Howdt Pards,
I like Johnny idea! Mine is a little more complex than Johnny' Im going to have to tell you all about myself, for this to ad up. I was born in the year 1955, I am a born and raised farm boy, As soon as I was big enough I strated helping my father do the farming, along with raising cattle. All threw my school years i made the best effort I could to play sports. I was just not very good at any sport, but since I liked them all, i went out for all of them. I found out early in life, that no matter how hard I tried at sports, i just wasn't good enough to be a starter, except for Little Leauge Baseball, and the only reason i got to be a starter was because I was the caughter, and no one realy wanted that position! On my 11th birthday I got a 22 single shot rifle. It was 1966 and I think the gun was $49.95, that was a lot of money in those days, gas was 17 cents a gallon, smokes were 25 cents, and a 16oz glass bottle of Pepsi was 10 cents!! I am sure that other kids got a allowance but I never did! I did odd jobs on the farm for our neibors and made my spending money that away! I don't know how long my dad had boot leged wild rabbits down to New Orleans, but him and one of the neibors bought rabbits in Nov. & Dec. and they would take them to New Orleans for Madi graw!
I got paid $1.50 per rabbit, but they had to be head shot, anywere else and it was 50 cents, so I made sure that my shots were right on, lot of money deference between 50 cents and a $1.50!!! After that first year of rabbit hunting, I realized that I had found one thing I was good at, that was shooting a gun! Didn't matter, rifle or shotgun I was a natural shot. Now when it came to shooting a pistol, that was a difference story!! Took a lot of hard work over the next 10 years to be half decent with a hand gun.
Now we can get to my cowboy name. I can't tell you why, but I allways liked Doc Holliday!! I figure he was a under dog, he lost his mother at 14, and around that time he came down with the same diasese as his mother, TB. Doc was a very well educated man, he also was a Dentist, but because of the TB, most people didn't want to be around a (Lungger) that was what people were called when they have TB.So Doc became a professional gambler and gun slinger, somethings just go toghter, one of those Pro-Quoate things! Although Doc was acussed of being a murderer and crook, that was never proven!! And I believe he wasn't, I don't believe that Wyatt Earp would of been a good friend to Doc if that were the case!
Being the type of person I am, and my life's history, I feel as if I would of made a decent sidekick for Doc Holliday. To no a vail, I could not use the name Doc Holliday, for if I would of use the name Doc Holliday, in my option that would be bragging!! And I don't need that complication in my life!! So I took the Ace from the deck of cards and the Lungger because of the TB.
Later
ACE
I'll Be Your Huckleberry!