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Muck Woody Max for bow and turkey season.
Protect WYDAHO fish and game, fence out Utah.
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One day around 20 years ago a group of marketing guys were sitting around brain storming, trying to figure out a way to expand the market for rubber boots beyond commercial fisherman, farmers, gardeners, etc....you know people who actually need them. The lightbulb goes off and one of them says "Hey, how bout hunters....they are a gullible lot who will buy any damn thing"! "Here is the ticket....we camo em up and convince hunters that they will help them kill deer! A naysayer says "wait a second, I remember from freshman biology that deer are color blind animals....they will never buy it!" "Nah" says the first guy, "hunters already buy millions of dollars of expensive camo outerwear to hunt colorblind animals with.....they don't care! Okay then, get Bill Jordan on the phone and order some of his camo patterns. A third genius pipes up "we need a few articles in hunting magazines about "scent control"....get a few of those guys on the blower"!
So, they painted their boots camo, tripled the price and put them in Bass Pro and Cabelas...the rest is history! Even sweeter is the fact that the boots are made in China costing them about $10 per pair and they sell them for over $100!
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I gather, by your sardonicism, that you're not a fan of rubber boots.
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Back in the day when we had quail, all the bird hunters wore that style of boot but as I recall they were Red Ball. It was a lot more than twenty years ago. miles
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One day around 20 years ago a group of marketing guys were sitting around brain storming, trying to figure out a way to expand the market for rubber boots beyond commercial fisherman, farmers, gardeners, etc....you know people who actually need them. The lightbulb goes off and one of them says "Hey, how bout hunters....they are a gullible lot who will buy any damn thing"! "Here is the ticket....we camo em up and convince hunters that they will help them kill deer! A naysayer says "wait a second, I remember from freshman biology that deer are color blind animals....they will never buy it!" "Nah" says the first guy, "hunters already buy millions of dollars of expensive camo outerwear to hunt colorblind animals with.....they don't care! Okay then, get Bill Jordan on the phone and order some of his camo patterns. A third genius pipes up "we need a few articles in hunting magazines about "scent control"....get a few of those guys on the blower"!
So, they painted their boots camo, tripled the price and put them in Bass Pro and Cabelas...the rest is history! Even sweeter is the fact that the boots are made in China costing them about $10 per pair and they sell them for over $100!
Hunters around here have been wearing them for a lot more than 20 years. Of course they didn't know they needed the camo ones back then.
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Should have mentioned that the farmers and dairy men wore the old Black gum boots that pushed your socks to the ends of your toes. miles
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I bought a pair of Muck boots about six years ago and absolutely love them. I have hiked pretty long distances in them over rugged terrain and do not feel that they are inferior to lace-up boots if you hunt on the move. If you hunt areas that may have swamps, sloughs or creeks they are far superior to lace-ups. These boots are far from a marketing gimmick.
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Ummmm, what do you and RJY do when you come to a swamp?
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Spend a day still hunting this and you will wish you had them. LaCrosse alpha work just fine. ![[Linked Image]](http://i242.photobucket.com/albums/ff242/toby0223/P1000036.jpg) ![[Linked Image]](http://i242.photobucket.com/albums/ff242/toby0223/P1000038.jpg) ![[Linked Image]](http://i242.photobucket.com/albums/ff242/toby0223/mypictures008-1.jpg)
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laissez les bons temps rouler
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best hunting boots money can buy ![[Linked Image]](http://i25.tinypic.com/2rxjz7r.jpg) Nice..........
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The closest I ever came to frostbite was caused by rubber boots. I was hunting in a foot of snow on a clear, warm day. By noon, my feet were wet with sweat. Then a front moved in, the temp dropped at least 20 degrees or more and my wet feet started to get cold. REAL cold. I had a 2 mile hike back to the truck where I could get them dried out.
Gore-tex is much better but a long way from perfect. Your feet will stay dry, but the insulation is on the OUTSIDE of the membrane and it will get soaked. Your feet will be dry but inside a tub of ice water. I've never figured out why they can't put the insulation on the inside of the membrane.
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Ummmm, what do you and RJY do when you come to a swamp? If I could clarify.... I was mostly having fun in that post yesterday morning. If you are going to be mucking through lowlands and snow on a regular basis, certainly a pair of rubber boots are called for. Just don't pay extra for camo if you are going to be deer hunting, the olive green ones are fine....haha! It is the "scent control" aspect of wearing them I am dubious on and was poking fun at. If ya'll are worried about the deer smelling your footprints on a trail here is an idea regardless of what type of footwear you choose to use. Scrub your feet in the dirt and leaves on the forest floor before you begin your hunt.....all the better if you find a downed tree in the process of decay. Voila! "Fresh earth" cover scent!
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I live in farm country and there used to be a man that lived here that would keep an oil squirt can full of diesel and he would spray a little on his boots before walking to his stand. He killed some nice deer. miles
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i use the woody armor by MUCK. I have no complaints. I prefer them to lace up because they are slip off and on and waterproof all the way up!
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So, they painted their boots camo, tripled the price and put them in Bass Pro and Cabelas...the rest is history! Even sweeter is the fact that the boots are made in China costing them about $10 per pair and they sell them for over $100!
Problem with your little theroy is.... mine aren't camo.
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I always get a kick when at the gas station at 0 dark thirty and I see guys heading to the woods that are wearing their rubber 'scent free' boots while gassing up their truck.
I used to wear rubber boots when I did a lot of hunting from box stands, but now the very rough terrain that I hunt plus the long hike in requires a good leather boot.
Boots like the alpha burly have thei place and work well BUT you have to do your part to actually help reduce sent. Only wear them in the woods, store them in a garbage bag or big tuppaware container with some sort of natural sents ie pine branches, leafs and what not. I do this with my hunting clothes and don't buy any of that scent lock stuff. Its an old trick handed down from my wifes grandfather and I think it works better than any of the scent control stuff.
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Yes. Sometimes when I am just walking to a stand. I figure they smell less than the leather. I try to find cow piles either way. Seems like the most natural cover scent where I hunt.
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Ummmm, what do you and RJY do when you come to a swamp? If I could clarify.... I was mostly having fun in that post yesterday morning. If you are going to be mucking through lowlands and snow on a regular basis, certainly a pair of rubber boots are called for. Just don't pay extra for camo if you are going to be deer hunting, the olive green ones are fine....haha! It is the "scent control" aspect of wearing them I am dubious on and was poking fun at. Ahhhh, 10-4.
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I'll also add that in addition the the LaCrosse boots I have, I also like the lighter insulated Bean boots. Very comfortable and you'd be surprised how quiet they can be while still hunting.
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