It was actually just one boar and one bowler (or derby), but that didn't seem like as catchy of a title...

Doug and I did a little hog hunting yesterday. Sneaking up a half-dry creek bed, Doug found this one resting the afternoon away at about 20-yards. One .475 (Turnbull, of course) between the eyes ended his worldly worries.

Nice boar, great teeth and a proper stalk.

Good for you. Nice piggy

NIce Cutters!

Great Pig! Isn't that hot meant for warmer temps? It's making my head sweat just looking at it!

Nice rifle nice pig. No comment on the hat

Chris, Ask Doug about his rifle he took on a filmed hunt in Alaska, that would slam-fire every time he closed the lever. Made for some interesting footage!!!

Well Done.

Nice Boar. Where did you get that hat? You wouldn't catch me dead in a hat like that.

Got me thinking, I could go for a brown derby.
Some do have their pet rifles, and pet hats too, eh?
Jolly good show!



Bowler hat
From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

The bowler hat, also known as a coke hat, derby (US) or billycock,[1] is a hard felt hat with a rounded crown originally created in 1849 for Edward Coke, the younger brother of the 2nd Earl of Leicester.[2]

History

The bowler hat was devised in 1849 by the London hatmakers Thomas and William Bowler to fulfill an order placed by the firm of hatters Lock & Co. of St James's. Lock & Co. had been commissioned by a customer to design a close-fitting, low-crowned hat to protect his gamekeepers' heads from low-hanging branches while on horseback. The keepers had previously worn top hats, which were easily knocked off and damaged. It was also hoped that the new style of hat would protect the keepers if they were attacked by poachers. Lock & Co. then commissioned the Bowler brothers to solve the problem. While most accounts state that the customer was William Coke, a nephew of the 1st Earl of Leicester, recent research has cast some doubt on this, and it is now believed that it was instead Edward Coke, the younger brother of the 2nd Earl of Leicester.[2]
Women in El Alto wearing Bowler hats

When Coke arrived in London on 17 December 1849 to collect his hat he reportedly placed it on the floor and stamped hard on it twice to test its strength; the hat withstood this test and Coke paid 12 shillings for it.[3] In accordance with Lock & Company's usual practice, the hat was called the "Coke" (pronounced “cook”) hat after the customer who had ordered it, and this is most likely why the hat became known as the "Billy Coke" or "Billycock" hat in Norfolk.

Contrary to popular belief, it was the bowler and not the cowboy hat that was the most popular hat in the American West, prompting Lucius Beebe to call it "the hat that won the West."[4]





By Fred Belinsky, VillageHatShop.com

When you picture Laurel and Hardy, Charlie Chaplin, a Rene Magritte work of art, the four major characters in Samuel Beckett's "Waiting for Godot", or a well dressed British banker, a bowler hat, known also as a derby, almost certainly comes to mind. The bowler, perhaps like no other hat before or since, stands unambiguously as a symbol for an age, a passage in western civilization.

The bowler hat was created in 1850 for an English game warden, James Coke. It was intended as a riding hat that Mr. Coke could count on for hard hat protection as he rode his steed through his protectorate looking out for poachers. It soon became, as Fred Miller Robinson wrote in The Man in the Bowler Hat: His History and Iconography, " . . . an emblem through the then-incredible changes that industrialism was engendering-----but as an emblem of many things, a sign of the times. It became clear to me very early on that I was studying modern life by tracing the meanings of this sign. And more, I was gaining a perspective on modern life that was fair to people's real experience of it."

A look at who was wearing bowler hats, from the mid-19th Century onward, tells a lot about the this style's resonance as a symbol for its time. Again, Professor Robinson, "As more and more bowler-hatted figures turned up in my study, they seemed to express something textured and true about la vie moderne. Gamekeepers, squires, street vendors, omnibus drivers, counterjumpers, bankers, union men, women on horseback and in cabaret acts, detectives and hanging judges, dictators and bums---all of these seemed more important in their relations than in their variety, however elusive those relations and seemingly random that variety." The variety, of course, is significant.

Hats had always denoted rank in society-for example, gentlemen wore top hats (and cocked hats before top hats) while the lower social strata wore cloth caps (picture Dickens' street urchins). Everyman (and woman too if she was so inclined to push the social-fashion envelope) was wearing a bowler. Whether the wearer was making a statement about his liberation, or being glib or ironic, the fact is that both the union man and the banker wore the same hat. Something important was being conveyed through this simple article of headwear. As each of us who has ever put on any hat knows, one cannot place this apparel article on one's head totally unselfconsciously. The bowler hat marked a change, and the "modern man" by wearing one, wanted the world to know that he was part of it.

I think Odd Job wore a "bowler".

I like a Fedora myself.

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Originally posted by Biebs:
Chris, Ask Doug about his rifle he took on a filmed hunt in Alaska, that would slam-fire every time he closed the lever. Made for some interesting footage!!!

That is what happens when you have to light a trigger pull ad=nd very little engagement, and then get stuff under and in the sear knotch, it followed through. Changed it out with one that had more engagement and about 3.5-4# pull. now no problems at all.

Nicely done Doug and Chris!

Here's where I buy my hats. Limpia Creek Hats

I prefer Stetsons.
Lessee if this works:
www.stetsonhats.com
or
http://www.stetsonhat.com/
Their currently offered XXXX Buffalo fur felt hats would do.

"Bat Masterson" only in black, looks a lot like Doug Turnbull's bowler:



"Austral" in "bark" (brown) ... could get the brim rolled like a derby, close enough.



I didn't find pictures of my old Stetsons from
the 70's and 80's:
Smoke Brown colored "Revenger"
Sand (light gray) colored "Duke"
both with cavalry acorns of course.

Back to big bores for big boars now ...

Good boar.

Good hat, too.