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Re: Snow shoes. [Re: Steelflight] #6554868
06/13/19 12:47 PM
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A long, long, long time. I have friends who put at least 5000 miles a year on the exact same shoes on expeditions and whatnot, and they have found it is the best wearing snowshoe deck material. They literally walk all winter, both on their property and as a part of everyday life and guiding expeditions all over northern ontario and quebec. It far outlasts the traditional rawhide, and it gets just as tight when weaving it. I think they use some 600 lb test for part of it also, and 400 for the main deck. I get mine from a net company in BC

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Re: Snow shoes. [Re: Steelflight] #6554874
06/13/19 12:50 PM
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Apparently the sunlight doesn't do it in like the smaller fishing line? Interesting. Do you have a website for the B.C. place?


Re: Snow shoes. [Re: ] #6554911
06/13/19 01:51 PM
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Originally Posted by dirtydogtrapping
Yeah I don't deal with over flow up on the mountain, But my bindings get wet and freeze stiff and cause me
problems in wet snow.



Have you tried rubber for bindings ? I cut strips from old inner tubes. Last a long time and they are quiet. I hate squeaky bindings . Makes it tough when you're hunting


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Re: Snow shoes. [Re: Steelflight] #6554916
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Never had any. But I've wished for some a handful of times.

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Re: Snow shoes. [Re: Steelflight] #6554941
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What are snowmshoes? Just kidding. Saw a picture of a pair once.

Re: Snow shoes. [Re: ] #6554948
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Originally Posted by dirtydogtrapping
No I've yet to try any thing, I guess my question would can you post a picture of your bindings and how you attached them to the shoes?

[Linked Image] Rubber bindings, commercial and cut out of inner tube.


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Re: Snow shoes. [Re: ] #6554950
06/13/19 03:07 PM
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Originally Posted by dirtydogtrapping
No I've yet to try any thing, I guess my question would can you post a picture of your bindings and how you attached them to the shoes?


My snowshoes with those bindings are at my trapline cabin so I can't get a picture. Look up the Bob Maki bindings. That isn't what I use but at least you'll get some ideas


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Re: Snow shoes. [Re: Steelflight] #6554957
06/13/19 03:17 PM
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Check out Lure of the North's website. They have really good videos about using traditional snowshoes.

Re: Snow shoes. [Re: Steelflight] #6554961
06/13/19 03:24 PM
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I have trapped the Adirondacks for better than 50 years, never with a snowmobile, always on foot. As for snowshoes I prefer the "pickerel" style. Long and narrow. I hate walking spread legged.
Also, I prefer the neoprene lacing vs. rawhide, as when the snow is wet it sticks to the shoe and feels like a ton.
One other thing, when trapping on ice I never hook the heel strap, rather shuffle along like wearing a pair of slippers. Snowshoes are great for distributing your weight, but should you break through you want to get out of them in a hurry. I know, been there.

Re: Snow shoes. [Re: Steelflight] #6554968
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I have never understood why people walk like that on snowshoes. There's no reason for it as far as I can determine. Maybe they just think they have to.

With 10 in wide shoes the closest you can get is ten inches from your other foot. (5 inches from center to center) Do most people walk around all day with their feet LESS than 10 inches apart ?


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Re: Snow shoes. [Re: Steelflight] #6555054
06/13/19 06:34 PM
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I have the Alaska type snowshoes. With leather binders. I had got them back in 1977 and had put some linseed oil on them. They are made of wood with rawhide lace. You can run with them and like white17 to keep your feet close and these dose just that.


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Re: Snow shoes. [Re: coydog2] #6555075
06/13/19 07:25 PM
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I have owned just about every snowshoe design ever conceived. I think I like the Ojibwa or Cree as Boco refers to them the best. They're no more functional that any of the others but I just love the design.

A bobcat track in the snow between my shoes and my sons wheeler buried under the snow. We definitely got some snow last winter. [Linked Image]
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Re: Snow shoes. [Re: Steelflight] #6555081
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[Linked Image]
Cree trapping snowshoes hand made in Fort Albany.These have had one refurbishment from extensive use.

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Cree hunting snowshoes-hand made in Moose Factory.-Never used.

Note the extreme upturned toes..

