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Who makes a good pac type boot good to -20F yet no so big that you cannot hike in them. | ||
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Black Bata bunny boots .If it can,t be grown , its gotta be mined .... | |||
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How large do they make them? I have Sasquatch size feet. Or so I've been told........ We Band of Bubbas N.R.A Life Member TDR Cummins Power All The Way Certified member of the Whompers Club | |||
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Either Danner Canadiens, or the Military Micky Mouse boots, depending on just how cold it will be... DOUBLE RIFLE SHOOTERS SOCIETY | |||
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Oh they make them big. finding them maybe harder but they do make them. For there size, bunny boots are pretty manueverable and warm. Used them quite a bit. For the areas I hunt, snowmachine, etc. I just get some good danners or equivalent a size to big and where extra socks. worked so far. This past sunday it was neg 15 here in ANC, at work I was out most of the day and my feet were fine with my 400gram LaCrosses. Hands played hell, but its the joys of a mechanic. Today it was warm, statred out at -10 and warmed up to 0. If you are talking extreme cold (colder than -20) I would just get the bunny boots. A lesson in irony The Food Stamp Program, administered by the U.S. Department of Agriculture, is proud to be distributing this year the greatest amount of free Meals and Food Stamps ever, to 46 million people. Meanwhile, the National Park Service, administered by the U.S. Department of the Interior, asks us... "Please Do Not Feed the Animals." Their stated reason for the policy is because "The animals will grow dependent on handouts and will not learn to take care of themselves." Thus ends today's lesson in irony. | |||
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It was 50 below here this weekend .it is about35 below too cold for black Bata bunny boots . They really arn't hard to find in the interior . There is a guy who comes around in the fall he has a traIler of new , never issued surplus bunny boots . But NO size 10 regular and size 9s are mostly gone in white . Most are available in black tho even size 14. They sell for about 90$ a pair and are the best buy in winter boots there is. .If it can,t be grown , its gotta be mined .... | |||
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I like minus 40 3.5 lbers for warm winter weather; cabelas. For the cold (and most don't spend too much time outside once its down below minus 25) I have trans Alaskans & sorel glaciers. Really like the sorels. | |||
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The warmest boots bar none are NORTHERN OUTFITTERS. Once your feet sweat & they will in bunny boots you will be miserable,just before the toes turn black from frostbite. If your foot temperature drops below +60 degrees F,your toes/feet will feel uncomfortable. The sole/insert is the most important part of a warm boot,not the insulated upper/tongue as the cold radiates up from beneath. Life isn't hard 'till the ambient is -45 degrees F or colder. | |||
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Can you walk / hike in the Bunny boots? I took a look at them on line. They look pretty big, but I guess you need a lot of insulation at that extreme. I read a lot of these remarks on the Cabela's and Bass Pro sites and really wonder if most of them are fake. You guys that live up there should know. I know I will be still quite a bit of the time but also mobile from time to time. It is a difficult to find a compromise here. In hunting your footwear can be everything. | |||
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I have a black and also white pair of bunny boots.IME the black pair my feet got really cold when I went for a day trip so they are for around the house chores. The white pair is what I use for traveling with snow mobile or running dogs. I also have felt lined boots but they mostly stay home but for me the felt lined boots are warmer than the black bunny boots. | |||
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I wear 10-1/2 A shoes. Is there a manufacturer of good quality waterproof shoe pacs who makes them this narrow, with Thinsulate® or other insulation with uppers being at least ten inches high? It's so simple to be wise. Just think of something stupid to say and then don't say it. Sam Levinson | |||
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.[QUOTE]Originally posted by erosion: I have a black and also white pair of bunny boots.IME the black pair my feet got really cold when I went for a day trip so they are for around the house chores. The white pair is what I use for traveling with snow mobile or running dogs. I also have felt lined boots but they mostly stay home but for me the felt lined boots are warmer than the black bunny boots.[/........................QUOTE]............... The black Batas are not as warm as th white bunny boots .which is why for th conditions specified I recomend them. I wear 3 pair of relativle thin socks .the outer sock being a cheap cotton athletic sock and I either change the cotton sock after 4 hrs. Of get in. A warm area and warm m/y feet up if necessary.I walk a couple miles a day in th brush and around where I work . I walk down logs with them all th time and they do great. The great thing about bunny boots is they are pretty idiot pruff if you keep the valves closed . | |||
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Hope I can find some of those Bunny Boots down here is Dallas. We have the extreme cold down here as you all know?? I do like to try on boots before I buy them. EZ | |||
