Explain Your User Name

Mine is self explanatory.

I'm a practitioner of the side handle baton & carry it every day. No spindly alloy buggy whips for me! It's good for 'public relations' for those who don't hear so good.
 
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348lbs (BIG) name (BILL) BIGBILL

TWO FINGERS = double shot?
 
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Spent most of my working life as a pipefitter/welder traveling around the country working. People in the towns we went into called us roadtrash because of this. At first it was an insult but after a while we all came to embrace the name and in fact be proud of it.
 
An obscure character who only appeared once, on HomestarRunner.com.
 
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Do I really need to?:confused:
:p I really could not think of another one at the time... I will probably have to change it to something more generic...
(planning on acquiring a rifle or shotgun within a year or sooner if things get worse...)
 
I started visiting the forum several years ago, and the night I decided to join I figured I was the new guy. I tried that and it was taken so I tried Nuguy and it took.:rolleyes:
 
College nickname.

The Big D was my college nickname. When Maryland MVA announced in the early 1970's that personalized plates would be available, my pal and I drove to Glen Burnie MVA to be first in line for our choices. (Only one MVA office in the whole state then.)

No one had claimed 'BIG D' so I got it...after successfully auditioning. :p (Could not include 'The'; too many characters for the plates.)

Still have the plates; you will see a new photo in the foreseeable future.

Be safe.
 
You Should see my ice ax from my winter backpacking days. It's got a handle long enough to use as a walking stick.

I can believe it.I used to collect WWI and WWII German Militaria--and I had one that is like yours--but ws marked to the first Gebirgsjager Division. I used to collect items related to that Mountain infantry Division.Now--all I have are a few pair of officers shouderboards with regiments--ninety-eight, ninetynine and one hundred cyphers on them. Oh and,a grouping of original photos taken by the commanding officer of the seventy-ninth Gebirgs Artillery Regiment--which was the Artillery regiment that was in the first GJ division. I also have ooops--sorry I got off on a rant about the first Div.

Anyway,I used to have that item but--was too big to keep in the collection--so sold it off about five years ago.Each trooper was issued with two of these.
 
It's pretty easy to figure out, but, of course, there's a story.

Right now I have an 8 3/8s barrel Model 57, and a Model 57-5 Mountain Gun.

The long barreled one I mostly hunt deer with - I've owned this gun since new back in 1980. It has a Leupold 2X scope in a TSOB mount put on by Mag-Na-Port. They also numbered the cylinders for me and added a third locking detent in the yoke, so I have "triple lock" :D as well as porting the barrel with their famous process. Very accurate, I usually try to shoot at 100 yards. Some ranges won't allow a handgun on their rifle range, so I have to shoot at 50 yards.

I was forced to sell a Model 57-1 6" that I had taken apart and smoothed out the trigger an polished the grooves off the trigger, and a Model 57 4" that had been Mag-Na-Ported.

I recently added the Mountain Gun and think I'm in the right spot now. :D
 
I like your signature.. Sounds like something Calvin would say...;)

Amen!
J S Bach dedicated all works, both secular and sacred, with this inscription. And he was a Lutheran of Lutherans, in fact lived near Luther"s home for a time. So..you were so close and yet so far on your attribution of my quote [emoji1] I'm glad you like it anyway.

Bach said many things I like to quote.
 
J S Bach dedicated all works, both secular and sacred, with this inscription. And he was a Lutheran of Lutherans, in fact lived near Luther"s home for a time. So..you were so close and yet so far on your attribution of my quote [emoji1] I'm glad you like it anyway.

Bach said many things I like to quote.

Bach then people said things worth quoting.
 
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