How to get a perfect dear pelt?

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I shot them in the heart or head, but they still dont die, they just run off, as I understand it I have to kill them with a varment rifle, but I just cant kill them in one shot.

[ZaydinTTV]

Varmint rifle is way too small for deer. You want either a bow, the bolt action or springfield rifle or one of the long scope rifles.

[Yar]

If you chase the deer with your horse and lasso it you can get up close and execute it, and it wont decrease the star value at all. ez pz

[Sitting Duck]

IGN has a good guide for all the animals, including locations and best weapon(s) to use. Start here:

https://www.ign.com/wikis/red-dead-redemption-2/How_to_Get_a_Perfect_Pelt

[FreddyFredwardson]

Diposting pertama kali oleh Sitting Duck:

IGN has a good guide for all the animals, including locations and best weapon(s) to use. Start here:

https://www.ign.com/wikis/red-dead-redemption-2/How_to_Get_a_Perfect_Pelt

Wow thanks :o

[Bóbr D. Kurwa]

Varmint rifle is like hitting them in the head with a blunt weapon, they probably won't die, just injure them.

[Erynar]

Diposting pertama kali oleh Sitting Duck:

IGN has a good guide for all the animals, including locations and best weapon(s) to use. Start here:

https://www.ign.com/wikis/red-dead-redemption-2/How_to_Get_a_Perfect_Pelt

Also, in-game, if you've studied an animal previously using the binoculars or a scope, there's information about them in the compendium (ESC -> progress -> compendium -> animals IIRC). There, it should tell you which weapons (and potentially which ammo) you should be using. Sometimes, other weapons will work (e.g. I think that when it says that you should use a repeater, a rifle usually works just as well). You also should get told one of the weapons that will work when pressing whatever key the game tells you to press to get info on the animal when looking at them through a scope, but you won't get as much info as in the compendium.

For pretty much any animal, you need to shoot them in the head and kill them in one shot with the appropriate weapon to not cause there level to degrade. Every animal is one, two, or three stars, resulting in a one, two, or three star carcass / pelt respectively if shot correctly. If you shoot them incorrectly, they'll usually end up being one star (though it might be that they can go down to two stars from three; I'm not sure; usually, it drops to one). So, to get a perfect carcass / pelt, you have to shoot a three star animal correctly.

Sometimes, if you shoot an animal incorrectly, they'll be wounded and try to wander off, but if you follow them and find them on the ground dying, check their quality by pointing your gun at them. If they're two or three stars, let them die on their own (which will slightly drop your honor if you're near them when it happens), because then their carcass / pelt won't degrade any further whereas if you shoot them again or use a knife on them, the quality will drop. If they're one star, you might as well just kill them to speed things up and avoid the small loss of honor. But I _have_ actually gotten three star carcasses / pelts this way occasionally in spite of having screwed up the shot.

To get a head shot, you usually should be shooting from the side or head-on. From the back can work in some cases (e.g. with deer lowering their heads to eat), but it's much more likely to accidentally hit the wrong part of the animal.

For deer, any rifle or bow should work. Regular ammo will work for the rifle, though velocity and express ammo will also work (and if the deer is far enough away, velocity ammo is probably more likely to succeed at one-shotting them, whereas regular ammo might just injure them). Given how still deer often are, you shouldn't actually need to use deadeye on them a lot of the time (and you can't use deadeye with a scope, unfortunately), and personally, I think that they're the easiest animal to headshot in the game (snakes are probably the hardest), though obviously, it may take some practice before you get the hang of it.

A big advantage to using bows over guns for kills is that with bows, only animals close to the animal being shot will run, whereas with guns, pretty much any animal nearby will run away. So, it can be beneficial to try to sneak up close enough to the animal to try to shoot it with a bow rather than sniping it from far away, but sniping it from a ways away does decrease the chances of them noticing you and running, and if you shoot an animal in a group of animals, they'll almost always run away when one of them is shot even if it's with a bow (though occasionally, I've managed to shoot two deer in a group with a bow, because the second deer I managed to shoot was looking the other way and was slow to notice).

Regardless of how you want to shoot an animal though, you can't really approach with your horse. Going faster than about as slow as it will move will tend to alert the animals nearby, and even just changing speed typically alerts them simply because your character is stupid enough to make noises at the horse to slow them down instead of just using the reins, and that alerts the animals. So, while the extra height of shooting from a horse can be very beneficial, you can usually only shoot from a horse when you're a ways away - though sometimes, I've managed to use deadeye when the animals are running and even have gotten three star kills that way. It's not a good bet though.

[morrisonjake05]

arrow to the head

[zuzu]

Diposting pertama kali oleh 󠀡:

not an insult + its the truth isnt it? varmint rifle is basically a pellet gun, its for small game like rabbits. here in america, we use high powered rifles for big game like deer. stop giving them bruises and take them out like a real man.

Want to be a real American? Don't talk down to someone because of something as silly as where they're from.

[Jindrik]

Diposting pertama kali oleh nosuchname:

I shot them in the heart or head, but they dont die, they just run off, as I understand I have to kill them with a varment rifle, but I just cant kill them in one shot.

Not sure if it has been answered or not but mah man, you don't use a vermin rifle on dear...
vermin rifle is for smaller animals like bunnies or beavers, or bigger birds like eagles or hawks
Use regular rifle or bow and regular or poison arrows.

If you go to compendium which is in the progress option, you can look up at what exactly is the best weapon and area to hunt for the said animal.

Bonus tip: when the compendium says use poison arrows, regular arrows work just as fine, just aim for the neck/head and you should get a perfect pelt as long as it is a 3 star animal.
The game even show's the animals "weak spot" when you use dead eye by having a red glow, very useful on smaller animals like snakes or birds

[Boshedo]

I had that issue before but finally bought the bolt rifle and put a scope on it. Makes getting headshots easier for trying to level up trading. If I shoot a deer in the head and kill him, it doesn’t seem to take away the stars. Got several 3 Star deer and a raccoon.

[cerebus23]

varmit rifle is for small game, but the smallest that you need the game arrows for, toads and smalest bird types.

and arrows will not kill from long range. get a sniper rifle and ling scope and call it a day,

only time you want to rely on bow is working on challenges or your out of other ammo or its early game and you have no sniper rifles. OR your trying to be stealthy. get several high value targets an area and you happen to have your bow.....

usually running varmit and sniper and bow needs to be able to carry game and improved arrows at the same time this either or i got to stop what i am doing to switch arrow types is ♥♥♥♥♥♥♥♥.

sniper high velocity ammo, bow improved or small game arrows. use dead eye aim for the head and look for 3 stars.

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Diposting pertama kali oleh Zeaga:

Want to be a real American? Don't talk down to someone because of something as silly as where they're from.

Nobody wants to be a liberal. Back into your cave, 2020 will be bad for you, again.

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Diposting pertama kali oleh Zeaga:

Want to be a real American? Don't talk down to someone because of something as silly as where they're from.

Nobody wants to be a liberal. Back into your cave, 2020 will be bad for you, again.

What does not talking down to someone has to do with liberalism, does one have to be a prick in order not to be a liberal?

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Yes, you should know all about it

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Yes, you should know all about it

What is that supposed to mean?