I love killing longbeards!! I was always a hunter before I was a trapper!! In some other forums that was and is my handle. I often thought about starting over with a cool trapper handle since it's my life now, but killing turkeys is something that is I have always done and true to my heart. So I am just going to keep it. Longbeard12, 12 just because that's was my baseball number growing up.

Original tag was doubtingthomas. Kinda a biblical thing. Changed it . Thomas is my middle name and I trap.

I really didn't think about it at all. When I joined Trapperman, I just automatically typed CoyoteCowboy in the profile name thingy, and didn't give it any second thought.

In 1978 my girlfriend (now Wonderful Wife) and I took a loong camping trip through Yellowstone and other areas west. We had my old Black Lab along and traveled in my '68 Jeep Wagoneer. One evening while sitting around the fire we were laughing about the way my old Lab casually walked around camp and my girlfriend said "moosetrot". It stuck.

A year or so later I started making various booze using grain alcohol and fermented cranberries, etc. I was trying to come up with a name for it and "Moosetrot's Kodiak Cure-all" popped into my head. Made up some fancy labels for the bottles and the rest is history. I also bottled some of another recipe that I called "Moosetrot's Kickapoo Love Potion". Moosetrot's was responsible for a swath of headaches, stained tablecloths, and wild parties across Wisconsin.

Moosetrot

It's my first name and the first initial of my last name.

Keith

The river, my river, right out my front door at the time I signed up. The Black Warrior river, specifically Locust Fork of the Black Warrior river of Alabama. Known as the little river branch of the warrior to us locals.

Got stuck with the nickname cotton top when I was about 12, my hair was snow white.
Nickname was shortened to cotton and it has stayed with me.

I know i have told the story before here. When I was the probie at the fire station. Seemed everyone had a nick name of some kind. We were sitting around one evening watching the TV show Mcgyver. In this episode old McGyver was giving doing one of his McGyver things. One of the guys in the crew who's nickname was Dovey.. Knowing I was Diver and pretty adapt at rigging things say look their McGyver Is A Deep Sea Diver. We got one right here.
SO at that point I was nickname "Mcgyver."
Of course that had to be approved by the assistant chief. I guy most folks here would have like very well. His handle was Bootsy.
Anyways I was Mcgyver from that day on even said so on tag on my helmet. So when I got my first computer back in 1997. My sister was h e lying me set up an email account. Of course I wanted Mcgyver. But even in the those early days of email. It popped up that I would have to be like Mcgyver1234 couldn't just be line Mcgyver. My sister tried several different variants of Mcgyver could get one wasn't used. Finally she typed in the Macthediver and it came up as only one. So Macthediver it was a nd still is.
When I first logged on to trapperman. Being nee to yhe internet and such things I just used my Macthediver handle.
I been that on internet since 1997. Back when we did live chat here and could get bumped out and still show on the chat screen not get back in. I would login as SkunkEye and used that some.


Mac

I’ve answered this question before but I have no problem answering it again in case someone missed it. My last name is Fales so immediately folks wanted to call me “Never “ Fales but that isn’t the case of why I’m called “Seldom” Fales. When I was first turned out as a Journeyman Welder in Dow I was in the Dow’s Capital Construction Projects crew. The CCP, though Dow tradesmen competed against mechanical contractors so we were pretty much looked at as contractors but were Dow employees. Even though we worked in visqueen fab shanties and changed clothes and took breaks in trailers.

As a young journeyman welder I was on a capital project where there were 4-5 crews of fitters and each crew had a welder to fabricate & weld the piping each crew was assigned isometrics each morning . On this one particular project 20% of all welds of each welder were being x-rayed on the project according to the B31.1 piping Code. If a weld was rejected the fitters had to cut the piping apart and the welder had to reweld the joints plus for ever failed weld, 2 more welds were x-rayed for every welder that originally failed. Pipefitters hated failed welds because of the extra work involved and not for some mistake they made. On this particular project quite a few welds were being rejected of the other welders but none of mine! My fitters, who were older fellas who didn’t like “extra” work caused by the weldler were tickled pink because they didn’t have to do extra rework because of their welder’s ability to pass x-ray!

They tagged me with the nickname “Seldom” Fales because of my welds never failing x-ray. They wanted to nickname me “Never” Fales but I talked them out of that because I figured every welder needed a cushion to fall back on in case of a slip! LOL The nickname “Seldom” stuck and for the rest of my career whether I was working with the tools or as a Non-degreed Welding Engr before finishing my career I was known as Seldom. Some apprentice pipefitters I worked with for several years never knew my real name of Mike.. Later, after retirement the wife and I would be grocery shopping or somewhere out in public and some old pipefitter or someone I’d worked with over the many years would call out “Hey Seldom”!


There was a time when working with the tools was given a 1 ton truck that had a welder on it for me to weld “problem /tough weldments” around the Dow plant. An old Dow painter presented me with this sign to hang on the front of that welding truck which I did. That painter has long passed away but I still have his sign on the door of my fur shed in his remembrance because he was a great guy to have thought enough of me to make that sign!!

The year I joined i had set my dads farm for coon and had caught 39 opossum to about a dozen coon. Only farm i have had that much grinner problems on.

Timber tramping is just the life I live, it made sense to me

Madtrapper was taken when I joined.

It's a teenage nickname that stuck. It's a deliberate mispronunciation of my last name. My brother's nickname was Lugnuts.

Wiss - Wisconsin (where I was raised)

Miss - unmarried female (which I am).

Been that way for almost 50 years.

K-zoo for the Kalamazoo River.

When I joined coons were the only thing I trapped. Coonman was taken so I picked Coonman300 because I hunt a lot with a 300 Win Mag. I joined the site to learn about trapping yotes. The site has been a big help.

Mine is easy to figure out.

Used to have 28 acres of WV hillside farm. Wife's aunt gifted her a painting-OLEO ACRES, one of the cheaper spreads,,,lol. Decided we liked fishing better than farm,so sold it and bought an acre on one of the best Musky Rivers in WV. Walk 100 feet out the back door to the boat dock, and we're fishing.

Killed a nine foot brown bear.

Simply like river otter s and my 3006,so a combine
When asked a good caliber for all around i will say ,you otta get a 06