Got pegged with the nickname "Hawkeye" by my lifelong hunting buddy at age 12 when I was death-on-two-legs to any rat, sparrow, or squirrel I shot at with my old iron-sighted Remington .22.
About 1993, when I started poking around on the Bulletin Board that later turned into the old Bowsite, it was the Wild, Wild West days of the Internet, and all advice was to stay annonynous if you posted because of the "dangers". Even though I'm from Illinois,(NOT Iowa) I picked up on the old nickname. Also, I always loved "The Last of the Mohicans", and the protaginist's name is Hawkeye, so...
This nickname has followed me to several sites for nearly 15 years, now, and it is the only way a lot of good online friends ever knew me!
Daryl