Hunting bare foot...Am I nuts?

[Dave Bowers]

Ok so I am thinking about actually trying hunting bare foot this year. At least for NJ's September season; while the weather is still warm enough and probably not all the time?
Last year I hunted and killed a deer in sandles. So I was thinking about upping the stacks this year. It just seems like a cool and interesting way to hunt.
Has anyone tried or done this? Or am I goin nuts?

[Squirrel Bait]

You can do it till you have a Copperhead talk you out of a toe!

[Zmonster]

Im working my to it by using the Vibrem 5 fingers. Eventually Ill get there. Maybe Im crazy too.

[Brad_Gentry]

Yes...   :D

[Dave Bowers]

LOL..Squirrel Bait I can pic me wiggling my toe and ol mister snake comes lookin for a meal.   :eek:

[Manitoba Stickflinger]

Yep....nuts you are!!

[John3]

I've bear hunted in my socks...!  Quiet as I could get.  Worked perfectly...

[Dave Bowers]

Originally posted by John3:
I've bear hunted in my socks...!  Quiet as I could get.  Worked perfectly...

John that's one thing I noticed right away; how quiet things are while walking in bare feet. Even goin from saddles to bare feet is a noticeable difference.
I walked a good 1/4 mile in the bush today in my bare feet. I really like how I could hear everything.

[Mudd]

I tried the vibram 5 toes but figured out pretty quickly that my toes are very social and like being next to each other without anything in between them.

The next best thing to being barefoot is my handmade mocs without socks.

God bless,Mudd

[bretto]

You must not have any "Thorny Locust" in Your woods.LOL

[Charlie Lamb]

A few years back I spent many hours stalking antelope bare foot. I had to cross and recross a stream so often that after a while I just put my boots in my pack.

Each day I'd go out, take off my boots and start hunting....the ground was very barefoot friendly and that's important.
   

[Igor]

I like the feather camo!


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Glenn

[JEFF B]

over here yes  as we dont have anything that will bite ya  or sting ya . over there no way to many snakes  and chiggers and ticks oh the list goes on and on   :eek:  thats just incase charlie  gets hungry    

[mattmcdonald]

i have taken my boots off to stalk up on a deer it did not work not beacuse the noise beacuse im just not good at it

[twitchstick]

I have done it a few times,but I prefer it with wool socks on. When it is dry and crunchy I will hike for miles with just socks on. It makes for quite walking.

[mmisciag]

I would try single vamp moccasins. Close to bare feet only safer.

Martin

[Zradix]

Might want to try mocassins.
Ya know...bugs eat foot blood too...

[canoeman]

I think yes, but I haven't been very successful just walking across the yard barefoot (I step on something and go down to my knees and hands).

[lpcjon2]

Ultimately it depends on how bad your feet stink.    

  And I would love to see you tackle a brier patch bare foot.And you would have to cut your pant legs shot around the mid calf like Huck fin.

[Bill Tell]

Originally posted by Zmonster:
Im working my to it by using the Vibrem 5 fingers. Eventually Ill get there. Maybe Im crazy too.

I run 5k's in these things all the time.  They are going with me into the field with me this fall for sure.  Deadly quiet and you can get wool socks for them now too.  I trail ran in them last winter.  Looked like someone had been running all over the place in their bare feet.  I can only imagine what people thought when they saw my tracks in the snow.  I LOVE these things.