How can I tell which animal is gold

[jafri]

After harvest an animal it is graded as none bronze silver gold. How can I tell which it is before the harvest ?

[Social]

To the best of my knowledge each species has point value ranges for silver/gold/platinum. I use an app called 'COTW companion' which lists the values for each species. It's super handy because it also includes when animals' need zone times are as well as a picture of the organ placements. :)

Apart from that always shoot the animal with the most points. You can see how many points an animal could be worth by spotting it and looking in the top right.

[BJWyler]

You can only estimate by the weight range and Trophy number range when you spot them.

[Woodyplank]

Eventually, you'll learn how to field Judge many of the antlered species at a glance well enough to know if it has silver, gold or diamond potential without using the spot. If you do not have the skill which allows for the spot to tell you the TR/Weight of an animal then you'll have to use the animals level for a clue. Animals species that have 5 levels to them will normally have level 3s fall into the silver catagory, level 4s have a pretty good chance of being gold. Max level animals for any given species have a chance of being a diamond (some even have a few animals one level lower than max turn out to be diamonds). That does not mean that all max level animals will automatically be a gold or diamond. I know of one player that harvested a 5-Medium Blacktailed deer that was a silver (it being 80 pts shy of being a diamond). Hopefully that particular beast has been removed from the game so the rest of us don't have to deal with it.

[yogisgoat]

When you spot an animal with the binos it will show the level of the animal which you can use as a rough guide. Different animals have different level limits but here's a crude guide.

Birds, rabbits and whitetail deer top out at level three. A level 3 will likely be a gold or even a diamond trophy.
Herbivores generally top out at level 5, though there are exceptions (red deer = level 9). A level 3 animal will likely be bronze.
Carnivores top out at level 9. A level 3 probably isn't worth shooting.

[Geronimo]

Originally posted by jan.friberg:

After harvest an animal it is graded as none bronze silver gold. How can I tell which it is before the harvest ?

Because it isn't anything UNTIL you kill it.

Gold is the score considering how you killed it, which can't be determined until you've done so.

A potential good score can be ruined by shooting it 20 times for example.

[GIbbralter]

shoot it

[Meateater 1980]

Basiccaly
Ducks, upland birds whitetail and musk deer
1=none, bronze, silver
2=silver, gold, Diamond
3=gold, Diamond
Moose, Elk, Plains and european bison Blacktail deer, Geese, Caribou/reindeer, blackbuck, axis deer, mule deer,fallow deer, sika deer, pigs, Racoons
1=none,bronze
2=bronze, silver
3= silver,gold
4= gold, diamond
5= gold, diamond
red deer, water and cape buffalo, all predators
1=none, bronze
2=bronze, silver
3=silver
4=silver
5=silver
6=silver, gold
7=gold
8=gold
9=gold, diamond