A cap for archers?
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- Mick Smith
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A cap for archers?
Have you ever wanted to wear your favorite baseball style cap, but couldn't because the long peak interferes with your bowstring? I know I have. I often wear a baseball cap when out and about, but I gave up trying to wear one when bowhunting many years ago. It's just too upsetting when you're concentrating on making the perfect shot, to have your string make contact with the brim of the cap.
I've taken to wearing floppy canvas hats when shooting the bow. These hats might look a bit daggy, but at least my eyes are shaded and my denuding nut keeps warm. They are a bit of a nuisance when it's windy though, as the brim flops this way and that.
I have a good Akubra felt hat. It's a "Squatter". Unfortunately the string just makes contact with the medium sized brim at full draw. I do sometimes wear this hat when bowhunting, but once again, it can become tedious with the constant distraction of the string making contact, plus when the wind gets up, all it wants to do is blow off my head. I do plan to buy another Akubra felt hat one day soon. The next one will have a short brim. Akubra sell a few models that will fit the bill (pun intended), including "The Leisuretime" and "The Traveller". They sell for a bit over a hundred dollars.
I've spent many years on the lookout for a short billed baseball cap. It seems to be the fashion these days to have very long bills, so my search has been in vain. I even took to one of my old baseball hats with the scissors and cut the bill back to the necessary length, but it just didn't work, in fact I completely wrecked the cap and ended up throwing it away.
There's an old bloke, who wanders around town. He's a bit of a character. He's always friendly and he's always got a story to tell. I hadn't really ever noticed this cap though, although he's always wearing it. It just seems to be a part of him. I probably wouldn't recognise him without it.
Anyway, I said g'day to him the other day and I just happened to have a good look at his cap. It's a quaint old fashioned affair, but I sort of like it, in some strange way. It's what they call a "driver's cap". It's very British in origin. What makes it particularly interesting to me though, is it has a nice short "bill".
These old style caps are hard to find. I found a few in opportunity shops in Geelong, but they were the wrong size for my boof head. They were just a few dollars too. I eventually found one on Aussie ebay.
I reckon I'll look pretty sophisticated and distinguished when out in the field wearing my new driver's cap. What do you reckon?
Mick
I've taken to wearing floppy canvas hats when shooting the bow. These hats might look a bit daggy, but at least my eyes are shaded and my denuding nut keeps warm. They are a bit of a nuisance when it's windy though, as the brim flops this way and that.
I have a good Akubra felt hat. It's a "Squatter". Unfortunately the string just makes contact with the medium sized brim at full draw. I do sometimes wear this hat when bowhunting, but once again, it can become tedious with the constant distraction of the string making contact, plus when the wind gets up, all it wants to do is blow off my head. I do plan to buy another Akubra felt hat one day soon. The next one will have a short brim. Akubra sell a few models that will fit the bill (pun intended), including "The Leisuretime" and "The Traveller". They sell for a bit over a hundred dollars.
I've spent many years on the lookout for a short billed baseball cap. It seems to be the fashion these days to have very long bills, so my search has been in vain. I even took to one of my old baseball hats with the scissors and cut the bill back to the necessary length, but it just didn't work, in fact I completely wrecked the cap and ended up throwing it away.
There's an old bloke, who wanders around town. He's a bit of a character. He's always friendly and he's always got a story to tell. I hadn't really ever noticed this cap though, although he's always wearing it. It just seems to be a part of him. I probably wouldn't recognise him without it.
Anyway, I said g'day to him the other day and I just happened to have a good look at his cap. It's a quaint old fashioned affair, but I sort of like it, in some strange way. It's what they call a "driver's cap". It's very British in origin. What makes it particularly interesting to me though, is it has a nice short "bill".
These old style caps are hard to find. I found a few in opportunity shops in Geelong, but they were the wrong size for my boof head. They were just a few dollars too. I eventually found one on Aussie ebay.
I reckon I'll look pretty sophisticated and distinguished when out in the field wearing my new driver's cap. What do you reckon?
Mick
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There is no use focusing on aiming if you don't execute the shot well enough to hit what your are aiming at.
Mick there are several good bowhunting caps on the market. ASAT have one and Cabelas use to sell them as well and I'm sure Bass-Pro sell them. The bills are short and are made just for bowhunters. I bought a couple from Cabelas over 10 years ago but of late I have been using one from ASAT...Glenn...
- Mick Smith
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The old bucket hats are excellent for archery, I must admit.
Glenn
I've been looking on the Cabelas site, but I haven't seen a specialist bowhunting cap for years. I wasn't aware of the ASAT cap. I'll have to check it out. They have a short billed cap on both www.kustomkingarchery and www.3riversarchery.com web sites, called the Stormy Kromer, but it looks a lot daggier than the driver's cap.
Grahame
Don't worry mate, I know all about Kangol hats, as a matter of fact, if I had a lazy $50 or so, I'd buy one of their woolen driver's caps in a plain olive green. They are very nice. There was one on Aussie ebay just recently. It would have been perfect apart from me having a boof head about 3 sizes too big.
Mick
The old bucket hats are excellent for archery, I must admit.
Glenn
I've been looking on the Cabelas site, but I haven't seen a specialist bowhunting cap for years. I wasn't aware of the ASAT cap. I'll have to check it out. They have a short billed cap on both www.kustomkingarchery and www.3riversarchery.com web sites, called the Stormy Kromer, but it looks a lot daggier than the driver's cap.
