How important are rubber boots
10-26-2004, 07:33 PM
#24
Typical Buck
Join Date: Feb 2003
Location: Hebron Maryland USA
Posts: 595
RE: How important are rubber boots
I wear the rocky ( buckstalker ) rubber boot with thinsulate. Very Very warm Best boot Ive ever owned. I agree with what some were saying about the rubber smell. I hang mine outside after each use and since ive been doing this I dont smell the strong odor of rubber. I also have a pair of lacrosse rubber boots that I use for scouting. I use the rocky boot for hunting only
10-26-2004, 07:51 PM
#25
Join Date: Feb 2003
Location: Louisville Kentucky USA
Posts: 1,207
RE: How important are rubber boots
I've always used insulated rubbers in the cold part of the season and liked the fact that I could walk through serious mud and water with them and they didn't bog down. I know some non-rubber boots are "waterproof", but they get muck all over them. With the tall rubbers nothing sticks. After sitting in the pouring rain last weekend in wet cordura/leather boots, I bought some Lacrosse Burly psort uninsulated tonight for $85. I can't wait to try them out they feel awesome! Not like them rubber boots of old.
10-26-2004, 08:09 PM
#26
Typical Buck
Join Date: Jul 2004
Location: Tuttle, OK
Posts: 714
RE: How important are rubber boots
Have a pair of Lacrosse Burly 800, work great. I put coon pee on the soles before going into the woods, and I leave them in the back of my truck until I get to the place I am hunting, then I put them on. Have no complaints or cold feet here.
10-26-2004, 08:40 PM
#27
Nontypical Buck
Join Date: Feb 2003
Location: Baumholder, DEU/By Way of Arkansas
Posts: 2,849
RE: How important are rubber boots
As far as a neccessity, I think rubber boots aren't.
I don't wear them, and I see plenty deer...but I can see how they can accumulate odors after prolonged periods of use, so switching to any other type of boot would probably be wise.
I don't wear them, and I see plenty deer...but I can see how they can accumulate odors after prolonged periods of use, so switching to any other type of boot would probably be wise.
10-26-2004, 09:40 PM
#28
Nontypical Buck
Join Date: Feb 2003
Location: Isle, MN
Posts: 1,469
RE: How important are rubber boots
my problem with rubber boots is they don't last. My goodness, they all crack in the same spots on the front at the top of the foot. I've gone threw 2 pairs in the last 2 years. I'm done with them. I cannot understand how they all say 'scent free', they have more of an odor after 2 months use then my leather rocky boots after 3 years. Yes, i've taken big whiffs of both.
10-26-2004, 10:52 PM
#29
Nontypical Buck
Thread Starter
Join Date: Jun 2004
Location: Boardman, Ohio
Posts: 1,184
RE: How important are rubber boots
I enjoyed some of your thoughts on the topic and I will go with some of the ideas thrown around in here. Always a great source of information! I know my boots are on the ripe side and I always here about rubber, boots that is!
10-27-2004, 05:23 AM
#30
Boone & Crockett
Join Date: Feb 2003
Location: Lehigh County PA USA
Posts: 12,157
RE: How important are rubber boots
I use rubber boots, but they aren't a cure all save all, you still need to be meticulous about getting scent on them.
Now take this with a grain of salt. I was never a "huge" believer in rubber boots but the logic behind them does have some merit. This year I bought a new pair of Lacrosse Alpha Burly Sports...went with two sets of antimicrobrial undergarments and started to use that Essence of Fall Scentblocker spray. I have seen more bucks this year...and more bucks up close than in previous years. Is that the result of my new scent practices? Possibly, but then again our deer management program changed about three years ago and I should be seeing more mature bucks on a regular basis.
For what it is worth I will continue to use this new scent management "program."