Bird hunting?

[Rainy]

I feel like bird hunting is a bit off in this game, I have no real hunting experience but to me it seems extremely hard to approach birds and it's rather impossible to get a nice shot unless you are super close or you are using a standard rifle instead of a shotgun.
Any opinion on that?

[Andi]

Depends what birds we're talking.
Pheasants are easy. Just run up to them, flush them and shoot.
Ducks and geese, I figured are easy by setting up decoys, a blind and a caller. That way you'll get infinite flocks coming in. Best and fastest way to level your retriever.
Turkey is the most difficult in my opinion.

[Kosevich]

Assuming I'm not a pro on bird hunting. But general rules is still should work:
- open Codex in game and read what equipment can be used fro your bird hunting (animal description, not all birds has poper decoys);
- Find an open area with lots of free space and lots of birds coming through. Better time is early morning;
- setup 10-20 decoys not far from each other (need space to see incoming birds);
- setup tripod for better camouflage and good visuals on decoys. It should be around 100m away from decoys;
- wait for birds coming by, if you bored - use bird caller;
- try to moove tripod closer to your decoys until birds begin to spook.
Shotguns are alot more versatile in this type of hunting, as it has spread and Cacciatore 12g can fire up to 6 shots before reload.

[WHITE BOY]

Like these other people said, bird hunting in this game is more of a let them come to you, less go to them. They've both offered great advice and I can't offer much more.

But I will say if you're having trouble with turkeys, a .22LR rifle is very nice. It is indeed hard to get into range of turkeys and turkeys, in my experience, are harder to get to come to you.