New Years Eve Woodcock Hunt

[Sporrns]

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The attached photos show the aftermath of the past 25 years or so plowing into and through some of our more demanding grouse, woodcock and quail covers. The excellent Ecco boots I inherited from my son, who found some kind of fault (e.g., color, style, etc.) with them and gave them to me shortly after purchasing them; the equally excellent Filson "Double Tin" chaps I owned years before I got the boots. Hawthorne, hackberry, popple, mesquite, churra, multiflora rose and barbed wire from northern Vermont to the Texas panhandle helped flay the chaps and the granite, shale and shattered slate finally did the boots in a couple of years ago after clambering over the stone walls laid in what are now deep forests of Chenango County NY. Tough going on some of the greatest bird hunt ever! Kevin

[Jeff S]

Wow! Some tough hombres in this group.

[ROMAC]

Jeff,

Don't your boots look like this before you get new ones?

In truth, after this I switched to Danners and only get models that can be re-soled with sewn in stitches instead of just glued.

[Jeff S]

I don’t think I could keep up with you.