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Equipment & Gear => All Other Gear => Topic started by: huntnphool on September 01, 2008, 04:44:05 PM

Title: Boot Blankets
Post by: huntnphool on September 01, 2008, 04:44:05 PM: I'm interested to know if anyone has tried these and if they were effective or not. I am thinking about purchasing these for my daughter, we hike a long way in the dark and then sit most of the morning, it gets chilly and I dont want her feet getting too cold.

http://www.cabelas.com/cabelas/en/templates/links/link.jsp?id=0006712810623a&type=product&cmCat=SEARCH_all&returnPage=search-results1.jsp&%2Fcabelas%2Fcommerce%2FCabelasCatalogNumberFinder.giftCertificateURL=%2Fcabelas%2Fen%2Ftemplates%2Fgiftcertificate%2Fgiftcertificate.jsp%3Fid%3D0005586990011a%26podId%3D0005586%26catalogCode%3DIB%26navAction%3Djump%26indexId%3D&Ntk=Products&QueryText=boot+blanket&sort=all&_D%3AhasJS=+&N=0&_D%3A%2Fcabelas%2Fcommerce%2FCabelasCatalogNumberFinder.giftCertificateURL=+&Nty=1&hasJS=true&_DARGS=%2Fcabelas%2Fen%2Fcommon%2Fsearch%2Fsearch-box.jsp.form23&_dyncharset=ISO-8859-1
Title: Re: Boot Blankets
Post by: mkcj on September 01, 2008, 05:15:47 PM: Well they have a 4.6 out of 5 rating from 56 people. Comments were all good I would think there worth a try
Title: Re: Boot Blankets
Post by: smdave on September 01, 2008, 05:42:16 PM: Looks like something I would use, My feet were really cold last year even with 800 gram boots on.

Dave
Title: Re: Boot Blankets
Post by: jackelope on September 01, 2008, 08:10:17 PM: they are real popular back east where you can hunt almost into december sitting in a treestand. theyare realllllyyyyyy warm...too warm for me...especially with the weather we have for general seasons around here most of the time.
Title: Re: Boot Blankets
Post by: huntnphool on September 01, 2008, 08:14:40 PM: Quote from: jackelope on September 01, 2008, 08:10:17 PM
theyare realllllyyyyyy warm...too warm for me.

Probably me too Josh but never too warm for a child. I would rather her be too warm than cold and uncomfortable and never wanting to go again. Thanks for the replys guys, off to Cabelas home page :chuckle:
Title: Re: Boot Blankets
Post by: jackelope on September 01, 2008, 08:15:08 PM: agreed.
Title: Re: Boot Blankets
Post by: ICEMAN on September 01, 2008, 08:22:10 PM: Huntnphool, I have a pair, have only used them one season when it was really cold. Worked as stated, good product. A bit bulky to pack around much, but it was a cold mofo and I decided it was worth it. If forecast is for way below, I pack them in the truck...

And yes, they look really dorky..... :chuckle:
Title: Re: Boot Blankets
Post by: huntnphool on September 01, 2008, 08:28:29 PM: Quote from: Iceman on September 01, 2008, 08:22:10 PM
And yes, they look really dorky..... :chuckle:

I bet. Where we sit nobody is going to see her up close, just the occasional idiot looking through his scope at us from the ridgeline
Title: Re: Boot Blankets
Post by: ICEMAN on September 01, 2008, 08:33:35 PM: Huntnphool, we do a ton of snowshoeing, and around snow camp, I have a few squares of sleeping mat ( 1/2" backpacking foam), 16" squares, to break the cold off the bottom of the boots. Just stand or sit with your feet on these, and you break the cold off the bottom of the boot and give your circulation a chance to warm the boot... This also works really well for us.
Title: Re: Boot Blankets
Post by: tank on September 16, 2008, 09:34:34 PM: HTF, them putting the cross hair on you is one thing (no good) but putting them on your daugher is something else.
That Pees me off just thinking about it.
I also have something to stand on. If a person is sleeping on the ground and he's cold you can put 100 blankets on them and they'll still freeze. Cots on hot days are nice too.
tank
Title: Re: Boot Blankets
Post by: Alchase on September 17, 2008, 12:51:07 PM: Huntingphool, when my boys were really young I got them a good pair of Sorel pack boots.
http://www.sorel.com/Product.aspx?top=3&cat=310&prod=122

With a good pair of socks they are plenty warm. They still love them. Definitely not the quietest boots though.