Liv4Rut
Active Member
This will be old hat to many of you but to me it's new and I figured there are many others out there that are either stubborn or just stuck in their ways like I was, so I thought I would share my experience. In the past cold feet killed me wearing 1000 gram leather boots. Right now I have Irish setter gun flints and my feet would freeze below about 35 degrees sitting in the stand. I can't wear rubber boots such as Lacrosse because I need better ankle support. The only boot in the past that could keep my feet warm was the Mickey Mouse Army boots.
I work for a water treatment company and one of my accounts happens to be a sock company located here in Iowa. I set up an appointment with the plant engineer to specifically discuss my best defense as far as socks for cold weather hunting. We talked for about an hour regarding socks and he recommended to me a specific sock they make and a wick dry liner to wear and he assured me my feet will not be cold. He kept telling me it was all in the liner. I will admit I have always been ignorant towards liners. I couldn't see how they would help but I thought what the heck I will give it a try. I bought the socks and liners and went out hunting.
The first run was a -15 degree morning. I wore my Irish setter gun flints that I knew would produce a ice block of toes in about 45 minutes of sitting. That morning I sat about 2 hours and my feet were just starting to feel like they might get cold. I couldn't believe it, the set up actually worked and with boots that I don't consider to be that warm from past experiences. What I noticed, which is no suprise, that my feet did sweat walking in the morning but the liner totally took the moisture out between my toes and let the sock do all the work. With my old set up of just a wool sock my feet would sweat but would always remain sweated up around my toes therefore my feet would eventually freeze.
From a weeks worth of hunting I can say at the end of the day of endless walking doing drives, sitting in the mornings and evenings my feet were bone dry at the end of the day. This has never happened before. I could actually wear my 1000gram leather boots and stay warm. I won't lie it was dang cold and after about 2 hours my feet were starting to feel it, but this is a HUGE improvement over the past. One day I wore my Mickey Mouse Boots with this sock set up and my feet weren't about to even think about getting cold at the end of the sit.
So in summary, for those of you who don't use liners, give them a try, you will be impressed. I am glad to have finally found something that actually works and I will be able to extend my use of my 1000 gram leather boots which give me much better ankle support than switching to the rubbers. I thought I would share this. I now wear liners even on my day to day work routines and my feet are bone dry when I get home every night. I am sold. :way:
I work for a water treatment company and one of my accounts happens to be a sock company located here in Iowa. I set up an appointment with the plant engineer to specifically discuss my best defense as far as socks for cold weather hunting. We talked for about an hour regarding socks and he recommended to me a specific sock they make and a wick dry liner to wear and he assured me my feet will not be cold. He kept telling me it was all in the liner. I will admit I have always been ignorant towards liners. I couldn't see how they would help but I thought what the heck I will give it a try. I bought the socks and liners and went out hunting.
The first run was a -15 degree morning. I wore my Irish setter gun flints that I knew would produce a ice block of toes in about 45 minutes of sitting. That morning I sat about 2 hours and my feet were just starting to feel like they might get cold. I couldn't believe it, the set up actually worked and with boots that I don't consider to be that warm from past experiences. What I noticed, which is no suprise, that my feet did sweat walking in the morning but the liner totally took the moisture out between my toes and let the sock do all the work. With my old set up of just a wool sock my feet would sweat but would always remain sweated up around my toes therefore my feet would eventually freeze.
From a weeks worth of hunting I can say at the end of the day of endless walking doing drives, sitting in the mornings and evenings my feet were bone dry at the end of the day. This has never happened before. I could actually wear my 1000gram leather boots and stay warm. I won't lie it was dang cold and after about 2 hours my feet were starting to feel it, but this is a HUGE improvement over the past. One day I wore my Mickey Mouse Boots with this sock set up and my feet weren't about to even think about getting cold at the end of the sit.
So in summary, for those of you who don't use liners, give them a try, you will be impressed. I am glad to have finally found something that actually works and I will be able to extend my use of my 1000 gram leather boots which give me much better ankle support than switching to the rubbers. I thought I would share this. I now wear liners even on my day to day work routines and my feet are bone dry when I get home every night. I am sold. :way:
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