Catskinner,
Yea, in that particular place with those tall brown weeds, my back pack looked pretty good. It all depends on where you hunt. On a hillside full of white stuff, white camo makes more sense, but in that brown weed patch, the back pack camo would work just fine.
Sometimes it's difficult to have just the right or "perfect" camo when you need it, even on the same day from one stand to another. Many times I have dressed for snow (when snow was on the ground practically everywhere) only to find that "the" particular hillside I wanted to call didn't have any snow.
One time I was coming home from work and on the spur of the moment as I passed our family farm, the thought struck me to rush home, get dressed and do some coyote calling. It was pouring the snow, really coming down. The country road was becoming white, and the bank above the road was totally white. So, I rushed home, put on a white camo coverup over top of my insulated clothing, and went back to the farm. When I returned to the farm, the snow had suddenly stopped. When I walked over the hill to the area where I was going to call, expecting to see a very white hillside, I found it had hardly any snow at all, just a little skiff. Basically I stuck out like a sore thumb. But, all was not lost. After probably less than 5 minutes of calling, here came a coyote. It saw me, but I made the shot count.
You can see that I'm whiter than the hillside. Things don't always work out as you want, so you do the best you can.
Snow camo on the same hillside where the above coyote was taken, but on another day.
In this place, my snow camo worked pretty good.
Here the camo was matched perfectly for this particular bobcat hunt.
Another good match of camo.
Probably not the best camo here, the parka is too dark for surrounding. But, coyote on the ground nonetheless.
I think the moral of the story is this - that good camo is desirable, but not always necessary.
Some guys hunt successfully in blue jeans. Still, it pays to match the best you can, but that's
sometimes difficult to do from one stand to the next, depending on where you hunt.
