For summer, assuming we ever have summer again before the glaciers start moving south, my new straw chapeau from Montecristi Custom Hat Works in Santa Fe. The band is a custom hand-painted piece I picked up at End of Trail a few years ago. Montecristi makes a wicked straw fedora, too...
Nice hat.
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now that's a dandy hat...
ReplyDeleteNice Hat MB. What's the name of that hat shop just off the plaza? A little late commenting on your Santa Fe food tour, but that is one of my favorite cities for food, and I do agree that The Shed is at the top of my list as well. The 11 hour drive from North Central Texas is well worth it!
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Great lid.
ReplyDeleteTheir fedoras are superb.
Now that's a hat!
ReplyDeleteNow that's a cunning hat....
ReplyDeleteInsanely jealous - so I gotta find something negative to say about it. Ah, here we go: isn't it likely to blow away in a stiff breeze, being straw and all? Catch fire easily?
ReplyDeleteI like it!
ReplyDeleteCareful Michael you might be misidentified as a Texan or New Mexican.... Oh wait that wouldn't be a bad thing!!! Nice choice in head gear. Hope you all see good weather by early May. Since I have to trek across country to be in Ft. Collins for 3 months come next year.
ReplyDeleteAnon...you're thinking of O'Farrell Hats, just off the Square. My friend Kevin O'Farrell died a couple of years back, but his superb hat company lives on. Definitely one of the top cowboy hat companies on earth!
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Check out the O'Farrell #168...Kevin always told me I shoulda bought one when I could have afforded it...
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All this talk about the hat and no one asks about the gun in the pic (sigh)???!!!
ReplyDeleteThat sure is a purdy lever gun ya got there, pard.
Please tell us more about it.
It's a Cimarron 1873 "Brush Popper" in .357 Magnum, half-octagonal half-round barrel, with a full-house short-stroke and action job from Long Hunter:http://www.longhunt.com/
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It's my main cowboy match gun and is one of the slickest lever guns I've ever shot.
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Michael, What brass-powder-bullet combination are you shooting in the '73?
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RE: ammo...
ReplyDeletecowboy stuff...158 gr RNFP LaserCast bullets over Alliant Red Dot, because it's been available at a pretty good price recently. Also real accurate at cowboy velocities. I load in .357 cases...most are Starline, but I've accumulated a lot of mixed lot .357 over the years, which I use as my practice brass...
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Prefer Federal small pistol primers, but, hey, you take what you get these days...
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