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  1. jkingrph

    wool felt / fur felt difference

    I don't know what difference it would make to the fur/wool whether the animal was alive or dead when being sheared. It would definitely make a difference to the shearer. Imagine trying to shear a live beaver!!
  2. jkingrph

    Akubra Lawson

    I just placed an order for one in Loden from Australian Gear. $133 delivered to Texas, not too bad.
  3. jkingrph

    Camp Ironsights

    Had a buffalo steak once. probably the best I have ever had. My mother found them in an old A&P in West Monroe, La and bought enough for the whole family, and froze them until we all got together. It was probably 35-40 years ago.
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    The Sunday Drive

    I spent a few months at RAF Little Rissington back in 91 when we turned the old all but abandoned training base into a contingency hospital for Desert Storm. We had some personnel housed over at Fairford where were flying B 52 missions against the Iraqi forces. Runways at Little Rissington...
  5. jkingrph

    What Hat Are You Wearing Today 1?

    Last week I was thinking it time to put away my straw hats and bring out the felts. Today we needed to go to town and it was quite warm so I found the one straw types I had not put away, a hemp Arkubra, planters style
  7. jkingrph

    Akubra Banjo Paterson or Angler?

    My first good hats, non western, were a couple of the Banjo Patterson's. I like the Heritage Fawn much more than the grey, mine seems more a charcoal, almost black, so it gets little use. Reading these descriptions makes me want an angler and lightning ridge also,
  8. jkingrph

    Show us your Guns!

  9. jkingrph

    Show us your Guns!

    Mine is IC/M. I did learn to shoot skeet with it. Over there we could buy skeet ammo, pay for a round of skeet, sell the empties to some of the Turkish employees( who resold them on the economy) and wind up shooting a round for the grand sum of $1.00-1.50 depending on the gauge you used...
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    Show us your Guns!

    I have one of those, 20 ga also, that I picked up at the Izmir, Turkey NATO rod and gun club back in 1973. Mine is still all original, no recoil pad. It is one of the best handling shotguns I have.
  11. jkingrph

    Something wrong at HatsDirect??

    I just tried their website, everything but the products page works.
  13. jkingrph

    Wearing a fedora when it's windy

    I have chased one across a parking lot a couple of times, but never lost one or had one damaged.
  14. jkingrph

    Show us your Guns!

    I got one of the Browning BPCR in 45-70 some years back. It's fun shooting, and creating loads with these big BP bullets. My favorite is a 535 gr Postell, it just seems to shoot better than anything else I have tried. As for the 30-06 , or Cal .30 US, dad got me my first centerfire when I...
  15. jkingrph

    Show us your Guns!

    I totally agree. As I am getting older and a little more recoil sensitive, I like my 6.5x55, with the long 160 gr round nose better and better along with the 7x57 with a similar 175 gr bullet. There is not a lot of frontal area but plenty of penetration.
  16. jkingrph

    Show us your Guns!

    My father's old employer had one of those. I remember seeing it a couple of times back in the mid 60's when hunting with him. At the time I was not impressed with either the cartridge or the gun, thinking the gun ugly and cartridge underpowered although he took his share of deer with it...
  17. jkingrph

    Show us your Guns!

    I may be getting an old Remington 1100LT 20 ga. My sister took it in trade as a partial payment for a travel trailer and I brought it home yesterday to clean up. A bit of Hoppes and some spray carb cleaner flushed all kind of gunk out. It looks like it had not been cleaned in 20 years. Metal...
  19. jkingrph

    All You Need to Know About Hat Etiquette

    This time of year during the daytime, I always have a straw hat. During cold weather regardless of the hour it's always a felt. In church it comes off when I enter the building, if in court, when I enter the actual courtroom. In any restaurant if there is a place to safely place it I will...
  20. jkingrph

    Akubra Overload

    I have several of the Campdrafts, two in silverbelly. One has classic center dent, the other a teardrop pinch. I sweat so bad I cannot see wearing felt here in E. Texas, especially with the humidity we have. This time of year it is a straw fedora with a heavily ventilated crown.
  21. jkingrph

    Leather Satchel, Natural Bridle Question

    Look at saddlebackleather.com. Their bags are of heavy saddle leather lined with pigskin. Downside is that they are rather pricy, and more of a rustic look than formal dressy. I have found some of their satchels at very good prices, compared to the retail , and the one I got shows...
  22. jkingrph

    Fragility of wool trousers

    Back in the mid 60's while in college I got a pair of 100% wool trousers in a sharkskin weave from Sears Roebuck. They honestly were one of the sharpest looking pair I have ever had, and wore very well. I probably wore them 15 years until I had gained enough weight where they no longer fit.
  23. jkingrph

    How do folks react to your hat wearing?

    Over the course of the last ten days I have had two strong verbal compliments. One a gentlemen commenting and liking my Arkbura hemp the other a lady liking my ventilated high grade Panama, saying it reminded her of her late husband and his hat wearing habit and style.

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