I'm old and I generally hit what I aim at.
Hence, Old Dead Eye.
I also go by "Certified Slacker" on other sites.(Not airgun related)
Since I retired 10 years ago, I decided to quit being overly concerned if things get done in a timely manner.  Slacking off.
My wife certified me.
Hence, Certified Slacker.
Gotta keep things in perspective...

[amb5500c]

Back when having a computer in the home was a new thing, we got one. My wife is a school teacher and the computer was intended to make things quicker and easier for that purpose. But I got on it from time to time just to play and surf the web for things interesting to me. Many of the sites I visited required a screen name. I tried several gun/hunting/archery related names only to find that they were already taken. So I changed my name finding quest to include fishing related stuff. My favorite fishing reel is the Ambassadeur 5500 C. That name has been with me since way back then.
Richard

[Dead nuts dog]

Tis again, it pops up fron time to time. Why not
I'm a nut case I'm a dang good shot ( if I can say that ) and I love hunting yotes, but as a child/young man we had wild packs of domesticated dogs in are area that we would shoot anytime you saw one

[ezman604]

Mine comes from a combination of things. Ez (ezman - D Ez) are the nicknames I have had for years, taken from my last name. And the 604 was my barracks number while in South East Asia back in the 70's in the USAF. It holds a lot of significance to me....and anyone else that served there at the same time. 

[jonnnyboy]

Even though my name is Joe, Jonnnyboy is an old college nickname I somehow picked up along the way.  When I joined the GTA many years ago (it seems) it was just natural to retrieve the old nickname and put it to good use. 

My avatar has always been of someone that I enjoyed and even admired.  Don Knotts was one of the greatest situational comedic actors of my generation and as a youth, another of my nicknames was Barney from my affection for Barney Fife.  I have also used an avatar of Clint Eastwood as the gunfighting preacher from Pale Rider, a movie for which I have an affinity.

The choices of screen-names and avatars are interesting as they often reflect the moods, thoughts and ideologies of those who choose them.  Of course, often as not, they are just chosen at random.  LOL!

joe

[Sfttailrdr46]

  My screen name and avatar are easy I have ridden many brand and styles of motorcycle over the last 50 years and when I bought the Harley FX Springer it allowed me to incorporate two passions for the price of one. In this case riding and tinkering , I still ride just not as much as I did 15 years ago. Also rediscovered Air Guns another 2 for 1 hobby Shooting and tinkering

[QVTom]

I have no imagination and my memory is terrible so I use the the same everywhere.  QV - my company and Tom - me.  When I forget my my forum name.......... put me to pasture.

Tom

[CarsonRatSniper]

I used to live in Carson City - I love shooting rats - I am always banging steel out to 1000 yards = CarsonRatSniper
CRS HAHAHA! That speaks for itself! 

[farrlarr]

When my university started on-site e-mail service, they assigned usernames to everyone based on the first four letters of their last name and the first four letters of their first name.  Thus, I became farrlarr.  Since I have never found that username anywhere else, I use it for pretty much everything.  As QVTom indicated, it is pretty hard for me to forget my username and if I ever do, it is time for the boneyard.

[dk1677]

Back in the "old days" mine was suggested by aol     like farrlarr its easy to remember

[only1harry]

It is interesting to see how people came up with their GTA usernames.

Here is my story.  Way back when my email account was Harry@prodigy.com (since '89).  I was working for Prodigy at the time, and when I left the company a few years later they deleted my free email account.  A few weeks later I decided to sign up with them for a paid ISP account, and naturally that email was taken by someone else.  I was kind of ticked off so I signed up as Only1Harry@prodigy.com. 

Not only that I used to have Harry@yahoo.com in '93-94 I think it was.  I was one of the first few hundred people probably to sign up when Yahoo started out.  Well I was using my Prodigy email account so much that I hardly used the Yahoo one.  Back then after 6 months (or a year) of inactivity Yahoo would remove your email account.  Servers back then where not as powerful and storage not as big or cheap as today, so ISP's and other Providers would do cleanup often.  So I lost that account with my first name as well around 1995.  I have been using only1harry for usernames since, because I had 2 Harry@.... email accounts early on, and somehow I wanted to show there was only 1 original Harry with 2 email accounts from the beginning of the Internet (and email) explosion.  And of course there is only "one" of me

Harry

[Roadworthy]

I was the secretary for the local A.B.A.T.E. chapter when it was active almost twenty years ago.  My wife produced a newsletter called "Roadworthy".  The chapter has since folded, but I pilfered the name.  When a site requires a username that's the one I use.  The old group, by the way, was A Brotherhood Against Totalitarian Enactments, though the more "politically correct" definition for the acronym has become for some American Bikers Aimed Toward Education.  Take your pick.

