Story behind the name......

[mountainlaurel3]

My great grandmother wrote into a Boston Globe cooking column under Mountain Laurel, her son wrote in as Mountain Laurel 2, so seemed fitting to keep it going.

 

[NR_Hunter]

I hunt in states I don’t live in.

 

[BackofBeyond]

I hunt in states I don’t live in.

So you're the guy with the CA/WA/OR/UT/NV/PA/WV plates that is always parked in my spot at the trailhead.

Figures.

You're on my sh*t list.

 

[NR_Hunter]

So you're the guy with the CA/WA/OR/UT/NV/PA/WV plates that is always parked in my spot at the trailhead.

Figures.

You're on my sh*t list.

I'm from a different state that probably has annoying trail-head parking spot taker-upers.

 

[Cattleman]

back in the early 2000's we were deer hunting in Montana and back in town one night we saw 2 trucks (Washington & Wisconsin plates) at the gas station with a box full of fork horns-2pts-2x2's and one of my buddies in that back seat said "look at all them superduece's" we laughed and since then have called all 2pts - superduece's and for some reason that memory came to mind when I was creating this account.

 

[R.K.]

I’m boring- just my initials. Was living in a big city in the Midwest, hating every second of it, dreaming of moving west- that’s when I found Randy’s show online and then this forum. Lurked a while, then signed up, then moved to Montana.

My other idea was to take a line from Jeremiah Johnson and call myself “Starvin’ Pilgrim"- a little tongue-in-cheek aimed at how cocky I was for being so green. It’s been a steep learning curve, for sure, but damn worth it.

 

[Valley1320]

Nothing exciting here, just my call # for our dept. Or it was til I bumped up as a officer, and dispatch wanted all officers to be at the top of the list.

 

[Henry22]

My parents got me a Henry .22 as a kid after working all summer on the family farm. Many squirrels and good meals thanks to it. Still my favorite gun today

 

[Deleted member 52098]

obviously I love moose and flatlands

 

[KB_]

Mine is just a nickname from grandpa. No funny business there.

 

[wolfpup]

Ag teacher in high school nicknamed me Wolfpup as my last name is Wolf and I was the youngest of my siblings so when I got to his class... there you have it.

 

[BenP]

First forums I joined required actual names so used Ben and my last initial P. So it's the same across all forums I join just some are not capitalized.

 

[nhenry]

My first name is Noah and my middle name is Henry.
In middle school, my parents put my full name on my enrollment card, so for roll call I was called both names. Eventually people stopped using my first name and resorted to my middle name, including parents I didn't know and people in the stands for sports.
The middle name gets emphasized as a result.

 

[Little Big Man MT Chris]

When I joined 6 years ago, I’d been divorced almost 3 years , I choose OR Chris , so people would know what part of the US I lived and hunted and my real first name , thinking I would always live in the Coastal mountains of Oregon forever, well did I get that wrong. Now I’m married again and in MT , so I changed my name to reflect my new state MT Rookie aka OR Chris

I wanted to keep the old name because that what I was know as after 6 years , but also identify with my new land , I choose the name rookie after MT , because after growing up in Alaska, even though I’d never been to Montana I felt it was very close to Alaska in some ways with big open country that could kill you unlike Western Oregon where I lived. And starting over in MT , there’s gear and different things that you need for Montana that you don’t need where I lived in Oregon, so I choose the Rookie name to personally reflect how I felt about being the new guy in MT with a life time of learning this state ahead of me.

And in the last few months with the fact that I’ve walked into a grizzly bear and almost stepped on a rattlesnake . I’ll keep Rookie for the next few years ! Ha ha

 

[2rocky]

If you find this plaque you might be in rifle range of my house.

 

[huntandfly]

Another one with no creativity: my 2 favorite pastimes

 

[Festus]

Usually preferred to ride a mule rather than a horse. Buddies were calling me Festus around the time I joined.
I'm not as good looking or as smart as him, though...

 

[geetar]

I play guitar as a hobby and in the church worship band. Geetar is kind of how southern hillbillies pronounce guitar.

 

[Festus]

I play guitar as a hobby and in the church worship band. Geetar is kind of how everyone I know pronounce guitar.

Fixed it... for me...

 

[fowladdict]

fowladdict...because back in 2005 when I joined I was in my late 20's and didn't have kids. I hunted waterfowl almost every day during the season after work. Those were the good days. Now there are houses everywhere I used to hunt.