Let's have some fun with names

Post by **AmBraCol** » Tue Aug 12, 2008 10:17 pm

Ysabel Kid wrote:Can't believe I missed this one the first time around! The "Ysabel Kid" (pronounced "sa-bel", rhyming with "cable" - without the "y") was one of the primary characters in the "Floating Outfit" western series by English author JT Edson. The character, half Irish, quarter Comanche, and quarter French-Creole was the scout for the floating outfit. A friend of mine got me started on the series when we were in high school because the character reminded him of me (my ancestry, how I dressed, my favorite armaments and my general outlook on life).

So, do you carry your sixgun in a butt forward holster? And do you keep that "yellow boy" henry at hand?

44LVR · Post by **44LVR** » Tue Aug 12, 2008 11:43 pm

AndyM wrote:my wife thinks I joined the dark side when I turned 18 and could start buying guns on my own.

May the Force be with you

44

winchester1886 · Post by **winchester1886** » Wed Aug 13, 2008 2:48 am

Mine is simply a tribute to the finest, everything I do has 86 in it somewhere, if more is needed it's 94 need I say more.

Post by **Ysabel Kid** » Wed Aug 13, 2008 6:26 am

AmBraCol wrote:
Ysabel Kid wrote:Can't believe I missed this one the first time around! The "Ysabel Kid" (pronounced "sa-bel", rhyming with "cable" - without the "y") was one of the primary characters in the "Floating Outfit" western series by English author JT Edson. The character, half Irish, quarter Comanche, and quarter French-Creole was the scout for the floating outfit. A friend of mine got me started on the series when we were in high school because the character reminded him of me (my ancestry, how I dressed, my favorite armaments and my general outlook on life).
So, do you carry your sixgun in a butt forward holster? And do you keep that "yellow boy" henry at hand?

I have carried my sixgun that way, using a "cavalry twist" draw! Balanced with a big bowie knife on the left side, of course!

Post by **AmBraCol** » Wed Aug 13, 2008 8:07 am

Ysabel Kid wrote:So, do you carry your sixgun in a butt forward holster? And do you keep that "yellow boy" henry at hand?

I have carried my sixgun that way, using a "cavalry twist" draw! Balanced with a big bowie knife on the left side, of course!

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Yeah, I stumbled on JT Edson's stuff in the municipal library way back when. ('79 I believe it was) and read a lot of it. Then I found out where he was from - and that he'd never stepped foot in the American west. THAT explained why his books read more like a Hollywood production than a L'Amour novel.

I've not read any of his stuff in YEARS. Haven't come across any in my travels. I HAVE started picking up some of Coldsmith's work here and there. Haven't managed to get any of his Spanish Bit series yet though.

Buffboy · Post by **Buffboy** » Wed Aug 13, 2008 8:33 am

The name came from the fact that when I first started here I was working on a bison ranch. There weren't any cows so I could hardly be a cowboy, hence "buffboy".

The other forums I have joined are in that name or "plumcrazey" (ebay/gunbroker/auctionarms/the highroad are some) for the color of the 1971 roadrunner I've had since 1976.

BigSky56 · Post by **BigSky56** » Wed Aug 13, 2008 11:30 am

Pardon the mistake. danny

Bigahh · Post by **Bigahh** » Wed Aug 13, 2008 5:07 pm

When I was a very young boy I was amazed with Dinosaurs, but could not pronounce the word, so I called them "Bigahh's" , and the name has stuck ever since.

model55 · Post by **model55** » Wed Aug 13, 2008 5:42 pm

Name came from the winchester model 55 that got me back into leverguns and the 30-30.One day I'll learn/take the time to post pictures.

shooter · Post by **shooter** » Wed Aug 13, 2008 6:33 pm

shooter, cuz I like to shoot. I don't do it as much as I should, though.

Mokwaw · Post by **Mokwaw** » Wed Aug 13, 2008 8:51 pm

Ever since high school, friends and others have nick named me after some kind of bear. Partly because I'm a LARGE guy, some because of temperment, teddy bear, grizzly bear etc. One time I went to an outdoor sports show that had a wrestling bear and they offered a $1000.00 cash prize to anyone who could take the bear down...they would not let me try....since then Bear or Bear-man has stuck. I chose Mokwaw as my log on and e-mail to honor the Miami Indians who used to live in this area of Indiana...... mokwaw is Miami for bear................

Kansas Ed · Post by **Kansas Ed** » Wed Aug 13, 2008 9:22 pm

Not real sure how I picked my name....maybe cause I used to live in Mo...or Wy.

