User names

[BigAl52]

My first name is Al and everyone always calls me BigAl and the 52 was the year I was born.

[The Wiz]

My LT. said I was a Wizard in a debriefing after I got my recon team out of an awkward situation. Of course, it got shortened by the guys to The Wiz. It always make me think of those guys.

[Ojaileveraction]

I shoot lever guns at the Ojai Valley Gun Club that is physically in Rose Valley of the Las Padres National Forest.

[Les]

I was born with mine.

[NoFlyZone]

I'm not very creative with forum names and have a few. Sometime I wish I kept the same name for all forums like some people do.
Anyway "NoFlyZone", not sure why other than Flying is one of my favorite achievements.

Dale - AZ

[Abnermal]

I found a little 3 week old orphaned kitten 11 years ago. Named it Abby Nermal after the classic line from the movie Young Frankenstein and the kitten from the Garfield comic strip. She has been my shadow and best friend. So I picked Abnermal for a forum name.

[chuckcook]

Been cooking on a Cattle Drive era chuckwagon for 20+ years.

[Sir Henry]

Been cooking on a Cattle Drive era chuckwagon for 20+ years.

Have you seen Mushy lately?

[chuckcook]

Been cooking on a Cattle Drive era chuckwagon for 20+ years.

Have you seen Mushy lately?

No, but I've seen a few other characters hanging around wagon camp!

[clovishound]

When I first signed on to a woodworking forum, several years ago, I was still into SCUBA diving. I was obsessed with finding Clovis points, and had some success finding these rather rare stone tools. I believe my daughter may have originally suggested it, and it seemed appropriate at the time. I kept it when signing on to other forums. When my daughter started getting into shooting with me, I decided it was appropriate to dub her Clovispup. I declared the better part of valor when referring to my wife.

For those who are unaware, Clovis points were stone tools made by the earliest peoples living in North America. They had a signature flute, or channel, that ran up the base of the point. Of course, many archaeologists have some very good evidence that the Clovis people were not the first in North America, but that is probably more info than most of you want.

Here is the best one I found. It made the poster for Archaeology Week here several years ago. It's technically a Redstone, but close enough to a Clovis, both timewise and construction. The Redstones immediately postdate Clovis with a date range of 10,800 to 10,500 RCYBP. I nearly swallowed my regulator when I ran across this one. Fluted points are about 1 in 5,000 total points (a point is what most call arrowheads). The Redstones are about 1 in 4 fluted points. So, this was a pretty rare find. It also happens to be a very beautiful example of the type.

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