African Hats

[Kano383]

Get a hat that protects your neck. Either wide-brimmed, or with longer brim at the rear. Ball caps are as useful as non-alcoholic beer.

As for quality, Tilley. Light, indestructible, dozens of models for all tastes, that's the only hat that has a tag "Get the same next time" in my books. Living and hunting in Africa since the eighties, I've tried almost everything, and never got a "return" hat till I bought a Tilley 7-8 years ago.

 

[The Optimist]

In Botswana I wore a bush hat and an Akubra. The bush hat was lighter, but the Akubra offered much more protection from the sun.

 

[Nkawu]

I work in the African sun for a living and alternate between the Rogue wide brim hat with the mesh side that lets air in, and a floppy boonie type with quite a large coverage. A good hat is an essential bit of kit.

 

[RescueMe0007]

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In the name of God, who noticed the hat???

 

[RescueMe0007]

Nope…… but it definitely needs a bigger brim to provide enough protection. In the interim period I’d be more than willing to offer a temporary coating of factor 30!

Yes, indeed, factor thirty, needs to be applied liberally and frequently!

 

[Morkai]

Not that I know anything about hunting in Africa but checked out Rogue hats after seeing them mentioned in here.

Got myself a Rogue 110p Old Suede, its pretty nice.

Just giving it some shape back after a battering from the logistics firm.

 

[finnbear270]

I'm a budding Phrenologist, could I feel her bumps?

 

[Stalker62]

Following on from @Stalker1962 's tread on boots...

A typo I would be delighted to own...

 

[bullet chucker]

In the name of God, who noticed the hat???

She was wearing a HAT!

BC.

 

[stevec]

A year on - I got a Barmah squashy hat. Very happy with it, Gets worn every day, keeps the sun and rain off and rolls up. Shades your eyes well also

 

[stevec]

Although I don’t think I saw anyone in Africa wearing anything other than bucket hats or baseball caps

 

[Heym SR20]

Downside of baseball caps is that they give no protection to back of neck. It’s why Rhodesian troopies and French Foreign Legion all wore caps with a flap that rolled down over back of neck.

Personally I hate wearing sunscreen- I am much more comfortable wearing loose long sleeved clothing a good wide brimmed hat and keeping out of the midday sun. That’s for mad dogs and Englishmen.