How to make gm$ efficiently?

[Vedo]

So i have been doing missions all day and hunting along the way and i have only just crossed 1k gm$. Having only the ability to hunt white/black tails efficiently (caller and compatible weapons/ammo), it seems like its going to take quite some time to get anywhere. I'd like to get a bow but if i make that my first purchase im still not going to be able to hunt anything else other that white/black tail.

The missions dont give all that much gm$ and some are quite time consuming. Did the "north to south" sightseeing mission and it took such a long time, especially since i shot a couple animals along the way. The award i believe was only 150gm$ which is nothing.

[Mondyrocks]

I must agree with Tenby here.
While I love my crossbow pistol for turkeys (it's completely awesome) a bow (especially the parker python because of the rangefinder scope) is a far better bet because you will be able to ethically hunt everything with it.

Damn, that crossbow pistol is a lot of fun though :)

And don't forget with the .243 your ammo replenishes back to 3 boxes at the end of every hunt, so you won't be spending money you haven't got on ammo.

As far as missions go, the turkey, whitetail and coyote missions are all really easy to complete, but some of them call for specific weapons so you'll be stuck if you haven't got them.

Good luck and good hunting :)

[Vedo]

Originally posted by Amondale:

Originally posted by Vedi:

I will be going for a bow over the crossbow pistol because i want to be able to hunt some larger things as well. Im not necessarily looking to focus on turkey.

The title of your thread is: "How to make gm$ efficiently?". You didn't start a thread with the title "Which bow should I buy?", right?

As one of the highest ranked players in the world I suggested the crossbow pistol, but so does the #1 player in the world:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rm7Ko4c6Sug

Reasons why both us of recommend this method:

- You can get a lot of turkeys once you know the best spots.
- The crossbow pistol is cheaper than most bows.
- It spooks far less turkeys than a bow.
- You'll hardly miss when you use it a 25m max, which reduces ammo costs.
- Turkeys give on average one of the highest payouts.
- You can finish the first 9 turkey missions with ease, for a 5,300 gm$ payout.

Of course you're free to buy a bow, and yes, you can shoot more species with it, but to shoot more species you'll need more callers, or it's going to be less effective in a tower and more time consuming and risky to kill an animal on the ground. At this stage without the callers, you won't earn gm$ efficiently

You're probably also going to miss more shots, since bows are not as to easy to use as a rifle, plus you probably don't have rangefinder binoculars so you will have a problem as a beginner to estimate distances and to adjust for arrow drop.

In many cases you'll have the animal running off with a body shot and since you're not very experienced with tracking yet, you'll often won't find the dead animal. So all in all you're wasting a lot of gm$ on ammo and all that tracking will slow down your attempts to earn more gm$.

Originally posted by Vedi:

The missions dont give all that much gm$ and some are quite time consuming.

I don't think you're aware of the fact that payout for missions for one specific species increases after you finish a mission. I started for example with the first Whitetail mission and once I was done with all missions, I had earned 17,000 gm$, the last mission alone had a 3,800 gm$ payout.

Time consuming? Sure, but lets assume that I won't do any missions and that an average kill would have a payout of 55 gm$. That means that I would have to kill 17,000 / 55 = 309(!) animals instead to make the same amount of money, plus most of my kills would have to be males, which are generally harder to find than females.

Sure, missions will require at one point that you use a special weapon or gear, but that's often in the later missions. With turkey missions you won't have that problem until mission 10 and the first 9 missions are extremely easy and quick to finish, and give 5,300 gm$ as a reward, the equivalent of shooting close to 100 whitetail bucks. Now consider that there are more does than bucks, and it means that you might have to spot 400 whitetails (just a rough guess).

It important to own at least one tent. Take that video for example, without a tent you'll be running for almost 20 min to get there. You save a lot of time with a tent, so it allows you to make more gm$/hr, plus a tent allows you to finish many missions easier and quicker.

Again, I'm not telling you to buy anything, I just want to make it clear that buying a bow will not do wonders for gm$ yet, it will require callers, and a treestand and tent is also very welcome.

If you want to buy a bow, get a Python, a great beginners bow; relatively silent, powerful enough, quick to pull and you can get a range finder for it at a later stage.

Appreciate the rundown. Perhaps i should have named the thread differently but you are right, i was asking about the MOST efficient way to make gm$ i suppose.

