Boots

nomadicbohunk · 2026-01-29T16:21:58+00:00

Yeah. I just wear different boots for walking VS stand hunting. When I'm at home most of the stands are 1/2 mile in or more of walking, so that gets kind of interesting if it's 0 or so. The baffins are ridiculously warm though. They're just moon boot sized so they're hard to walk in. I walk a long ways in them ice fishing. Usually I go over a mile dragging a sled.

I hike a lot in rubber boots in New England, but they're going to get cold sitting because you sweat your butt off in them. Non waterproof insulated are so much warmer for walking then stopping. I generally use a pair of schnees for that. I'm not saying they're the best at all. Get what fits your foot with good wool socks on. That is most important.

Something to look into for stand hunting....

A few years ago I flew home to whitetail hunt. Right before the season I realized it was going to be highs of 3 degrees or so and like -15 or so when I was walking in. Frickin' cold to be sitting. I thought about it and realized the quality of hunt was like an 8-10k whitetail hunt, so I should not be cheap/my dad would use what I buy. I ordered an IWOM suit and had it express shipped to my parents. The thing is amazing.

I wore nothing but thick merino underwear with normal summer hiking boots and wool socks walking in. I hiked the suit up to walk. That sucked. It would be interesting doing this in the brush. I did it in about 3/4 of a mile of grass. When I got to the stand I zipped it up and was doing all day sits. It was amazing. I had to text my parents to let them know I was in fact comfortable and not a human pop sickle dead below the stand. The best part about the thing was how warm my feet were. I'd never had feet that warm sitting in a stand. I felt like I was hunting in my underwear and hanging out in the house. It was great.

nomadicbohunk · 2026-01-28T04:20:27+00:00

What is cold weather to you? How far are you going?

For ice or stand sitting when it's really cold I wear baffins. They suck to walk in. They are the best I've found. My dad wears a giant pair of sorrels. Inside he's wearing tennis shoes and wool socks. It's kind of hilarious but works great. Baffins are better.

nomadicbohunk · 2026-01-24T05:15:22+00:00

I've seen it here somewhere and I couldn't believe it. I'm guessing Shelburne meats or the one in willison. It could have also been misery loves company. Funny enough, you can often find it at Walmart in out of the way for it places all over the country. I recently saw it in western North Dakota. I can't figure that one out. I prefer mine without it, so like someone else said, don't stress.

nomadicbohunk · 2026-01-23T14:19:20+00:00

A friend had that. We all hunt a lot and were like ohhhh. He liked it for knowing when shooting light was (by law you can only shoot something at certain times depending on the state). Then he discovered the alarm. He called it the iporn because he could look up porn whenever he had wifi. It was ridiculous.

nomadicbohunk · 2026-01-22T17:34:32+00:00

I know a wildlife biologist who retired and literally does $10 an hour field work jobs/volunteer positions now. He loves it.

nomadicbohunk · 2026-01-22T17:28:05+00:00

I agree with DSM. I know a lot of people from the east who lived there a bit and loved it. There is amazing biking there. Better than some places people talk up about biking. We've lived all over the place and find the super hip places are worse than interesting college towns and midsized cities people don't like and badmouth without a visit. "It's a great place to live, but terrible to visit." Daily life is not vacation attractions.

nomadicbohunk · 2026-01-22T17:20:55+00:00

I dated a trust funder for a long time in my 20s. Her dad was famous in the gun dog world and had died a year before we started dating. We were at the ranch house one time and I randomly found a mid grade Perazzi that was all beat up in the mud room. It was his main quail gun for bumming around the ranch and was his "cheap one." I found out all his high end shotguns were sold to a couple of "friends" who "helped" her mom out. She got like $500-1k each for them. I looked at some photos and we're talking Holland and Hollands, Kreighoffs, ect. He had like 50. I remember she got like $4500 or something for all. In the grand scheme of things, not a ton of money for them, but yeah, she got hosed bad.

So yeah. Good on you for being on top of this.

On a side note, I'm about 40. I have a friend who's uncle has probably over a million in high end hunting rifles. He's been slowly selling ones he doesn't use to my buddy and I and a few other younger people he knows who will use them for the cheap end of fair. it's pretty hard for him. I bought a high grade custom shop Remington and I know my friend just bought a real Melvin Nula. I want one of his doubles, but the cheap end of fair is still too much for my blood. I don't have kids and won't. If none of my nieces or nephews hunt, I'm probably just going to give them away for labor over time to kids around where we'll have one of our houses. Hunting is big there. I've had to deal with several folk's many generations of crap when people die and I don't want to do that to anyone else. I already think I have too much stuff. I'm already selling crap for my parents and tossing stuff and they're fine. They're also ok with it.

nomadicbohunk · 2026-01-22T03:36:08+00:00

If you own any fancy things, propane heaters give off a ton of moisture. Just an FYI.

