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The last one in NYS!

Sometimes conditions, like hunting grouse, dictate I wear moccasins



Went out to birthday dinner with the wife the other evening. Actually put on long pants, long sleeved dress shirt, XXXX Stetson, and a nice pair (for me) of real boots. No tie though, I can't think of conditions that allow for the other guy to get a head start on a hangin'.

When I worked I at times had to wear steel toes. When I use the mower or weed whacker I wear closed toe slip on or lace up shoes/boots. When I hike in the snow I wear appropriate footwear. When I go in the water I will sometimes wear water shoes due to the asshats and their broken bottles at the swimmin' hole. No need for them in my house. No need for any shoes, as we do our best to keep our house danger free.

When it's 95* F outside I don't wear a layer of merino, regular clothes, a set of insulated bibs, wool shirts, wool vest, wool jacket, scarf, beanie hat, and gloves.

When it's - 10*F I don't wear shorts, a t shirt, a ball cap and go barefoot.

When I'm not aboard a floating vessel........................I don't wear a freakin' life vest either.

Shoes/boots are like all other outerwear.........................REAL MEN wear what's appropriate.

Yikes Ed.

Hopefully it wasn't too hurtful.

Does she shake her shoes out in the AM to make sure one of them critters ain't in there already? Learned about that as a kid, camping in the desert with experienced "older folks". Either that or take socks off and turn them over one's boot tops to keep the little bastids out.

We're lucky up here, there are a few and we've even had one get inside the house in the 5+ years we've been here. Not anything like where a relative lives near Lake Havasu. They keep after them with a blacklight in the yard a few times a week and almost always spot some. I think they spray around the base of the house too.

fyp y/w. lol

I've yet to see a time when boots of some sort weren't appropriate except when running shoes/sneekers were called for.

You must live in a very dangerous area!

Bitch, my balls are so big I doubt you could pick em up, wtf you talking about?

Insecure masculinity.


No confidence in his manhood, he has to try and show it in his footwear.


Tragic in a grown up maaa.....male.😂😂😂😂😂😂

You never know what you're going to run into or where you need to go. You leave the yard or get off pavement much you're going to be poking through blackberry brambles, multiflora rose and/or mud and I want boots for that. Just the other day I had the dogs out for a walk around town when a dog came barreling out of somebody's back yard and went after my dog. A swift kick to the ribs changed his mind. I doubt it would have been near as effective with sandals.

Some of us ain't little fat pussies that stay in the house, yard or on pavement all day.

Big FAT pussy then?

Seein' as how I can carry mine around all day, I'm sure the little shriveled nuggets of a croc wearer would be an insignificant addition to my load.

I'm sure you are.

I see this thread got to where it was going

I've got boots, I've got crocs, I've got proud meat, and I don't give two fuggs what anybody thinks of any of it. Didn't think men worried about that kinda [bleep].

Some of you real manly men might try a pleated skirt, lace panties and a tube top to go with your crocs and sandals. I'm sure they'd be cool and comfortable and would make a cute little ensemble as well as making a strong statement of security in manhood. LOL

This is what most of my yard looks like. I go where I want in it, barefoot, sandals, boots, romeos, whatever I happen to be wearing. I worry not about a dog attacking my or my dogs, I'll kick them with whatever I should happen to be wearing, or I have an item accessible (even in town) that is much more effective than a pair of Red Wings.

Wife and I took the dogs up this road, it's no longer got snow on it, yesterday a mile or so to the next section gate. Was talking to the rancher neighbor who moved his cows onto this allotment yesterday after we got home, and while he was up in the area of that gate working fence in preparation for moving the cows on, heard something move behind him only to see a lion skittering away. I have more to worry about with coyotes and lions than I do with dogs and therefor prepare more for them and other possibilities. I've walked up that road barefoot, sandals, boots, LL Bean Mainers, haven't had to use snowshoes yet. And yes, I've walked through sagebrush grasslands more than once barefoot or in moccasins. If I run across a berry patch, or roses, or chaparral that I absolutely have to go through rather than around, I'll take responsibility for poor planning, or I go get proper equipment. I've yet to have anyone chase me through them attempting to take my life. We'll have a shootout before that happens.

"Real men" don't concern themselves with what other men wear.

Damn your a hard headed yankee Blackheart. I whatever I feel like wearing and sometimes I wish I had made a different choice.

Pull your piece to shoot somebody's dog on the sidewalk in town and you're probably going to have an unwanted interaction with the police. A boot to the ribs is preferable when it will suffice and is going to be much more effective than a sandal. We ain't got lions here. We do have bears and coyotes, sometimes even in the yard but generally not in town. You ain't getting far out of the yard here without going through something with thorns, poison ivy and/or mud. I'll stick with boots thanks.