Thread: Stalking Slippers??

Originally Posted by trapperjohn

Might trial something like this for extreme wet days
Rubber overboot

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I use gubbas around camp, they are great.
Don't try and stalk in them though, they have little to no grip! Trust me i've arsed over heaps of times in them

Read a magazine story a few years ago where the old boy made some stalking slippers from marine carpet!worked for him.

No ones mentioned crocs?

Originally Posted by blip

No ones mentioned crocs?

For good reason, but there is always that one guy.

Yea not me I just wear jandals

Xero shoes are a bit cheaper and smaller than the vibrafeet.

1. Salomons
2. Place the ball of your foot and toes first, them gently place your heel.
3. Stand still for 5 minutes. Look around slowly, listen and smell for 5 minutes
4. If hunting in front of dog watch the dog.
5. Goto 2.

Boonies reef shoes. Not waterproof but I just have a sacrificial pair of socks. Nice and quiet and reasonably grippy. Probably need a new pair yearly but at 25 bucks who cares.

Big advantage in hunting in something like this isn't noise at full stalk(although they are quieter here too) but the much lower noise at medium moving/covering ground speeds.

Originally Posted by Nick-D

Boonies reef shoes. Not waterproof but I just have a sacrificial pair of socks. Nice and quiet and reasonably grippy. Probably need a new pair yearly but at 25 bucks who cares.

Big advantage in hunting in something like this isn't noise at full stalk(although they are quieter here too) but the much lower noise at medium moving/covering ground speeds.

What these grip like I have used dive boots before but ass up to much as they don't grip anything so ended making more noise then just wearing my normal boots

Have u tried the old dunlop volleys, amazing traction , soles still thin enough to "feel"

Double post

Originally Posted by Nick-D

Boonies reef shoes. Not waterproof but I just have a sacrificial pair of socks. Nice and quiet and reasonably grippy. Probably need a new pair yearly but at 25 bucks who cares.

Big advantage in hunting in something like this isn't noise at full stalk(although they are quieter here too) but the much lower noise at medium moving/covering ground speeds.

I've never had a problem being quiet and shooting deer bush stalking with boots, But...

These boonies with waterproof socks just take you to a whole other level of quiet. The best part is how fast you can move at near full stalk noise without expending the energy concentrating. I jogged up the hill to a roaring stag in the bush just at first light before he could quieten up last year and then shot him at 8m. It's bloody hard to break sticks as they are so soft, also you are more cautious where you place your feet so you don't hurt them on pointy bits etc. Also shot sika during summer in the tight scrub with cornflake leaves at 10m this year.
They are slippery in the muddy guts though, especially now I have worn the tread off.

These are drying after stalking sika during the week.


I'll be stalking in them all next week on sika too.

Btw I switch to them from my boots after walking in and then back to boots for the walk out, especially if I have a load of meat on.

@hunt08 you can come round home for a visit and check them out if you want.