Your Name: Why, how and who gave it to YOU! Others you know the story to.

[Hanshi]

I would get hurt every once in a while on the job or on the farm, because of my size next to the wife she called me "Wounded Bear" later it got turned into "Wounded Ba'r". Several other names with the muzzleloading crowds, and probably the most famous seen in drag racing magazines with our funny cars was "Yankee Peddler" and "Bandito" with the super stock cars. Those came and went and finally everyone just went back to my middle name of "Buck".

Being more "squirt" size than most I'm more likely to get - thank heaven not so far - the moniker "weasel". I am (was) very fast and super sneaky. Still sneaky and mean but fast, not so much nowadays.

 

[NWTF Lobo]

My buddys in deer camp call me Lobo, the old grey wolf. I'm old and grey and even though there's usually up to 8 hunters in camp I hunt alone, sleep in my own separate bunk house away from the main cabin. They had a sign made and put it over my door, "Lobo's Lair"
The NWTF before my name is National Wild Turkey Federation. Artist Marian Anderson did a series of Mountainman prints for the NWTF and because I had a bark canoe and everything else needed she made me subject in one of the prints titled "Longhunter"

 

[Hanshi]

Most of my hunting has been done solo. It's been rare for me to tackle the bush with a companion.

 

[afishhunter]

"A Fish Hunter"
I gave it to myself because I like to fish.
When fishing you're "hunting fish" because you don't know where they is or what kind may be there.
(I have determined that I do know where the fish are most of the time: They are where I ain't.)

I also go by "Ugly Old Guy" since that is an accurate description of me.



In school many years ago had a friend called "Rocky" (after Rocky J. Squirrel) He was originally known as "Bullwinkle" but we decided that was too insulting to Bullwinkle - Bullwinkle wasn't that stupid.

 

[cardcutter]

I was fairly new to buck-skinning. I was at the David Crockett days rondy in Lawreceberg Tn. At the fun shoot that year they had the typical targets including the playing card at 20 yrds. edge facing the shooters. There were quite a few flatlanders watching and I was the only one that year to cut his card ( Ace of Hearts). They went nuts. A friend pointed at me and said well there was a Cardcutter after all. My ex heard it and it stuck.

 

[bobbythehunter]

I am a fairly passionate amateur hunter (deer and turkeys these days) among other things, and I got the name "bobbythehunter" from the proprietor of "Java Joes" a very small coffee shop in Worcester Mass. This place was right next to our office and I would go in there every morning for my coffee break. There were a number of regulars there. Any regulars that had the same first names were given qualifier names. For example we had "Yankee Dave" and "Dave the Jew", we had "Bobby the fire bug", and "Bobby the hunter" and a few other bobby s as well. When I started joining forums and they asked for a username I just started using bobbythehunter. Figured it was at least accurate!

 

[White Fox]

For formal papers I am named after maternal and paternal grandfathers.

When I was an active NRA Highpower Rifle competitor (service rifle) the various "one side, one page" articles I wrote were attributed to the Colorado Grey Fox. Like my father, and his father, I started going gray in my early twenties, and was grayed out by early thirties. Now in my seventies- calendar wise, not necessarily behavior wise- my hair is bright white, thus White Fox. The early graying is somewhat balanced out by still having a full head of hair that requires frequent trimming.

 

[JLBSparks]

A native American ancestor of mine was killed by lightning. I told my sister that our name should be Sparks instead of Blaylock since an Indian's name could change several times during his life depending on the events that had happened. I said that when our great-great-grandfather was hit by lightning, sparks probably shot out his ass.
She was not impressed.
Can't trust a minister's wife to enjoy low-brow humor.

-Joe

 

[user 23626]

Now THAT was lowbrow funny!

 

[Muley Hunter]

Mine is easy to figure out. I love and spend most of my time in the Rocky Mountains and i'm an old fart.

 

[Hanshi]

Mine is easy to figure out. I love and spend most of my time in the Rocky Mountains and i'm an old fart.

I'd be willing to bet the majority of us fit that description. :cheers:

 

[Muley Hunter]

You can't have my name.

