We haven't had a hat thread for a while so I thought I would start one. How about posting a photo of you wearing one of your favorite bowhunting noggin covers. Mine is an Akubra "Bushman" wild hare felt hat made in Australia.
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I'm a bandanna man. Cheap and I have enough of them that they come in handy if I forget paper.
NOggin Top felt crusher... :)Was sorta your color, Gary, but all the 'scent away' stuff bleached it out so it looks like it's all moldy or something... hidious, but effective! :)
Gary, nice pic. When it is warm I usually just wear a head net. When colder a tight fitting stocking hat. Do the felt hats interfere with the string when drawing?
You can see mine to the left. Camo boonie hat from Cabelas, with a snap I added.
I really admire your hat, Gary, but I haven't been able to wear one like that when I shoot the bow because the string hits the brim. Any suggestions?
Do they make biodegradable bandannas?? HA!
Mine doesn't John. If the felt is relative thin and soft the brim will bend with the bowstring, however, when I'm on stand or stalking I just flip up the anchor side of the brim and VOILA, no probelm! I'm talking about rabbit or wild hare felt as I have had problems with wool felt brims over the years. That's why I gave up wool fedoras and only use good felt hats these days. Plus felt doesn't get nearly as hot as wool while I'm hoofin it up a hill! Of course you can shape a brim to accommodate the string if you have any problems.
Gary, Thanks for the info. I would like something to shade my bald head and keep the sun out of my eyes. I will look at some felt hats. FYI very nice pic above with fantastic composition. John
I am a Bucket hat kind of guy, they seem to fit my bucket type of head.
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Just noticed your question David. I wrote something above about how mine works. Check out Fred Asbell's hat. That's another solution, simply train the brim "up" on your anchor side or I suppose you can buy one already like that. Mine flips up, down, and/or folds back with very little pressure. I buy "open crown" pure felt Fedoras which allow you to bash the crown and shape the brim into whatever you want. You can also repair and reshape them over and over! Can't do that with wool felt!
Uncle Barry sent me one of his bucket hats to try out but it was too small. Guess I have a little too much hair on my noggin:^)
The animals don't seem to mind Rick:^)
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El cheapo Scala is my fave when the weather isn't too bad.
Watch out for those javie fleas Pat!
Can't get past my Old Stetson. Have a pic but neaux knowhow no.
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Pat, Ya look like the fleas have already gotten to ya! ;) :smileystooges: :wavey:
Prarrie Dog
I have several seasons worth of camo, and a boonie to match each one.
P Dog, maybe that's why the turkeys won't come near me this spring!
Very seldom do I wear a hat. While hunting, I usually just wear a head net. If it's gun season, I wear my orange stocking cap. if it's cold, I wear a wool hat, similar to a stocking cap.
I wore this one last year, beaver felt. I also wear jones style hats to shoot in a lot. The fedora I snap the brim up to shoot and it doesn't interfere. Thinking of breaking out my military Scottish Balmoral for shooting this year.
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Bald spot
I sweat alot so prefer thin cotton. Either an el-cheapo OD bucket with the brims cut down to an inch. Or a thin cotton camo bowhunters caps with the brims also cut to an inch. I like the option of a short brim to block out backlighting and still not interfere with the bowstring. In cold weather I wear the above plus a fleece or wool knit over top. Or wool plaid Kromers or Crowns with shorter bills. bw
Heh heh....
Nuthin since I was about 23.
Wool knit cap
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One of those inferior wool felt fedoras. The brim pushes out of the way of the string, it sheds water and I love it.
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Killdeer
hard to follow my previous act, Killie! any way I've been wearing this boonie for almost 15 years. lost it once about 10 years ago and found it the following season at the base of one of the trees I had had a stand in.
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Well, I've got to admit that Killie does look pretty darn at home in the woods wearing that wool fedora:^)
Nice photo Robert. Like the way the water and sky matches your fletching!
Not to hi-jack the thread Gary but how is Classic Bowmans Sporting Woolens coming???
Looking forward to a websight and seeing some merchandise.
Just stocking caps and face masks for me.
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Filson Packer hat! just love that oil cloth.
I love my Tilley Hemp
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It's soft enough that the string bends the brim and doesn't bother me. When wet it gets a bit stiffer to shed the rain a little better.
