🦌︴great-ones

[iron sonnet]

the one where only like 2 people haveit

it scores really low

[tiny kestrel]

Which is the typical rack…

[iron sonnet]

it has like the stubs

no

it is not the typical rack

[tiny kestrel]

Do you have a picture of what you’re talking about?

[sturdy marten]

is it not that bottom right one

[tiny kestrel]

It’s not, that’s the short rack

[sturdy marten]

Is there another tiny one?

[tiny kestrel]

According to this guy

[fast ridge]

yeah that one's missing one of the racks

[tiny kestrel]

The image is missing the typical rack, but according to this fellow there’s yet another one

[sturdy marten]

well there is that one with the white body

that that guy found that one time

[full cave]

@full cave

[tiny kestrel]

I’m thinking I might actually grind for whitetail on NEM

I’m beginning to like this map more and it’s pretty decent for whitetail

[full cave]

It’s torture to maintain

[tiny kestrel]

Is it?

[full cave]

Well I don’t have hours and hours to play

Just gotta check every zone as often as possible

Ones you know don’t have 1s

[tiny kestrel]

I just got a max weight melanistic moose track holy shit

[full cave]

No way

💀

Is this a rare rack

[tiny kestrel]

That’s just the short rack

[spark osprey]

Keep me updated

[tiny kestrel]

I spotted him a minute ago, 257 max est as a lvl 4

[spark osprey]

Oh

[sturdy marten]

sheesh

[tiny kestrel]

Ima wait till their drink time rolls around and go back to the nearby lakes

[spark osprey]

Good, but sooooo close to a super rare 🥹

[tiny kestrel]

Not really. His rack is on the smaller side

[spark osprey]

Still a mela

[tiny kestrel]

My 2nd mela moose lol

[spark osprey]

I’ve never seen one in game before

A mela in general

[sturdy marten]

man all this fallow grinding and this is the first time it’s rained

[tiny kestrel]

Is that good or bad

[sturdy marten]

I hate the rain in this game

Maybe it’s a good luck sign though

[spark osprey]

I’m doing red deer

[full cave]

Check it @tiny kestrel

[spark osprey]

TA

[full cave]

287.2

[tiny kestrel]

Wow an older TruRACS diamond

[spark osprey]

Big boy

[tiny kestrel]

That’s impressive

[full cave]

Idk what’s max now

[tiny kestrel]

Max is around 275.6 iirc

[full cave]

This guy is bigger I think

[tiny kestrel]

Right now I’m running around to try and find a buncha WT zones

[sturdy marten]

wish they had kept the legacy mule deer

Those diamonds were impressive

[tiny kestrel]

Mostly to deem whether a grind would be viable or not

Hoping I somehow get an initial spawn GO

I’m not looking forward to the grind

[spark osprey]

OOH

Troll?

[tiny kestrel]

Doubt it

Any rack that isn’t the crab rack has a very good chance of making diamond

[sturdy marten]

pretty sure I saw like one screenshot of that other diamond rack trolling

And it was strange to see

[spark osprey]

251.65

Lmao

[full cave]

I wish all maps did

[sturdy marten]

I have not seen a rare in probably 600 kills

[spark osprey]

3rd diamond red deer 🙂

[sturdy marten]

But I’m getting diamonds every 50 or so

perhaps this next spawn will be the time they both spawn at the same time

On the same deer

[tiny kestrel]

Those are the exact words I kept telling myself with red deer

[sturdy marten]

It’s gotta be coming soon

I have so many diamonds

[full cave]

Same

I saw a Pie doe a while back tho

[tiny kestrel]

History repeats itself

[fast ridge]

well then

[full cave]

Big zone

[fast ridge]

Pretty much bow range from a hunting stand too

[sturdy marten]

Almost wondering if I should stop herd management

would it be better to have more rare spawns

[tiny kestrel]

Rares will still spawn at the same rate, the only reason you might think it’s slower is because you’re killing less animals per hour

It makes no difference to how fast you’ll get them, but might as well up your odds of it spawning bigger right?

[sturdy marten]

Suppose you’re right

I guess finding minimal rares and more diamonds would be better

[tiny kestrel]

Only reason I’m not HMing lions is because I like the sheer fuckton of money I’m making

Though later I might start doing it

[fast ridge]

I'm trying to wean myself off HM tbh

[sturdy marten]

I mean it’s kinda fun to get all these diamonds

But at what point do I have too many

[tiny kestrel]

I don’t mind it cuz I find barely any diamond or rare lions to begin with

[fast ridge]

it killed my enthusiasm for whitetail diamonds.