Naaaa....I kinda piggy backed it off of an old T/F racer named "Kansas John Wiebe" that lives North of here...and that's probably the only time his name will be mentioned on a gun forum....

Ed

bunklocoempire · Post by **bunklocoempire** » Wed Aug 13, 2008 10:24 pm

Bunk Loco Empire as in Bunk Loco Empire, Inc. the business I own, easy for me to remember.

Bunk -junk/and or (my musician buddies and I used to call our rehearsal space 'the bunker') Loco -as in Loco Moco, one of my favorite dishes. Empire -I've always wanted my own empire.

The strange name keeps us smiling when we see it on tax forms.

Bunkloco

greasy dan · Post by **greasy dan** » Wed Aug 13, 2008 11:15 pm

I have been a mechanic most of my life, but GreaseMonkey just didn't fit here. I really like the music of Steely Dan, but didn't want to "steal" their name. When I joined SASS several years ago, I had to give it some Serious thought... thus, Greasy Dan.

Bruce Scott · Post by **Bruce Scott** » Thu Aug 14, 2008 4:18 am

I was previously Tango4C, my callsign back in '60-70. When we came here I decided to be..... well, me -

Rustolium · Post by **Rustolium** » Thu Aug 14, 2008 6:18 am

Mine is kinda a pun, my name is Russell, go by Rusty, a buddy in the AF with me started calling me Rustolium. It was all down hill from there, if he ever introduced me to someone, it was as Rustolium.

Gobblerforge · Post by **Gobblerforge** » Thu Aug 14, 2008 6:33 am

I love to turkey hunt, and I am a Blacksmith. The name of my shop is Gobbler Forge.
Gobbler [Brad Weber]

S.B. · Post by **S.B.** » Thu Aug 14, 2008 8:48 am

Mine are my initials, just a simple man, in more ways than one? Christan name and the spelling comes from one of my mothers uncle from Center, Texas and sir name from my father's family, of course.

Bogie35 · Post by **Bogie35** » Thu Aug 14, 2008 10:34 am

My last name is DeBeaugrine (dee-BOE-grin). At The Citadel it got shortened to "Bogie". And I have grown fond of 35 cal. cartridges.

bogie

2571 · Post by **2571** » Fri Aug 15, 2008 3:35 pm

Badge number when I was a Detroit cop.

Sometimes internet folks ask/ assume it was a military classification -- something in USMC communications.

Gun Smith · Post by **Gun Smith** » Fri Aug 15, 2008 11:29 pm

Cuz I was.

pharmseller · Post by **pharmseller** » Wed Dec 03, 2008 3:42 pm

BTT 'cuz we gots some new fellers.
Go to the first post and let us know the "why" of your handle.

P

adirondakjack · Post by **adirondakjack** » Wed Dec 03, 2008 4:39 pm

I was new to the world of online forums, and almost instantly tired of folks who think "NY" is ONLY NYC, so I wanted to give tribute to the Adirondack region (the real ny). "Adirondack Jack" had a nice ring to it, and in various incarnations, including the misspelled adirondakjack (which ended up my email addy as well) AJ has taken on a life of his own. Adirondack Jack became my SASS alias when I started cowboy shooting, and Adirondack Jack's Trading Post became my business name. More people know me as "Jack" or "AJ" than by my given name (even the mailman calls me "Jack" It's become a "true" alias at this point

CEMENTHEAD · Post by **CEMENTHEAD** » Wed Dec 03, 2008 9:31 pm

This is fun! My handle ( CEMENTHEAD ) comes from being....shall we say EXTREMELY HARDHEADED. My wife gave it to me when we were in Jr High school. Man that was a while ago!

Thanks, Tom

pharmseller · Post by **pharmseller** » Thu Dec 04, 2008 1:10 am

CEMENTHEAD wrote: This is fun! My handle ( CEMENTHEAD ) comes from being....shall we say EXTREMELY HARDHEADED. My wife gave it to me when we were in Jr High school. Man that was a while ago! Thanks, Tom

You got married young!

P

CEMENTHEAD · Post by **CEMENTHEAD** » Thu Dec 04, 2008 1:21 am

Hey Pharmseller, It should probably read "when we were dating in Jr High school". It wasn't too long after we graduated High school we tied the knot. Yeah we were young and still are. Thanks, Tom

GEOFF · Post by **GEOFF** » Thu Dec 04, 2008 1:59 am

Like others, I'm not too imaginative. Just used my first name. My dad and mom spent about 8 years in Australia then moved back to the US. When I came along in 1963 they named me Geoff and spelled it that way cuz they liked the Australian spelling. Been called about everything from Geeeeoooooffff to Gophry to George to Goooffry. Built character along the way!!!

