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1. Red Dead Redemption 2 Guide: Hunting
2. Red Dead Redemption 2 Elk: Where To Find And Hunt Elk
3. Red Dead Redemption 2: How To Hunt Like A Pro
   1. Red Dead Redemption 2 Pelts
   2. Red Dead Online Legendary Animals Guide: How To Find And Sample Legendary Animals
   3. The Right Side Of The Tracks
4. Master Hunter Challenges In Redemption 2

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. You’ll use the meat you gather to keep your cores full and your camp fed, and to craft some stat-buffing talismans. And you’ll need to do a lot of hunting to complete the Master Hunter Challenges (obviously).

Red Dead Redemption 2 Guide: Hunting

, though, hunting is only briefly explained in the game. There’s a lot of nuance, and many things to keep track of, if you want to be an efficient hunter. This guide will walk through hunting starting with the basics, then moving on to animal quality and using the right weapon, and then we’ll talk about what to do with animals once you’ve killed them. We’ll wrap it up with a case study of hunting to earn the Master Hunter Challenge 2.

We’re going to break everything down in much more detail below, but you already know the basics of hunting: Shoot an animal until it stops running away. Not understanding the nuances of the hunting mechanic can make it a frustrating, low-yield endeavor, so it’s worth some time to talk about it.

S America is full of animals. There are 178 kinds to discover, in fact (though this number includes males and females of some species), so you’re almost always near

Red Dead Redemption 2 Elk: Where To Find And Hunt Elk

The easiest way to find animals is to just ride your horse or walk around, and look for them. That may sound overly simple, but it’s a good way to start any hunt and, we’ve found, it’s as (or more) effective than some of the other ways to find animals. Arthur will also draw a picture of animals on his (your) map when he encounters them, and you can use those as general starting points for a hunt.

There may or may not be a squirrel in this image. Binoculars let you spot animals even if you can’t exactly see them. Rockstar Games via

The most powerful tool you have to find animals is your Eagle Eye ability. There’s a lot going on here (that we’ll discuss more below), but the biggest help is that it brightly highlights any animals you can see.

Made A Spreadsheet To Keep Track Of All The Animals You Need To Get Every Trapper + Pearson Item. This Does Not Include The Legendary Animals.

Studying animals adds them — and more importantly, information about them — to your Compendium. When you study an animal, you’ll get a blurb of information about it, including the best weapon to use (even if that’s not always perfect — see below).

Once an animal has been added to your Compendium, you’ll be able to identify it (and its pelt quality — more on this below) through your binoculars, while targeting with or without a weapon equipped, and while in Eagle Eye.

While using Eagle Eye, you’ll not only see animals highlighted if you’re close enough, but you’ll also see trails of where animals have been. If you’ve studied the animals, you’ll be able to see what kind of animal it is and its pelt quality.

Red Dead Redemption 2: How To Hunt Like A Pro

If you’re looking for just any old animal to put a bullet into, you can pick whatever track you want and start following. If you’re looking to be efficient (find a perfect-quality animal) or looking for a particular animal, this is your opportunity to improve your chances.

Very broadly speaking, this is the easiest to understand: You pull out a weapon, and you shoot until the animal you’re shooting at is dead. There are a couple of nuances, and we’ll talk about why you should use specific guns for specific animals below.

Sometimes, your prey is facing away from you or has its head down in the grass, and you just can’t get a good shot. While aiming at an animal, press square/X to call out to it. Most of the time, it will lift its head momentarily, giving you a great chance for a headshot. Just don’t call out too often, or you’ll scare it off.

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There are three things you can buy or craft that will help you in hunting: Herbivore Bait, Predator Bait and Cover Scent Lotion.

The baits work as you’d expect: They draw nearby animals to a location of your choosing. Ideally, you’ll put them somewhere with not much ground cover and some high ground nearby that you can watch from. In our experience, though, baits (specifically Herbivore Bait) just aren’t worth the time. You don’t have control over what comes to check it out — it could be the buck you’ve been stalking, or it could be a chipmunk — and it’s just a lot of waiting.

Cover Scent Lotion masks your scent from animals. You can see your scent (and which direction it’s blowing in) while you’re in Eagle Eye. The blueish stink lines coming off Arthur are your scent, and the direction they’re blowing indicates wind direction.

Red Dead Redemption 2 Pelts

Once you’ve studied an animal, you’ll be able to see its quality when you’re looking at it through your binoculars or aiming at it with a weapon. The quality that you see next to the animal’s name in the lower right corner is the animal’s base quality. It’ll never get better than that, no matter how well you shoot it. Animals (and pelts) have three possible qualities: ★ (poor), ★★ (good) or ★★★ (perfect).

This means that if you want to be efficient, you want to go for perfect animals and perfect kills every (or most of the) time.

The base quality of the animal is where its carcass and pelt quality starts, but it can go down depending on how you kill it. It makes sense: If you shoot a squirrel with a shotgun, the pelt isn’t exactly going to be pristine.

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To make sure you get perfect pelts, you have to use the right weapon. And the right weapon depends on the size of the animal. There are five sizes of animal in

: small, moderate, medium, large and massive. The quick way to know which animals are in which category is by what Arthur does with them when he picks up or stows their carcass. Small animals go straight into his satchel, moderate animals get skinned without a knife (ew) or tied to his saddle on the sides, medium and large animals require a knife to skin and get stowed on the back of his horse, and massive animals can only be butchered — Arthur can’t even carry them to his horse.

Once you know what size animal you’re dealing with, you can choose the right weapon to get your perfect kill. Bear (heh) in mind that your prey will only remain perfect if you get a fatal shot (like a headshot). Each animal size category has (at least) one weapon you need to use if you’re trying to get a perfect pelt:

The Right Side Of The Tracks

For medium and large animals, you have one other option: your lasso. Select it out of your weapon wheel, target the animal normally, then hold down R2/RT while you subdue the animal. Keep the trigger held down while you get off your horse and approach, then you’ll get a prompt to kill the animal cleanly.

So: You’ve found, tracked, killed, carried and skinned (or some combination thereof) an animal. Now what? You’ve got a few options for what to do with the animals you’ve killed — or, more specifically, their parts.

After you’ve killed and skinned three deer (which is easy enough, since you don’t have to worry about their quality) and completed Master Hunter Challenge 1, you’ll move on to the second one. You might expect that the second level wouldn’t be too difficult (and it’s ultimately not), but we sure struggled with it.

Master Hunter Challenges In Redemption 2

The second Master Hunter Challenge asks you to collect three perfect-quality rabbit pelts. As you can see from all that we wrote above, a lot goes into such a simple task.

Despite the game and your Compendium telling you to use your bow on rabbits, the only way to get a perfect rabbit pelt is to use a varmint rifle. One can be picked up at any gunsmith — and make sure you’ve got ammo for it while you’re there.

You can find rabbits pretty much anywhere in the game world (except, it may seem, when you’re looking for them). Use the icons Arthur draws on his map to get you to places you’ve seen them before or, if you have a good memory, just go to one of those places. We had a lot of luck south of Valentine, just northeast of the Horseshoe Overlook campsite.

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First, make sure you’re using your varmint rifle. Next, using your binoculars and Eagle Eye, make sure you’re looking at or tracking only perfect (three-star) rabbits. Finally, make sure you’re stocked up on Dead Eye tonics (like chewing tobacco).

You don’t need a scope, but they sure are nice to have. (You can buy