My dad has a pair of Hoffman's and he bought them right around the time I was born, which was twenty years ago, and he would wear them hunting quail in late winter. Then my three older brothers and I all wore them from one time to another, finally getting to wear those boots was like a rite of passage in our house, and the day my dad said I could wear the Hoffman's I was thrilled, and I haven't worn a more comfortable boot since. But finally after twenty years of hard use and being worn by my dad, all three of my older brothers, and then me, we sent the boots back to Hoffman to have them rebuilt, and now I love wearing those boots on quail hunts, late season deer hunts, when I'm shed hunting, and I also love to use them in the early spring season for turkey's when there is still snow on the ground. Those boots keep my feet dry and warm!!