 G'day, welcome to Bootlossophy. If you're new here, my name is Tech, and I'd like to acknowledge the traditional custodians of the land that I live and work on, which is the Wajib people of Nungavuja. Now, today I've got delivery from UPS of a box from New York, and those of you who recognize this box and where it's from in New York, will realize these are a new pair of Parkhurst boots. Okay, so this has arrived from Parkhurst boots, and it's just an unboxing of some new boots, so let's see what boots they are. As always, despite the new Parkhurst 2.0 brand, the box is a, or should be, a dual-purpose box where it's the shipping box and the actual box itself, so let's take a look. So there you go. The usual Parkhurst Thank You card, signed by Andrew Savisco, shipping notice. So this time they come in black tissue paper. The boots are wrapped in plastic, and there is, from what I can see, a single boot bag, rather than one for each boot. So let's take out the boots. They come with rounded laces in the eyelets, and there is a spare pair of what looks like flat, very skinny wax cotton laces. So let's clean this up and take a look at the boots in some detail. These are the Gaucho Moose. Now I already have a pair of Gaucho Moose, but those are the Richmond style boot with a toe cap, and much, much lighter than these. They're both from CF Stead, I understand. This is the Allen pair of boots, and let's take a look in some detail. So the Gaucho Moose is a Scandinavian elk, some really fantastic texture on the leather with some scars and different nicks that the animal is obviously gathered during its life. There are, let's just undo these laces, there are one, two, three, four, five brass eyelets and three speed hooks. The tongue is semi-gusseted up to the eyelets. The comfort insole also looks like it's in elk or moose. From what I can see on this quick pass through, the stitching in the new build by Parkhurst made in Spain is pretty good. Double stitching very close together on the backstay, single piece backstay, very close together double stitching on the quarter with a third stitch, give it strength, excellent quality of stitching. It's a split reverse Goodyear welt where the welt is split, and then part of it is flanged upwards to give it a little bit more water protection. You can see the layers in the rubber outsole, leather midsole, and then the welt, and it has a Parkhurst branded commando sole, quite similar to its hide and Vibram commando soles. Take a look at the other boot, and again, I can't see any miss stitching. Look at the patterning on that moose, quite amazing. You know, I actually think this construction from Parkhurst's new Spanish factory is actually better than the old factory in upstate New York. The end-to-end meeting of the welt is quite well hidden, the stitching looks good, the new 602 modified last looks a little slimmer in the ball of the feet, but we'll find out when we put them on feet. So that's the next step, I'm going to put these on feet. Here we go, let's get these on feet, slips in very nicely, definitely the right size in my usual 8D from Parkhurst. This is in the modified 602 last or 602M last, so it's a slightly different feel from the original 602s. I think the toe box is a little longer, there's a little bit more room in the front of my toes than the normal last, and this is definitely a bit more snug than the original 602, there's a little bit more volume as well. I like the way Parkhurst designed the lasts, there's a lot of feeling of comfort in the shape of the toes. These gaucho moose uppers feel a lot firmer than the richmans, which were so soft and cloth like almost canvas texture. These are quite a lot firmer, feel good though, a little bit more breaking involved, and I think the veg tan midsole is going to create some need for breaking in of the sole if you're comfortable. Okay let's take them for a walk. They feel extremely comfortable walking. The gait of the bend of the sole fits my walk. Yeah I definitely feel the snugness of the ball of the foot a lot more than in the original 602 last. Toes are roomy though, very comfortable. Quite happy with these, so now let's break them in. There you go, that's the unboxing of these new Parkhurst Allen boots in gaucho moose, a very different gaucho moose from the richmans that I already had, which I'll put a picture of just about here. I'm finding these quite different in makeup in the sense that I think they're a little bit stiffer than that one, even though those were also on a commando sole. I think those were on an its hide commando sole. I'm really loving the texture of this moose leather or Scandinavian elk. The coloring is extremely different despite it being called gaucho moose from Charlestead, exactly the same as the Richmond pair. The coloring in this is darker, grayer, even greener, and will make a very different pair to look at. So I hope you like the unboxing. Keep watching because I will bring you a subsequent initial impressions review of what I think of these boots once I've broken them in. That might take about six to eight weeks, and I'll bring you a video then. And then ultimately after about six months where I'll bring you another full and deeper review of these boots. So before you go, don't forget to click on like and subscribe. And keep watching my channel because I'll have a lot more boot reviews to bring to you. And until then, take care guys and I'll see you soon.