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
