Socks and wellies
- Thread starter swarovski
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Why is simple. It's the same reason that your toast always lands buttered side down. The same reason that in the same month, your car needs serviced, you need two new tyres and the washing machine conks out. Kismet.
I wear muckboots and that doesn't seem to happen much with them. Maybe long socks and garters (a la posh driven shooters kit) might be the answer.
I wear muckboots and that doesn't seem to happen much with them. Maybe long socks and garters (a la posh driven shooters kit) might be the answer.
McKenzie
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More fitted merino wool socks (such as skiing ones) really help. The wool doesn't stick so readily to the inside of the boots & consequently they don't get dragged down so easily. Icebreaker ones are really good & reassuringly expensive.
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Loki
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Hi all.
Have you ever wondered why your socks always fall down wearing wellies unless there pulled up over your trouser legs.is there a fix for this problem
Your heading socks and wellies reminded me of an incident about 20 years ago my friend a I where out lamping foxes and rabbits we had been out for about a hour and we where walking along by the boundary fence
Over the boundary was a landfill site my mate shone the lamp over the landfill and Charlie stood motionless about 100yrd away staring down the beam of the lamp
The temptation was to hard to resist so up went the .223 and down went Charlie all we had to do now was climb over the fence and remove the evidence of our crime
Before we had gone more than 30yrd we began to realise we had a slight problem the area that we walking across was wet sticky heavy clay soil freshly dug out from the bottom of the landfill and our wellies were stuck solid
While juggling with 2 rifles battery pack and lamp we managed pull our feet out of our wellies and scramble back to solid ground I was able to extract my wellies together with about 10lb of mud before my retreat but my mate who is quite a big lad had sunk a lot deeper was not so lucky
We when had a rather uncomfortable walk of around a 1/4 of a mile back to the motor while not very funny at the time it's one of those shooting memoirs that you never forgot and ever time it comes to mind it puts a smile on your face
I can always imagine the puzzled look on the digger drivers face the next morning when he arrived to find a dead fox and a pair of wellies stuck in the mud
badbob
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wear two pairs of socks,
cotton in summer, wool in winter.
when feeding always manage to get corn down the wellies,
then to decide whether to stop and try and get it out
or carry on regardless.
Good thing about wellies if you do get stuck in the mud or a bog
at least you can get out, not so easy with laced boots.
cotton in summer, wool in winter.
when feeding always manage to get corn down the wellies,
then to decide whether to stop and try and get it out
or carry on regardless.
Good thing about wellies if you do get stuck in the mud or a bog
at least you can get out, not so easy with laced boots.
Willie
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+1 but just above the bone