I wear a stormy kromer when it gets cool down here. Along with the wheel, creating fire, and the bow and arrow, stormy kromers are one of mankind's greatest innovations. (http://i301.photobucket.com/albums/nn66/tarponnut/Clewiston109007-2.jpg)
QuoteFilson Packer hat! just love that oil cloth.
Can anyone tell me if this hat's brim is in the way at full draw?
I've always loved these hats, but I'd like to make sure it's do-able.
Thanks
Those Kromer style hats really come in handy on windy days. I even slept in one last fall in the mountains. Hey Mike, how about a photo of you when it's get COLD and you really have to stack up those knit caps, HA!
Currently and weather permitting, my Fred Bear hat from 3Rivers...
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It's a wool felt hat for me year round. I cut the rolled over edge off the brim so it just flops out of the way of my string.
Denny
I wear a boonie with the brim trimmed down when it's hot and a old beat-up wool felt hat with the brim trimmed down when it's cold.
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I like a fur hat sometimes when it's cold enough to wear one.
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This one when I'm feelin woolie
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I've got one of them Australian Acubra ones too
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In Fact I've got a hat for just about every occasion...an this ain't even all of em...
Ron AKA The Mad Hatter.... :goldtooth:
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Same one for years- actually one of three of the same hat- Borsalino Allesandro. (http://i238.photobucket.com/albums/ff82/ygrant87/BearQuest08017.jpg)
My propensity for head adornment started at an early age.... :rolleyes:
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GMMAT, to answer your question, my Filson Packer does not interfere with my bow string but I suppose it might for some people depending on how much they tilt their head forward to shoot. Mostly I use a wool felt brimmed hat.
Alright Ron, I knew we could count on you. What a collection . . . nice quiver by the way:^)
Classy hat Grant. Fred would be proud of ya wearing that Borsalino. I have one that Papa Bear gave me in the last 1983. It still has his somewhat faded signature on it plus several tears and holes. He told me that I had to wear it not hang it so I sure did! South Central KY?? Where about? I'm in Grayson County.
Noth'n special. Short-billed cap, turned back or bandanas:
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I'd go bareheaded if not for an extremely wide part. I prefer a doo rag. It's cooler in hot weather and it's hot in Georgia quite a bit. When it cools down, I switch the doo rag for a wool sock hat.
Fur for fur!
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Lots of store-bought hats out there, but I prefer hats with a bit of character:
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Don't have a pic of my winter hat...
Hey Mike, ever have a bird of prey try to snatch that off your head??? HA! I tried wearing my dad's Korean War "Russian" Fur hat while hunting once. Never again, had a barred owl whack me hard trying to get at it!!
No, but it makes the hunt intersting. I've had a screech owl hit the top of my head when a face mask is pulled up and flopping a round. Ha!
Sal, that is a great pic of you in the blind. I have a couple hats I like. When cold I like my Filson wool hunter cap. Other wise I like these.
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Fred Bear style felt hat.
After my Turkey hunt yesterday I would say "black fly bite's"! Stopped at Gander Mountain on the way home from work today and picked up a "Thermacell". We'll see how that works.
Fur Hat Guys:
What's the warmest fur hat for below-zero weather?
Best source?
More often than not,I have my Gore-Tex boonie on...This IS Oregon ya know...
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This may not be real original.....Hair.
Art
I don't have near as many hats as Ron aka The Mad Hatter; but I have worn fedoras, boonies, tilleys,ball caps(backwards, forwards and sideways)a ghillie head cover a leafy suit head/face mask, utilty caps aka deck lids,shemaghs, bandannas,bucket hats, Donegal touring caps, chullos and toques at various times in the field.
Hat is always apporpriate for the weather. This thread led me to the realization that I have never hunted, fished or hiked bareheaded.
mine is in my avata
QuoteOriginally posted by mysticguido:
Don't have a pic of my winter hat...
When you move to Texas you are not going to need one.
tarponnut is very handsome in that "Stormy Kromer", I've seen it up close!
Nothing but a little hair,quit wearing a hat when I retired from the Navy.
During elk season I just wear a low profile cap of some kind.
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During the late Blacktail hunt I usually wear an old military surplus "Radar O'Riley" wool cap.
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sunblock
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You got to have fun
Up here in Saskatchewan it can be 90 above or 20 below I've probably got 50 differant hats ,everything from soup to nuts to cover all conditions. One thing most have is earflaps to keep the wind out. The wind is always blowing up here whether its hot or cold.
