British Ammo Boots
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Topic: British Ammo Boots
Posted By: Smokey
Subject: British Ammo Boots
Date Posted: June 24 2007 at 2:14am
Among my many lunacies, I like to use surplus military gear when I check out my property. I look like some European soldier from fifty years ago as I go about. Traspassers are only encountered once (they NEVER come back, I scare the mailto:C&@P - C&@P out of them). 
I have noticed the "What Price Glory" sells reproduction WWII British ammo boots, and am considering buying a pair. How are they as general "walk about" outdoors shoes? Are they comfortable, provide good footing, how do they hold up under heavy service?
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Posted By: hoadie
Date Posted: June 24 2007 at 8:50am
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I had a pair made here.I got help from Tony & my legion magazine, so the cobbler knew what to do.Mine are extremely comfortable.
Now - since they have hobnails - I DON't recommend walking around on your wife's hardwood floors. lol Tony still has his from his service days.He'd be the man to ask for a definate on 'em. Hoadie ------------- Loose wimmen tightened here |
Posted By: TomcatPC
Date Posted: June 24 2007 at 11:11am
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I do not have a pair made by What Price Glory, but I do have a pair sold by Bayonet Inc.. I got them when they were on closeout a couple years back, so they probably do not have them anymore. If they are anything close to the Ammo Boots sold by What Price Glory, I have no problems with them. Actually mine are fairly comfortable, but like what was already said, they are hobnailed so watch out for slick floors, etc.
I think there was a later (1960's-ish to recent) version that used a rubber sole, think they are called DMS Boots. I have never seen them for sale this side of the Atlantic, but might be worth checking online for. Mark ------------- The .303" Cartridge, Helping Englishmen express their emotions since 1888. |
Posted By: hoadie
Date Posted: June 24 2007 at 12:52pm
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The guys I know that do WWII (Argyll & Southern Highlanders) do alot of biz with What Price Glory.If I get a chance - I'll ask 'em.(or PM me & I'll give U a couple adresses & U can ask 'em)
Hoadie ------------- Loose wimmen tightened here |
Posted By: Tony
Date Posted: July 22 2007 at 5:47am
Ammo boots are great on dance floors they chew the wood to shreds!  If you're thinking of hunting get the vibram type soles they grip on rock better and a hell of a lot quieter. Use a pair of ammo boots and you may as well hang a cow bell round your neck ! Current Issue boots are all rubber soled but if you know where to look you can still get the old ammo boots in the surplus stores. Great for clog dancing and stomping on fingers in bar room brawls  ------------- Rottie (PitBulls dad.) “If electricity comes from electrons, does morality come from morons Born free taxed to death!!! |
Posted By: TomcatPC
Date Posted: July 22 2007 at 12:25pm
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I think I read somewhere that the Guards Regiments still used hobnailed Ammo Boots to a small extent, so they might still be in production. I do agree if you are looking for a pair of Ammo Boots for daily use, I would buy a pair of the DMS (rubber sole) Ammo Boots. I would like to find a pair someday.
Mark ------------- The .303" Cartridge, Helping Englishmen express their emotions since 1888. |
Posted By: Tony
Date Posted: July 22 2007 at 10:07pm
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Yeah they do for ceremonial parades but normal issue is the vibram sole type. Hobs make a lovely crash when you slam to attention it impresses the civvies! Lets get real you wouldn't wear a red coat and bearskin plus ammo boots for anything else than ceremonials . Though word has it on the site some our colonial bretheren like to dress up but I don't think we'll go into that its a family site! ------------- Rottie (PitBulls dad.) “If electricity comes from electrons, does morality come from morons Born free taxed to death!!! |
Posted By: Smokey
Date Posted: July 23 2007 at 7:23am
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Oh well,
I'd be walking through the woods, muck and mire in them, probably get more noise stepping on a branch. However, they do need to hold up with hard outdoors use, without crippling me.
