RE: What vest?
Maytom
If you try it you may never go back to the vest.
I have an old cotton "turkey hunting jacket" that Mossy Oak made in greenleaf bottomland camo - I bought it years ago and have sewed on it and replaced numerous buttons in order to prolong its life. It is just amedium weight cotton shirt/jacket but has a goodly number of pockets and I wear it nearly everytime I go unless it is really really cold or really really warm. It will hold nearly everything that's in the fanny pack, giving me the option of dropping it on certain days, but I always take the backpack.
I like to move (better stated, I have no patience for sitting in oneplacewith decoys calling at trees) and I can easily slip around with my setup. Often when I am approaching a bird I will drop the backpack behind a tree orin the weedsfor the last 20-50 yards of my approach so as to avoid making any additional noise when sitting down getting ready to call.
If you like to hunt like I do then I encourage to give it a try.
Good luck
Tom