Roosevelt Elk

[Pssycho]

Max level, got all the toys, etc... I mainly stalk (walk around looking for tracks) and I can say with my nearly 300 hours of game play, I have only encountered two (2) elk that were at max body weight range (which you need in combination with max difficulty) to get a diamond score. Whitetail, Blacktail, Moose, and Bear, I occasionally get. It just seems that with elk, the max weight ones are more rare than albino.

[dazdan69]

Doing better then me, havent seen any albino or diamonds of any animal, i did mange to kill a piebold blacktail other day.

[NuCkEnFuTs]

the diamond elk i took was one of the last animals that came out (there was a herd) but he didn't show till i watched that herd for two hours in game time. showed up way off from the others. but it sure was worth the wait, he stood out like nothing i'd seen.
http://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=931137375

[baby oil]

Where is a good area to hunt Elk? I havent really seen that many in the game.

[War Bear]

Originally posted by Pappy:

Where is a good area to hunt Elk? I havent really seen that many in the game.

Northern areas in Layton Lakes as well as the western mires seems to be the best areas to me.

[Rookie-31st]

I killed one Level 5 early in the game, did not get all bonuses due to lack of experience, and spotted another few days ago but did not pursue as I was after black bear mission

[Paul]

I don't think I've spotted a Diamond of any animal either.

Come close with a few, most recently a Blacktail buck that wasn't far off, and a Moose and Black Bear also.

I did have one annoying encouter where I thought I saw a Diamond Moose with a huge set of antlers, took the shot, only to realise it was actually two regular Moose who were neatly stacked on top of each other and whose animations had synchronised perfectly, so it looked like a single massive animal.

I've downed an albino buck (can't recall if it was Blacktail or Whitetail) but it wasn't a high scoring animal; the antlers were tiny.

[NuCkEnFuTs]

Ok, So here is some of my personal best areas to hunt Elk,
1. NORDEN, northern slope around -13396 -4570
2. Chopeeka Canyon northern most water crossing (got my diamond here)
3. Calburn Canyon
4. Highton River

[Fischkopf]

i had several whitetail and moose Diamonds found around the map. But the only Bear-, Coyote-, and Elk -Dimaonds came out of the mission. And i had no Blacktail Diamond at all until now..

[baby oil]

Thanks for the locations.will check them out today

[Pssycho]

Still no luck... However today within about an hour I got a Piedbald and Melanistic (both silver). I screwed up prepping the ground for a screen shot of the Melanistic one and harvested it. I made a video which I am in the process of uploading on YouTube, you guys are gonna rip me for my game play style but, it works for me. Running total for Elk, 2 albino, 2 pied, and 1 mela, and not a single "Medium-5" elk in over 300 hours.

[Pssycho]

http://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=1286063708

[ETERNAL-JACKASS]

I have 2 diamond Elk. One was a pita as it stood in front of me less than 25 yards away for over 30 minutes hiding in a group of trees before it actually came out for my bow shot. Calling and scents did nothing to coax him out, I guess he was just done doing his business and came out.

The second was a piece of cake, saw some tracks, tracked a few 100 yards and he came trotting out for a call and Mr. Rino did the job.

[KaiEr]

Originally posted by theone5857:

Max level, got all the toys, etc... I mainly stalk (walk around looking for tracks) and I can say with my nearly 300 hours of game play, I have only encountered two (2) elk that were at max body weight range (which you need in combination with max difficulty) to get a diamond score. Whitetail, Blacktail, Moose, and Bear, I occasionally get. It just seems that with elk, the max weight ones are more rare than albino.

It's different for each person. Your initial herd spawn just didn't have many in it, so you are just going to have to wait to see larger ones that will respawn after you harvest other animals. It's the same for albino/piebald - some have more to begin with, some have less.

[dazdan69]

So KaiEr what you are saying, when you first load the game or when you first started playing the game it generates so many animals of each species then as you hunt and kill them they respawn with a RNG that may or may not spawn a diamond, albino, etc of a perticular species?

[Pssycho]

http://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=1297905669

Number 2, but ZERO 5-MEDIUM Elk