[sturdy marten]

At this point I have 3 entire rare male fallow huddles

And 9 entire diamond fallow huddles

plus 2 extra

[tiny kestrel]

My goal is to just get a gold albino male lion and whatever level female albino to go with for the breadwinner mount

Tbh I’m kinda hoping I dont get an SR lion

Atleast not an albino one

[sturdy marten]

top 10 things never said in human history

[tiny kestrel]

I don’t want to have to get an SR Cape buffalo to match

[iron valve]

GOs are fake

I have made my decision

[sturdy marten]

Wonder how difficult it is to grind Cape buffalo

I know I have a fairly decent amount of zones for them

[tiny kestrel]

It sucks.

[iron valve]

Just a bunch of walking

[sturdy marten]

I don’t know if I’d grind those

I kinda like just walking around Vurhonga and coming across one

big animals

Fun to shoot

[iron valve]

The north coast

I've been doing a bighorn SR grind

[sturdy marten]

I don’t even have a diamond bighorn

[iron valve]

I would grind a SR mt goat but yk

Ew thinks they r super animals who don't need water

[sturdy marten]

I have a Melanistic male for those

That’s good enough for me

[fast ridge]

as someone who never hunted a single mountain goat while they had drink zones, I can say that feed zone stakeouts aren't that bad.

[tiny kestrel]

They might regain drink zones like lynx did

[sturdy marten]

I might grind mule deer

[iron valve]

One can hope

[sturdy marten]

That sounds like a fun grind

[iron valve]

Mule SR would be sick

[sturdy marten]

I would like to just get all the diamond racks honestly

I have two of the same ones

[iron valve]

Only prob is muleys drink everywhere on all three of their maps

[tiny kestrel]

And 2/3 of those maps have a large cat species that tends to mess with things

[iron valve]

Yep

[sturdy marten]

I’d probably go to SRP

easiest viewpoints

No way am I mule deer hunting on Rancho

[iron valve]

How long has the bottom right lake on parque been loaded with animals?

[tiny kestrel]

Since a while

It’s been my go-to hotspot for nearly everything

Speaking of Parque, I need to go MP hop to whatever extent I can I need to find a bigger dia axis for ProXCK’s comp

[iron valve]

I wanna like rancho but it's one of the maps that if u don't have tents the map is a chore to get places

[sturdy marten]

is there a best time to go there

[iron valve]

That's how I found the spot

I was looking at the hotspot maps

[sturdy marten]

I might head there right now to get my fallow respawns

gotta kill some things

[tiny kestrel]

Blackbuck or water buffalo, both are loaded at that lake

Either 12-15 or 18-21

[sturdy marten]

I don’t think I’ve ever been there before

time to see

if my initial spawn luck is active

[somber turret]

Sir diamondless puma

[iron valve]

Wait not bottom right I'm an idiot

Bottom left

[sturdy marten]

wow that’s a long trip

[tiny kestrel]

I’ll check puma eventually

[sturdy marten]

what is that like 5 miles

[iron valve]

We get it u love parque 🙆‍♂️

[iron valve]

U have to go over a mountain

[somber turret]

He just dont got one for the comp

[sturdy marten]

3.38 miles

That’s a hike

[tiny kestrel]

You know what would be cool? If I stumble onto an albino or mela coyote

I need a rare for a multimount

[sturdy marten]

I have one of those

But it’s a female

[tiny kestrel]

F

[iron valve]

All my rares are female as well

[sturdy marten]

One of the most realistic melanistic furs in the game IMO

[tiny kestrel]

I passed up a lvl 6 piebald coyote lol

[spare grail]

This is why we don't need gender requirements in multimounts 😩

[iron valve]

I could check NEM for one but the map makes me wanna die

[tiny kestrel]

I already checked NEM, Layton and Rancho for then

[sturdy marten]

Do mule deer spawn at that lake

[tiny kestrel]

Grand total of zero rares or diamonds

[iron valve]

Yea

[tiny kestrel]

maybe?

[sturdy marten]

yeah I’m going for that then

[iron valve]

I have like 4 red deer herds there

[sturdy marten]

I have two Melanistic females and not a single dilute

[tiny kestrel]

I know it would be completely unrealistic but I kinda want Roosevelt elk on NEM. They’d fit so well with the scenery

[iron valve]

It's realistic somewhat

Kentucky has em

It's just not a huge population

[sturdy marten]

did you shoot that moose

[tiny kestrel]

Not yet

[mossy orchid]

I’ve felt this on every grind ive done 🤣🤣🤣

[somber turret]

L

[sturdy marten]

Hmmmm

[spark osprey]

Shoot ‘em

Let us see

[sturdy marten]

What might you be?