Grahame
Don't worry mate, I know all about Kangol hats, as a matter of fact, if I had a lazy $50 or so, I'd buy one of their woolen driver's caps in a plain olive green. They are very nice. There was one on Aussie ebay just recently. It would have been perfect apart from me having a boof head about 3 sizes too big.
Mick
There is no use focusing on aiming if you don't execute the shot well enough to hit what your are aiming at.
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Looks more at home on the Golf course
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- Mick Smith
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Here's a pic of my son wearing the ASAT short brimmed bowhunter's cap...
Wish I had some left
Taylor's on the left, you can see by comparison how much shorter the ASAT cap is. When shooting my longbow I never had an issue with it touching the string.,
Another pic from the side to see the shortness of the brim.
Wish I had some left
Taylor's on the left, you can see by comparison how much shorter the ASAT cap is. When shooting my longbow I never had an issue with it touching the string.,
Another pic from the side to see the shortness of the brim.
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Thanks for that Luke. I went to the ASAT web site based in the US. They have those short billed hats for sale at US$12.95 each. I was all set to buy one until I noticed that they ship by UPS. I've had experiences with this company before and I know they charge like wounded bulls. The shipping would end up costing many times more than the product.
I wish we still had somewhere in Australia where we could buy this gear.
It looks like I'll have to stick with my Andy Capp cap.
Mick
I wish we still had somewhere in Australia where we could buy this gear.
It looks like I'll have to stick with my Andy Capp cap.
Mick
There is no use focusing on aiming if you don't execute the shot well enough to hit what your are aiming at.
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I've been doing a bit more experimenting on shortening the bill on some of my baseball caps. I've got a few old ones to experiment with.
The first time I tried to cut the bill shorter, I simply sat a dinner plate over the original brim and scribed a line where I thought it should be to allow a contact free full draw. Once I'd marked the length, I just cut the excess off with a large pair of scissors. This left the raw bill stiffening plastic visible and the two cut fabric edges on either side. It didn't look good, so I salvaged the part of the original bill that I had cut off and cut a thin cresent shaped piece of material that incorporated that part of the bill that wrapped around from the top of the bill to the bottom of the bill. I then glued this crescent shaped piece over the top of the raw cut edges of the shortened bill. The result wasn't too bad to look at, from a distance. The glue I used was good old fletchtite and it worked very well on the fabric.
I took this "mark 1" version out for a bit of a rabbit hunt and I was happy with the way it worked. Here's a photo of me wearing it (notice the Challacamo outfit ).
The first time I tried to cut the bill shorter, I simply sat a dinner plate over the original brim and scribed a line where I thought it should be to allow a contact free full draw. Once I'd marked the length, I just cut the excess off with a large pair of scissors. This left the raw bill stiffening plastic visible and the two cut fabric edges on either side. It didn't look good, so I salvaged the part of the original bill that I had cut off and cut a thin cresent shaped piece of material that incorporated that part of the bill that wrapped around from the top of the bill to the bottom of the bill. I then glued this crescent shaped piece over the top of the raw cut edges of the shortened bill. The result wasn't too bad to look at, from a distance. The glue I used was good old fletchtite and it worked very well on the fabric.
I took this "mark 1" version out for a bit of a rabbit hunt and I was happy with the way it worked. Here's a photo of me wearing it (notice the Challacamo outfit ).
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My wife does a bit of sewing, in fact she's very good at it. When she saw what I had done with my cap, she was a bit horrified. She said why didn't you just unpick the seams and fold back the material and then cut the reinforcing plastic to the desired shape and then cut the excess material slightly larger than the plastic and re-sew it? Clever woman, I thought, so I scrummaged through my clothing drawes and found a nice olive green cap. I even conned the wife to do it for me. It's coming along real nicely. This is the way to go IMO. It's almost finished and it looks as though it's come from the factory with an ultra short bill.
All I have to do now is buy myself any old camoflauge cap that I like the look of and shortening the bill will be childs play. I might even just stick with my olive green one. I'll post a photo of it soon.
Mick
All I have to do now is buy myself any old camoflauge cap that I like the look of and shortening the bill will be childs play. I might even just stick with my olive green one. I'll post a photo of it soon.
Mick
There is no use focusing on aiming if you don't execute the shot well enough to hit what your are aiming at.
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I've taken a couple of photos of my olive woolen baseball cap. It just needs sewing to pull the two edges permanently together. It will make a great little archery cap, ideal for cold weather hunts.
Mick
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There is no use focusing on aiming if you don't execute the shot well enough to hit what your are aiming at.
- Mick Smith
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Hats, hats, hats, I'm turning into the mad hatter.
I just bought a Kangol cap on Australian ebay for less than half the new price. I really like these caps. They are made in England and sell for US$48.00 on the Kangol on-line shop. They have a nice short bill and they look very suave. It's a woolen one and it's a nice neutral olive colour, perfect for hunting. Gee whiz, I've got more hats now than bows.
Here's a photo of it.
Mick
I just bought a Kangol cap on Australian ebay for less than half the new price. I really like these caps. They are made in England and sell for US$48.00 on the Kangol on-line shop. They have a nice short bill and they look very suave. It's a woolen one and it's a nice neutral olive colour, perfect for hunting. Gee whiz, I've got more hats now than bows.
Here's a photo of it.
Mick
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There is no use focusing on aiming if you don't execute the shot well enough to hit what your are aiming at.
Here's another one for you Mick
http://www.graywolfwoolens.com/store/pr ... =17&page=1
soon you'll have more hats than bows
Memo
http://www.graywolfwoolens.com/store/pr ... =17&page=1
soon you'll have more hats than bows
Memo