I have always gone the "whatever is on sale route" when it comes to hunting boots. Sometimes for good, sometimes for bad. Last year I bought a pair of the Danner Pronghorns. Best feeling pair of boots I have ever worn. I could quail hunt the Red River bottomland with them. Elk hunting is work. But in a full day of hunting at over 10k feet, I do good to cover 5 miles in hunting mode. Quail hunting as a youth with my dad, we might cover 25 miles, and it would be up and down and fast walking. So when I say the Danners would hold up to that, I am paying my ultimate compliment.
And as to your parameters, got mine on sale for 149.95!!!