[hearty pewter]

looks like me when i'm tired

[mossy orchid]

I grinded lions a while back on my singleplayer map with practically no luck. & the first mp map I joined after getting frustrated w it had a gold albino male 🤣🤣

[sturdy marten]

#3 without a male is crazy

[tiny kestrel]

Check #🦌︴trophies

[somber turret]

There

You better got pictures

Since you got that bow kill

[tiny kestrel]

Nope. I’m on console I don’t take trophy shots

[somber turret]

Well

You should

[full cave]

Nice

Big level 2

[tired mason]

bigger lvl3

[tiny kestrel]

Welp

Back to lions

Praying to God, Allah and any other deity or god out there for a gold albino male to spawn

[cosmic gust]

for red deer hm, i want all of my respawns to be 7 8 and 9 right

and hopefully 10 but... hehe

[tiny kestrel]

HM doesn’t affect great one spawns

But yes, your respawns will 90% of the time be within the 6-9 range

[cosmic gust]

okay good

i think im getting close to that point

if not there already

okay i think its time i start shooting my 9s

yippee

this was 9 #3

and here was 9 #2

and here's little crabby

9 #1

not too mad about aiming a little high on this one

2 for 2 on actual diamond potentials yippee

[tiny kestrel]

Lions are being little shits right now

I haven’t gotten so much as a single trophy lion in roughly a week now besides maybe one diamond

[cosmic gust]

well that was quick

diamond #3 mayhaps?

not too good of a feeling about this one though

estimate is a little ehhhh

well guess not

the hell kinda rack is this

this is new

for me at least

[somber turret]

My 4th favorite 8 rack

[fast ridge]

That was the rack my first-ever red deer had

[pliant oak]

finally up ! 😁 lets see if we can get some grinding food first

[wary mason]

Mornin Ron

[pliant oak]

hehe nice to be back at the keyboard

[wary mason]

xD

[pliant oak]

four days with no sleep or food was a bit boring

🤣

[wary mason]

XD

[simple kestrel]

Four days?!

That’s crazy

[pliant oak]

yeah had covid

feeling bit better now

[simple kestrel]

Oh that’s horrible, hope you are doing well

[wary mason]

I got these yesterday as well as 2 trolls and a diamond. Grind was amazing to me yesterday I wish I could get a diamond albino though

[simple kestrel]

That’s good

Nice gold

[wary mason]

But I can't complain lol,

Rares 16 and 17 :p

[simple kestrel]

That’s good

[wary mason]

Thank you!

[simple kestrel]

I have a blonde lion somewhere on my map

He’s always chasing

[wary mason]

I need one more female but I'm just grinding males atm

[simple kestrel]

I’ve never actually started a hunt for lions

[wary mason]

I love lions

[simple kestrel]

Only grizzly, black bear, red deer and moose haha

[wary mason]

Lol

I also love fallow but I stopped grinding em

[simple kestrel]

Fallow are cool but are very hard to find on Te aworoa

[wary mason]

They took alot of where they drink away which annoyed me

[simple kestrel]

I bumped into a diamond and piebald when looking for red deer

[wary mason]

Nice!

[simple kestrel]

Yeah, I was pretty sad to find that out

[wary mason]

Yep cause I adored the fallow grind

Was my favourite grind other than lions,

[simple kestrel]

I’m working on my black bear GO grind at the moment and can’t seem to find many males

Usually 1-3 per zone

[wary mason]

Ah, I don't grind bears I'd like to keep my sanity XX

XD*

Stupid typos lol

[simple kestrel]

My favourite animals are bears and Cervids so it is great fun to find the cool fur variation

[wary mason]

Fr

[pliant oak]

first run of the day pie

[wary mason]

You grinding females as well Ron?

[pliant oak]

i shoot them to get rid of hunting pressure

[wary mason]

Ahh right

[full cave]

So this is a Great One?

[pliant oak]

no..just a pie female 😁 hopefully one is soon

over 3000 kills now all collected

20 diamonds stacked

every few runs now if a new diamond hasnt spawned i kill a diamond

then wait for a new one to spawn

[full cave]

So it's 10- Something right?

