What hat do yo wear while shooting? Does anyone know of a short brimmed ball cap? Bighorn bowhunting made some years ago but I haven't seen anyone making them of late. Too long a brim seems to hit my bowstring. I'd like to find an orange one for hunting whistle pigs here in PA... lol

How bout one of these...? I see an Orange one.

This is what I wear and love them. Wool felt in cold months, like weight vented in warm months. 2-1/4” to 2-1/2” brims. Keeps sun and rain off ears and back of neck for the most part.

Google short brimmed ball caps and all sorts will come up, even some blaze orange.

Robertson stickbow had some ebay. Amazon,. Army surplus.

My PA groundhog hunting hat is a mesh orange ball cap. I cut the bill down with pruning shears.

I like the boonie

Stormy Kromers work very well ! Bob

I wear a standard orange ball cap and spin it before I shoot.

Man I’ve hadn’t heard Whistle Pigs since I was a kid didn’t think anyone used that anymore

Get a flip up short brimmed ball cap with the wire in them. You can flip them up out if the way

Get a flip up short brimmed ball cap with the wire in them. You can flip them up out if the way

I guess I'm lucky as hat brims never effect my shooting.

Lucky camo Pirates baseball cap sometimes. It's seen better days and I'll be bummed when it gives up the ghost. It's over 20 years old.

Boonie hat my father in law gave me.

My buddy Nemo gave me a nice camo hat I plan on wearing this coming season.

Red x2.

I hunt mainly with 52 and 54 inch recurves, so a standard ball cap works fine for me. You can always take a pair of scissors and make the bill shorter, then just close it with some overhand stitching. C'mon, Brad, a bit of DIY as it applies to whistle pig hunting. :)

Super nice Predator grey bucket Box Call! I wish that Two Tracks still made the wool caps.

I believe that's trebark, Jon, but I've been wrong before. :)

Nope, that indeed is Jim Crumley's 'Treebark'.

I always turn my ball cap backwards for shooting, but now that I've got one of Dan's bucket hats on the way, I'll have a much better option!

I thought you were done posting Dan. Change your mind again?

The old wire brim archer's hat.

I one one of Dan's hats in the early season and then when it gets cold I have a lighter green Army issue fleece hat that I wear. Those Army hats are really warm.

I like the 3 rivers and Big Jim short,wire brimmed hats, but I don't know if3 river's has them anymore and,or any in orange

Brad is referring to solid orange, which is a requirement for groundhog hunters here in Pennsylvania.

Here is my favorite hat for Archery.

not much of a hat wearer except for warmpth or out in bright sun and needing the bill for skin protection and visibility

I have one I got from Ryan Derlago when I hunted bear with him the first time at Stickflingers. The second time I went up there I was hoping for a new one but he said he couldn’t find a supplier for them any longer.

Prior to that I took a ball cap that fit well and trimmed the bill down to a short bill. I sealed the cut end with Barge cement. It worked fine except I couldn’t bend the bill up, like the others that have a wire in them.

The old wire brim hat like Barry wears and a bucket hat I bought on Amazon called

" The fear of God ".

To the OP. Your regs say "florescent" orange not just orange.

I had one of the hats like Mr Wensel wears. Wish I had it back, loved that hay.

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somedude. Everyone sells those short brim wire hats now.

One of these. Will I have one similar.

One of these. Will I have one similar.

Big Jim's short brim bowhunters hat.

