What do you think of using a pith helmet for going innawoods in the south? I've heard that they're meant to keep you cool in hot environments. Is that true?
What do you think of using a pith helmet for going innawoods in the south...
Evan Brown
Ryder Myers
You'll look like a tool.
Gavin Wood
Everyone without one will look like a tool
Adrian Moore
you will see others as tools
Christopher Green
It's a useful tool for putting in some water and pretending it's a little boat. Toot toot.
Carson Hernandez
For best results, you need a monacle, large moustache, and a double barrel rifle in .600 Nitro express.
Brody Brooks
I say!
Sounds like a splendid old time!
Jeremiah Wright
Jeremiah Price
Based & Vanpeltpilled.
Jackson Flores
>when fudd converts to the dark side
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Camden Gray
is that a SPAS 15 with a drum mag?
Jason Martin
it's a usas 12 with a big ass scope, a drum mag, and a suppressor
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Nathaniel Kelly
>You're not a postal worker are you?
Damn those where simpler times of gun lunacy
Easton Morris
So fuckin bye bye to his shoulder then
Oliver Martin
Know where I could find one?
>definitely not a postal worker
Julian Moore
the cheapest one on gunbroker is almost 4 grand
it'd probably be cheaper just to get an actual elephant gun
>I've heard that they're meant to keep you cool in hot environments. Is that true?
Yes. They're made of cork and you're supposed to soak them in water before you wear them so the water will evaporate as you wear it, thus keeping your noggin cool. A good American alternative is sometimes worn in the military and called an elephant hat, though I don't think it's made of cork.
If you search pith hats up on youtube, you'll find brits innocuously unboxing and discussing the hats and nigs saying it's racist to wear one at all.
Christian Peterson
go for it and ignore this faggot
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Connor Reyes
The fuck is an elephant hat
Also do you have a citation for that custom? First I've ever heard of it and I'm quite well read on the subject of colonial warfare
Angel Cooper
Not the same guy but it's a pretty common thing I think. Probably wouldn't be mentioned in warfare writings since it was more of an administrators thing. You're out in these boiling countries trying to manage infrastructure and everything, you need something to keep your head cool and stop yourself going doolally
Hunter Perez
The M1877 pith helmet was standard issue for British soldiers in hot climates right up to WW1. (Also for German soldiers).
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Gavin Allen
kek
Aaron Robinson
Was a USMC range instructor in Okinawa. Can confirm, they have allow for some good airflow, but as everyone in this thread has stated; you will look like a tool, every one else will look like a tool, because everyone in this thread is a tool.
Gavin Clark
>You're out in these boiling countries trying to manage infrastructure and everything, you need something to keep your head cool and stop yourself going doolally
That makes sense. But use your brain, bro: have you ever seen a cork soak up water? They don't absorb shit, they just float. Either the story is bullshit or the helmets are made of something other than normal "cork". Maybe they had some kind of a liner which absorbed water?
Thomas Reed
As far as I know you had to fully submerge the hat for a little while so it could absorb the water. The fact that cork isn't too absorbent actually works in it's favour for this, because it stops the structural integrity of the hat being fucked about with, since only the top layer of cork absorbs it. (Also real pith hats are usually made from Sholapith, a type of spongey plant matter)
Owen Turner
>British combat fedora
They will not magically keep you cooler than a synthetic boonie hat but they can protect you from coconuts. Get something light with a brim that dries quickly.
Bentley Lee
Vietnam still issues them.
Colton Brooks
He rooks rike a toor
Matthew Bell
Carson Lewis
Pith helmets are really practical
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Gabriel Powell
So gay that the USMC still uses them
Chase Jones
>elephant hat
Jacob Russell
>be me
>innawoods in rural south
>walking property line
>see wild Fudd accidentally trespassing while flushing quail
>NAPviolated.jpg
>raise Martini Henry and aim for blaze orange
>480 grain bullet bisects him
>small trees blown over, grass flattened, briars flying
>Boer War flashbacks initiate
>state police arrive, neighbor 3 miles away reports it as meth lab explosion
>get wasted by 15 troopers mag dumping me as I writh on ground to the memories of Majuba Hill
Jaxson Hill
Just wear a boonie hat you autismo fuckwad
Aiden Edwards
>Pickelhaube AND pith helmet
>Pithelhaube
Wyatt Wilson
Underrated
Robert Perez
its hilarious that jumanji has a imfdb page
Levi Evans
My grandpa was a dairy farmer in Texas and he always wore some type of plastic pith helmet.
Caleb Gray
Vietnam style is better since it sits lower and has a wider brim. Very fashionable as well I can see why they kept them.
James Foster
Mysides
Jacob Smith
But boonie hats aren't kino
Jayden Anderson
Based
Isaac Fisher
Oh look, it's fucking boonie bob.