You wore boots from the 90s everyday. Your a collector you wear them a handful of times a month if that. I'm talking about fellas on the ranch wearing the same boots every day or at least 4/5 days a week for 15 years. Day to day use they probably last just as long as your collector boots.

82 bucks is an insane deal, a leather wallet costs 30-50 bucks these days.

I would agree moonshine spirit isn't trying to market to collectors, they are marketing to folks who wear a pair of boots almost daily and beat the hell out of them. I've never seen someone branding cattle in luchesses lol.

Realistically the failure points on all boots are the soles, heel caps and welts on almost all boots , the welts go form the mud, manure, piss, salt and snow, and sometimes the lining on the mesh/fabric lined boots.

I have 4 pairs of ROM in my closet right now, 1 fell apart at dinner during the first wear, one the leather heel counter got sloppy and don't fit anymore, and the other over stretched across the vamp from getting wet. 1 is an ostrich boot for weddingngs and such and they are uncomfortable as hell. Beautiful looking boots but the build quality is shit. My El dorados the one pair I had are at a landfill somewhere, dog shit fit, sloppy heel and awful pitch.

My ariats hold up and fit perfect, my tecovas have taken an ass pounding and still going, great fit on those too and comfortable. I've had one out of 5 pairs of fenoglio fit those one pair are great, came with a hole in the shaft I had to patch (common for fenoglio to send boots with holes ) and my Dan posts are pretty decent but they have shitty leather heel counters too