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I don't typically hunt like this, so others will give ya better advice.
That said ...
1. Check the wind. Make sure you're walking into the wind
2. Sneak/crouch. Noise is what usually scares thing
3. Callers. They help solve this problem by bringing animals to you
One final point on noise -- you can check your stats to see how often you're scaring animals just by making noise. You may be surprised :)
Just curious, how do you typically hunt?
You hear a mating call, click on the visual indicator, and you will be given an indicator of about how far away the animal is. (This isn't because of a perk I'm taking for granted, I'm assuming..)
It's 200m away, the wind isn't bad, you take out the binos and walk toward the sound for a bit, trying to localise.
It's 150m away with ok wind, crouch, localise with binos, crouchwalk to favourable vantage point (higher ground, optimise wind angle).
It's 200m(+) but the wind is bad, walk diagonally backwards to get well outside the "smell cone" while trying to find it with binos.
Closer with a bad wind, chances are the first sound you hear is the warning call. You can try and hit the ground and crawl out of the wind cone, but it may not work.
Closer with ok wind, a warning call. Hit the ground, don't make a sound or movement. Maybe the animal will calm down after a minute or two and forget about you, then crawl to good vantage point.
If you get a location for the animal, put a waypoint pin in the location. It can smell you from 200m, hear you walk from 150m, hear you crouchwalk from maybe 50m.
I think it depends a bit if you were actually running or just walking into the animal, that made the sound. If you were running, take it super easy and maybe even freeze a few moments.
Always go crouch. You can "run" while crouching by pressing the run button. This is not really obvious and can easlily be missed imo. (At least i missed it for many hours when i started).
You can even "run" while being prone, which is still surprisingly "fast". And it does barely make a noise. The worst thing is, you cant see sh*t. So you basically have 6 movement speeds, just try around with them a bit.
The dog is also very usefull. He will tell you if you are in a critical position to scare away the animal. Stay still and go prone to let it calm down.
It also depends on distance and level of the animal of course. But these things you will find out when you keep hunting. Warning calls will usually be 100 - 200 meters away. Never run after a warning call and go crouch at least at 150 meters. If you wanna get real close, like later for some missions you will need to crawl.
You can approach animals standing further than the 150 meters but it depends on a lot of things. Level of the animal and also level of awareness. The second is a later skill you can unlock iirc. So if you wanna be sure better take it easy.
But you can tell if an animal is resting or drinking its usually calm and you can maybe approch a bit longer standing so it does not take so long to get into good shooting range.
You can get as close to deer as to hear them chew the grass and tickle their butts XD.
It's probably worth pointing out that this includes shots, which scare a lot of animals in the vicinity, so in my opinion, the perception of the importance of hearing vs sight tends to be skewed a bit. Unless you are walking through bushes or over extremly noisy ground, they'll probably spot you first before they hear you (depends a bit on the animal, though). And that's through hills and objects as there is no line of sight calculation, so that can give the impression of them having heard instead of spotted you as well. Backpacks and skills can influence that, though.
My knowledge might be a bit outdated and my experience skewed by the skills I chose, but similar to what I said above, they are much more likely to see you from 150m. To hear you from that distance, you'd need to make three red bars of noise worth (but again, that might have changed, so take that with a grain of salt).
But you're right, animals with good vision have a chance of seeing you standing upright at that distance too, I'm pretty much always crouched from 180m away now, clinging to concealment. It's too annoying to get blown.
-A further detail for Mr.James: experiment with the various levels of motion. There is running, walking, loud crouchwalking, quiet crouchwalking, loud crawling and silent crawling, surface allowing. Pressing keyboard G automates the movement in quiet mode, and leaning forward makes it more noisy as the bars will indicate.
I think fowl is not the best starting animal to go far :D
Maybe you wanna stick with deer. To getr some XP and better gear and unlock some skills.
Which map did you start with?
Also try do do some missions. It gives good reward too.
To really do the Goose hunting you should have one or more setups in Hirsh in one of the grassy fields with a wetland blind or hunting chair surrounded with decoys (20 is max). Call them in when crouched or prone with a Goose caller, then sight up at 25-50 with a shotty and blast away after they have landed. Some folks drop em as they come in to land. Also any of the .22s will also work, but u have to be more precise.
I do call them but they never land near me. Why is that? They just always land far away from my decoys and stuff
It's been my experience that when calling them super close in a blind, you want to be prone and facing into the wind (cone behind you).
- Then sight them with binocs (spotting matters I believe), they typically circle 2-3 times then land facing into the wind (coming in from the large end of the cone toward the point like a plane would when landing).
- Try to keep them in visual sight. (not sure if it matters, but I always try to look as close to straight up as possible while maintaining sight on the in coming flock. (looking straight down at the center of the ground seems to work as well). I do know that looking along the horizon ie. ground level, they tend to land further off.
- Also try not to move so much as twitchyness tends to spook them when they circle so they land farther away. You want them calm when they land.
- If they're out at 55+m, then use a .22 rifle and try to pick a few off with chest shots.
I've leveled shotty and rifle this way, but people level archery with bow and crossbow, pistols (the A .22 pistol still levels rifles, the 410 rounds for pistol I think still level shotgun), etc.
- If they are just too far off, fire off a round just to scare them off, and maybe try to take a pot shot if they fly over towards you.
Usually the next group will land closer.
- Also hunting pressure doesn't matter until the area is BRIGHT PINK. Then it's a good time to switch to an alternate in a different area zone. I usually just bounce back and forth as needed.
Are blinds DLC items?