Rare Specimen hat trouble

I grabbed the hat from the cargo crate and now I’m in the room with the giant teleporter column with numbered portals and rotating platforms.
The problem comes when I try to go through the portals with the hat. Whenever the hat goes through the first portal and lands on a platform, I can’t pick it up. I can shoot it, and I can give it a good whack, but I cannot actually hold it unless it falls off the platform and onto the floor, at which point I can pick it up again. I have tried throwing it through the portal instead, I’ve tried waiting a bit after I send it through before heading in myself, but I continue to have this problem.
Any help would be greatly appreciated.

Totally normal for the current version of BM. It will probably be easier in the next update, some people have managed to obtain the achievment in the current conditions, however.

The issue has been addressed and should be fixed in future versions.

I managed to do it, but it’s tricky. I believe jumping in sideways (so you and the hat pass through at the same time) can help you get the odds in your favor…

Jump sideways eh? I have never been able to get it, but now I may try again.

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