Let's hear from the rest of you Tradgangers. What's on your head?
I have been wearing a hat like this since 1976 best I have found for the rain and most any other weather unless very hot and I use a boonie. (http://i128.photobucket[img]http://i128.photobucket.com/albums/p191/Kip_album/2007_0411Image0069.jpg) (http://i128.photobucket.com/albums/p191/Kip_album/2007_0411Image0067.jpg)IMG]http://i128.photobucket
Derby
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Beaver hat for a cornfield buck
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Gatekeeper that Derby is Classic!! Very :cool: :cool: :cool:
And Ron pulls yet another photo out of his hat, er, or a hat out of another photo . . . something like that:^)
HHAAAAAAAAAAA! Were you wearing that derby hat in Albany Tom? That sounds like what the head cook said after Gene and Barry left the "All-YOU-CAN EAT" shrimp bar in Albany in 08! Those boys eat BIG, even by Texas standards!!
Gatekeeper, I've seen hunters wear all sorts of hats but never a derby. That's something really unique. Off course we are traditional archers so were're all a little off the norm anyway.
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HHAAAAAAAAAAA! Were you wearing that derby hat in Albany Tom? That sounds like what the head cook said after Gene and Barry left the "All-YOU-CAN EAT" shrimp bar in Albany in 08! Those boys eat BIG, even by Texas standards!!
Yes...ha ha. The head cook was probably related to the cashier at the grocery store. I know everyone working and eating at the Dairy Queen were related except for ksbowman, Fatman and me.
Gene asked me what I do if the brim gets in the way and Barry replied he turns it around backwards. :biglaugh: I get a lot of double looks and comments for this style of hat so I guess I'll have to keep it. People either like it or hate it. Nobody is sitting on the fence with their opinion about this hat.
I heard a little bit about the shrimp eating episode but we didn't go into town on shrimp night when we were there so I wasn't able to witness the gluttony.
I can't bear a bare head...er I mean bear head :rolleyes:
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Sticks and strings and flint lock guns
V twin Harleys that roar when run
Shoulder length hair and buckskin clothes
Moose hide moccasins over the toes
This may not be a man of the times
whose interest is different and talks in rhymes
Society tells us what we should be
The mold doesn't fit,..I've gotta be me.
QuoteOriginally posted by Ron LaClair:
Sticks and strings and flint lock guns
V twin Harleys that roar when run
Shoulder length hair and buckskin clothes
Moose hide moccasins over the toes
This may not be a man of the times
whose interest is different and talks in rhymes
Society tells us what we should be
The mold doesn't fit,..I've gotta be me.
Ok Ron, now it is official; I want to be just like you when I grow up! Bows, arrows, Harley's, buckskin, moccasins, flintlocks, and more hats then a man could wear in a lifetime; you are my hero. The simple tweed Irish cap that I wear just does not seem to keep up the standard but they; keep sun/rain off your head, keep head warm, a little hot at times, do not get in the way of shooting, and most of all just look very stylish with my white hair. LOL Great thread lots of fun and some outstanding head gear.
Gee Ron, did that bear eat you or did you eat the bear!??!
QuoteGee Ron, did that bear eat you or did you eat the bear!??!
I never killed a bear I didn't eat... :archer:
Some how, I knew that answer. Cool poem!! :campfire:
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I like Ron's version of the Kroemer.
todd
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I like Ron's version of the Kroemer.
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And this Stetson from Glenn St Charles
todd
A Top Hat goes with anything and a turkey feather adds to the ambiance
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TTT
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That top hat looks pretty good!
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I cant stand having the string touch my hat brim so I'm stuck with looking like a dork. My daughter says its not the hat. :dunno:
Art Young from 3 Rivers.
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Here is mine, my Dad's old SA Army bush hat
I do not go anywhere without this hat
come's with built in rear view mirror
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Andy, thats too cool! But doesnt the tail of that rear view mirror interfer with the string.... :p :thumbsup:
In colder or wet weather its my wool felt hat, got one in black for the more official outings and one in green for bushwhacker work.
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and for the summertime or everyday life i got my leather cap. In fact i never leave the house without it. Got it from a second hand store for 2$ and it has held up for 4 years now.
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My love for a good hat started young, too....
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My first trad kill wearing my fav.,Goretex boonie.Brim moves with the string.
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Love the hat.
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Life is to short
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