This Old Camo Cap

We all have things we’ve owned for too many years and can’t bear to throw away, items that have out lived their usefulness, where ownership transcends practicality and ventures into the realm of the nonsensical. Of items like this of mine, one is a clear favorite. It’s an old camouflage cap with a Wisc. Bowhunters button pinned on the side. My cap is a Jones style cap. You don’t see them much anymore, except on a few graybeards like myself. For those unfamiliar with this style, it looks something like the cap Errol Flynn wore in the 1930’s Robin Hood movie. They were real popular in the 1950’s and most bowhunters of the day wore them. By the mid-1980’s they were starting to be phased out. I tried to buy one a few years ago at a major national sporting goods retailer. When I asked the young clerk if they had any Jones style hunting caps his face went quizzical and I heard, “huh?” I also heard the generation gap widen. My cap is well traveled. It’s been worn while chasing elk in Colorado, black bear in Ontario, and whitetails throughout Wisconsin. It’s too faded now to be game effective and too threadbare to be warm. The lining is completely broken down and I’m afraid that if the cap were ever worn in the rain it would act more like a sponge than a shelter. Over the years, it’s been officially retired as a hunting cap at the close of three different bowhunting seasons! Though the cap never hunts with me anymore, it is worn occasionally for another reason. It’s like a bumper sticker expressing my point of view. It says to the lady at the market, the fellow pumping gas, and the young mom with toddlers in tow that I am an outdoorsman, in particular a bowhunter, and that I’m proud of it. When I wear this cap, the camo speaks and I promote my sport. It’s part of my autumnal uniform and says volumes about my personal persuasions, politics, and psyche. I suspect other bowhunters echo these sentiments, perhaps subconsciously, and wear camo, caps or otherwise with or without their club logo, for these same reasons. They are proud of their camo and what it represents. When we wear camo, we show our colors. We are a camo clad clan in step on common issues and speak the same language. We may not always agree on equipment choice, where or how to hunt, or even the antics of our state's DNR, but we do agree on the value of the bowhunting experience. It’s great and we want more. This single consensus is the lifeblood of our family. It provides a reason to go on. To that end we form clubs, recruit new members, create food plots, buy the latest gear, shoot for practice and practice for the hunt. To me, this cap represents it all. It’s been there, at one time or another, on all those and more endeavors. It always fits in and it never disappoints. Even though there are more effective color fast patterns available, I still like the WWII USMC camo pattern and colors. And I don’t care, except in a positive way that it is faded. I see it as character. Is this cap a fashion statement? I’d hate to equate my motives with those of 5th Avenue. Rather, the cap is just something that fits, in more ways than one. It’s comfortable. Always has been. Always will be. There will come a day when the cap is finally fully retired and put away to be worn no more. Perhaps then a small piece will be clipped and pasted along with a note in my bowhunting scrapbook. Until then, it’ll still occasionally get worn. Maybe even, it’ll go bowhunting one last time, again.

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Big Jim sells a nice short brimmed hat on his website…

I have 3 or 4 of Dan’s hats. I pick one to match how I feel that morning.

Not any more though. Very warm, but some large birds of prey were always interested in it. It did break me forever of dozing off in my tree stands.

A flat cap backwards for 3D.

Stormy Kromer..

OP, here are your PA regs. "A hat containing a minimum of 100 square inches of solid fluorescent orange, visible 360 degrees, must be worn at all times."

You could make a cover out of fluorescent orange material, or have Dan make it, to slip over any hat and be legal.

Yea Dan

I got a light weight one that I wear in the summer yard work and when out with the dog

Yes Dan, I keep it in my pack at all times.. Folds down very small..

Reversed ball cap.

Most comfortable hat I’ve ever worn Dan, even get compliments when I where it to the grocery store. It’s lightweight and works great in the early season here in Ohio.

Beany hats for me

This style is my favorite

For early season I like a wool felt hat. In colder weather I wear a stocking cap.

Black spot, that is a cool hat but I couldn't shoot a bow with it due to the brim.

For $3 buy a blaze orange moisture wicking helmet liner. Zero string contact. Light, cheap, and functional.

Just take a regular ball hat and modify it. This works well for me. I do also like my wire brimmed one from Big Jim’s.

I hunted and fished in your hat all year Dan. Three deer, a turkey, and lot's of small game and trout. I believe I won the treebark hat in your picture. Or at least one just like it. Thanks Charley.

Hey Brad, go to Amazon, they have a crap load of solid F. orange ball caps, and looks like many have short bills.

bucket hats are good to haul mushrooms if you don't have a bag!

also use my boxcall hat for hunting!

Anything over 48-50deg and I'm bare on top. Anything below that and it's a beanie for me.

Bucket or ball cap.

One of Dan's, ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^ and another of Dan's.

Tony, you win so far! That is a nice one.

Wool full-brim crusher when it's cold, Vented Tilley when it's warm. I like full brim hats!

Depends on the temperature. Early season I have a couple Wensel Brothers fatigue caps in green and brown. Then I move to a Finnish M-36 wool cap. Then I move to a Stormy Krommer Classic gray plaid wool cap. If that isn't good enough I stay inside.

Thanks Randy! That was a gift from the kids about 5 yrs ago

I have a bunch. Wool coups cap, fleece coups cap, first lite brimmed beanie that I trimmed down on one side so that it doesn't affect the string, for warmer weather I have a wire brim hat, a sitka sun hat, and a kuiu gila hat. The sitka sun hat brim fold without blocking my vision. The GIla I have to flip the brim up. I really need to wear a boonie style hat for covering ground in the heat without a canopy.

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