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<blockquote data-quote="Pdvdh" data-source="post: 1129202" data-attributes="member: 4191"><p>Boots would depend on the terrain you're going to be hunting. Also depends on the type of hunting. Are you planning on covering some miles on foot, or riding around on an ATV. Backpacking the game you kill or hauling the weight on an ATV. Which is why I was wondering why your Alaska contact couldn't provide better information.</p><p></p><p>Upland hunting with significant hiking / backpacking and having to haul your gear and game on your back, I'd prefer a good fitting leather boot / gore tex lined, over the Muck boots. </p><p></p><p>If you'll be riding more than hiking then the Muck boot style may be good enough. The Muck boots won't support your ankles when carrying a load near as well as a good set of good fitting 10" leather hiking boots.</p><p></p><p>Ask your partner what he wears for boots if he's any kind of hunter at all. He should have a better clue than anyone else. Moose, caribou, and bear can be hunted and found in the lower lying land an on the hillsides/uplands. </p><p></p><p>I wear Muck boots if I'm not walking much, riding in a boat, on an ATV, and hanging around base camp. They're comfortable and warm boots. Walk in them much and you'll likely prefer leathers.</p><p></p><p>98% of my hunting is backpack hunting in the uplands/mountains, so I wear Lowa Sheep Hunters or similar 98% of the time I'm hunting sheep, caribou, black, grizzly, or brown bear. Isn't any elk up in the area you identified as your hunting location. I presume you could hunt/kill moose, caribou, black, or more likely grizzly bears up there. Grizzly requires the services of a registered hunting guide, or an Alaskan resident relative within first degree of kindrid relationship. So unless you're hunting with a brother, sister, mother, or father, you'd need a guide for grizzly hunting - to be legal.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Pdvdh, post: 1129202, member: 4191"] Boots would depend on the terrain you're going to be hunting. Also depends on the type of hunting. Are you planning on covering some miles on foot, or riding around on an ATV. Backpacking the game you kill or hauling the weight on an ATV. Which is why I was wondering why your Alaska contact couldn't provide better information. Upland hunting with significant hiking / backpacking and having to haul your gear and game on your back, I'd prefer a good fitting leather boot / gore tex lined, over the Muck boots. If you'll be riding more than hiking then the Muck boot style may be good enough. The Muck boots won't support your ankles when carrying a load near as well as a good set of good fitting 10" leather hiking boots. Ask your partner what he wears for boots if he's any kind of hunter at all. He should have a better clue than anyone else. Moose, caribou, and bear can be hunted and found in the lower lying land an on the hillsides/uplands. I wear Muck boots if I'm not walking much, riding in a boat, on an ATV, and hanging around base camp. They're comfortable and warm boots. Walk in them much and you'll likely prefer leathers. 98% of my hunting is backpack hunting in the uplands/mountains, so I wear Lowa Sheep Hunters or similar 98% of the time I'm hunting sheep, caribou, black, grizzly, or brown bear. Isn't any elk up in the area you identified as your hunting location. I presume you could hunt/kill moose, caribou, black, or more likely grizzly bears up there. Grizzly requires the services of a registered hunting guide, or an Alaskan resident relative within first degree of kindrid relationship. So unless you're hunting with a brother, sister, mother, or father, you'd need a guide for grizzly hunting - to be legal. [/QUOTE]
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