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Here's a good source of genuine pith helmets for those who like such: PITH HELMETS NRA Life Member, Band of Bubbas Charter Member, PGCA, DRSS. Shoot & hunt with vintage classics. | ||
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Are they called pith helmets because they are easy to pith into? Sorry I couldn't resist. TerryR | |||
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http://www.jameslock.co.uk/prod1.taf?catuid=100035&_UserReference=18DCF27078912DE542150C86 If one has the budget, I suggest the one on this site. None of this adjustable bu!ls*t. It is made to fit you by either providing them measurements or being fitted at their shop. Best, JohnTheGreek | |||
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I got mine from www.tagsafari.com and they're made in Africa! Sarge Holland's .375: One Planet, One Rifle . . . for one hundred years! | |||
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You wouldn't actually go out in public wearing something like that would you? | |||
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HELL YES ! A buddy of mine has the Lock Hatters helmet and as soon as I make it to London to be fitted so will I. I would wear it happily in Southern Africa or on desert treks here in Egypt. I don't give a damn if people chuckled. Wearing that hat and an Egyptian linen suit in the Western Desert, on the back of a camel or while stalking buffalo for a few days would be the epitome of C O O L !!! No reason to lack sophistication while camping or hunting.   JMHO, JohnTheGreek | |||
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You go, John! Not wear a pith helmet in public? Waddya gonna put on, a feed hat? That's the height of sartorial sophistocation in Texas? Give us a break! Sarge Holland's .375: One Planet, One Rifle . . . for one hundred years! | |||
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In Texas we would buy two pith helmets...one to pith in and one to cover it up with! On the plains of hesitation lie the bleached bones of ten thousand, who on the dawn of victory lay down their weary heads resting, and there resting, died. If you can talk with crowds and keep your virtue, Or walk with Kings - nor lose the common touch... Yours is the Earth and everything that's in it, And - which is more - you'll be a Man, my son! - Rudyard Kipling Life grows grim without senseless indulgence. | |||
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Anybody know where to get a hat like the one Robert Redford wore in "Out of Africa"? Thanks, DC300 DC300 | |||
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From Universal pictures? "...Them, they were Giants!" J.A. Hunter describing the early explorers and settlers of East Africa hunting is not about the killing but about the chase of the hunt.... Ortega Y Gasset | |||
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Terry, They are called pith helmets because people take the "Pith" if you wear one! Regards, Pete | |||
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The pith helmet is the best, boys,The Best!!! I always wear one when on backyard safari. Knickers and gaters too. This outfit affords me the freedom of movement when tackling dangerous game such as bald-faced hornets, carpenter bees, and yellowjackets with my trusty Crosman model 1100 38 bore, loaded with #12 shot. For squirrel & whistle pig charges I use .36 balls. Makes a thwack like when a .577 hits a buff side on.  I'll get pictures this Spring and share | |||
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My first wife's father wore one while mowing the lawn when she was a teenager, embarrassed the hell out of her when her friends came around! NRA Life Member, Band of Bubbas Charter Member, PGCA, DRSS. Shoot & hunt with vintage classics. | |||
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They are called pith helmets because when you see someone wearing one you pith yourself laughing. An armed man is a citizen. An unarmed man is a subject. | |||
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Well, you can piss in them all you want to do so, but I'll soak mine in water for cooling, thank you! I find them very comfortable and will use it if I go again. Real nice in open bush country, but it is a little noisy in areas of thick jess. Yea, a Texan always needs two of something to cover up what he is doing! | |||
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Yes some people still do wear them.  "Karamojo Orion" | |||
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Oops, wrong thread. | |||
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Where can I get an orange pith helmet for deer season this fall? | |||
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But only if combined with a good quality Fez from Lock & Co, to be worn at time for the compulsory Sun downer... | |||
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My father had one (from his army days), which I still keep and treasure. He wore it regularly while fishing, and although I have tried to work up the intestinal fortitude to wear it myself I have thus far failed...but, oh, how I wish that I had taken it with me to Africa, to use as a prop in a couple of trophy photos! Print them up in B&W with a sepia tone added...talk about missed opportunities! John | |||
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This is the one I posted a link to in the other thread!  ....Mac >>>===(x)===> MacD37, ...and DUGABOY1 DRSS Charter member "If I die today, I've had a life well spent, for I've been to see the Elephant, and smelled the smoke of Africa!"~ME 1982 Hands of Old Elmer Keith  | |||
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Yes and the rifle would be nice English double! VERY COOL
"When the wind stops....start rowing. When the wind starts, get the sail up quick." | |||
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The pith of the sola or other similar plants is used to make the pith helmet Frank "I don't know what there is about buffalo that frightens me so.....He looks like he hates you personally. He looks like you owe him money." - Robert Ruark, Horn of the Hunter, 1953 NRA Life, SAF Life, CRPA Life, DRSS lite | |||
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Mac, now that is one C O O O O L looking pith helmet! I might just have to get one of those! | |||
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