[bubba zanetti]

Gee, where do I begin?

ummmm well I was six years old and watched the movie Mad Max behind my Mom's back and that film left a heavy impression on me. In short I loved the motorcycles the gang members rode and the bike The MFP Officer "The Goose" rode. Most were Kawasaki Z1000's but Jonny the Boy is on a Z900. That movie made me want a motorcycle so bad I could taste it.

Anyway, I shot trap, small bore rife and air rifle through out my college and high school years as it was my first real passion in life. When I graduated college I moved to the DC metro area and shooting competition in that area was a rich mans game. So my dreams of shooting at Camp Perry (that as my ultimate goal) were pretty dashed on the money I made at the time. I was still a Mad Max fan and realized all the bikes around me and that I could get into motorcycles. Little did I know I was going to have a very, very blessed experience riding on two wheels for a time. So when the internet forum thing was getting started I had a 1997 Honda VFR750 at the time and joined VFRWorld under the name Bubba Zanetti. For those of you who don't know or remember, Bubba Zanetti was the second in command of the bad motorcycle gang. I always thought he was an intriguing character in the film and for his intrigue Max gives him some buckshot to the chest LOL!

The motorcycling thing is on hold, but I have had to give up the style of riding I was doing these past 5 years. Simply put it had become a bit of idolatry for me and I need to lay it down, possibly for good but time will tell. I have a street bike I have been restoring and a road race bike that will be for sale most likely. I will also probably walk away from being a MSF Coach too.

What's been nice is my passion for shooting has returned in a big and wonderful way. I really love shooting AG's. I spent 2 hours fiddling with the .25 Marauder yesterday and had my wife take some shots too. She's a total hippy and hates guns but loves shooting  Yes, she gets the irony LOL! I did not think I would like shooting again like I did in my younger days been its been awesome! I feel blessed.

That's the short version.

BZ

[Baltim0re28]

Awesome history on some of these screen names. Glad to see all of these responses!!! Keep em coming!

[Nod]

When I joined several photo sites, there were a bunch of Don's so I just reversed it to Nod and it works on most of the sites I follow.

[Bicycleman]

In 1949, my father and mother gave bicycles to my older sister and me. (Schwinns)  I rode that bicycle until I graduated from High School in 1961.  That started a love affair that continues to this day.  Several bicycles have followed.

My favorite hunting spot is close enough to bicycle to and from, and I have done it many times.  I would sling the rifle, ride to the woods, hunt, sling the rifle, and ride home.  Now that my area has more traffic, it has become increasingly hazardous to ride before daylight; so I truck the bike to the park across the road from the sugar cane fields and ride to the woods from there.  Much safer!!

The name, "Bicycleman" was not being used, so it seemed like a natural.  The bicycle is definitely part of my air gun experiences. 

In this area, some of the charter services offer a fishing/hunting trip called "Cast and Blast".  Sort of a take off from that, last season, I authored a thread called "Bike and Blast".  http://www.gatewaytoairguns.org/GTA/index.php?topic=54165.0;topic seen  In it, I shared hunting experiences from the 2013-14 Louisiana Hunting Season.

Be watching for a new thread when the spring season starts this Saturday (May 3).  Mike (aka "Bicycleman")

[AK73]

Squirrels and pests are what I hunt the most of. And squirrel is my all time (as of now) favorite animal to hunt.

[brwndg13]

Brwndg13 is for my chocolate lab Betty who got me thru a lot of rough times. 13 is my lucky number

[45Bravo]

45Bravo was my MOS in the Army.
(Small arms and canon repair)
I use it on all the boards, xbox and Wii.

If the site does not allow it (some user names can not start with numbers)
I use my FCC issued ham radio call sign.
N5lyc only one in the world...