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I know many folks despise hip boots, but assuming you were going to use Lacross hip boots for a Sept hunt…would you get insulated or non- insulated?

I usually get the insulated. I use them fishing and spend hours standing in water. Unless you run pretty hot blooded, the insulated ones should be comfortable. I prefer hip boots for most of my fall hunting. But I’ve spent so many years wearing them every day, I am used to having them on.

When I use to wear hip boots for hunting I always wore the insulated version and the LaCrosse Big Chiefs were my go too boot. I've since changed to wearing knee high LaCrosse Alpha Burly's as I just sweat too much in hip boots, been wearing them for about 5-6 years now and am on my 2nd pair and when it's time to get some new ones I may get the uninsulated versions.

I lived in waders or hip boots when I was a fishing guide. Grew to really hate them, then breathable waders got developed and I will never go back. Still have the neoprene booty to contend with but some of the sweat is wicked away. I would go breathable hippers and a hiking style of wading boot.

If you go insulated go light 200 grams or at the very most 400. I prefer adjusting with heavier socks and foot bed inserts when it is warmer. If I knew I would be in the water mostly then more insulation would help.

40 years so far with Lacrosse ankle fit uninsuled hipboots. 90% of the time they are rolled down on my calves, I can see breathable waders for Cordova type country and the giant bear swamp in the Cinder River region.

none. If you're putting in lots of miles walking none ,,much more comfortable

"AirBob" Soles if they still offer them. Best traction in a rubber or viburnum boot..

Insulated.

Most hip boots are quiet a lot of waders are swish swish when you go through brush good luck calling and stalking moose with them!

I never got into the hip waders, as I was more wet from sweat than I would have been from water. I bought some Alpha Burley's 2 years ago, after wearing out a pair of Mucks. I like the Alpha's quite a bit more than the old Mucks.

Wearing insulated hipboots on an early September moose hunt seems dumb to me, but uninsulated would be only slightly less awful.

I wear good, high waterproof hiking boots and carry a pair of Neos over-shoe waders to slip on over my hiking boots when it gets too deep.

Just ordered the Lacrosse Men's Alphaburly Pro Side-Zip 18" 1000G (Not sure about the side-zip thing, but at my age it will make extraction easier, Ill endure any possible dampness).

Hopefully they wont leak but i've been wearing the non-zip version for years now and I'm glad I made the switch from hip boots.

I've got 4 or 5 pair of Lacrosse "Burly Boots" some from when they first started producing them. Some are getting rotten, and need to be modified to "Camp Slippers". I think they have been making the Burley Boot for about 35'ish years. Good boots for most Alaska applications, but not floatplane bush pilot applications.

For Moose hunts in Ontario and Newfoundland I went with non-insulated hip boots, however I was glad to bring rubber knee boots along. I found out that about 80% of the time I could use the knee boots, which were way more comfortable than hip boots.

Muck boots did not hold up well for me, so the last two hunts I used my chore boots. Servus 15" knee boots and they worked great.

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