This hat came from Box Call. He made it to match my green Woolrich shirt that I had a photo of on a thread here. It fits my big fat head perfectly, and also matches my wool shirt to a T.

Nice hat there George!! Well done Dan.

Deno

Nice!

Nice. That's a very practical hat. Great for hunting and shooting a bow because of the brim size. A good camo pattern. If you sit still by a tree the deer will almost step on you!

Good one! Should sell them to Woolrich

I used to have a Sherlock Holmes hat. Had a slight brim front and back, plus plaid camo. Better than Georges from the stand point of if kids started wearing them, you wouldn't know if they had them on backwards.

Plus when my buddy and I were on a blood trail and I found blood I could say, "elementary my dear MR. Watson, NO, I mean blood".

Wonder what ever happened to it I wore it for years?

Bowmania

Nice all the way around!

Dan, that is oak, and was made by an Amish woodworker from Somerset County. Scott Robertson who posts here knows the guy who made it.

Looks like a nice hat ! Nice job Box Call

Didn't wanna scare nobody. )

It's a beauty! Jawge

Ralph, there are three in the basement. The bottom bow on the rack is my granddaughter's Ben Pearson Varity. The second one up is a Jay St.Charles longbow that has a fracture in the lower limb and only for looking. The longbow is headed for the cabin on our mountain farm along with an old quiver and some arrows by Hugh Rich and Suzanne St.Charles.

WANNA SEE GEORGE WEARING IT! Isn't there a MAN-LAW deal about this???

He makes great hats! He sends me the ones that come out big. No way thats all your bows George. :-)

hmm matching wool and coat, every doe is crazy about a sharp dressed man!!...ron

Box Call can see up darn nice hat :-) JF

George, "Awesomer" is a good description of the hat and the man that presented it to you. Well done, and I like the rack too! Lance.

Try it on and take a picture. Looks good on the rack let's check it out on the man.

I'll take a photo next week with the shirt and hat on.

We look forward to seeing your matching hat and jacket in use this fall.

I like bucket hats and own several, none in Black Watch type plaid tho'. Very nice.

Bets hat style for archery, shade from every angle, no brim interference.

Wow- Nice hat George and that was quite a work of art Dan.

Cool enough out to take this today. You can see the string clears the brim easily.

Box Call....you have one on the way...red/black.

Box Call is a class act

I'll second that bigdaddy

Nice hat a pity blue are the worst color for deer hunting.

One cool and awesome ensemble. I would need matching slippers to round it out.

Newhunter, I've killed many deer while I was wearing blue jeans, and all of them from the ground. Scientists think that deer can see shades of yellow and blue, but the deer probably didn't get the memo. 8^)))

It depends on the blue compared to the background, harder to blend in if we are wearing blue. Can be lucky.

Yes we can be lucky. I think we can think too much as well, but hey....you never know, even scientists get lucky now and then I suppose.

How's this?

TMBB

Deer are supposed to be sensitive to blue, but the biggest deer I ever shot, I was in jeans. And it's funny how well a blue jay vanishes in the canopy.

That said, I prefer camo, but I've shot deer at modest ranges while gunning in blaze orange. No substitute for sitting still (and a comfortable seat!)

I bought one of those big swiveling 'hunting chairs' from Cabelas, now I need to lug it out to a good spot. Comfy but heavy!

Sorry, I meant it to be this picture.

TMBB

I'm sending these antlers to Box Call...when he finishes attaching them to my new hat, it will stomp all over George's hat.

""At the recent QDMA conference, researchers from the University of Georgia's Warnell School of Forestry and Natural Resources presented findings from a new study on whitetail vision.

Before getting into that work, to understand what deer see and how their vision is different from ours, it's important to revisit what we learned about vision in high school science class.

Eyes contain specialized nerves called rods and cones. Different photopigments (or photoreceptors) in cones give animals and humans color vision. Rods contain only one type of light-sensitive pigment and allow us to see in low light, such as at dawn and dusk.

Anatomical studies of deer eyes have found that deer have far more rods in their eyes than humans do. Deer also have a reflective layer called the tapetum lucidum that gives deer the "eye shine" you see in nighttime photos. It also reflects light back over the rods and cones again, giving deer the ability to see far better in low light than we can.

Humans have tri-chromatic color vision, meaning our eyes contain three types of photopigments. The photopigments enable us to see short, moderate and long wavelengths of light, corresponding to blue, green and red colors.

Deer eyes only have two photopigment types, giving them dichromatic color vision. Scientists believe that deer can primarily see short-wavelength blue light, and moderate-wavelength light that they probably perceive as something between red and green.

Unlike in humans, the cones in a deer's eye are distributed across the back of the eye on a horizontal plane. The lens in a deer's eye also can't adjust to objects at varying distances. These factors give deer less visual clarity than humans have. An object a deer is looking at straight on is equally in focus as something out to the side. So don't assume that because a deer isn't looking at you that it can't see you.

More than anything else, a deer's eyes are designed to detect movement," said the University of Georgia's Dr. Karl Miller, whose students conducted the study.

But it's one thing to dissect a deer's eye and make inferences from what you find; it's something entirely different to have deer tell us what they see.""

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