How do you track down deers that trot 90% of the time?(Without caller nor lure)

[Lymark]

I spent almost 2 hours IRL, trying to track down a red deer. I crouch walked for ~1.5km(probably)without ever getting detected, since every tracks were trot/walk instead of run, but I was never able to catch up.

I feel like troting and running are the same thing, as you'll never able to catch up with human walking/running speed.

Am I doing something wrong here? How am I supposed to track it down using nothing but its foot steps?

[Willem]

Your walking to slow why are you crouching for 1.5km
You can walk up straight and even run a litlle to catch up on him.
Use a controller however as keyboard/mouse is noisy as ♥♥♥♥

[nihues]

Reds are hard without caller (I think almost everyone not reached lvl to get caller), they go behind trees most of time, and I can barely see them, they notice you from ~100m away.... you need to be still and wait appear...

If on forest forget it.... I'm in north and its mountainous with more open places, it's easier to spot, but still hard. Generally they do call warning at around 100m even with good wind for me.

What I've done is get a warning, stop and look around, the next 1-2 warnings try to find it, if no, move and try a better place to spot where warning is.

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If you didn't spot the animal before you started to track it , the tracks can be old and as the poop is bugged atm and only says "just now" the tracks can be very old

[Lymark]

And I was tracking him in the forest plus with a bow :P Guess I won't waste my time on bow hunting it for now unless I'm in a good position.

It just bugs me that for every step I walked, they would've trotted 10 steps more. Nearly impossible to get close with a bow.

[Martin]

Wow, did you just ignore the posts above? you can run without making a sound!!!

[Lymark]

Originally posted by Martin:

Wow, did you just ignore the posts above? you can run without making a sound!!!

Just because I didn't quote anyone, doesn't mean I ignored them.

I'm using keyboard+mouse with the autokey trick. But still, It's kinda tricky to get within 30m with a bow when It tends to trot around every other second, unless It's heading straight to my direction.

[8mob8]

Originally posted by Lymark:

And I was tracking him in the forest plus with a bow :P Guess I won't waste my time on bow hunting it for now unless I'm in a good position.

It just bugs me that for every step I walked, they would've trotted 10 steps more. Nearly impossible to get close with a bow.

i hunt bow only

to get an animal w/o a call you really ahve to take your time and crawl quite a bit....i hardly crouch at all unless im shooting...im either sprinting or prone

also get 20 arrows or so and prac on thin trees at different distances...the bow isnt consistent but ive killed a moose with 1 arrow as well as deer

i use a keyboard as well BUT i have a controller plugged in and if i do need to move crouched and the animal is near then i use the controller but i cant aim for nada with it lol

[Bugs Bunny]

And while you were chassing your red across the map, I was running to unlock a new outpost and one of these jerks sprinted out of the woods 100m to my left, rammed me in the rear with his little woods and then ran away. Hit and run by one of them little jerks. I feel violated :P

Seriously though the reds are like that, they are skittish and move a lot. I got a few by camping spots where I saw tracks, but it was out of luck for the most part.