Geoff

Post by **Old Savage** » Thu Dec 04, 2008 2:36 am

And how do YOU pronounce it?

Premo · Post by **Premo** » Thu Dec 04, 2008 9:09 am

Goeff-pronounced the same as Jeff

Rod WMG · Post by **Rod WMG** » Thu Dec 04, 2008 3:01 pm

Well, I've posted about mine several times before, but here goes again, seeing as how I held off when the thread was new.

On the first forum I got interested in there was a poster by the handle of Jeff OTMG (Owns Too Many Guns), given to him by a friend who was amazed at what he had.

I decided that wasn't possible and became Rod (guess why

) followed by Wants More Guns, or WMG. It's been interpreted several ways, including Water coooled Machine Guns.

Old No7 · Post by **Old No7** » Thu Dec 04, 2008 9:50 pm

Gee, I would have sworn my reply was in there somewhere, but I guess not...

Mine is... "Oh, that Officer? What's 'No7' you ask? What, whiskey? No, sorry! That's just an old locomotive that my dad used to work on... Yeah, that's what it is... Me, drinking? Tonight??? Nope, not yet, I have to get home and off the road first!"

Uh... Yeah... I guess my avatar gives it away doesn't it... Luckily that's not on my SUV -- but OLD NO7 is on its license plate!!!

Old No7

Meeteetse · Post by **Meeteetse** » Thu Dec 04, 2008 10:39 pm

Mine is pretty simple too. . . .Meeteetse is a Shoshone Indian word for "meeting place" and is one of my favorite hunting and fishing locations in my home state of Wyoming. Located in the western part of the Big Horn Basin it is beautiful country and I miss it. Not much in my new home state of Texas to remind me.

Guncase · Post by **Guncase** » Thu Dec 04, 2008 11:39 pm

My name is Casey and my wife thinks I'm a mental case when it comes to guns. I thought Guncase might do.

bogus bill · Post by **bogus bill** » Fri Dec 05, 2008 12:51 am

I am bogus bill so I aint expected to be right.

been2c · Post by **been2c** » Tue Dec 09, 2008 12:59 pm

Because I have for what seem like forever.

mklwhite · Post by **mklwhite** » Tue Dec 09, 2008 5:13 pm

MklWhite is my name. Michael (spelled kind of phonetically) White. I started using it spelled like that when I was programming back in the day. All programs used 8.3 naming conventions (like "windows.exe". The first part could have no more than 8 characters and the "3" said what type of program it was like EXE for executable, DLL for dynamic link library and eventually HTM for hyper text markup.). By using mklwhite.exe everyone knew whose program it was and who to complain to since it was eating up too many resources.

Hairy Clipper · Post by **Hairy Clipper** » Wed Dec 10, 2008 5:38 am

I should probably change mine since I sold the barber shop and retired.

Hairy

txpete · Post by **txpete** » Wed Dec 10, 2008 6:26 am

mine is easy.I hang my hat here in tx and first name is pete

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pete

papabear · Post by **papabear** » Wed Dec 10, 2008 8:41 am

My two daughters and there friends stared calling me papabear when we bought the new house about ten years ago so it stuck here and on other sites too

stormspotter · Post by **stormspotter** » Wed Dec 10, 2008 10:24 am

I am what the handle says, a stormspotter in Pettis county Missouri (and member of our local Emergency Management Agency). I have been chasing and running from storms for 17 years.

greasy dan · Post by **greasy dan** » Wed Dec 31, 2008 2:07 pm

hey Txpete...
Neat pic. That you..??

canonsix · Post by **canonsix** » Thu Jan 01, 2009 11:11 am

Mine is my radio call sign from a long time ago in sunny SE Asia. Doug

Gun Smith · Post by **Gun Smith** » Thu Jan 01, 2009 12:17 pm

Cuz I was. In the heyday of westerns in the 50's and 60's. The bullet holes in holsters (and knees) from fast draw. The beginning of the clone era. Bill Ruger with his funny tin luger like 22. A movie maker marketing his film by locating surviving One of One Thousand Winchesters, about 135 as I remember, could be wrong on that. The Nylon 66 by Remington, one of the ancestors of plastic guns. Mauser 98's, Springfield 03's and 1917 Enfields cut up for sporters by the tens of thousands. The Remington Model 721, one of the best ever. Roy Weatherby with his SUPER GIGANTIC MAXIMUM MAGNUMS.