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Author Topic: hot weather hunting shoes  (Read 337 times)

Offline Blaino

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hot weather hunting shoes
« on: August 03, 2011, 03:15:00 PM »
I havn't ever hunted during the HOT part of the season.  I will this year without a doubt.

I'd like to try to get a deer or hog from the ground so i have been looking into trypes of footwear for stalking.... I wore my Sperry boat shoes on my last scouting trip and I could feel everything I put my foot on.

Have any of you hunted in them before? Do you think its a good idea?  Thanks for your thoughts.
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Re: hot weather hunting shoes
« Reply #1 on: August 03, 2011, 03:18:00 PM »
I am hunting in a pair of low top "tennis shoes" that I got at academy sports.  They are brown leather and look like a pair of leather converse low tops.  You have decent feel of the ground and they are holding up okay.  Little more protection with the leather top.
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Offline jamesh76

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Re: hot weather hunting shoes
« Reply #2 on: August 03, 2011, 03:27:00 PM »
I prefer the light weight hiking boots. More less like a tennis shoe.
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Re: hot weather hunting shoes
« Reply #3 on: August 03, 2011, 03:56:00 PM »
Blaino:

I wear several different types of footwear during the season.  I guess my first thought on your post seeing where your from and hunting on the ground would be snakes...

We really don't have anything up here but copperheads and a very few rattlers and ya have to really be in the right place to encounter one of them.

I like New Balance shoes.  They fit me well.  I am also inclined to wear the more technical light weight hiking ankle high shoes.  When it cools off or is wet I go with LL Bean Maine hunting shoe....
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Re: hot weather hunting shoes
« Reply #4 on: August 03, 2011, 04:00:00 PM »
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Offline Bjorn

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Re: hot weather hunting shoes
« Reply #5 on: August 03, 2011, 04:30:00 PM »
I have a pair of those 'desert boots' they are really ankle high gum soled shoes and as silent as it gets. They keep some of the stickers off your socks and skin too.

Offline swamprooter

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Re: hot weather hunting shoes
« Reply #6 on: August 03, 2011, 05:26:00 PM »
Nike desert boots, man I love those things. Chris

Offline critter69

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Re: hot weather hunting shoes
« Reply #7 on: August 03, 2011, 05:40:00 PM »
russel moccisons,tula-tula.(texas pigs)Havent hunted rocky terrain(deer,elk) in them though.But there great for hot weather.

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Re: hot weather hunting shoes
« Reply #8 on: August 03, 2011, 11:14:00 PM »
From Robtattoo:

Ghillie boots (I swear, my mission in life is to convert all American hunter to these things!) They're ultra, ultra lightweight, soft, flat soled & silent to stalk in. If you eiher don't mind wet feet when it rains, or have an alternative for wet weather, Ghillies are the perfect early season/stalking boot.

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Offline Recurve50 LBS

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Re: hot weather hunting shoes
« Reply #9 on: August 04, 2011, 02:30:00 PM »
I use those canvas Converse All Star basketball sneakers.
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Re: hot weather hunting shoes
« Reply #10 on: August 04, 2011, 02:41:00 PM »
I have seen those Australians with flip flops,love them.
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Re: hot weather hunting shoes
« Reply #11 on: August 04, 2011, 03:00:00 PM »
FWIW met a guy up at Denton Hill with those separate toed VIbram shoes who claimed he'd been able to walk up on elk in them in warm weather.  They even make toed socks to go with them if you're so inclined.
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Re: hot weather hunting shoes
« Reply #12 on: August 04, 2011, 03:08:00 PM »
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Re: hot weather hunting shoes
« Reply #13 on: August 04, 2011, 03:09:00 PM »
call me crazy but I love plain old green lacrosse boots.
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Offline JV Rooster

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Re: hot weather hunting shoes
« Reply #14 on: August 04, 2011, 03:19:00 PM »
I like the Converse All Star {black}
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Offline Blaino

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Re: hot weather hunting shoes
« Reply #15 on: August 04, 2011, 03:29:00 PM »
i wear the green rubber lacross boots when it cools off.  even when its 30 outside i can only weat 1 pair of light weight socks with them because my dogs sweat so bad in them....
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Offline Night Wing

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Re: hot weather hunting shoes
« Reply #16 on: August 04, 2011, 04:01:00 PM »
With the temperature hitting 104 degrees today, I wear blue/gray colored "sneakers" also commonly known as Nike running shoes.

They're very light in weight too.
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Offline Jeff Strubberg

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Re: hot weather hunting shoes
« Reply #17 on: August 04, 2011, 09:49:00 PM »
Converse.  Wore em to a Texas hunt a few years back, and I think I was the only guy not picking out thorns all week!
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Re: hot weather hunting shoes
« Reply #18 on: August 04, 2011, 09:55:00 PM »
toooo many copperheadedrattlermocassins down here in mississipp to be wearing shoes,, but i bet they comfortable.  just watch were u step

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Re: hot weather hunting shoes
« Reply #19 on: August 05, 2011, 07:37:00 AM »
Snake boots all year.....stabow
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