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Classic in every way FoxtonGundogs. Every bit a tool as it is a a part of you, is'nt it?


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Summer I wear the Sun Day Afternoons hat. About good as it gets for protection from the sun. Tilley for colder weather.

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Really like that Straw hat in your top Pict. It's just like my George Strait Resistol I've been trying to wear out for 20 years.
Most of the time here in TX, it's just too damn hot for me to wear my Black Stetson with that same crease.
Been wearing a hat since I could walk. 6th generations of Ranchers in my family. Very rarely see anyone in my Family without one. Unless I'm wearing my shorts in the summer time. And then it's just a regular ole ball cap.


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I wear ball caps a lot but when its hunting season or I am running the tractor I wear brimmed hats. My cowboy hats, felt or straw, and a couple of canvas brimmed hats for hunting. My favorite is a straw fedora that just fits right. It stays put in windy conditions and shades my eyes and neck pretty well.

I winter I use a few different wool hats from ball caps to those kind with ear flaps and a chin tie. The best one is a "bomber" hat.

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I wear ball caps 99% of the time in the summer months.. If its cooler to cold, usually my Stormy Kromer, or knit cap/toboggan/beanie.


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not half as bad as a $400 stetson.....

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Woodsmoke;
Good evening to you sir, I hope this finds you and yours acceptably well.

As I was born and raised in Saskatchewan and migrated progressively westward since, I've been in hat country my entire life. My first good quality outdoor hat was a fur felt Biltmore made back when they made western styles as well.

It was my main cover in most weather for about 15 years.
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Finally the sweatband fell apart and some holes appeared in it so it was replaced by a wool felt Bailey that again has covered my head in the intervening years since my hair has receded to the vanishing point. wink

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It gets worn doing more traditional western chores too.

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It's proven to be a bit of a "lucky" hat somehow as stuff seems to come home with us when I'm wearing it....

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Still worked this fall too, so it'll be on my head in the morning as an old hunting partner who's moved away comes down for a quick hunt together. Here it is with this fall's meat mulie buck.

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Anyway sir you can indeed count me as one who is wearing a western hat until the weather turns too cold and then it's a Kromer.

Till later then. grin
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[quote=J23]I wear ball caps 99% of the time in the summer months.. If its cooler to cold, usually my Stormy Kromer, /quote]
ditto


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I've worn straw hats in the summer and felt in the winter all my life.

Mostly Stetson and Resistol but I have an ancient greenish felt made by the Beaver hat company that is the perfect hunting hat and I'm pretty well convinced it's lucky.

Good hats are worth every penny they cost.

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mackey hats from Wyoming makes some great felt hats.

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Ball caps are a MAJOR cause of skin cancer on the ears and neck. I wear a brim whenever I can. Skin cancer has become epidemic with farmers since seed companies started handing out free caps.


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For cool weather hunting wear a Stormy Kromer. For winter hunting a Filson crusher hat and For winter activities I wear a wool watch cap. Summers it is a ball cap. Fall fishing it's a wool felt fedora.

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