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el buzz		#321	[-]
Posts: 24 (04/12/09 08:49 PM) Reply Quote More My Recent Posts	After my premature birth, as I was handed by the nurse to my swashbuckling, uniformed USAF dad, who had dead-headed across the US in C-46's during the Korean Conflict, he pushed back his cap and exclaimed, "You mean--I came all the way from South Carolina just to meet this buzzard bait-?" Immediately, I was nick-named "Buzz", later "Buzzy." (My dad was the greatest pappy a person ever had.) I simply added the "El" prefix because (a) I live in a heavily Hispanic city and (b) there are wayy too many other plain old Buzzes in cyberspace. --John, AutoCAD designer
cheapshooter		#322	[-]
Posts: 54 (05/23/09 09:27 PM) Reply Quote More My Recent Posts	Really self explanatory. Every gun I buy is a shooter. I have a C&R license, but it just allows me to get good deals on milsurps that ar reasonably priced and usually good shooters. I guess cheap could be a relative term. My first C&R purchase was a French 49/56 for $250. My cheapest was a French MAS 36 for $35. Everything I have isn't cheap milsurps though. Colt 1991A1 Compact, Olympic PCR5 AR clone. Romanian Dragomov, Springfield Armory XD-40 Subcompact, and a lot more in all price ranges. The latest, a Beretta 92FS.
tinman1960		#323	[-]
Posts: 2 (06/26/09 01:18 PM) Reply Quote More My Recent Posts	I am a Sheet metal worker nothing fancy to the name
7GREEN		#324	[-]
Posts: 648 (07/21/09 10:17 PM) Veteran member Reply Quote More My Recent Posts	Made up on the spot, Green is my favorite color, the 7 has no significance.
Patriotic1		#325	[-]
Posts: 491 (09/05/09 09:24 PM) Veteran member Reply Quote More My Recent Posts	Ever since I was a small child, I have been very proud of my country. The Star Spangled Banner has always sent a tingle up and down my spine and a tear to my eye. At the age of 18, I went to talk to a recruiter about enlisting in the Navy. He basically talked me out of it. The US had just brought all their troops back home from Viet Nam. They ended the draft and were talking about cutting military benefits drastically. Combined with the anti-military sentiment at the time the recruiter was very disillusioned. I can't blame him. I wish I had still decided to go into the Navy though. When someone asks me if I ever served in the military I feel somewhat guilty when I say no. Now I have kind of made up for it though. I raised a Marine. He just finished boot camp. I am very proud of him!!!
Mountain Doctor		#326	[-]
Posts: 3968 (11/11/09 11:49 PM) Forum Site Moderator Reply Quote More My Recent Posts	'When someone asks me if I ever served in the military I feel somewhat guilty when I say no.' I can totally relate to that. On the other hand you serve your country also by raising a good family, serving your neighbor and God, working hard, and being an upstanding citizen. Thanks to all the men and women who do serve, many of us do not have to. We still are responsible and in debt to those who do, however. Just my 2 cents.
YAKOV VINTOVKA		#327	[-]
Posts: 6 (01/17/10 08:20 PM) Reply Quote More My Recent Posts	My name is James. James is the English variant of Jacob. I am interested in Russian rilfes and so Jacob in Russian is Yakov. Vintovka means Rifle in Russian. I put it all in caps because the Russian Cyrillic alphabet usualy is always blocked and bold on many of the signage one can see in Russia. The alphabet style is often an in your face style. Yakov Vintovka was as close as I could get to "Jim's Rifle" plus I thought it had a nice ring to it. It sounds so naturally Russian. well at least to my non-Russian ear.... and it didn't take me this long to think it up as it did to write this all down. Jim
powerglide		#328	[-]
Posts: 2 (04/13/10 01:43 AM) Reply Quote More My Recent Posts	Use to have a castiron powerglide behind a 283 Chevy.This was in a old impala I had.Outran everyone and the name was applied by an old fellow who had the powerglides in his dragsters.Just stuck I guess.
kidmma		#329	[-]
Posts: 196 (04/22/10 01:31 PM) active member Reply Quote More My Recent Posts	I went to school at Maine Maritime Academy. Avatar is the old Mad Middie. Scott
sawan.survivorsucks		#330	[-]
Posts: 39 (05/18/10 07:18 AM) Reply Quote More My Recent Posts	The avatar was something I liked, and my name is my middle name (Nomiki) and the Roman Numeral form of the date I was born (February 19 >> 2/19 >> 219 >> ccxix). Then I used some website to make it have "cool" lettering.
M203TANGO	Whats in a Handle?	#331	[-]
Posts: 12 (08/11/10 01:58 AM) Reply Quote More My Recent Posts	Originally this handle was my #2 callsign. I've always liked cool/tuff sounding names. Like Patriotic1 I've always thought of myself as fiercely Patrotic. When I went in I went active duty on December 7th 1973. I never went to Nam. But my house inside wise is kind of a shrine to America, Freedom, Guns, Trucks, Tractors, Liberty Ships and the like. All the cool names were taken like BigDuke6, SwampThing, Bravo6 you get the idea. I've always loved the M79 Blooper. There's just something special about big bores. My first 'real' gun was a WWII Navy Flare Pistol and I still have it. So M203 seemed natural. It wasn't until it was way too late that I found out that Tangos are synonamous with Terrorists. I am NOT a terrorist. I AM an All American REDNECK. The Stuart Tank was my favorite WWII American Tank. This is due in large part to me reading alot of GI Combat comics and the tank commander LT Jeb Stuart. I even have a 37mm AP round from a Hotchkiss Gun in my ammo collection.

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