I am wearing them right now bow hunting and dove hunting. With bad knees the thing I like about them is they are light as a feather. They do not wear your legs out. I think they have more than enough support, but you can feel sticks and things through them. I also put the insulated pads in when it gets a little colder but not too cold. The bottoms wear very well.
Mine are twenty-plus years old and have been resoled many times. They even put a patch where the leather was thin when they put on the last new bottoms. If you keep the leather covered in mink oil they do not leak. But it wears off quickly. I got the taller ones and got the dark brown, which they will turn anyway with mink oil. Since I was a kid I wore these quail hunting every time it was wet. Will eat your socks unless you wear socks taller than the boot.
The only thing I'll buy from L L Bean since everything in their catalog except the boots says IMPORTED. I throw the catalog in the trash now.
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