Tips for hunting rabbits?

[BESt]

Hello everyone! I am looking for some tips for hunting rabbits with stones (Stone-age sniper achievement) and efficient snaring. Any good advice would be welcome!

[Tyrannosaur_Hex]

Hunt while you are crouched. It lets the rabbits get real close for an accurate shot.

[Massive_Thumb_Tumor_FBGaming]

[Throwing stones]
With practice I can now hit a rabbit most times. Position yourself so that the rabbit is coming straight at you. Stay crouched.

Right-click to get ready to throw, and position the rabbit directly above your thumb. Wait until it's really near to you, and throw.

Immediately come out of crouch and run to the rabbit. Look at it, left-click to pick it up, left-click again to kill it.

[Snaring]
After killing rabbits with stones, be sure to put their guts down to cure straightaway. When cured, you can make snares with the guts + reclaimed wood.

I find that 5 snares yields 2-4 rabbits per day (Stalker difficulty), so you will want more than 5 snares if you want rabbit to be your primary food source.

Keep checking every day and keep curing the guts. Once you're through 5 days, you will have a constant supply of meat, and enough guts to make new snares and repair ruined ones.

[The problem]
The problem for me is that harvesting several rabbits per day really takes its toll on your knife. And harvesting by hand uses up almost as many calories as you get from eating the meat.

[BESt]

Originally posted by Sam:

[Throwing stones]
With practice I can now hit a rabbit most times. Position yourself so that the rabbit is coming straight at you. Stay crouched.

Right-click to get ready to throw, and position the rabbit directly above your thumb. Wait until it's really near to you, and throw.

Actually, I know how to hunt rabbits with stones, but I have difficulties aiming.

[jswilliams]

Rabbit just over the thumb but elevate for distance. I actually do worse crouching and trying point blank. I'm better at the zen relax throw if it hits yay if not...well, I carry about 30 stones when i go rabbit hunting.

This is purely anecdotal, no data to prove it, but I put my snares down in grass (in rabbit areas of course).

You should be harvesting rabbits by hand, especially in the early game to drive your carcass skill up. It's a great thing to do indoors after sundown if you still need to tire out before bed.

When you start getting oodles of rabbit skins and guts and have a lot of fishing tackle, repair your rabbit mittens every day to drive your sewing skill up.

[I'll be the one]

Originally posted by BESt:

Originally posted by Sam:

[Throwing stones]
With practice I can now hit a rabbit most times. Position yourself so that the rabbit is coming straight at you. Stay crouched.

Right-click to get ready to throw, and position the rabbit directly above your thumb. Wait until it's really near to you, and throw.

Actually, I know how to hunt rabbits with stones, but I have difficulties aiming.

Me too, I think your OP was how to get good enough for Stone Sniper. I am finding it quite a challenge to Aim, Throw, Get to the rabbit and kill it before it runs off.

[IFIYGD]

Stone Age Sniper... I got that by loading up nothing but stones, 1 soda, and dropping everything else. Knowing I was either going to get the cheevo, or die, or both. Yep. Throw-away run, just for this blasted achievement.

Went to a rabbit bowl, where they where corralled. Started throwing stones wildly, randomy, at anything that moved. Kept moving aroind picking up stones, throwing them with wild abandon, ignoring any bunnies I hit that did not pop the cheevo. One stone bounced... hit a bunny running away as it bounced bac up. Cheevo popped. Died happy in the freezing wasteland.

No skill at all. I am pretty good with stoning bunnies while crouched or hidden behind trees, ambush style, close up. Distance shots? Nupe, lol!

[Jaspo]

Yeah just get a full clip of stones and spam 'em at range. Don't even wait for the little gremlins to stop running. You'll hit something eventually.

[Aragosnat]

Carter dam might help. Broken railway right from Furlong Muskeg where the bunnies spawn is another area where you can get some added high. I heard works. As for snaring. Just watch where the bunnies walk a lot. Any spot where the bulk of the bunnies cross pathes work the best. Best spot for the snare that is a lot safer then other spots is Trapper Cabin in ML. As there is less chance a wolf will come up and give you a kiss.

[BESt]

Thank you for all of your help! I think I will try to randomly throw stones to get the achievement.

[Hoppingdeth]

This is me hunting a rabbit (and failing to pick it up which sometimes happens for comedy value) - but look at the thumb location. I find the centre target is between the tip of the thumb and the thumb knuckle. I can pretty much hit a rabbit at almost any range - due to practice practice practice.

You can practice your horizontal plane by throwing stones at thin trees or rocks on the ground. Once you can do it you can’t undo it. Rabbits galore.


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