I have always been partial to the "booney" style hats for out in the field, (when wearing modern hunting clothes) the wrap around brim keeps sunlight at dawn or sunset from coming into my eyes at an angle which the baseball caps did not.... BUT this year I noticed that numerous injuries to my neck now means cold air and such on the back of my neck causes my arthritis to flare, and with it at times not being cold enough for me to wear a muffler or turtle neck I have gone with a blaze orange fishing hat that has a back flap. I got it rather large so that I can wear a fleece skull cap under it in cold weather. Cutting that breeze helps a lot.
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Now I'm using this:
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Too late for me. I used to get neck burns with my favorite boonie hats all the time when fishing. I hunted ducks mostly, but in 1988 bought some hunting land and did terrorize the deer and hog populations there.
I still have that land, but mostly hunt where we've moved 100 miles from there. I haven't been down there in years. But, it was fishing and motorcycling that forced me to go to the dermatologist regularly in my old age, got an appointment tomorrow. I've had surgeries on my face and neck taking off various squamous and basal cell cancers and one melanoma that was successfully removed along with half my nose. They did some surgery to patch THAT up, but I have this bump on my nose, now, and stitch marks on my face and numbness that bothers me. I could have used a hat with neck coverage like that hat for all those years on the bay. You live and learn.
Today, I wear wide brim stuff, camo. I have a western hat that's camo that I like, sorta Ted Nugent style, and I have a vented (mesh around the top to allow air flow) camo wide brim summer hat and I wear one of these when I go out the door. I have a boonie hat rolled up in a cargo pocket just in case I forget the hat, I'll have SOMEthing. I think I'm in the beginnings of dementia, have this forgetfulness and memory problem that's not been getting better.
Fortunately, in Texas, we have no orange law. I camo out for hunting. Really don't matter in a box blind, though.
I hunt private land. We don't have much public hunting and what we have is a joke. Most of the public land we DO have has orange rules and, frankly, you'd be an idiot NOT to wear orange some the places I've seen. It was 35 years ago when I hunted public, until I had my own land or for a while I was in a private hunting club. I never actually killed a hog or deer on public land. The only decent land they had was for waterfowl. THAT was great, but of course there was no orange law on ducks.