Summertime headgear....

For all you Ho Chi Minh hat wearers I hope there are no armed and crazy Viet Nam vets with flashbacks out in the woods when you wear one of those hats!!!!
 
Mine says LSU baby!! National Champs!
 
Here, in my area, winter ends the 14h of july and begins the 15th of august. So, no hat, i can take the sun on my head one month per year.

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Out in the sun, like back in the day when I took pictures in the ring at horse shows, nothing beats a straw "cowboy" hat...Weston or the like.... They shade, maximize the cooling of evaporation, are light, and kept my fair skin from blistering.

Ambling around in WI, a ball cap works just fine. Woodswalking, boonie until the weather turns cold, then rag wool or heavy fleece knit cap to keep ears from freezing off are my choices.

Cold night camping, a light fleece head cover retains heat for the night.

Someday...maybe...I'll spend the dollars for a muskrat fur trapper's hat.

Can't consider that expense now, but boy are they warm!!!
 
Here's the coolest (thermally speaking) hot weather hat I own:

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The Bora Bora Boonie in the color stone has all the right features: light color, ventilated crown, black underbrim and very light weight.

If I'm out and about in cold weather I'm usually hunting. So I need a hat that is versatile rather than the ultimate in warmth. I need to wear it when I'm hiking into the hunt area as well as when I am on a stand. Need to have just a little protection for my ears during the pre-dawn hike in. Here's my solution:

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This particular model is from L.L. Bean, but I have others in blaze orange and in several types of camo. All mine are constructed of Gore-Tex and have light, fold-down ear flaps. If you encounter rain or snow and are wearing a parka, simply pull the hood up over the hat. If you have no hood, just pull the brim all the way down and you have a bucket shaped rain hat. The ball cap brim protects your eyes from the sun and allows good visibility. My jones caps also have light Thinsulate insulation. If the weather is really cold I may carry a wool watch cap as a backup.
 
My hat. Its made of old canvass truck tarp.

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Rain or shine, that's my hat.
 
Cabelas Safari Hat. Good brim, lots of mesh. I wore it in Egypt a few weeks ago and it was perfect.
 
Lightweight ripstop baseball cap in the woods. In the full sun fishing or outdoors I use a tan Tillie hat.
 
I just picked up a Columbia Duck Key and am very pleased. I am really a baseball cap wearer by after my last visit to the dermatologist, Dr Gross (I call them the house of pain), I decided to add more coverage. I like the Tillies but opt'd for the $20 CDK. The CDK is very lightweight with a terry cloth sweatband and is one size fits all. The is dark underneath reducing glare.
 
I use either a Military boonie (I have a few patterns) or I have a boonie I bought at Steve and Barry's that is 100% cotton. That keeps me cool.

TF
 
Baseball caps. Vented mesh types during hot weather, regular full cloth ones in cooler or wet weather.
 
j williams said:
Pict-- Thats a sweet hat! You make it yourself??
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My state down here is cattle country. This is the typical local cow puncher hat. All the really cool kids use them so I bought one too. Not bad for $8. They hold up well and carry alot of water, swat bugs, etc. Mac
 
I like the twisted straw hats that all the hardware and garden stores sell. I guess they are Chinese. I usually go thru one or two a season. Some blow off in the boat, some get smashed behind the seat of my truck. I usually wear a bandanna tied on my head under the hat. Being bald sweat runs down into my eyes without one. Plus a bandanna is good for a lot of other uses.
I tired canvas type hats and even spent some money of some good ones with ventilated panels ect. I always come back to twisted straw.

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