Mr. Sommers Bow

[Ozzy]

Any tips? Tried an evening sit at -6411.610, 9992.255 with no luck.
I've generally found it easier to ambush/lure than to stalk, please help me out!

[VonStreed]

That is the fox hunt, right? Took me a litle while to do it too. I got it by quietly creeping around looking for tracks and listening for calls. Managed to find fresh poop and then got a warning call. There happened to be two in the same area. I hid in a bush and called them in. Missed a few shots and one ran off but the other kept coming back when I called it so I just kept trying until I landed an arrow on target. Took about a dozen shots. The bow is terribly innacurate and they are small targets.

[Slettal]

You can also do some training shots in the shooting range, to avoid the missing part a bit (still needed three shots though)

Other than that, just walk around and hunt other stuff in the mission area until you hear a fox call. Then drop and crawl into a bush where you get the black line cover symbol (white line is not good enough, they have good eyes) and lure it. Be patient, they are slow and cautious, but they will come

[Ozzy]

Thanks. I eventually found them but could not connect. Recently bought the rangefinder so hopefully that will help.

[Zourin]

Bows get better if you invest in them. Unfortunately, this means postponing some good perks elsewhere. Without them, well, you're fighting RNG and having to do some extra dancing. Luckily, you'll only ever have to do it once.

Foxes are fairly easy, but still time consuming to deliberately hunt. I've some posts on how to hunt foxes. You WILL need a caller. There's no getting around it. Foxes have amazing eyesight and won't get anywhere near you if you've got so much as a toe hanging out.

Step 1 is finding a fox, which isn't hard. Blast the caller twice, crouch, and move to step 2.

Step 2 is finding perfect cover. Dark-line visibility. Nothing less will work. Find that cover downwind, preferably, so the smell doesn't drive it off.
Step 2 ALSO is finding perfect cover with good visibility for you to see out. Find a lone bush if possible. If there's tall growth around it, take those first couple minutes to trample as much as possible.

Step 3 is to blast the caller once every minute or so until you hear footsteps. That's your opportunity to take a shot. If you miss. Hell, even if you don't. If it runs, blast the caller twice and repeat.

Step 4: After five or six minutes, you need to see if it's still dancing with you. Stand up and walk (don't run) out of your cover and look around. If you hear a yelp, the fox is still playing with you and you can repeat the process again.

If you hear a warning call with no marker, the fox circled downwind and smells you. You'll need to keep calling it while you find a new hiding spot. Once a fox smells you, it'll walk directly away from you and won't stop until it can't smell you anymore.

[[R1GD]flarexxxx(General)]

just drive around on an atv at night XD its what i did a few times

[SoUlFaThEr]

Hey Zourin, I am curious about your step 1 where you mean to call twice.........I never do that.....and still down them left and right. In fact, I find calls made in quicker succession than 30 seconds can work against you. Also the dark line visibility is only true for higher level foxes/coyotes. difficulty 5 or higher does require a greyline (as i call it), and the for the rest the white line is enough. one more thing, if it smells you it completely depends on its difficulty level if it leaves completely. the lower ones literally hang out around the end of your smell cone....and will even repeatedly call warnings every 30 seconds to a minute randomly. This is my own playing experience though :D

[Drinking Buddy]

Originally posted by Zourin:

Bows get better if you invest in them. Unfortunately, this means postponing some good perks elsewhere. Without them, well, you're fighting RNG and having to do some extra dancing. Luckily, you'll only ever have to do it once.

Foxes are fairly easy, but still time consuming to deliberately hunt. I've some posts on how to hunt foxes. You WILL need a caller. There's no getting around it. Foxes have amazing eyesight and won't get anywhere near you if you've got so much as a toe hanging out.

Step 1 is finding a fox, which isn't hard. Blast the caller twice, crouch, and move to step 2.

Step 2 is finding perfect cover. Dark-line visibility. Nothing less will work. Find that cover downwind, preferably, so the smell doesn't drive it off.
Step 2 ALSO is finding perfect cover with good visibility for you to see out. Find a lone bush if possible. If there's tall growth around it, take those first couple minutes to trample as much as possible.

Step 3 is to blast the caller once every minute or so until you hear footsteps. That's your opportunity to take a shot. If you miss. Hell, even if you don't. If it runs, blast the caller twice and repeat.

Step 4: After five or six minutes, you need to see if it's still dancing with you. Stand up and walk (don't run) out of your cover and look around. If you hear a yelp, the fox is still playing with you and you can repeat the process again.

If you hear a warning call with no marker, the fox circled downwind and smells you. You'll need to keep calling it while you find a new hiding spot. Once a fox smells you, it'll walk directly away from you and won't stop until it can't smell you anymore.

I just want to say this advice was INCREDIBLY helpful and finally got my kill. She and I danced for about an hour and 15 before I finally hit the shot, but I stuck to the plan and it worked out. Thanks so much for the help.

And on top of that, somehow reading this reminded of my grandfather who tried to teach me to hunt as a kid. It's warm memories for me. You made my night, stranger.

[Defiant Dan]

Take the least powerfull compound, its the most accurate, and when you dont have rangefinder sights you can use the zero skill from the Rifle Perks, it also affects Bow.

[apollumi]

Necro for anyone who happens here looking for some more tips. Pinpointing a good location to park myself was annoying and I knew I didn't want to chase them (noisily) around the map. I finally managed to complete it using the Bearclaw, Brightsight Rangefinder, 420 grain tracer, jackrabbit caller, from a tripod.
This is the area I was set up in:
https://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=3014183474
It has two feed zones and a drinking zone a little southwest by the other tripod. I set up late for the drinking zone and started at the feed zones.
Note the zone times.
Feeding - 0:00 - 4:00, 4:00 - 7:00, 20:00 - 0:00
Drinking - 17:00 - 20:00
Spaced out my calls by a minute or two and eventually one wandered nearly into my tripod so I could manage to hit him. Really hate how the slightest bit of brush seems to block a shot in this game.