I attend a lot of various club sponsored, organized hunt events, or instructional events and these are typically given out by the vendors (mostly Minelab, but I have a collection of XP, Garrett, Whites, and Tesoro merch, also) alone or with gift bags, often regardless of whether or not you actually are a paid participant in the main event. It is starting to get a little ridiculous. If these actually sell, I may put my "collection" up for grabs. For freebies, the hats are actually decent quality since they are the same ones sold at retail prices. Good luck. No sense in them sitting around collecting dust.