Home Forums Hunting & Shooting Elk Hunting Boot chains or crampons? Favorite brands and why?

If you really want 4x4 traction on ice or slippery vegetated surfaces. Carbides on top, regular logger caulks on bottom. Hoffman's Boots in Idaho does them.



I've used the CMI Instep Crampons on top of rubber boots for more edge grip.



Just about cracked my skull open using climbing crampons in the woods. Those spikes got hung up on some root tendrils and I went ass-over-teakettle pretty bad - never again.