After many years of wearing a filson vest as my main hunting article, I will finally have to retire it.  Too many years of rabbit hunting in briars and brambles finally spelled its demise.  All those years and never even loosing a button.  What a rugged piece of clothing.  I can't believe how attached I had become to it.

Well, last weekend while in Kansas City, I fould a new filson vest in the traditional red and black plaid so I should be good for another twenty five years or so.  I can't wait to wear it so if you see someone wearing a wool vest in the Oklahoma heat, think nothing of it.  

Buddy does those re-enactment civil war deals...all wool. Always summer...

but ya'll look like a redcoat a comin, Gordon!

Oh...hate to be a wet blanket, but if'n you found something like what you had, it'd better be a long forgotten, not worn, USED piece cause nobody...nobody makes it like they used to!

Dang shame, too! ;(

Glad you found a replacement. I don't think I am putting mine on until mid/late October.....