Meaning of your handle!

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RustyZipper posted this 06 December 2023

Any special meaning to your handle or just a way to be distinguished from all the other bullet casting nuts? I stole it from a club name. An elder friend called his dinner group by that name. They all graduated from high school around the same year. All would get together along with their wives at an agreed location on Saturday night to swap lies. I started doing the same for several years. Be Well Brothers, the one, the only, the infamous RustyZipper!

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delmarskid posted this 06 December 2023

Dad’s name was Delmar. Not a lot of Delmars in Wisconsin.

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M1fuzz posted this 07 December 2023

M1. The Garand one of my favorite rifles. Fuzz. An old 60’s-70’s street name for my chosen profession.

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cbshtr posted this 07 December 2023

cbshtr - Cast bullet shooter

Robert Homan

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fa38 posted this 07 December 2023

Was trying to register for a forum and kept getting rejected I think 4 times because of the various handles I was trying to register. I had a ,38 special cylinder for my Freedom Arms that had just come back after being repaired sitting next to my computer.. Therefore fa38.

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Eutectic posted this 07 December 2023

A eutectic is an alloy which acts like an element having a sharp melting point.

I have used hundreds of pounds of linotype, my favorite eutectic.

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RicinYakima posted this 07 December 2023

who I am and where I'm from.

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Bud Hyett posted this 07 December 2023

My popular nickname and last name.

Farm boy from Illinois, living in the magical Pacific Northwest

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oscarflytyer posted this 07 December 2023

lol - these threads always tickle me. My last name is Myers. As a kid, I got teased with oscarmeyer. I am also/have been a very long time fly tyer (nearly 50 yrs). When it came time to pick an internet/chat handle eons ago, like fa38 - I kept getting rejected with the std name/# crap. Ala - oscarflytyer was 'born.' Used it for prob 25 yrs?!? And I use it on all forums. I have never been rejected anywhere once I adopted it. It seems to be very unique - and all mine!

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Ken Campbell Iowa posted this 07 December 2023

ken campbell iowa ... i used this avatar as my real name is Finetippett B. Allwender ... and it is easy to see that using my birth name would not distinguish me from all the other Finetippett posters here ...

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9.3X62AL posted this 07 December 2023

I needed a new online name and chose my most recently-purchased hunting rifle--a CZ 550 Lux in 9.3 x 62 Mauser, and contracted the name a bit--c. 2002. This is my firearms and ammo site ID on a couple forums.

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Fiddler posted this 07 December 2023

Because I am one.

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Wm Cook posted this 07 December 2023

Wm Cook as an alias for Bill Cook. Side note, never could figure out the need for knobs. When responding to a thread I hate to start it with “Thanks fleaflem02 that answered my question!”

ken campbell iowa ... i used this avatar as my real name is Finetippett B. Allwender ... and it is easy to see that using my birth name would not distinguish me from all the other Finetippett posters here ...

😂😂😂

A “Measured Response” is as effective as tongue lashing a stuck door.

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alphabrass posted this 07 December 2023

alphabrass for the alpha phase of brass. Standard cartridge brass (.7 Cu - .3 Zn) is mostly if not all alpha phase. Kind of amazing stuff. With annealing it can be drawn into cylinders of very high length to diameter ratios. By selectively annealing the finished case the base will be hard and strong while the neck is soft enough for bullet seating and obturation.

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John Alexander posted this 07 December 2023

John Alexander is the name a pretty US Marshal working in the witness protection program suggested as they were relocating me to the desert in Oregon in a van with no windows. I probably shouldn't say anything more.