For the Great One

[pliant oak]

level 10 yes

you cant mistake great ones really

[full cave]

My HM is working

Got my first dime in a weekend

Shot him yesterday

Huge

[pliant oak]

congrats thats a nice whitetail

[full cave]

Thanks

I saw him and left him to continue another run

[full cave]

He turned the second I shot so it could have been bad

[pliant oak]

funny yesterday i was watching the grand tour and they had to take a picture of a spirit bear

[pliant oak]

ahh you took it with the bow nice

[errant karma]

That happened to me

A 271.65 is a gold

So sad

[full cave]

❤️ My first

[full cave]

Saved him

[pliant oak]

new diamond respawn that run 😁

[pliant oak]

another diamond respawn that run

😁

[cosmic gust]

whatcha grinding

[pliant oak]

red deer

3 diamonds spawn the last two runs hopefully something soon

[full cave]

Jeez bro

[willow ether]

Finally got to do side by side

[full cave]

That’s crazy

[pliant oak]

nice one that one

[full cave]

Big

[mossy orchid]

are their horns phasing thru each other? cant really tell from the pic quality and haven’t seen a mount like that in person

[cosmic gust]

yeah they are

that doesnt happen normally, its only because they're both g1s

[pliant oak]

wonky

[spark osprey]

Half good half meh

[pliant oak]

i like the wonky ones tbh

[cosmic gust]

awwww luckyyyy

i want a mixed rack

all 3 of my diamonds were the same rack

[tiny kestrel]

Back on the lion grind

[cosmic gust]

and im back on the red deer grind

gotta get that g1 eventually

im gonna take my hm a little farther this time

i want all of the stags im not shooting to be 3 or 4

cause i got a little too trigger happy and took like 3 too many 5s

and now they're all back to 6s

[tiny kestrel]

You shouldn’t be stacking 5s

[cosmic gust]

yeah i know but i got a little impatient

thats why im gonna take it farther this time

[tiny kestrel]

Nice, a level 9 to start the day off

My second diamond light brown. Not bad

[cosmic gust]

YOU KNOW WHAT.

MAYBE MY HM IS FINE.

MAYBE.

PERHAPS I CAN LET MY HM BE.

[vital oyster]

2nd piebald white tail

[cosmic gust]

MIXED RAAAAAAAAAAAAAACK

[tiny kestrel]

2nd lvl 9 of the day spotted

[vital oyster]

Wonky rack probghorn

[mossy orchid]

ahhh I gotcha. Still a cool mount & congrats on the two go’s

hopefully i’ll get my first at some point

[gritty estuary]

very nice!!!!!!!!

[crude sundial]

Thanks

[tiny kestrel]

Haven’t had a rare respawn in ages

Where this albino 👹

[strong thorn]

I love that rack

[full cave]

Real

I started Hm and in 2 days got a max weight 3 wt

[tiny kestrel]

Zero luck past those two diamonds

I am becoming increasingly upset

[vital oyster]

I just shot a massive sika deer

[tiny kestrel]

Are you grinding Sika?

[vital oyster]

No

[tiny kestrel]

Then why announce it in this channel

[vital oyster]

This

[tiny kestrel]

Ah I see

[terse wyvern]

I just about pooped my pants, decided to do a little stroll on Rev and I thought I had an initial spawn wt GO but it was just a weird angle

Looks can be very deceiving

[tiny kestrel]

Can’t tell you how many times that’s happened to me

Tbh I’m thinking ima start up a grind on NEM for whitetail

Already been heavily considering it

My plan is to set up at lakes I’ve got bigger herds at and then HM the river zones down to 1s

[cosmic gust]

id like to get a whitetail super rare

i think ill go for a super rare rotating between all of the great one animals

and lion, cape, and uhhh

water buffalo mayhaps

[tiny kestrel]

Yeah, good luck on that

[cosmic gust]

thanks ill need it

[tiny kestrel]

I want to try and get an SR huddle for whitetail but my rare luck is pretty shit

[cosmic gust]

oh alligators

that too

[tiny kestrel]

You’re very ambitious aren’t you

[cosmic gust]

indeed i am

this is gonna take... ages

but i will get it done

[tiny kestrel]

Unless you’re literally graced by the luck of the gods, you will be going tens of thousands of kills before you get a single super rare

[cosmic gust]

i mean 10s of thousands of kills over how many different maps and how many different species?

