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Crispi’s and Meindl’s for the mountains and scrub hills.

Meindl Comfort Fit Hunters for me 400 grams.

Have an old pair of Browning leather/cordura w/goretex and 800gr thinsulate that I can't let go of.
No tread left so I only wear them when doing chores in winter.
20 years old or so and the most comfy boot I've ever owned.

Thinsulate

Shirley you can’t be serious 🤣

Pair of NIB Schnees 10” pacs recently sold in the classifieds for $180.

Sweet hope

Hope they’re size 14

Just the cheapest neoprene rubber boots I can find. A cold morning around here during hunting season will be in the 20s for a few hours, so I don’t need super warm boots. More mud and water to worry about than anything else. And the cheap ones are lighter and more flexible than the more expensive Muck boots I own. If I’m just messing around, I’ll wear a pair of Redwing Moc toe boots I have or some Army Desert boots.

Vintage 1990's Rocky Cornstalkers. Pre gummy soles, of course.

The vintage Corbstalker were fine boots. Noit sure how they are now. Back in the 90s, they were very good boots

Another vote for Crispi here. Wyomings and now Valdres work great for my wide feet & suspect ankles.

I shipped in several models from blackovis.com, and sent back the ones that didn’t work.

FC

Muck

I had a pair of those Cornstalkers that the sole rotted off of, just turn soft and fell all to pieces. Money down the drain. I have a pair of 8" high leather top Goretex Rockies now of some model that I can't remember that I'll wear rarely when it's cold and wet. Usually if I'm going to be walking much I use the Danner 452 GTX Hikers. Most comfortable that I've ever found. If I'm hunting on my little scope of woods I usually just wear some of my older sneakers unless it's really wet. I'm not a big game hunter and rough terrain guy, just a flatlander mild weather squirrel hunter. I like the stiff sole on the hiking boots when the ground is rocky or has lots of stubs and exposed roots.

Up in the sierras or in Nevada for chukar, I wear a pair of Crispi boots with a very stiff sole. Especially if I am wearing a pack.
Dinking around in lowlands or just carrying a shotgun for a few hrs. I wear a pear of Rocky lace up wedge boots. Same as I wear at work.
Duck hunting the flooded rice I wear knee high rubber boots. Obviously, depends on what you're doing.

Miss them 80s Browning Kangaroos I had.

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My first pair that self destructed came apart with
me way out in the middle of a large maize field
hunting. Very rough walk ( hobble) back to the truck.
They replaced those with a new identical pair
that self destructed after one bow season.
They wouldn't even talk about it after that.
Must have been a major problem to see all the
online postings about the identical problem in
very different regions

Had either 3 or 4 pairs total that crumbled

Have a pair of Rocky Deerstalkers from around 2000 that the soles fell apart just like the Cornstalkers. Called Rocky but the boots were no longer made, so they sent me a new pair of soles. Had a local cobbler put the soles on and still wear the boots today.

Mine were just sitting in the closet. Being insulated I would only wear them when it turned cold and time wise they saw little use. Soles just crumbled to pieces. I had some Timberlands before them, the leather tops fell apart. They were outlasted by a cheapo Lake of the Woods set with molded on soles. I wore those to work until the soles disintegrated but the nylon and gore tex top never leaked. A friend of mine gave me a pair of Timberland mock toe shoes that he bought that didn't fit him well. I had them a short time and they started coming apart. Timberland didn't impress me much.

I had a pair of Red Wings chukka boots that I wore to work; I came home one night with all cake with mud and gravel so I left them on the back porch to dry out so that I could bash the dirt off the next day. The next day one was gone. I don't know what got it but I had to buy new boots. I bet the neighbors across the woods heard me cussin'.

She look like she could help keep you warm in a cot in a cabin in the north during a blizzard. But judging by those knees, once the elastic, slimming under garments come off, she's going to have more creases and fold than an origami winged dragon.

Chick's that fat aught to have way bigger tits than that....just saying what everyone is thinking