A lot of hunters used to wear the Bean boots down South, too, because so much of the woods are either soaked with dew, or boggy marsh. Bird hunting, when the frost is really heavy at 20 degrees or so, then melts as the sun gets higher, you need shoes and trousers that will not get soaked in the broom straw and blackberry patches.
And I hunters in the Midwest wearing them in deep snow; older hunters, that is.
Younger hunters seem to not wear them at all.
I just wondered if those who wear them are die hard LL Bean, or have tried the Cabela's, which don't look as nice to me.
