Digging/walking Boots

[Dead Eyes 681]

Read all the posts and they do conflict a bit. Google Danner and see why the American military and related forces rate them so highly. They are expensive, but as the saying goes, you gets what you pays for.

Which model? Striker 2 and kinetic are both under a tonne on eBay atm

[Bosun11 537]

If i was gonna buy Meindl again it would only be the Glockner.

 

Timmyk's dead right... He is a f***ing mingebag but i get what he's saying about boots and to be honest i'm as bad as him... I'm just not gonna fork out 2ton on boots only to watch em feck up on my feet. Nah, as much as i'd love them Elk Trackers, my next boots are gonna be Karrimor from Sports Direct. Gonna search through the range to find what i think will be the most robust at the right price and see if i get a season or two out of em. And that will do, i'd feel a damn sight better about that than forking out the dough for a posh pair that 'may' only give me the same lifespan...

Go on, 'only get what you pay for blah blah blah'...

One thing i've learned since living in the countryside is that daily use in the wet fecks even the best boots up and where possible you should use decent robust wellies to save em. Them Dunlop Purafort jobbies will outlast the best of boots.

 

All my life i've used only boots and never saw the appeal of wellies till the last few years. Now i get it and you should too, day in day out in wet... No boots last the distance...

[dillydog 8,514]

 

Whatever you buy treat them to a weekly rub in this and they'll come up like new and last twice as long

[Bosun11 537]

I remember getting a Renapur trial at some GF somwhere, when it was new on the market. I bought some, it was brilliant and lasted forever. That must be 25 years ago and i'm only on my third tub...

It's great gear..!!

[Rory4 267]

Even with good boots you could do with 2 pairs like they do in the army. It's impossible to get them dry between outings which soon takes its tool on the boot. Think I'm going to go with a another good pair of boots as they are so comfy and a pair of wellies and choose between the 2 depending on which land visiting

[Dead Eyes 681]

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Whatever you buy treat them to a weekly rub in this and they'll come up like new and last twice as long

Also works well on gundogs' feet

[MIK 4,763]

Always had meindls and if you keep them oiled you will get a full season out of them but it's the heather that wears them out ....then I use the last seasons boot for mink hunting as you don't mind them getting wet .....going to order a pair of hanwag tatra GTX after reading this

[Accip74 7,112]

Anyone tried lundhags?

[Accip74 7,112]

 

Anyone tried lundhags?

Couple of my mates wear them reckon they take about a year to break in tho, very light and tough

I was looking at lundhag 'forest' which are not that expensive, but are only single layer..........must admit though, the thought of breaking in boots is not great, I thought that was a thing of the past for me.....

[neil cooney 10,416]

Fell boots can't be beaten IMO.

Nothing to do with being traditional (what's wrong with being traditional anyways) but all about being practical.

Lads talking about boots lasting 3 years, LOL. What about a pair of boots that will last nearly 20 years when hunting 6 days a week.

[Bosun11 537]

Fell boots can't be beaten IMO.

Nothing to do with being traditional (what's wrong with being traditional anyways) but all about being practical.

Lads talking about boots lasting 3 years, LOL. What about a pair of boots that will last nearly 20 years when hunting 6 days a week.

Spot on Neil, if i still dug to terriers Fell boots would be the only boot i'd need. Nothing is as tough for banging hard down on a banjo through winter earth, year in year out.

[Accip74 7,112]

 

Fell boots can't be beaten IMO.

Nothing to do with being traditional (what's wrong with being traditional anyways) but all about being practical.

Lads talking about boots lasting 3 years, LOL. What about a pair of boots that will last nearly 20 years when hunting 6 days a week.

Spot on Neil, if i still dug to terriers Fell boots would be the only boot i'd need. Nothing is as tough for banging hard down on a banjo through winter earth, year in year out.

I think I was 15 when I got my fell boots........I thought I was the new Barry Todhunter of the Essex marshes! Haha....

Boy did they take some breaking-in!, but I loved them.........they saw some serious digging, as well as a few outings up north ;-)....

.....they even got used for work & it was digging that finally killed them, not to a terrier unfortunately, but underpinning a house when I was about 21!

But I just can't see myself breaking in fell boots anymore.........I'm too soft now & only need a more general purpose boot, though the longevity & memories of those first fell boots of mine will forever stay with me.....;-)

[rob284 1,682]

 

Fell boots can't be beaten IMO.

Nothing to do with being traditional (what's wrong with being traditional anyways) but all about being practical.

Lads talking about boots lasting 3 years, LOL. What about a pair of boots that will last nearly 20 years when hunting 6 days a week.

Yes put cold wet feet! Or insulated dry comfort I know what I'd pick,

comfort wise I'm happy with fell boots and they didn't take much breaking in. Most of my permission is steep hill so they do the job for me. I also have a pair of meindls which I've hated from the start, and they soon leaked

[onion jonny 527]

what about the rocky boots cheap and light

[Moorman 1 1,452]

 

 

 

Anyone tried lundhags?

Couple of my mates wear them reckon they take about a year to break in tho, very light and tough

I was looking at lundhag 'forest' which are not that expensive, but are only single layer..........must admit though, the thought of breaking in boots is not great, I thought that was a thing of the past for me.....

 

 

 

That's what put me of trying them! Blisters ! Lol

Don't think there's are waterproof lined you get a wax for them but they still let in a bit! I've had my new hanwags on every morning this week couple of miles across the moors counting grouse so comfortable straight out box no blister

 

I bought Lundhags years ago I had blisters like footballs crawled back from the moor that day almost in tears! Put me off them for life also no waterproof liner either. Mine have been down the shed for twenty years the eyelets have rusted and full of mould. I wince whenever I see a pair, F##ck that!