Keeping warm

I use the Heat Factory heat insole pads for your boots then throw away. Mickey Mouse boots work too but get too heavy for an old fart. -30 wind chill and warm as toast. I use one in each glove too.
 
I have used spray anti-persperiant on my feet when skiing for many years. Mainly to reduce the amount of sweating thus keeping them dry and hopefully warm.
 
The anti persperant really helps a lot. Also if you loosen up your boots when you get on stand helps with the blood flow. The boot blankes are also great. I have used them in -14 weather in Houlton Maine in January and the work.
 
I can help ya out here. I work in a 25-35 below zero freezer. 12 hrs a day for 7 years now. I start by spraying my feet with spray deoderant. Then put on a pair of these http://www.amazon.com/gp/aw/d/B004UOMLWM...gmp-1596-97-20. Then i put these over them http://m.sportsmansguide.com/Product.aspx?a=703115 then here is the boots i wear http://m.sportsmansguide.com/Product.aspx?a=467770. These boots are pretty cheap but between work. Hunting and ice fishing i get about 2 years out of them. I also go to the local craft stor and buy 3/8 in felt pad and make a cut out for the bottom of the boots. It makes them more comfortable as well as nice insulation on the bottom
 
Thru your doc - if you are friendly with your family MD, I would just give him/her a call and see if they can phone your local pharmacy with a scrip and avoid the clinic visit part.
 
Sweating feet usually means either your boots are too heavily insulated, too tight, or don't breathe well enough.

My wife complained 2yrs ago because her feet got REALLY cold in a pair of boots that she had worn in the cold several times. The only change she made was that she had put on thicker socks (or two pair, my memory isn't so hot). Her boots were just a bit too tight, didn't let air circulate, and she her feet froze. Same boots with only one pair of normal is good to 20below (about as cold as it ever gets here).

Pretty hard to keep your feet warm in rubber boots as well, because there's just NO air movement in them, so the sweat has nowhere to go, soaks through your insulation (and socks) and becomes a heat sink straight to the outside shell.

Or, of course, if you're wearing 2,000g pack boots on a 40degree day, your feet WILL get cold. You're going to sweat like crazy, soak your insulation, and sink heat away from your feet.

Call me a sissy if you want, but for what it's worth, I use boot/toe warmers. Most of the time I wear rubber "hog boots" (tall stove all rubber boots) while hunting, they cost about $20 at any farm supply store. I keep two pair, one that fits my foot in a normal crew sock for warm weather hunting, and one that fits with a crew sock and wool sock on, plus a toe warmer. The rubber boots and wool socks will keep me warm in ANY weather if I'm on my feet, and are good down to single digits to mid teens in the stand. Add a boot warmer, and take them off once a day and they're good down to 40below (about as cold as I've ever hunted them).
 
I worked construction up in ND and Northern MN for many years and we never went home because of the cold even a few days that read -40 on the thermometer(not wind chill).

We used to be able to get felt boots, looked just like a lace up boot but made of heavy felt and we wore them under five buckle overshoes, they worked great but they disapeared.

Sorel boots with the 3/8" felt liners were our next best bet. On really cold days the outside of the felt liner would freeze to the boot but your feet would stay warm. Most of us would bring extra liners and change them at lunch for the afternoon.

The anti-persperant worked for part of the day, also a plastic bag between two pairs of socks would keep the felt liners dry but my feet realy perspire and would get realyy soggy in a couple of hours.
 
Poly inner socks, with heavy wool outer socks, stuck down inside either some heavy pack boots, or some of those military "mickey mouse" boots.

Hope you don't have to walk much if you dress like this...I do when I snow-shoe in, and I've been comfortable to 35 below dressed like this.
 
Oh yea, your heel should be locked down, but you should be able to wiggle your toes. Too tight, and your feet will be un-comfortable, and you won't be able to walk far.

A loose heel will cause blisters.
 
There's a very big difference in working/walking in the cold, and sitting in a stand. Granted, coyote sets are generally short, but if you're looking at one pair of boots for all the hunting you might do, then you need something that'll keep your feet warm over 6-10 stationary hours in a deer stand.

One of the worst things for me in a cold deer blind is having your feet on the ground. Frozen ground is a heat sink. Get something that will elevate your feet a bit to keep them off of the frozen dirt.
 
I've heard about using spray on anti-persperant but I've never tried it or found anywhere that I could get it in odorless plus not only that but I've had the same problem for my entire life and I haven't found a solution for the problem I've tried merino wool socks lower insulation socks rubber boots you name it. Same as you just no remedy yet. I may look into the spray on antiperspirants and the 511 socks the guy said about. I have no idea I'm in the same boat as you are bud. And boy does it suck.

Ryan.
 
Try the drysol. You put it on your feet at nite for a couple of consecutive nites, then twice a week. Works very well to control hyperhidrosis (excess sweating. Usually a good idea to wear a pair of very light socks to bed when using it -this stuff will eat up your sheets. Not only will your feet sweat less, but you get fewer blisters and have less fungal infection problems (athlete's foot).
 


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