My silver beard combined with an awesome looking pipe and a classic hat get me a lot of compliments. I'm not a bourbon drinker and I don't own a gun. I used to wear a circle beard for most of my adult life, but converted over to a full beard a couple of years ago. The beard requires less daily upkeep. One great benefit to my beard is that it hides my jowels as my face ages and my skin begins to sag a bit. I turned 60 in July and feel as though I look better today than ever before. A beard, pipe and well chosen hat do wonders for a person's self- esteem.
Speaking of gun safety, I knew a guy who carried one of those little 22 revolvers in a shoulder holster, the type that has no trigger guard. Well, one day he went to pull it out of the shoulder holster, and he managed to shoot himself in the armpit. He said if he had been home alone, he would have probably bled to death, but luckily his girlfriend was there at home with him.
He ended up living, but he had problems with his arm, when he would run the register at work. When he would try to use his index finger to punch the buttons, I told him the way he held his forefinger, he reminded me of E.T. the extra testicle.
Thanks for sharing @RockyMountainBriar Had a friend that pulled out a handkerchief from his Dad's drawer that had just passed away. It happened to be a .22 revolver with the hammer cocked. You guessed it, it went off and found his left knee! 2 surgeries and 7 different pins later he may be able to go golfing by next year. I told him he was lucky it wasn't a 9mm or 38 or 45. It didn't seem to console him at all...
@AnantaAndroscoggin Pretty much but, my neighbor is a meat hunter. She has Licenses for Bow and Arrow, Regular season, and Black Powder in 3 states but, her Black Powder Rifle is a 50 Caliber Hawkins(?). Northern NJ borders NY an PA so a 50 mile Circle around my town touches all 3 States.
@Woodsman - .50-Caliber Hawkins is an assume looking weapon and is a lot different then the .50-Caliber M107 I am use to but it is nevertheless an impressive weapon! I personally have never shot a .50-Cal Hawkins, have you? Just wondering what the recoil is like and what the distance accuracy on that weapon is.
@Charles; I fired one once the kick was about the same as a 12 gauge rifled slug or a load of 00 buck. I couldn't get used to the "hang" of Clack, flash, boom. It was too hard to hold it steady with all that going on.
@Charles@Woodsman - Back in my days as editor of a hunting/fishing magazine, I had one short, heavy set writer (could have played the part of a dwarf in the Lord of the Ring movies) who was a black powder specialist. For a couple of his long rifles, he had a walking stick with a U-bolt on the top that he would use to steady the barrel. He said the barrels were too long for him to steady just holding them.
@Woodsman, that is the distinction between the modern muzzleloader, and the classical muzzleloader. The modern muzzleloader can be dialed in 2 weeks before the season starts, but a patched roundball out of a flintlock, requires year round dedication. Same scenario, between the compound bow, and the classical recurve or longbow.
When we see a hunter consistently successful with the classical weapons, we know that they live and breathe that commitment year round, in order to be successful in most cases.
Guys, I wanted to bump up this thread again because it seems I missed something important to add...hats! Therefore, I updated the title thread and wanted be sure we had the opportunity to share our hats that go with the beards and pipes we sport and I'm sure we will see a wide variety of hats here.
This one is my wool hat that I wear during cool weather and when the sun is low in fall and winter. I like the wide brim for that reason. Oops, no pipe in this shot because I'm not allowed to smoke in the house.
@PappyJoe, I get the feeling you have more than I. To be honest, I never counted how many hats i own. I can guess though. Maybe 13 or 14 caps and around 10 or 12 Fedora's or so.
I am a traditional fedora guy. Been wearing that style for years. I switch over to the straw hats around May and wear them through September. Those are both fedora and boater styles.
Have a black cowboy hat (similar to the one George Strait use to wear) that I use to wear when I was in Texas but haven't wore it since. Not much on caps though.
I'm not big on hats in general, but during the colder months I do wear a watch cap. I would like to think I look a little like Charles Bronson, but I can't afford the Wildey, because they are cost prohibitive, just like medical insurance.
When I ride my bike, I always wear a doo rag with a sweatband inside, as it snugs up the helmet nicely.
I had a friends wife look at me once, and ask me if I always wear a doo rag, because I lost my hair?
I replied by stating that she would make an excellent ex-wife.
I have a head like an NBA basketball. I've walked into those Lids stores in malls (specializing in peaked baseball type caps) and announced, "I'll buy every hat in the store that fits." I've done this three times in three different Lids shops.