The way i see it the bow is better value in the long run, i will use it a lot for all kind of animals. While the crossbow pistol is great im sure and probably is a better weapon for turkeys (especially if you are not in a hunting stand because of the ability to shoot while prone), i feel like its more of a luxury item. You dont really need it whereas you actually do need the bow. The bow can do everything the pistol can (not as good) but the pistol cant do everything the bow can do.
I will end up getting the pistol at some point but for right now i think the bow is better value and at the end of the day its a game and i still want to have fun. Shooting turkeys all day could get boring rather fast.

I ended up going with the "Red Dragon" bow (from what i understand its a Parker Python) and have already used it. With 10 arrows is got 7 turkeys and 3 blacktails. The rangefinder would be nice to have but again its not needed, i just get them in roughly 20 meters of me and dead. I watched a couple videos of people using the bow so im pretty confident with the distance.
I have now been playing for a couple days and i have learned a bit, i now know that the mission rewards scale quite drastically. It felt really slow when i was doing long travel missions for 100-200 gm$.

[Aragorn]

shoot birds if u have shotgun , magpie goose, duck , it is fastest way if you dont want to do mission , join some one and hunt bird with him then buy ur own setup

[HDArtworks]

12GA shotgun(free) ==> Birds (Goose, Ducks, Turkey)
.243 Rifle(free) ==> Predators (Coyote, Lynx, Red fox)

[wolf310ii]

Originally posted by Amondale:

A player who owns a crossbow pistol is going to make far more gm$/hr than the person with a bow, because of the high rewards for killing a turkey, the high number of turkeys and a reduced waste of ammo, plus the fact the fist 9 turkey missions can be finished super fast for a 5,300 gm$ reward.

Let's assume that two players have a 8,500 gm$ balance and that one player buys a 8,500 gm$ bow and the other player a 8,500 gm$ crossbow pistol.
If the person with the bow wants to earn another 8,500 gm$ to get a rifle, the person with a crossbow pistol will need far less time to earn 8,500 gm$ to get bow and at that point he will have a quick money maker with the crossbow pistol and a bow that can be used for all species. It's a win-win situation.

for the mission were you have to shot a turkey closer than 9m, i needed some time.
The tower is to high and on ground or with the tripod stand they dont come close enough.

With the bow i can also kill deers silent, without spooking the turkeys away.

[Mondyrocks]

The crossbow pistol is fantastic, I really love it and I've taken lots of turkeys with it but female turkeys don't award gm$.
I can hunt and take 10 or more elk, 10 or more deer, coyotes and turkeys all at the same time, from the same spot.
The only chance you have of doing that is with a bow.
I know that female elk and deer don't score either, but they will spook everything else if you're not careful, so it's best take em with a bow.
The ideal scenario would be to buy a bow then get the pistol as soon as you can afford it :)

This is just my opinion and doesn't mean I'm right, but it's the way I prefer to hunt :)

Good luck :D

[Mondyrocks]

Btw, the turkey missions (there are 11 of them) are incredibly easy up to mission 9, but mission 10 requires a side by side shotgun and mission 11 requires a .22 pistol, so you can't complete em without the required weapon, unless you have a friend who will shoot em for you and you just harvest!

Elk missions and coyote missions are also really easy to complete, but need specific weapons en route to completion :)

You can get 5200 gm$ from the turkey missions before the specified weapons are required so still a very nice amount.
If you did get the crossbow pistol then by the time you get to this stage you will have made enough with the missions and harvests to cover the costs anyway, the obvious disadvantage is you can't take anything else with that weapon, on Whitehart island at least (maybe bobcats but I've yet to see one)!! :D

[Burning Bridges]

Pulsar is a great choice. The crossbow pistol is nice to have but you hit a brick wall when you get tired of killing tukeys all day long.

[Hammer]

Originally posted by Vedi:

So i have been doing missions all day and hunting along the way and i have only just crossed 1k gm$. Having only the ability to hunt white/black tails efficiently (caller and compatible weapons/ammo), it seems like its going to take quite some time to get anywhere. I'd like to get a bow but if i make that my first purchase im still not going to be able to hunt anything else other that white/black tail.

The missions dont give all that much gm$ and some are quite time consuming. Did the "north to south" sightseeing mission and it took such a long time, especially since i shot a couple animals along the way. The award i believe was only 150gm$ which is nothing.