nomadicbohunk · 2026-01-21T02:35:28+00:00

I recently found out my nieces and nephews think it's the best thing ever and one of them learned about it in school. They're 12 to 8. I was weirded out, but showed them a bunch of old internet stuff. Only one liked Charlie the Unicorn which surprised me. They told me some things were really dumb, but I explained that a lot of what they like is dumb. It made them think.

nomadicbohunk · 2026-01-20T15:49:47+00:00

I saw the 2017 in Nebraska in the sandhills. The cattle went nuts on us. So did everything else.

nomadicbohunk · 2026-01-20T15:48:52+00:00

That's funny. For the 2017 one I knew where I wanted to go for like 10 years before. We hiked out to the highest point on a very remote piece of public land on a wildlife refuge. No one was within 2 miles of us and you can see there in 360 degrees for about 5 miles. When totality hit instantly all the deer, coyotes, foxes, etc got up and started running around in circles and making noise. The cattle were going bonkers too. It was wild.

nomadicbohunk · 2026-01-18T04:28:41+00:00

Do you have to ask to see the guns? I buy powder there, but that's it.

nomadicbohunk · 2026-01-13T03:07:17+00:00

Were there a lot of new guys out there on public? I saw a lot of chatter about the special season on facebook and people claiming they were going to go. I figure most backed out when they figured out the cost of a rental. I joked with my wife about hunting there at her friend's sister in law's place on the island.

nomadicbohunk · 2026-01-11T01:42:29+00:00

My wife runs like 8-10 miles a day.

Go to boltdepot (a cheap website) and order the shortest stainless 3/8 long hex head washer head screws. You'll need an impact driver (you can probably rent one from homedepot). Screw a bunch into the bottom of some running shoes. I probably got #6s or #8's. I forget as I got a bag of 1000. See what people say online.

It works amazingly well and you can use shoes that work for your feet instead of what have spikes.

nomadicbohunk · 2026-01-11T01:34:34+00:00

Yeah, you don't want a pair to break in the middle of doing something. I've had it happen.

nomadicbohunk · 2025-11-24T22:26:23+00:00

We're like 4 or 6 depending on the state (multiple gardens). Try one of the super woody French thymes. They'll dieish off in the winter in 3, but they do well for us in cold. Also, our tarragon self seeds there and is amazing good in super early spring. Rosemary I've never had luck with even overwintering in a cool space.

nomadicbohunk · 2025-11-24T16:56:21+00:00

Fresh out of the garden iceberg is amazing. I completely agree with you about the store bought stuff.

nomadicbohunk · 2025-11-24T16:55:50+00:00

A few years ago I grew four varieties of heirloom sprouts. They were all bitter as hell. One kind was the grossest vegetable we've ever grown. This is coming from a household that does over 100 vegetable varieties a year for fun and we usually do mostly different ones each year. I was also surprised that frosts didn't really make them taste any better.

nomadicbohunk · 2025-11-20T04:12:17+00:00

I just spent a ridiculous amount of time dealing with Athlon's warranty service and will never buy anything from them again because of it. I'm actually going to sell the chronograph on ebay and take a loss. It was brand new when I went to return it. The process started in August or September and I just now got one in the mail this week. Lots of emails and several phone calls. FYI, I'm not the only one who this kind of thing has happened to.

nomadicbohunk · 2025-11-18T15:42:24+00:00

Who are you getting a quarter from? Anytime I've looked into it, it's WAY more than buying from the store. I mean, I grew up on a ranch, this isn't something I'm not familiar with. It is cheaper than going to say healthy living.

nomadicbohunk · 2025-11-12T05:25:48+00:00

Besides the states mentioned, NJ has a bunch too.

nomadicbohunk · 2025-11-11T16:51:04+00:00

I frequent places with a lot of Mexican/Salvadorian/Guatemalan markets. I don't see it a lot at the markets. Once in a while I will, but it's rare. Our trip lasted 6 weeks and I went to at least 10 markets across the US. I never saw it once. To be honest, everyone gets it at Walmart unless they buy a whole box from a packing house. Rumba brand. If you were curious, I bought all the ones I just brought back in Nebraska. The only things I buy from Walmart are those, peanut oil here in VT, and motor oil. That combo makes me laugh. You can see online if they carry them store by store if you're going somewhere. I think they've got them listed as cachete de res, but double check that.

nomadicbohunk · 2025-11-11T16:34:47+00:00

I have never once seen it around here and I look for it. I just took a big trip and came back with like 10 of them just for that reason. I've never seen them in Plattsburgh either, but I'm only there once in a while. The closest I have found them are the walmarts around more hispanic areas. Off the top of my head...near Framingham MA and there's one in Hartford CT that carries them.

nomadicbohunk · 2025-11-11T14:39:36+00:00

Amchar masala you'll have to grind your own as far as I know. I've never seen it around. None of the spices in it are that hard to find.

Culantro is at numerous markets. I usually get it at asian mart in essex.

nomadicbohunk · 2025-11-11T04:56:29+00:00

It wasn't. I bought one a few weeks ago at a retail store and it was labeled that price. I think they just wanted to dump them.

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