Wow so much for the 6 degrees of separation. So as for me no beard, but a mustache though. I do like good Bourbon, Rye, Scotch, and Irish, never did get a taste for beer. Guns like pipes can be a work of art. I love a day of skeet shooting with my family, along with burning a bowl or two together. I have a 12ga over and under, 20ga semi auto, and a 12gs side by side, a 25 auto 9mm, 357 mag, 41 mag, and, 45 acp. As for hats I love a good hat, mostly fedora's. Pipe's I like all aspects of the hobby, the quiet time for contemplation, the different flavor's and smell's and the art of the carver.
I like bourbon and hats, but I'm clean-shaven and about as far from a gun enthusiast as a person could be. I have a single gun in the house, a Sears and Roebuck shotgun I inherited from my grandfather and that I'd like to use for shooting skeet, but I never have been inspired to clean it up and go out to a range.
And, @motie2 I'm a big fan of good rum. Rum you can sip straight up. Cuban is the best if you can get it. Failing that it is hard to go wrong with Barbancourt 8 years old. Very nice. Pretty easy to find, and the hero in Carl Hiassen novels always drinks it.
You are right about Cuban (Can't get it) and Babancourt "rhum" (excellent for a straight up rum) but after extensive taste testing over a several year period, I prefer Jonah's Curse Black Spiced Rum.
I dig pipes, guns, bourbon & hats. The only think keeping me from a full-time beard is the Army. They still kinda frown upon those things. Some day when I retire (probably at 60) I'll grow a beard. At this rate of going gray/white it will be a total Santa beard.
Allow me to disagree with @mseddon about Cuban rum being the best. I find Cuban rum like Cuban cigars to suffer from poor quality control. I personally find Rums from Barbados and some of the other island rum to be better. I put Cuban rums barely a step above Puerto Rican massed produces rums.
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Mossberg 50780 500 Cruiser Shotgun .12 GA 20in with optional stock. Can't wait to take it to the range an try it out!
You get points for all three, buddy.
@Charles, congrats man!
@Charles, nice score!
Speaking of gun safety, I knew a guy who carried one of those little 22 revolvers in a shoulder holster, the type that has no trigger guard. Well, one day he went to pull it out of the shoulder holster, and he managed to shoot himself in the armpit. He said if he had been home alone, he would have probably bled to death, but luckily his girlfriend was there at home with him.
He ended up living, but he had problems with his arm, when he would run the register at work. When he would try to use his index finger to punch the buttons, I told him the way he held his forefinger, he reminded me of E.T. the extra testicle.
Thanks for sharing @RockyMountainBriar Had a friend that pulled out a handkerchief from his Dad's drawer that had just passed away. It happened to be a .22 revolver with the hammer cocked. You guessed it, it went off and found his left knee! 2 surgeries and 7 different pins later he may be able to go golfing by next year. I told him he was lucky it wasn't a 9mm or 38 or 45. It didn't seem to console him at all...
@Woodsman, that is the distinction between the modern muzzleloader, and the classical muzzleloader. The modern muzzleloader can be dialed in 2 weeks before the season starts, but a patched roundball out of a flintlock, requires year round dedication. Same scenario, between the compound bow, and the classical recurve or longbow.
When we see a hunter consistently successful with the classical weapons, we know that they live and breathe that commitment year round, in order to be successful in most cases.
This one is my wool hat that I wear during cool weather and when the sun is low in fall and winter. I like the wide brim for that reason. Oops, no pipe in this shot because I'm not allowed to smoke in the house.
Have a black cowboy hat (similar to the one George Strait use to wear) that I use to wear when I was in Texas but haven't wore it since. Not much on caps though.
I'm not big on hats in general, but during the colder months I do wear a watch cap. I would like to think I look a little like Charles Bronson, but I can't afford the Wildey, because they are cost prohibitive, just like medical insurance.
When I ride my bike, I always wear a doo rag with a sweatband inside, as it snugs up the helmet nicely.
I had a friends wife look at me once, and ask me if I always wear a doo rag, because I lost my hair?
I replied by stating that she would make an excellent ex-wife.
I love the look of a good Fedora
I've never bought a single cap.
Wow so much for the 6 degrees of separation. So as for me no beard, but a mustache though. I do like good Bourbon, Rye, Scotch, and Irish, never did get a taste for beer. Guns like pipes can be a work of art. I love a day of skeet shooting with my family, along with burning a bowl or two together. I have a 12ga over and under, 20ga semi auto, and a 12gs side by side, a 25 auto 9mm, 357 mag, 41 mag, and, 45 acp. As for hats I love a good hat, mostly fedora's. Pipe's I like all aspects of the hobby, the quiet time for contemplation, the different flavor's and smell's and the art of the carver.