Can anyone help shed the light on the difference between a hunting boot and a PAC boot? The hunting boots I’ve picked up are waterproof, Gore-Tex, 600 grams of Thinsulate, etc.

When I browse through the Cabela’s selection of PAC boots, some of those have no more Thinsulate that what I’m already getting. Some of the boots have rubber along the side, some don’t. Some have draw strings on the top, some don’t. I have gaiters, so that last part doesn’t seem much of an issue.

Cabelas has a guide available on the subject. That guide speaks to how active you may be, and how that would impact the amount of insulation you’d want on your boot. So again, it seems to be a factor of the amount of Thinsulate more so than anything else I can see. It makes it seem that temperature is the key factor to consider.

I’ll be Elk Hunting during Colorado’s first rifle season, mid-October. The hunt method will be ambush, no stalking. Hopefully no tracking! [8D] Snow is a possibility, but sub-zero temperature is pretty unlikely. What qualities should I seek in a PAC boot vs. my choice in a hunting boot?