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Posted By: Guests
Date Posted: July 23 2007 at 12:20pm
What Hoadie & I choose to dress in the privicey of our own Homes or certain bars is not the concern of the members of this board ! As for Hob nails ? You'll never wear out the soles of a pair of boots with them in place Dave |
Tony wrote:Posted By: hoadie
Date Posted: July 23 2007 at 6:28pm
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Yeah!! What he said!!
(Course I DON'T dress like that when I go to the Arlington in Maynooth) Hoadie ------------- Loose wimmen tightened here |
Posted By: Tony
Date Posted: July 23 2007 at 6:40pm
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Gotcha!! You two behave the youngsters on here don't need corrupting! ------------- Rottie (PitBulls dad.) “If electricity comes from electrons, does morality come from morons Born free taxed to death!!! |
Posted By: Guests
Date Posted: July 23 2007 at 8:29pm
TOO BLOODY LATE ! Look at Al & Hatchet ..........I rest my case Dave |
Posted By: Tony
Date Posted: July 24 2007 at 4:15am
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Al wears a skirt and calls it a kilt Hatchet is young and impressionable (recon he's been chatting to cookie too much) and as for Hoadie! Words fail me ! All I can say is he's canadian what do you expect? ------------- Rottie (PitBulls dad.) “If electricity comes from electrons, does morality come from morons Born free taxed to death!!! |
Posted By: allan
Date Posted: July 24 2007 at 6:19am
hey! howd i get DRAGGED into this? 
now you's are the ones that twisted our mind from the start..anyway my wife tells me i look good in red  ------------- 'SAVIOUR OF OUR SKIES BOYO!' |
Posted By: Tony
Date Posted: July 24 2007 at 6:27am
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And the high heels AL??? ------------- Rottie (PitBulls dad.) “If electricity comes from electrons, does morality come from morons Born free taxed to death!!! |
Posted By: Smokey
Date Posted: July 24 2007 at 6:42am
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"These boots were made for walking . . ."
Sounds like there's going to be an intercontinental stompin'!
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Posted By: White Rhino
Date Posted: July 24 2007 at 7:31am
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Easy there Leonerd! ------------- "White Rhino" "Everybody's got to believe in something. I believe I'll have another beer." --W. C. Fields |
Posted By: Tony
Date Posted: July 24 2007 at 9:21am
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It's called colonial banter! Us brits have to keep you kids in line! ------------- Rottie (PitBulls dad.) “If electricity comes from electrons, does morality come from morons Born free taxed to death!!! |
Posted By: Cookie Monster
Date Posted: July 24 2007 at 10:12am
| Banter of batter? |
Posted By: Hatchetman
Date Posted: July 24 2007 at 12:22pm
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Brits are madmen. Why else would they sent the scum of their society to the best country in the world instead of packing up and leaving their all so flooded country ------------- But the winters coming, And the snow will cover tracks, And I'll be watching, Because I'm hunting you - Sarah Blasko, The Gardens End |
Posted By: Tony
Date Posted: July 24 2007 at 5:57pm
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Think we touched a raw nerve !! ------------- Rottie (PitBulls dad.) “If electricity comes from electrons, does morality come from morons Born free taxed to death!!! |
Posted By: Smokey
Date Posted: July 25 2007 at 6:59am
The best of England came here. The rest wanted to take over after they saw what we had. We had to kick their butts twice before they finally backed off. 
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Posted By: Tony
Date Posted: July 25 2007 at 8:42pm
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Backed off? All we are doing is having a tea break! ------------- Rottie (PitBulls dad.) “If electricity comes from electrons, does morality come from morons Born free taxed to death!!! |
Posted By: Tony
Date Posted: July 28 2007 at 9:30pm
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Why in Gods name would we want to take over the USA? The USA wants to take over the world! With the Brits as their hatchet men. Besides word has it you have Terrorist problems over there! I hear The FBI and CIA are interrogating 3 Muslim maths teachers . They say its a new terror group ""AL Gebra ""???? Seems that are trying to decode the books they had with them to no avail. (y +x) 2 ------------- Rottie (PitBulls dad.) “If electricity comes from electrons, does morality come from morons Born free taxed to death!!! |
Posted By: White Rhino
Date Posted: July 28 2007 at 10:52pm
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"AL-GEBRA"?? Dang ! Tony ! that was a direct hit to the funny bone!!!!!