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Re: Snow shoes. [Re: Boco] #6555088
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Originally Posted by Boco
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Cree trapping snowshoes hand made in Fort Albany.These have had one refurbishment from extensive use.

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Cree hunting snowshoes-hand made in Moose Factory.-Never used.

Note the extreme upturned toes..


Works of art IMO. I have a pair of hand made snowshoes my parents got me when I was a kid and they are close to fifty years old. Too much sentimental value to risk using.

Re: Snow shoes. [Re: Steelflight] #6555095
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I put many miles on the big tamarack trapping shoes.Float on 4 feet of powder.
The hunting shoes I bought much later basically as art,although they were made as utility hunting snowshoes.There used to be many people making snowshoes in the bush,and you could tell by the frames and filling,which area they came from.Not as many anymore having the skills to handmake shoes like those.When you find an old trapping cabin in the bush there is usually a few old frames in the vicinity hanging in a tree or in the old wood shed,or an old pair of shoes,one with a broken frame.Sometimes there are remains of smaller shoes also,probably made for the kids for rabbit snaring in winter.

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Re: Snow shoes. [Re: white17] #6555111
06/13/19 08:19 PM
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Originally Posted by white17
It may not be important in your conditions but for me....overflow is a big factor. The wood shoes don't conduct and hold the cold like metal frames do. So ice doesn't build on them as rapidly as it can on metal. The wood is also easier to repair on the trail if need be.


Thanks for answering that as I wondered too. I used wood frames for many years trapping beaver and scouting for sign. Finally bought a pair of the new fangled things and have liked them. Have not worn them much the last few years.
Thanks



Re: Snow shoes. [Re: Posco] #6555112
06/13/19 08:20 PM
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Over the years I have put on a mile or two on snowshoes.
Much of that time has been carrying survey equipment. I would not own a
pair of the bearpaw style shoes if you gave them to me. I use either the
Alaskan or Ojibway style, much easier to walk in and the Maki rubber bindings.
I bought a pair of Red Feather shoes awhile back, they are ok for climbing hills I guess, they have a cleat, but my size 13 LaCrosse pacboots
have abut as much surface bearing area.
These type of shoes allow a guy to walk much easier, use as a shovel dig up snow to find a monument and so forth.
They are also a real hoot to try and work around the tripod in. I might also add
that crossing over a 5' barb wire fence while wearing them is prone to giving someone a chuckle.
Finally, whatever anybody tells ya, do not wear them thinking you can cross thin ice.

Zim

Re: Snow shoes. [Re: Zim] #6555118
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Originally Posted by Zim
Over the years I have put on a mile or two on snowshoes.
Much of that time has been carrying survey equipment. I would not own a
pair of the bearpaw style shoes if you gave them to me. I use either the
Alaskan or Ojibway style, much easier to walk in and the Maki rubber bindings.
These type of shoes allow a guy to walk much easier, use as a shovel dig up snow to find a monument and so forth.
They are also a real hoot to try and work around the tripod in. I might also add
that crossing over a 5' barb wire fence while wearing them is prone to giving someone a chuckle.
Finally, whatever anybody tells ya, do not wear them thinking you can cross thin ice.

Zim


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Re: Snow shoes. [Re: Steelflight] #6555265
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Dangit Zim, just reading that last sentence make me catch my breath. I have always had a big phobia of falling through while on snowshoes. I used to wear them while beaver trapping and did my share of under-ice beaver trapping....but I was/am so chicken of a splash-down that I would ALWAYS pull my heel out of the harness when on ice so if I did go through all I had to do id kick off the shoe.


Re: Snow shoes. [Re: ] #6555271
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Originally Posted by dirtydogtrapping
I like the military surplus shoes. We can get up to three feet of snow over night in the cascades.
And they get me were I want to go.
I was pouring a concrete drive way years ago and the home owner opened the garage door and had two hundred pairs of them hanging allover the walls.
He told me he recently retired from the air force and was stationed in Alaska. His plan's were to donate them to to boy scout troops in this area.
Then he found out our local boy scouts are run by a bunch of house wives that had no interest in takeing the kids out side during winter. Long story short he was more than happy to give the hole crew a set of them, And of course i asked for two sets and he threw in extra bindings as well.

Those are the ones I use, 30 years, broke one, got another pair from sportsmans guide

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