Explain your name...

[igotem]

One morning out duck hunting with a few buddies, a nice flock of mallards come in to our spread from the left. A few shots were fired and a couple of greenheads fold up nicely. From a distance we hear our buddy on the extreme right edge of the spread, at least 50 yds. from where the ducks hit the water, proudly and loudly proclaim "I got'em!". Well, the rest of us had a good laugh on his behalf as we knew there was no way he even touched those birds. Well of course for the rest of the day "I got'em" was yelled out whenever a bird was shot, regardless if you fired or not.

From that day on, whenever I talk to any of my buddies and ask how's fishing or hunting has been, their reply will simply be "I got'em".

[Glockwinger]

I carry a Glock for work and I ride a "classic" 1980 Honda Goldwing, thus: Glockwinger. Click this link for pics of the "reconstruction" of of my Wing: www.ewertgroup.com/gl1100.html

[Zzapp]

Back in the day:

My instructor at HTC laser tech school was referred to as "Zap" by other electronics instructors for his propensity to "accidently" blow things up (I think he was providing real world repair experience for his students )

and, since I've been known to over-do the amperage on a few devices, I just doubled up on the Z's and P's

[Orlip]

Mine has nothing to do with fishing but there is somebody by Grand Rapids with the name Orlip & Zwabel. So after a few pops, ya that's it pops. My friend and I started calling each other by those names. As you see I got Orlip. That was over 20 years ago.

[MuleShack]

I think we all know a guy like this

[Huskiedevle]

Many years back the wife and I were fishing the Crow Wing chain up by Park Rapids. We were trolling for pike, and just for kicks, I put a Daredevle Huskiedevle spoon on her line. That big ole spoon got bit by a huge gator that we never got in the boat.That lure name came to mind when I registered.

[Juneau4]

Month and year I retired-June 04.

[uffdapete]

Always appreciated my Scandinavian heritage and since I was the only brother out of 4 never nicknamed "pete" just decided to go with it.

[Write-Outdoor]

I like to write...I do so for several publications like Outdoor News and MN Sportsman. I also write PR stuff for several major outdoors businesses. A few years ago I decided to turn all my side jobs into an official business and my wife came up with the name WriteOutdoors. It was better than anything I came up with and it stuck! Now the business is soaring to new heights and things are going great!

Where can you find me? I'm WriteOutdoors!

[sachem longrifle]

I enjoy reading. Many years ago, I read the book and later saw the movie, "The Last of the Mohicans." Hawkeye was called by the Huron Cheif "LongRifle" because his rifle, "Killdeer," was as tall as him. The book talks of the Huron Leader as"the great sachem." I hunt with a Kentucky longrifle with real BP and a patched leadball, inspired to do such by the movie, so I took the two names. And don't believe the stories in outdoor mags that a patched ball cannot kill a deer

[sachem longrifle]

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I enjoy reading. Many years ago, I read the book and later saw the movie, "The Last of the Mohicans." Hawkeye was called by the Huron Cheif "LongRifle" because his rifle, "Killdeer," was as tall as him. The book talks of the Huron Leader as"the great sachem." I hunt with a Kentucky longrifle with real BP and a patched leadball, inspired to do such by the movie, so I took the two names. And don't believe the stories in outdoor mags that a patched ball cannot kill a deer

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And you have not truly hunted deer till you are out there on that cool fall morning, a little buck follows the swamp, you wait, boom, the smoke clears and there is your deer

[moosedrool]

After my wife and I had put close to 300 miles on our sleds out in West Yellowstone we pulled our sleds up to this bar/restaurant in town to eat. It was the first time I had seen this beer before(Moosedrool out of Bozeman). Best tap beer I have ever had. You can find it in bottles everywhere now, but it was a great culmination to a day of sledding with my wife through the mountains.

[daredevil_tipped_w/leech]

what a great idea for a post. This has been fun to read...

ok here goes:

10 years or so ago we were fishing an ice tourney on Bowstring. This kid comes over and tells us he is fishing with his dad who is a guide and starts to literally tell us how to fish. (ok we pimped him by asking for the secrets of how the guides do it) He continues to keep coming over all day. We have caught some crappies that he does not know of. So the inquiries to him about fishing go on and on and on. He notices we have fish. He and his dad guide have NONE! So, he asks what are we using. I go into a very detailed explanation of fishing crappies with dare devils tipped with leeches. He goes back and we listen to him telling his guide dad that we were using leeches and dare devils. back and forth - back and forth all day long this kid comes and goes. We continued to catch fish and they continued to be blanked. This kid never once saw our jigs but became increasingly frustrated that he and his guide dad went home hungry.

Oh we laughed. My buddy still reminds me of that day. Poor kid....

[Nate McVey]

Contrary to popular belief I did not catch a net full of shiners and eat them thinking they were smelt . I actually got this nickname in college after a little scuffle outside of the bar one night. Long story short, one of the guys that I knocked down picked up a paver/brick from the edging in front of the bar and threw it off my face! Needless to say I woke up with a fractured orbital bone and a completley black and blue left side of my face. The numbers are baseball/football respectively.

[fishnfool59]

My ex wife called me this when she saw(accidently) how much fishing was actually costing me!! It was one of the nicer things she said to me!!! 59 is my birth year.

[sachem longrifle]

How would someone explain their name if it was "anonymus." .....

[Wade Joseph]

Mines pretty simple. I made the mistake of transposing my real name and screen name when I registered. So I sign in with a screen name and use my real name to post. Then again, I do not need to hide behind a screen name for anything I have posted.

[LovenLifeGuy]

Well, at the time I registered I was on a high horse. I was getting married, just bought a new boat and truck, living in my first house, had finnaly got the job I had been dreaming of, REALLY getting used to working 5 days on and getting 4 off but most of all I was fishing/hunting more than ever.

Since that day I have had my first child (who will be 6 months old tomorrow and is a beautiful girl)and my yellow lab is now 11 months old and one heck of a good dog.

Man, I am still Loving Life

LovenLifeGuy

[DOC33]

Doc was from my high school football coach, I don't know why, but it stuck. 33 is just a number that has worked for me, sports, roulette,etc.

The lady's always liked it when I told them it was Doc, cause I could operate anywhere. Okay they weren't lady's, just drunk college girls.

[collegekid]

My name is just as it implies, I am in fact a college kid. I should've used poorcollegekid but I think it has already been taken...

[Ely Lake Expert]

Mine is easy too. I was born and raised on Ely Lake. Lived there almost my whole life. I know it so good I could drive around the lake with my eyes closed and tell you depths without a depthfinder.

[picksbigwagon]

My college nick name was "Pick" from my last name Pickett, a couple years out of college we were tubing in NE IA and one of my friends pointed out to the rest of the group how fat I had gotten and the size of my big wagon....In fact the quote was, "WHOA looks at Picks Big Wagon". the sad thing is, my wagon hasn't gotten any smaller. My playing weight in college was 225, I was about 250 when the nickname was administered, and I balloned up to almost 3 bills a couple of years ago, I am working back down to under the 1/8th of a ton mark, but I know my body can't take the abuse to get back to 230.

On a side note, at my last physical (7 years ago) my Doctor tried to tell me my ideal weight should be about 200 pounds, I am 6'7", and I almost stopped laughing out loud long enough to listen to that young punk dr. advise me on something else.

There, that's my story and I am stuck with it!

[LABS4ME]

HMMMM.... I wonder?...

Good Luck!

Ken

[UMDSportsman]

Well, I go to UMD and i love to hunt and fish.

[gspman]

I'm a man and I like to hunt with German Shorthairs.