How hard to kill bear with bow and gun?

[KillWonder]

How hard is it to kill a bear with bow and gun?
What about wolves?

[SBlack]

Wolves are one-shots with a rifle. With the bow you need to hit them in the head. Otherwise they run away and bleed out. Then you can usually find their corpse later

[mark]

Bears and wolves essentially behave the same way - both will bleed out after a single hit (as long as its a full hit that leaves blood splatter on the ground, not just the spurt in the air you sometimes get with a glancing blow); both can be one-shot with a critical hit. Critical hit % chance is higher in the head, then chest.

Bears take longer to bleed out, and may have lower critical hit chance (I never looked it up). Two or three particular bears also still seem to be bugged, in that they'll recover and not bleed out if you transition into another area while they're wounded.

[Sorats]

If you're good with a bow, you can kill a wolf in one hit, like SteveS mentioned. You can lay out a decoy, and shoot them when they go for it. That should keep you from being attacked if you're concerned about it.

When I hunt bears, they take 3-5 rifle shots. I've never had one bleed out, I don't know if they can like other animals. If you don't mind cheesing it, I found shooting at bears from fishing huts with doors are kind of funny. You take a couple shots, then close the door.
https://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=1557200011

I've never attempted to kill a bear with a bow. If it takes an average of four rifle shots, I don't know how many arrows it would take, and you wouldn't want to run out halfway through killing him.

[KillWonder]

How long does a bleed out with one shot till death lasts for a bear and wolf?

[mark]

Originally posted by ;2791563692145797651:

When I hunt bears, they take 3-5 rifle shots. I've never had one bleed out, I don't know if they can like other animals.

They do, but it takes a few hours in game - during which they can travel quite a distance and attack you if you try to follow and they circle back round avoiding obstacles. If you can wait somewhere safe, they'll usually come back towards where you shot them - but if that place is through a load screen, it might not bleed out.

[JiffyPopKids]

It really depends on how you hunt them.

Wolves can be killed fairly easily. There's a lot of strategies, but one that is really nice is where you see the wolf and set down a decoy. If or when it goes for the decoy, shoot it right in the head when it's eating the decoy you dropped. The default hotkey for the decoy is "3". If you have somehting that works like a decoy, it will drop it where you are standing. Fresh guts, rabbit meat, wolf meat, deer meat, even bear meat, any type of meat can be used as decoys. Aswell as some foods that you find around like beef jerky. This is a good way of killing wolves. It works with a bow and rifle. Does not matter which weapon you are using, it will rarely one shot the animal unless you hit them in the head. All the time I mess up with both a rifle and bow and hit the animal's mid body and it gets tagged and runs away, making me follow it's blood trail for a mile to get the meat and hide.

For bears, a good strategy I use is to find some place like a fishing hut, hunter's blind, just somewhere the bear can't get to. A good example is a cliffside that the bear cannot get to, he might charge you but if he can't get to you, he'll run away wimpering. So you get to one of these cliffs that a bear cannot reach, and shoot it prefferably in the head or neck. It might take two or three shots in the head to kill a bear. Or, you can shoot the bear once in the head and follow his blood trail for probably a few in game hours until he bleeds out. Be careful though because there have been reports of a bug where if you go inside of a house while a bear is bleeding out, the bear will stop bleeding out and not die. Also be careful when using Hunting blinds and Fishing huts, because there's also been reports that bears can get inside of these, or attack you from the outside. so just be careful. :)

There's tons of other strategies, but I find these to be the most useful. If you're hunting a bear or wolf in a wide open area with no cliffs, blinds, huts, etc, another good way to kill them safely is climbing ontop of a fallen tree to where they can't get you and shoot it from there. both of these strategies work with a bow and rifle, though a bow might require a couple more shots to kill the animal. But always try for a one shot head shot kill because if you wound the animal, and it runs away bleeding, you might never find it's corpse and waste both the durability on your arrow or your rifle round, and the animal's carcase and hide.

Edit;

With a single bow shot that causes bleeding to your bear, it could take anywhere from 2 - 8 game hours. With a rifle it might take a couple less hours. It depends if you get a critical hit, where you hit them, and what you used to hit them. Preferably use a rifle when hunting bears, as it does most damage and gives you a better chance of dropping the bear where he is. It's rare to one shot a bear, but it's not impossible. Most importantly, be careful!

[mark]

Originally posted by KillWonder:

How long does a bleed out with one shot till death lasts for a bear and wolf?

https://thelongdark.fandom.com/wiki/Hunting_rifle#Bleed_out_time

https://thelongdark.fandom.com/wiki/Survival_bow#Bleed_out_time

[zsenden]

You forgot the best:
https://thelongdark.fandom.com/wiki/Distress_pistol#Bleed_out_time
I always save the distress pistol for bear hunting, because you won't get mauled.

[Flirtyfrog]

I usually only shoot a bear once, in the head if i can, and just hang around until it bleeds out. To do this successfully, I make sure that I am well rested and only begins a “bear hunt day” if i have reasonable weather conditions.

[JiffyPopKids]

Originally posted by Flirtyfrog:

I usually only shoot a bear once, in the head if i can, and just hang around until it bleeds out. To do this successfully, I make sure that I am well rested and only begins a “bear hunt day” if i have reasonable weather conditions.

I have a question. When you use this strategy, how do you keep track of where it is? everytime I try this the bear runs all over hell and back, and I usually end up finding his carcase a mile away at 20% condition a few days later. When I try following his blood and tracks, they usually disappear on me! So how do you keep track of him?

[terryt3535]

My experience is the Distress pistol is not a reliable hit like the bow and rifle (subject to RNJ). I had three shots bounce off a bear in 'loper before there was a blood spatter at the impact site. Almost as bad with wolves, about a 50:50 chance. Get to Lvl 5 Archery skill and have either a vehicle nearby or an 'inaccessible' rock face and I am almost guaranteed bear meat for a month.

[Flirtyfrog]

Jiffy, depending on where i shot the bear, i’ll usually find a safe place (fallen trees, cliff ledges, vehicles) where i can continue to observe the bear. I won’t chase it if it goes out of sight but if you stay put, the odds is that the bear will come running back.

Originally posted by JiffyPopKids:

Originally posted by Flirtyfrog:

I usually only shoot a bear once, in the head if i can, and just hang around until it bleeds out. To do this successfully, I make sure that I am well rested and only begins a “bear hunt day” if i have reasonable weather conditions.

I have a question. When you use this strategy, how do you keep track of where it is? everytime I try this the bear runs all over hell and back, and I usually end up finding his carcase a mile away at 20% condition a few days later. When I try following his blood and tracks, they usually disappear on me! So how do you keep track of him?