I dont want to take over the world , I just want my gun room finnished so I can get my projects finnished and start back shooting soon as we have some new neighbors move in.
we lost 2 famalies from our little peice of paridise , they bought elsewhere, found good deals ,so what can you say. only problem , I dont controle the renting of them houses so I cant control who rents them. all I can do is start shooting the AK while they are looking at the houses. if they wave with a smile then I know they are good people, if they shake thier head and give you the cold shoulder then we just might have trouble.
God help them on X-mass eve ,New years eve ,4 th of july ,when we have Bonfires out in my Pasture. the noise I creat when i shoot the cannon off!! will scare the life out of them!!!!
I love my place in the SWAMP!!!!!!!
OH YEA! the Reverb the swamp makes when you shoot the Cannon at night is awsome!!!!  ------------- "White Rhino" "Everybody's got to believe in something. I believe I'll have another beer." --W. C. Fields |
Posted By: hoadie
Date Posted: July 29 2007 at 11:19am
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Throughout my re-enacting days I've always enjoyed those times when they had the evening massed artillery salute.Man-those napoleons going off just after dusk is a sight to behold -specially when you have 57 of 'em together!!
hoadie ------------- Loose wimmen tightened here |
Posted By: Tony
Date Posted: July 29 2007 at 6:49pm
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1812 overture Hoadie?
Right in my younger days when Noah was a lad the school decided to do a concert and the last piece of music was the 1812 overture. Everything was going to plan the audience was loving it then the final piece started. They'd rigged stage maroons in dustbins to sound like cannons and the teacher was there with his switchboard ready to start the bangs. Yours truly was at the back of the hall ready to leg it when the fun started.
The 1st bang got the audience sitting up in their seats and next thing there was a dusbin lid floating through the air on to the stage. The pressure wave from the maroon had flipped the lid like a frisbee. Another bang and another dusbin lid sailed on to the stage. They never did find out who'd slipped the bin lids on to the bins. ------------- Rottie (PitBulls dad.) “If electricity comes from electrons, does morality come from morons Born free taxed to death!!! |
Posted By: Cookie Monster
Date Posted: July 30 2007 at 8:57am
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Tony,
I bet you knew the indivdual that would have done such??
CM
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Posted By: Tony
Date Posted: July 30 2007 at 4:54pm
Awwwwwwwwwww cookie you do me a grave injustice! Would I a man of peace and culture associate with people like that?  Too bloody right I know why do you think I was at the back of the hall ready to leg it? ------------- Rottie (PitBulls dad.) “If electricity comes from electrons, does morality come from morons Born free taxed to death!!! |
Posted By: hoadie
Date Posted: July 30 2007 at 6:35pm
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The Toronto symphony used to play Overture of 1812 on Toronto Island.They had the cannons in Ft York (circa 1812) timed so that they would fire & the sound arrive @ the right time.It was really something to see & hear...but alas, during the crescendo -those cannons have to be fired quite quickly, & since there wasn't quite enough of these Yankee fleet bashers available, speed was necessary.Unfortunatly one of 'em wasn't swabbed completly & when the lad stuffed the charge into the cannon-it ignited, sending his right arm out into Lake Ontario...which by the way ticked off the symphony & the guests, because of the improper blast, & it really caused a stir @ the Fort-losing they're rammer & all..not to mention the damage to the uniform!!
So then they decided to use HMCS Haida's guns.After all she was parked nearby.That didn't last long either, cause the symphony said her deck guns were too "modern" sounding, & DND said they couldn't afford the charges.(Our liberal gov't @ its best) Ah-if ya didn't laugh you'd hafta cry! Hoadie ------------- Loose wimmen tightened here |
Posted By: White Rhino
Date Posted: July 31 2007 at 7:55am
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So Hoadie ? the Lad had a hand in ending the use off the Cannons ??? Eh! ! ------------- "White Rhino" "Everybody's got to believe in something. I believe I'll have another beer." --W. C. Fields |
Posted By: hoadie
Date Posted: July 31 2007 at 6:24pm
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Yeah-I reckon...Never did get his arm back.
