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I have two sets of Carl Dyer moccasins. One high top and one called the Canoe style low top. I wore these a lot at the Muzzle loading shoots and Rendezvous during the 70's and 80's. I took them, roughed up the sole a little with sand paper and after chopping up a whole bag of rubber bands with a chefs knife on a cutting board, I would put rubber cement on the soles and completely cover with the chopped rubber bands and press them onto the sole with latex glove. They lasted many years. I still use the high tops I use for hunting if it's not too cold. This is just one idea you might try. Here is a link to the place where I got mine. You can order single or double bottoms, or used to be able to. Carl Dyer's Moccasins
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Never tried hunting in moccassins. Pretty wet most places here where I hunt in PA. Like the idea though.
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Glacier__John Read your story on moccasins with interest.I would like to share a story of an old trapper I knew back in the 50's , who ran a trap line in northern Canada during the winter and wore only moccasins. He took heavy moose hide, anchored it at the toe and ran it back to the heel and anchored it, when it wore through he just replaced the replaceable sole. In the winter rivers and streams tend to flood ever once in a while. His method to cross them was to dip his foot quickly in the water and then out building up a layer of ice on each foot (at 20-40 below) doesn't take long and then continue on his way, back on the trail the ice would soon crack off. I talk to him in 54 and he had been trapping his registered line since 29. Any body wants to talk further PM your # and we can talk. Cheers NC P.S. good stalking.
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Get a pair of canvas-topped bean boots, instead of a leather. With a little use they get nice and flexible, and make for a great stalking shoe. They sell them on the website.
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Had a Pair of Fairchilds In 1969 do you have a pattern Available I love to make a pair for myself
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I've made my own and used them for hunting on into the winter in northern WI and MN. If you get wet, stuff dry grass in the bottom. An insole cut from a tanned sheepskin works well. If your moving your feet stay warm. I made a pair of beaver fur mittens with gauntlets that came halfway up my arm and if I decided to sit somewhere to watch a trail I'd take the mittens off and slide my feet into the gauntlet part, toes stayed toasty.
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A friend made me a pair some years ago that I wore bowhunting. They made it much easier to walk quiet, but they didn't fit well so I quit wearing them. I would like a new pair for the purpose one day.
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I actually wear a pair of leather soled wrestling shoes, kinda like a moccasin, when still hunting.
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I wore a leather pair of Moccasins for years, with additional deer skin soles inside, when I was a serious Stalking Bow hunter! My oldest Son Has become a very proficient, and Serious Bow Hunter himself, and has kinda copied what I used to do, and inherited my old, still good, moccasins, and has taken that to another level with the, Anxynt Moccasins, and has Taken a few nice specimens of Game with his Bow! It's almost a must in my opinion to get close to game, with a Bow,IMO!
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Carl Dyer makes great moccs, but man, are they pricey.... I still have mine that I bought in the '80s... so maybe, not so pricey after all.
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I hunt in moccasins occasionally. Very light, Quiet, Easy to " feel" where you are walking. Usually during muzzleloader season.
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