OT: What Is Your Early Season Footwear?

[cshold]

I made these Moccasins about 15 years ago from a pattern I bought
at a leather shop. I have found these to be the ideal early season footwear
for the early PA. Muzzle loading and squirrel seasons. It’s surprising just
how quit you can slow walk those leafy wooded trail’s with this type of footwear.

[cshold]

Okay that pretty much answers that question. I am indeed a little strange in what I
wear for hunting foot wear...

[rjohns94]

I wear moccasins also, except on rainy days. Mine are ankle top, not calf length.

[Old Savage]

OK then, size 10. I wore mocassins as a young fellow in the woods for several years. Now they are about all I wear but with rubber soles.



very adaptable in various settings



OHHHHH! you said hunting.

[Sixgun]

No, I would not say your footwear is strange. Kinda neat. I used to wear moccasins back in my "hippy days". With all the junk thats floating around in the woods today, I feel safer wearing my good ole Redwing Loggers. (American made Redwings ) They are all I wear, all year long, except in extreme cold, then its my Danners (American made Danners )---------------------Sixgun

[cshold]

Thanks guy's, I knew I could count on you

[JerryB]

I like your boots. I have the pattern but have not made a pair yet, just make the short ones. The only lace up boots I have are a pair of Red Wing Irish Setters that are about 15 years oldhad the soles replaced a couple of times, they still clean up and look good with a coat of Mink Oil.

[madman4570]

8" Danner uninsulated tie not zip Gortex Strikers. All year round when in woods period.
(in the cold weather them with merino wool socks)

At the lake on a boat etc(Sebago Docksiders)
Just bumming around (Birkenstock Betulas)

But they really look like cool boots though!

[dr walker]

Nice moccasins.
I wear Converse All Stars unless it is too cold.

[Hobie]

I have worn moccasins, sneakers, LL Bean pacs (preferred), my usual shoes (which are HD shoes like these Keens), even Topsiders or beach shoes. Depends on temperature and how much wet there will be.

[RIHMFIRE]

snake boots....to just below the knee....
ya need them in florida! too many close calls

[JimT]

Early or late, I mostly wear Keen Sandals.



Sometimes I wear flipflops.

I do have a heavy pair of boots but it's rarely cool enough to wear them. When I get to do some hunting here though, I plan on wearing 'em!

[Malamute]

Mostly Hawthorn Smoke Jumpers. Have some Bean Maine Hunting boots for wet weather, and some Sorrel felt lined pacs for real cold and snowy stuff

[Streetstar]

Early season bow hunting i just wear sneakers as much as i can. I wear lightweight boots in the morning if there is a heavy dew though

[KCSO]

I wear moc's most of the year, canadian moosehide muckluks in the winter. I guess i take my mountain man thing too far. I make my own sioux style mocs from an old patter I made at the Museum of the Fur Trade in Chadron back int eh 70's.

[Old Ironsights]

Early or late, I mostly wear Keen Sandals.



Sometimes I wear flipflops.

I do have a heavy pair of boots but it's rarely cool enough to wear them. When I get to do some hunting here though, I plan on wearing 'em!

+1

I have to wear Combat Boots every day, so at all other times I'm in Sandals if possible.

If it was good enough for the Roman Infantry....

[fisheadgib]

Where I've been hunting in Alabama, all anyone wears are muck boots. It's the muddiest place I've ever hunted in my life.

[Pisgah]

Early in the season, when the woods are dry, I wear a pair of Clark's Desert Boots. Lightweight, comfortable, and by far the quietest of any soled footwear I own. (I do have a pair of mocs I sewed up years ago, and they are ultra-quiet -- but my old tootsies are a whole lot more sensitive to rocks and sticks than they used to be back when it seemed I lived 90% of my time in the outdoors barefooted!) But when things are wet, the reason why they are called "Desert Boots" becomes clear. No amount of waterproofing will keep out even a heavy dew.

[DerekR]

Crocs.....that's right, I said crocs



Man.....that's redneck, eh?