"cannon" has stuck with me for a long time. I'll let you guess how I got it

I got called to pinch hit when I was playing college ball.....and walked by my teammates on my way to my first collegiate at-bat and said "I'll probably hit a dinger".

The rest was history.....and "the babe" was re-born.

When I was playing a lot of golf (Former PGA Professional)...I never was a text-book golfer...and my rounds were RARELY "pretty". I could take an ugly ball striking round and produce a good score out of it, though (which was always a lot of fun). Partners said I was scraping it around the course.....which got shortened to scrape....which got shortened to "scrap". I never thought it was great fun if they all went straight.

My Son calls me "Batman". Without my glasses I can not see clear images past approx. 100 yardsat dusk or dawn. Low light situations make it hard for me to see far distances without my glasses. Every once in a while I forget my glasses but I can still catch deer moving as we head into the woods. He seems to think I have a built in radar system or something, hence the name "Batman".

I have lots of them from my wife but they are not compliant with the HNI rules but had some growing up like EggHead no wasn't smart but just have a funny shaped head. Let's see there is Sockets, Stretch, Legs, Queen Bee the last one was givin to me by a Vietnamese soldier that I was stationed with in Korea. It is my initials backwards ya my last name is Queen fellas so go ahead and have some fun with that one.

Ive always been called "gunner" by just about everybody. Not sure if its because my last name is vongunden, i shoot a lot of dumb shots during my basketball games, or just because i like shootin stuff? Who knows, its stuck.

Mine has been Honcho, but I now have a new one. The story goes: About a week before gun season I went to check the zero on my H&R Ultra Slug 20 gauge, put a shell in it and it would not cock, the transfer bar came out. So I done some research and tried to put the barrel on a H&R 10 gauge I have but it was too loose. So my youngest brother has a old Topper that is about 20 years old. It is at my dad's house so we go there and I start ripping these guns apart on the front porch and swapping barrels and stocks holding it up to the sunlight to check for any gaps and my dad says that I remind him of "Tuco" from The Good, The Bad, and The Ugly when he puts himself a gun together. And it has stuck. Plus I know how "Dink" got his nickname. An old guy named "Rocky" we worked with gave it to him in 1986. BAM!

Back in the day I was known as "RED" or "Lil Red"because I had alot of curly red hair. What hair that I have left is mostly gray but my bro's still call me red.

Growing up it was Beeker,but got shortened to Beek! (I used to do impressions of Beeker from the Muppets)!Only a few still call me that!
For as long as can remember my dad has called me Bo, short for boy!!

my dad and uncles call me Shoe.... it came about b/c i usually have pretty good luck seeing and killing deer. so they were convinced i have a horseshoe up my butt.... horseshoe was too long, so "Shoe" stuck instead.

Mine is "Lost Cause". I still use it to this day as my CB handle when I'm driving the BIG trucks down the interstates on a nightly basis. I got the name from my mother who stated when I was 8 years old, "It's a lost cause to get him to quit riding and racing motorcycles, it's in his genes.". Now it's a lost cause for my girlfriend Jennifer to get me out of the woods.