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Give Cabela's a look . It depends on how much time you will spend in th cold.if your not in arctic type cold .you don,t need an arctic type boot . But 20 below f. And wet , like gettin inrto some overflow. Is bunny boot conditions . They are about as popular in the interior of alaska aSz XtraTuffs are on the coast . .If it can,t be grown , its gotta be mined .... | |||
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Check out Schnees in Bozeman, MT. If you are really worried about cold feet, I would check out battery heated socks. | |||
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Om my last trip to Alaska I was in the Nime area on a snomobile hunt. I spent 15 days in a row in a pair of white "bunny" boots. The nice thing about them is WHEN your foot goes under water, you can just pour the water out, change your socks and reboot. I ust wore the same socks I wear every day, a thin liner and a thick smart wool outer sock. DOUBLE RIFLE SHOOTERS SOCIETY | |||
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The Bunny boots look very uncomfortable but everyone swears by how warm they are! | |||
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Give me a break!! I used to live in Alvarado..just down the road from Dallas. North Texans wouldn't know Alaska cold if it bit them in the ass. I have never heard of it getting much colder than 5*F! Texas doesn't get the 45-60 below like Alaska and adding incredible wind chill. For any Texas weather just get thick wool socks and 400gram Thinsulate boots and you'll be fine! We Band of Bubbas N.R.A Life Member TDR Cummins Power All The Way Certified member of the Whompers Club | |||
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. On the contrary they are very comfortably. . They were designed for extreme weather And every daY , all day and night wear. Like 450 says . Just change your socks . Lots of mountaineers wore them to the tops of these big moun tains we have here . Open the valves when you go up in a plane and close them imediatly when you land . Check the valves daily so you don't get water inside the insulaTing layers . . .that's about the only thing bunny boots won't withstand and still keep your feet warm . .If it can,t be grown , its gotta be mined .... | |||
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I am going to Alaska in April. Planning for the trip. Not for use locally. In the initial verbiage there was no mention as to where there was a application. Simply, what is a good boot for -20F wet weather.Not sure from where you drew your assumptions in your response to this dialog??
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As far as verbiage goes, by stating,"We have extreme cold down here as you all know." That implies the weather in Dallas necessitates such garments. It does not. If you had stated you were planning on making a trip to the frozen north and wanted to find said boots in the north Texas area...well that would be quite different. If I hurt your feelings maybe it will help you to remember to be more concise in your posts. Alas, I am not without flaw. I too sometimes forget to mention pertinent details. Good luck We Band of Bubbas N.R.A Life Member TDR Cummins Power All The Way Certified member of the Whompers Club | |||
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Mr Drew, Please note there were 2 question marks after the statement about local weather. It was said in jest. I hope most folks would have picked up on that. This is a Alaska hunting Forum. Due to our "cold" climate here in Dallas. It might me difficult to locally source and fitted with the the boots being discussed. It is not a matter of hurt feelings only how remarks worded such as yours really turn folks off. These things tend to spiral out of control and poison a thread. I have sourced the information that I required from a good group of folks so I will stop here without any condescending remarks. EZ | |||
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Go for the white bunny boots!!!! For some reason, my feet are very susceptible to cold but the white ones always, I mean always (ambient temps at -40) kept my feet toasty with just a pair of wool socks. Drew, I wear a size 14 A and the key IIRC is putting in a good insole to take up some of the space (they're also somewhat inflatable). As for comfort, they are fantastic but take a little getting used to. IMO the bulk is well worth the fact that you can go anywhere in just about any temp and not worry about your feet. Get a good pair of Walls or Carhartt coveralls (the arctic variety) and a fox/beaver Molokai (sp?) are you're set. Spent many a night out on the tarmac at the Bethel airport unloading planes in chilly weather with that setup and the only thing that got cold was my nose. Bunny boots all the way!! Lots of stores in Anchorage should be able to send them to you. Regards, Scott "....but to protest against all hunting of game is a sign of softness of head, not of soundness of heart." Theodore Roosevelt | |||
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I wear size 18, and have no mercy on the bird footed complainers of the world. There are thousands of places that make and sell RETAIL sizes 16 and below. I have a few sources. Some of them in the north Texas area. We Band of Bubbas N.R.A Life Member TDR Cummins Power All The Way Certified member of the Whompers Club | |||
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.If it can,t be grown , its gotta be mined .... | |||
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Do they even make bunnies in an 18? Not that I am gonna need them any time soon..... We Band of Bubbas N.R.A Life Member TDR Cummins Power All The Way Certified member of the Whompers Club | |||
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. That I don't know . I messed up on my last post . Big thumbs . I had understood ez was being phoceious about it being cold in Texas . Every Alaskan knows it don't get cold in Texas. .If it can,t be grown , its gotta be mined .... | |||
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