How did you get your handle or user name?

[Mr. 16 gauge]

I'm a big fan of the 16 gauge......use it for probably 90% of my bird and waterfowl hunting chores. I have three shotguns chambered in said gauge: A Remington model 11, and Ithaca M37 featherlite, and a Stoeger SxS.
As for the "Mr." part..........we were hunting chukars on a pheasant preserve when my water spaniel put up a bird and my two hunting partners opened up on it and missed with every shell out of their 12 gauges. After they were empty, I said "Are you done?" and fired a hail Mary shot as the bird was about 60-65 yards out and, as luck would have it, a golden BB found it's way into the back of the birds head, and it dropped like a rock! Of course, it was skill. (not luck).
So the next day at work, I was bragging about it when one of the other fellows who was there said, snarkily, "Ok, Mr, 16 gauge......"
...........and the rest is history!

 

[Mark Biggerstaff]

Well, I wasn't real creative when first joined and just used my name

 

[Datchew]

When my wife and I were still newlyweds, we used to babysit for some friends with this cute as a button little girl named Chloe. She was a pistol at about 3yo. She would introduce herself "I kowee."

Of course she wanted to know our first names and mine is Matthew which she forevermore pronounced as Datchew and to our friends circle, it's been my moniker for about 23 years.

 

[meigsbucks]

Hunted deer for about thirty years in Meigs County Ohio

 

[ve7poi]

Ham radio call sign

 

[thriller]

No you can change them. Jerome can do that for you.
I noticed existing posts from Von Gruff on the site are under the handle NZtimb last I saw.

Yeah but it’s like 10 years old now I kind of gave up on that idea a while back

 

[Datchew]

I flew helicopters in Vietnam and Joker12 was my callsign.

Here's to a fellow rotorhead.
Sh-60b's for me

 

[Hunt anything]

I was off in the salt marsh hunting clapper rails and my wife’s cousin called to see if we wanted to come to a cookout. When my wife told him what I was doing. First he asked what a rail was and then exclaimed that boy will “hunt anything”.

 

[Wheels]

My moniker is a take off of my sir name. It is the nickname my friends called me in my youth. Now I only hear "Wheels" at high school reunions or at DSC when AH members can't remember my name.