Where appropriate nothing better - sized with felt liners plenty warm enough - extra felt liners are nice - for both work and hunting - but not for hiking. Good for birds but not for packing out after a successful deer or bigger hunt.

No doubt Goretex liners and oversocks work just fine for similar applications as well.

Forced to choose just one I'd go with quality Danners to do things the Maine Hunting Show won't but I'm not forced to choose.

Mostly I'm still annoyed that L.L. Bean stopped saying Maine Hunting and started calling them Bean Boots a long time ago. Then too I got annoyed at the common use of Velcro on what would otherwise have been prime hunting clothes from Bean. Is Bean hunter friendly these days or still catering to the puffy jacketed campus crowd?