To be perfectly honest - I lean a little towards buying a camo outer jacket and putting it over a good quality thermal jacket. I find it gives me a little more flexibility because sometimes it's really cold, but you know, sometimes it's warm
Remember - your number one requirement has to be "is it QUIET". Even jeans are too loud in the bush if you're after deer sometimes. I've not personally seen a lot of goretex that's really quiet.
Is Browning parka and matching pants warm enough for Lower Mainland fall season
The lower mainland? Dude - its NEVER that cold around here. And if you start hikeing a bit you'll suddenly find that every single peice of glass that gets near your face (scope included) fogs over in 1 second
The trick is to layer. It sounds like you're trying to buy one peice of clothing that'll do it all for you - and that's not how it works.
You've got your wicking layer (that's undergarments and long johns), then you've got your thermal layer (that's fleece sweaters and vests and such) and then you've got your weather layer (the outer layer that stops wind and helps keep rain off you).
Comfort in the feild is dependant on the COMPLETE solution - footwear, socks, your three layers of pants and tops (adjusted to temperature - sometimes its a tshirt and you're jacket, sometimes its thermal underwear, a sweater a vest and your jacket), your gloves and your headgear (very important).
If you don't address ANY ONE of those things right, you will be too hot or too cold, and each is as bad as the other.
I have a big loose jacket that's saddlecloth (mostly waterproof - but quiet). I wear fleece beneith it appropriate to the temperature outside, and either a ball cap or a hat. I have a few other things, like a head-sock thing if it's really cold and blowy, and good thermal underwear if it's really cold outside. I wear wool pants (actually with a little synth material in it - doesn't itch at all that way) and good boots with quiet gaitors for when it's colder (the gaitors are fleece lined on the outside for quiet but waterproof gore-tex inside for waterproofness in the wet grass).
I also have a light but very waterproof rubber rain poncho in case it starts REALLY raining - if it's really raining the need for camo is pretty slim for most animals and so is the need for quiet, as the rain covers more noise.
Personally - i'd keep looking just a little bit. Camo for deer bear and moose is largely overrated unless you're bowhunting, I know lots of very successful hunters who never touch the stuff. If you're not moving, they'll have a hard time seeing you.
Remember to save some money for boots, good socks, lots of fleece (cheap if you look around) and the rest of that stuff. Then layer to adapt to the temperature. Unless you're going into 20 below stuff, you don't need the warmest jacket out there because a little fleece under the jacket will take care of it. Just make sure the jacket is big enough to fit over a couple of layers if you need to.
