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Viberg boots: Horsehide vs Pit tanned bison leather opinions?

whizkidd

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Hello,

My first post here. i just wanted to see which leather gets better with age and more durable? Thanks!
 
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Mine are all fairly new but horse wrinkles easily. The natural bison seems like it could take the worst and still be looking good.
 
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Glass shoot

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Mine are all fairly new but horse wrinkles easily. The natural bison seems like it could take the worst and still be looking good.
Out of genuine curiosity of how horse leather ages vs bison. Can you confirm that the pics of both the reddish & the dark brown boots above are horse leather?

I have a 3 year old wolverine in bison leather and there's very little change in leather texture due to that tumbled texture of bison--which is great. Not much documentation of horse leather aging out there so it'd be cool to hear your ownership experience of the horse'd boots.
 

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