How did you get your handle or user name?

[1peggy]

As I peruse those many threads on AH Forum that interest me, I often wonder about the story or meaning behind the handle or user names of the posters. Many are intuitive to me, but with others, I'd just be taking a wild guess. I've had the good fortune to get to know a select few on here really well and have their back stories, but for the rest, I'd love to hear how you got your name - please do share.

Ku-winda, by the way, is the name of Otto Koehler's Journal detailing his safari to Kenya and Tanganyika in the mid 50's. It means "to hunt" in Swahili and was the source and inspiration to many of us in South Texas and directly responsible for setting me on a path to adventures of my own on the Dark Continent.

X wife

 

[Doug Hamilton]

As I peruse those many threads on AH Forum that interest me, I often wonder about the story or meaning behind the handle or user names of the posters. Many are intuitive to me, but with others, I'd just be taking a wild guess. I've had the good fortune to get to know a select few on here really well and have their back stories, but for the rest, I'd love to hear how you got your name - please do share.

Ku-winda, by the way, is the name of Otto Koehler's Journal detailing his safari to Kenya and Tanganyika in the mid 50's. It means "to hunt" in Swahili and was the source and inspiration to many of us in South Texas and directly responsible for setting me on a path to adventures of my own on the Dark Continent.

I was named after.my dad, so to save confusion they just went with my middle name. Doug is how.my friends know me. I figure that AH members qualify.

 

[Tom Leoni]

I had it easy: my parents gave it to me.

 

[Tgood1]

My name in short, t goodwin. After a fine bottle of $21.39 bourbon my creativity just blossomed

 

[Ontario Hunter]

X wife

Just can't let go, eh?

Sometimes I forget I have an ex. Or what planet I'm on. Getting old has a few perks.

 

[Pablo]

When I was in Spanish class in High School, we had to have a Spanish name. Wes doesn’t translate well, so I picked Pablo. I use it on a a few other sites as well.

 

[Longfeather1]

I so much would love to say it was in reference to a certain part of my anatomy, but alas "that" it is not.
It was given to me by some traditional bow hunting/shooting friends when I was experimenting with /using some extremely long 7-inch fletching on my arrows

 

[knuckleball]

Played a little ball back in the day.

 

[Bob Nelson 35Whelen]

As I peruse those many threads on AH Forum that interest me, I often wonder about the story or meaning behind the handle or user names of the posters. Many are intuitive to me, but with others, I'd just be taking a wild guess. I've had the good fortune to get to know a select few on here really well and have their back stories, but for the rest, I'd love to hear how you got your name - please do share.

Ku-winda, by the way, is the name of Otto Koehler's Journal detailing his safari to Kenya and Tanganyika in the mid 50's. It means "to hunt" in Swahili and was the source and inspiration to many of us in South Texas and directly responsible for setting me on a path to adventures of my own on the Dark Continent.

@Ku-winda
Mines pretty self explanatory. I'm a Whelen tragic and love promoting it at any chance I get so I'm told.
I think 243 HATER would have been a bit much and may have given people the idea that I think it's a horrible little cartridge. Oh that's right I do.

The Whelen is a bit like me,
Misunderstood, and underrated, but has a lot of good qualities. Gets in gets the job done without the fanfare and goes home.
Bob

 

[Bob Nelson 35Whelen]

Three decades as a Field Artillery officer.

@Red Leg
In Australia we call artillery cloud punchers as the targets are so far away the shell goes into the clouds before landing on some distant target
Bob