New upland vest

I bought a Final Rise Summit XT last year. Its a good vest. Extremely modular. You can add pockets and pouches until you are blue in the face. For me, the most important part of any vest is that it not interfere with my gun mount. The Summit addresses this issue well. Many of the vests have padded (some heavily padded) shoulder straps. Those bother me. I have a LL Bean vest that I actually like as well, if not better than the Summit, but the shoulder straps bothered me. I ended up robbing a piece of seat belt material from a wrecked car and replacing the shooting side strap. Works well now. I do get a little frustrated with the Summit as I can overload it with whatevers. At 75, I need to cut back on weight. That isn't the vest's fault, it is mine. Last thought, for me, I can't see me carrying my 70lb lab very far using my Summit. Maybe I should get a smaller dog?
 
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