Deer hunting

[Emin27298]

so ive been playing this game on and off over since 2015 , but i still dont really know how to hunt deer with a bow . anyone got good tips for me?

[IFIYGD]

http://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=795426834

Good visual for how to aim the bow. The image shows pretty well how to line up shots. Moving targets... shoot slighty ahead of the direction they are moving to hit the target where you want to. Arrows are affected by wind and drop over distance, so practicing in differenet weather cnditions and at different distances is really a good idea. The target behind the Barn on PV is good, if you are prepared to live in that hostile region for a bit. Rabbits are good practice targets in any region, since they are close to the ground, die instantly if you hit them (so no tracking an animal until it dies to recover your arrow and harvest the carcass) and as long as you don't fire straight down into the ground, your arrows usually end up intact and easy to find if you miss.

Most successful bow shot on deer for me is in the neck area, between the jawline and halfway down the neck. Head shoits have usually ended up in a lost arrow and the deer running away into the great unknown for me. But that's just been my experience.

Lots of good stuff in many of the Guides available under the Guides tab up there ^^^ too. :)

[cratereus]

Yeah, if I can get a neck shot, the deer goes down immediately. However, I know a lot of folks swear by chasing a deer into a wolf. The wolf kills the deer and then you can usually sneak up on the wolf and shoot it pretty easy with a bow.

[IFIYGD]

Originally posted by cratereus:

Yeah, if I can get a neck shot, the deer goes down immediately. However, I know a lot of folks swear by chasing a deer into a wolf. The wolf kills the deer and then you can usually sneak up on the wolf and shoot it pretty easy with a bow.

That is always best. A two for one kill. Chase deer at wolf, wolf takes down deer, while wolf drops down to start eating deer thwack it in the neck with an arrow. Even if you don't harvest the wolf meat, you get a wolf hide and guts, leave the meat so the wolf does not respawn until the carcass despanws 3 days later. And harvest an almost complete deer, fresh and warm. usually only a little meat gone by the wolf taking some nibbles, deer hide and guts too. Slowly trudge home with your massive haul. ;)

[athikers]

I try to position myself in front of the deer and let it walk to me. I stay in a crouch so it gets closer before it spooks. You will have to practice this to learn to judge distances. I recommend learning on the bay at CH or on Mystery or Crystal lake. Level area is easier but the arrow will bounce, so you may have to walk a ways when you miss. I come out of a crouch and pull and realease immediately-this took me a long time to master. I aim antlers high and just to the right of the deers head. You can also take a broad side shot but I don't score as well doing that. Another advantage of learning on the ice is that is much easier to track a wouned animal. You can also do a ballistic artillery shot from long distance from outside the deer awareness zone. This is was much harder for me to do. I had some luck, but went back to the crouch and stand method. Good luck

[cratereus]

I once shot a wolf from way the hell off dropping the arrow from a high arch. It's doable, but I think getting the animal as close as possible is the best idea.

[listless]

I used to use the head on approach, but lately I've had a lot more luck sneaking up from behind and to the right side. Wait 'til the deer stops to graze, stand, line up your shot and fire.

The benefits to this approach are that it's in the deer's blind spot, it's really difficult to miss, the arrow is easily retrieved, and many times you hit it in the head, neck, or just behind the front leg - all instant kills.

[Emin27298]

Originally posted by rainyday:

I used to use the head on approach, but lately I've had a lot more luck sneaking up from behind and to the right side. Wait 'til the deer stops to graze, stand, line up your shot and fire.

The benefits to this approach is that it's in the deer's blind spot, it's really difficult to miss, the arrow is easily retrieved, and many times you hit it in the head, neck, or just behind the front leg - all instant kills.

Well lately I've been using this technique too but I didn't know for sure if it was the deers blindspot or not .

[Chegg]

I never liked doing the 'chasing the deer into a wolf and killing the wolf' strategy, I always seems too complicated and risky. Therefore, I simply make the deer run and then when it runs by me at close range, I shoot it with an arrow


Eazy peazy

[numbertwopencil]

My deer shooting skills have been getting better with . . . shooting rabbits. Leaning to take long shots with rabbits improved my aim considerably. An upside of practice on rabbits is in some areas you can shoot rabbit after rabbit, maybe twenty practice shots, without losing (other than those that wear out) an arrow. The bow is considerably easier to use when you hit level three. It takes way longer to kill twenty deer than to kill twenty rabbits so I use rabbits, as possible, to level up. Deer are much easier to hit on level three and up. I can usually hit wolves on level one but deer and rabbits are trickier on the lower levels.

[lkandrb]

I know stealth is a bit OP, but you should really be able to fire a bow crouched.

[Hal Ramersby]

Originally posted by lkandrb:

I know stealth is a bit OP, but you should really be able to fire a bow crouched.

you can when you level up your bowmanship. You can make arrows to lvl it up too.

as for OP, there's a "cheese" way to hunt deer with a bow - find a house next to deer spawn, enter and leave to save, shoot the dear and if it doesn't instantly go down, quit and reload.

You can also startle the deer to make it run like crazy all artound the place and shoot it in the face when it's coming at you (it's much easier if you place a piece of transparent scotch tape on your screen with a small blacck dot on it where your crosshairs should be)

[Xeph]

If I can't get a easy headshot I usually try to aim for the flank just behind the front leg which is where the heart and lungs are. It usually seems to work if I hit there. I assume they made that similar to real hunting.

[athikers]

I have killed deer (not instantly) with shots to the leg and once a shot that stuck in an antler. The sweet spot seems to be more of a RNG function.

[Kitty Mauge]

Originally posted by rainyday:

I used to use the head on approach, but lately I've had a lot more luck sneaking up from behind and to the right side. Wait 'til the deer stops to graze, stand, line up your shot and fire.

The benefits to this approach is that it's in the deer's blind spot, it's really difficult to miss, the arrow is easily retrieved, and many times you hit it in the head, neck, or just behind the front leg - all instant kills.

I've been doing this, takes practice but works very well :3