You can now on sell all animals you bag. So you can get gm that way instead. There is no more membership on this game, free to play all animals

[Bexarツ]

I can´t attach the document itself, so here you´ll get it the other way. Enjoy:D


Quickest & easiest way to start making Gm$ as beginner:

With free scope:

* Dall Sheep + Snowshoe Hare mission packs = 20.000 Gm$

- Buy: .44 magnum = 7.225, Scope = 4.250, Elk caller = 2.720 Gm$
Total = 5805 Gm$

* Do Elk pack = 17.000
Total = 22805 Gm$ (5.805+17.000)

- Buy .270 = 9333
Total = 13.472 Gm$ (22.805-9.333)

* Do Mule pack = 12.000
Total = 25472 Gm$ (13472 +12000)

* Buy reset: = 13.600 Gm$
Total = 11.872 Gm$ (25.472 – 13.600)

* Repeat those 4 packs (Dall, Snowshoe, Elk and Mule) = 49.000 Gm$
Total = 60.872 Gm$ (11.872+49.000) - 15.138 saved due to no equipment cost

* Reset again = 13.600
Total = 47.272 Gm$ (60.872-13.600)

* Do 3. reset
Total = 96.272 Gm$ (47.272+49.000) Gm$ for kills not added to total!!

96.272 = More then enough to cover for all expenses like ammo etc.

Once done, repeat and expand your income generation from doing other packs.

[DungeonLlama]

Or you could actually spend a little bit of money and support the game to help get yourself established for mission grinding or hunting every specie.

[TommyFresh]

Grinding missions is a good way but I often think people forget that 99% of the missions require an array of equipment/weapons to complete the whole series making them not so useful for new players with little to no gear.

IMO the best way for a new player without a lot of gear to grind gm$ is to hunt turkey. Buy a bow and 3 turkey decoys and go at them. People will say that Goose is the best way but that takes many gm$ to get a full decoy spread plus the callers and a blind just to get set up.

[Mondyrocks]

Originally posted by Tommy Fresh:

Grinding missions is a good way but I often think people forget that 99% of the missions require an array of equipment/weapons to complete the whole series making them not so useful for new players with little to no gear.

IMO the best way for a new player without a lot of gear to grind gm$ is to hunt turkey. Buy a bow and 3 turkey decoys and go at them. People will say that Goose is the best way but that takes many gm$ to get a full decoy spread plus the callers and a blind just to get set up.

The biggest problem with turkeys is that females pay zero gm$

If you have the equipment you can hunt turkeys, yotes, Elk and Blacktail all at the same time.
This would need investment in a bow (or crossbow) ammo and callers.

You will probably be able to do a few missions of each species as well, before other weapons are needed :)

As far as the dall sheep and snowshoe hare missions are concerned I find then time consuming and not that easy to be honest, buy maybe that's just me :)
I found the turkey, Coyote, elk and whitetail missions the easiest to complete :)

[JA]

nice

[TommyFresh]

Originally posted by Mondyrocks:

Originally posted by Tommy Fresh:

Grinding missions is a good way but I often think people forget that 99% of the missions require an array of equipment/weapons to complete the whole series making them not so useful for new players with little to no gear.

IMO the best way for a new player without a lot of gear to grind gm$ is to hunt turkey. Buy a bow and 3 turkey decoys and go at them. People will say that Goose is the best way but that takes many gm$ to get a full decoy spread plus the callers and a blind just to get set up.

The biggest problem with turkeys is that females pay zero gm$

If you have the equipment you can hunt turkeys, yotes, Elk and Blacktail all at the same time.
This would need investment in a bow (or crossbow) ammo and callers.

You will probably be able to do a few missions of each species as well, before other weapons are needed :)

As far as the dall sheep and snowshoe hare missions are concerned I find then time consuming and not that easy to be honest, buy maybe that's just me :)
I found the turkey, Coyote, elk and whitetail missions the easiest to complete :)

The female geese pay very low also. Yesterday I was hunting magpie and for a female I got 16gms I haven't hunted them though so I don;t know if that's low or average for a female. Male turkeys pay up to 150gms and the equipment for a turkey setup is much cheaper than a goose setup.

I normally hunt WHI for turkey at the golden treestand. In an hour I can average around 15-20 males plus I always get a few blacktail, elk and coyote.

I'm going to test it later. I'll spend an hour at turkeys and an hour at magpie. I will shoot everything I see during the hour and see which earns me more gms.


I still think for a beginner the turkey setup would be more efficient.