 

[Buck Conner1]

No One wants to be old Pete ...... :cheers: Your safe ..... :coffee:

 

[Coalforge1]

There are usually a number of people at some of the rendezvous and trade shows selling metal work but I am the one using the coal foge and bellows.

 

[Buck Conner1]

I know a few of you with "unprintable" nick names. Pete how can one guy fill a phone book is be on me..... :cheers:

Get ready folks he will have a great come back, he never fails me ....

 

[bobbythehunter]

My buddys in deer camp call me Lobo, the old grey wolf. I'm old and grey and even though there's usually up to 8 hunters in camp I hunt alone, sleep in my own separate bunk house away from the main cabin. They had a sign made and put it over my door, "Lobo's Lair"
The NWTF before my name is National Wild Turkey Federation. Artist Marian Anderson did a series of Mountainman prints for the NWTF and because I had a bark canoe and everything else needed she made me subject in one of the prints titled "Longhunter"

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Wow that is great look/print! Awesome lobo. It's interesting about having your own cabin, I fish with a group once a year and I have to get my own room or space because they all snore like bears and it's the only way to get any restful sleep. Let's face it, you can't hunt or fish effeciently on no sleep.

 

[user 23626]

My buddys in deer camp call me Lobo, the old grey wolf. I'm old and grey and even though there's usually up to 8 hunters in camp I hunt alone, sleep in my own separate bunk house away from the main cabin. They had a sign made and put it over my door, "Lobo's Lair"
The NWTF before my name is National Wild Turkey Federation. Artist Marian Anderson did a series of Mountainman prints for the NWTF and because I had a bark canoe and everything else needed she made me subject in one of the prints titled "Longhunter"

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Lobo I have been online trying to find myself a print of this to grace my den. So far no luck, any suggestions? Out

 

[Buck Conner1]

What makes some of us smile is how many always have Native American blood, but when checked you'll find researchers have to go back five generation (furtherest back for any signs of the Native American blood) and then work forward for those genes in later generations.

One of the granddaughters got her bubble burst (bragging about the blood lines on both sides of the family). To make her happy we went to a professional that deals daily in this profession. Only one side of the family (mother's side) had any sign of native American and that was my fifth grandmother. That ended the bragging about blood lines no matter what family bibles and history claimed. :coffee:

The biggest group of folks that really pushed the Native American relationship was the rendezvous camps and the writers that followed these events. John Baird and others wrote about these relations and what was told by one trying to out due the other. The funniset comment we heard was a guy by the name of Williams bragging all the time of his great grandmother blood lines (she was from Italy we found out - he's spreading crap), thus names himself "Walking Eagle". At Bridger evening camp fire he talking about "Whites connection to Native Americans" (being one of course).

Then in the background comes this very loud voice saying "Walking Eagle - so full of **** he can't fly" - end of Williams talk.

We were always a source for artist trying to make a name for themselves by doing the mountainman paintings (hotest market being in the 70's - 80's, then it change to the earlier or later period of North American history. Money is money no matter what time frame for a good artist. One of these artists (a friend that we have worked with before) Jerry Crandall has move around the whole history circle for North American History. Cave man to rocketships and his work brings big bucks all the time, same with David Wright (another friend). You gather lots of good artists if your equipage looks right, NWTF will tell you this and how fast you gather followers watching your ever move.

A good example was a few of us came up with "gunstock war clubs" back in the mid '70s seen in "Centennial" series in 1978 (events filmed at our place and Estes Park (Jerry Crandall connection). Years later seen again in "Last of the Mohicans" (another Hollywood steal).

See: http://www.eagle-editions.com/limited-edition-art - https://www.youtube.com/channel/UC7oD6UEVA2uXbQgYKhVJCiw

 

[Buck Conner1]

On the same thought train (above), the United States Government as well as the North American Native Tribes don't go any further back than five generations to be viewed as a relation that will get you any benefits from either of the groups. When the Utes opened a casino in Colorado several of us were hoping for a piece of the action (even a membership card ... ) that's like farting in you know where ...

 

[Hanshi]

I had my dna checked some years back and am 60% British with a lot of Scandinavian. But I DO have around 4% Neanderthal. I had my mother's dna checked before she died - through her maternal side only - and every single hit I got, and still get them, are Finish, Norwegian and Swedish. No connection to any other ethnic groups.