Come to think of it, I haven't heard of those big guns being fired since(I could be wrong). Its really quite a place to see(Ft.York)Them big ole cannons(I think they're 30 pounders) etc.Durin war of 1812, the Yankees sailed across the Lake & landed away from the fort.They surprised the British/Canadians there & overtook the fort quite quickly -while our side retreated north(quite quickly) thru York(now Toronto). the Yankees had a mind to loot & burn the town- much to the chagrin of the residents(already panicked when they saw our guys skeedadlin!)But - before they could get a real good fire goin, word came that a war party of 250 Mohawks was enroute & would be on them shortly - so the Yankees boarded they're ships & skeedadled.(They always feared the Indians more than us!)On they're way home, they just HAD to have a fire...so they stopped & burnt the village of Virgil. Hoadie ------------- Loose wimmen tightened here |
Posted By: White Rhino
Date Posted: August 01 2007 at 6:50am
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Them Yankees loved to burn things back then! we should practice that in our Millitary today!!!!
Burn!! Rape!!!! and Pillage!!!!! was our motto in 2nd platton 2/7 Inf, come to think of it , My LT. should be getting out of FT. Levenworth pretty soon... I really dont know how long he got though.
Does any one know how long you get for breaking a Cease Fire ??? with morters (captured Morters that is!) ------------- "White Rhino" "Everybody's got to believe in something. I believe I'll have another beer." --W. C. Fields |
Posted By: hoadie
Date Posted: August 01 2007 at 8:50am
If'n they was captured mortars..why didn't LT use the defence that he was just returning they're stuff? 
Hoadie ------------- Loose wimmen tightened here |
Posted By: Tony
Date Posted: August 01 2007 at 9:24am
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Yeah thats bang on hoadie ! Or use the usual Yankee excuse " Friendly Fire!" It was their own guys shooting at them! ------------- Rottie (PitBulls dad.) “If electricity comes from electrons, does morality come from morons Born free taxed to death!!! |
Posted By: White Rhino
Date Posted: August 01 2007 at 10:19am
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Dont know! I never got to talk to him after, I do know they knew where they came from and our cordinance matched !!!
Hey Tony we lost 2 to friendly fire , Imagine that. and 2 to a grenade accident. in the back of a Bradely P.C. , I.F.V.
I my self have been Morterd and shot at by our own people!!! two different occasions! ------------- "White Rhino" "Everybody's got to believe in something. I believe I'll have another beer." --W. C. Fields |
Posted By: hoadie
Date Posted: August 01 2007 at 1:04pm
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Well then I guess its true what they say..Americans are so into kickin butt, that when they run outta butts to kick-they'll kick they're own!!
Hoadie ------------- Loose wimmen tightened here |
Posted By: Hatchetman
Date Posted: August 01 2007 at 2:37pm
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Thats when they aren't scared sh*tless of hoop snakes and drop bares!
------------- But the winters coming, And the snow will cover tracks, And I'll be watching, Because I'm hunting you - Sarah Blasko, The Gardens End |
Posted By: allan
Date Posted: August 01 2007 at 3:54pm
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gotta watch those drop bears..damn nasty buggers them. ------------- 'SAVIOUR OF OUR SKIES BOYO!' |
Posted By: Tony
Date Posted: August 01 2007 at 5:27pm
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1 legged men in a** kicking competitions Hoadie??? ------------- Rottie (PitBulls dad.) “If electricity comes from electrons, does morality come from morons Born free taxed to death!!! |
Posted By: Cookie Monster
Date Posted: August 01 2007 at 11:04pm
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He would have to do some serious jumping!! LOL |
Posted By: Smokey
Date Posted: August 02 2007 at 7:06am
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???????????
What in the world is a "drop bear"?
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Posted By: Cookie Monster
Date Posted: August 02 2007 at 9:33am
| Smokey I will let Allen explain that one..........LOL |