Originally Posted By: Dick_dup1
Russell Boots, various styles....
Custom made to your feet, still made in Wisconsin in a small factory using 20th Century techniques by real people you can actually visit and talk to.


I have a pair. I can't say that I am a real fan of them. I hunted Africa in them, and I hunt antelope and birds wti them where the ground is not super rocky. They are very flat in the insole, which can be solved with foot-bed inserts but that seems sort of crazy for such expensive boots. I need to seen them back to have the toes restitched, but I have to say the original stitching lasted much much longer than "a couple of weeks". More like a decade.

I also have a pair of Cabela's Mendele's Ultralight boots. Man, are they comfy. HOWEVER they do not have aggressive enough tread for chasing elk and the like in very steep muddy, or snow terrain. They are fine for birds though. They are holding up okay but some of the stitching is starting to pull through the leather in a couple of places.

I don't know what the best boots are, but I do know I ain't got'em.

Last edited by BrentD; 11/22/15 09:17 PM.
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