[tiny kestrel]

21.5k red deer kills and I’ve only gotten 2 SRs

[cosmic gust]

that doesnt seem so bad

[cosmic gust]

this i mean

not the 21.5k red deer

[tiny kestrel]

Red deer you could probably average 250 kills per day at 60kills/h and assuming you’ll get an SR around the 10K mark, that’s about 4 hours a day of grinding over the course of 40 days. Which is about 160 hours of work to get an SR for red deer alone

[cosmic gust]

also you may have misunderstood i didnt mean a super rare of each i mean like 1 singular super rare and ill rotate between these when i get bored

[tiny kestrel]

Ah

[cosmic gust]

a super rare of all of them would end up with me being literally dead of old age

[tiny kestrel]

I have several SR goals for this year alone. If I actually begin grinding each of those animals I’ll hopefully acquire each one

• some other misc. trophies I still wanna get

[cosmic gust]

i think realistically after i get my red deer g1 im going to go for lions next because money

[tiny kestrel]

Lions are really fun

[cosmic gust]

do capes make money

id assume so right

[tiny kestrel]

Cape buffalo are far less fun to grind

You will be making way less money too

[cosmic gust]

ah

unfortunate

[tiny kestrel]

Lions give, on average, around $300 more per kill + their freezing bug makes it ridiculously easy to kill multitudes of lions per day

They are the single best money making method in game as of now

[cosmic gust]

and lions dont care about hunting pressure either right

[tiny kestrel]

Not really

They’re far more limited as to where they can drink, so building up too much pressure at a lake will delete zones sure, but you’ve already killed all the lions in those zones. So they’ll respawn on top of the pressured lake because they can’t respawn anywhere else

[cosmic gust]

so is hm even worth doing for lions

or would you have to force all the small ones to some random lake

[tiny kestrel]

Up to you whether you wanna HM them or not

I recommend you don’t. It’s much more fun

[cosmic gust]

well for money just blasting them is more profitable right

[tiny kestrel]

Definitely

I still manage to get several diamonds a week without HM. Only issue is I can’t match that same luck when it comes to rares

[cosmic gust]

and you use canning magnum right

if so gonna need a bit more funds from red deer for that

[pliant oak]

nice biggie

good start to the day

[simple kestrel]

Good morning and nice red deer Ron

[wary mason]

Big

[full cave]

Bigboi

[grim spindle]

Lies

[spark osprey]

My fav rack

[full cave]

Starting the grind for today

[full cave]

Diamond 3 of the grind

He’s gonna barely make it

It’s tiny

[pliant oak]

thought he may troll but good

[full cave]

I say you shoot all your dimes for a vid

Does stacking really help with spawning better deer

[cosmic gust]

no

what stacking does is it makes your respawns smaller

which in turn, after you decide to shoot your stacked diamonds, makes diamonds more likely to spawn

[fast ridge]

back to red deer for me

[cosmic gust]

love me some red deer

no trolls yet besides a crab rack

[pliant oak]

nahh i think its a bit boring tbh

about two months ago i shot 25 diamonds in a row

recorded it then deleted it

[jolly sapphire]

No. It's something that was started in the community. It slows progress actually

[fast ridge]

😐

...I mean I did have three initial-spawn diamonds, so it makes sense that I've got an initial-spawn 🦀 rack too

TWIGS FOR ANTLERS!!!!!!!!

[rigid forge]

BIG MALE

[fast ridge]

He's not as massive as the one I got off Cuatro a while back, but still

🤣

[full cave]

got a 280

[pliant oak]

280 what ?

[full cave]

red deer

[pliant oak]

whut ?

🤔

[full cave]

is that good

[rigid forge]

proof or it never happened

[full cave]

if i find it in my trophy lodge somewhere then ok

give me a min

[pliant oak]

post in here

but normally they go upto about 275 and thats super rare

im not sure what my biggest is tbh

[full cave]

Yea I figured

[wooden junco]

Was this another discussion we had other day about red sizes. I know I looked up mine for someone and mine was 270.1 or something

[pliant oak]

i think my biggest is 272

[cosmic gust]

my biggest is like 254 😭

i think

ill check when i get home

[spark osprey]

Mine is 266 🙂

[wooden junco]

I dont even check these days as got sick of red deer. I just ahoot and if I make diamond not screw it up it gets taxied and eventually might put it away lol. I only last week dumped all my reds into its own lodge

[pliant oak]

oh i have probably few hundred of them went to look then got bored

🤣

[wooden junco]

Haha so its not uncommon to not be excited or interested in em.

[pliant oak]

hoping we get some kind of filter system in the future

[wooden junco]

Have accidently shot a few with the 300 as been using that on reds and moose save swapping and maybe drop em quicker

[pliant oak]

my first ever diamond red deer i messed up and shot with a 338

as id just been shooting water buffs

knew instantly id fkd up

🤣

meant to swap to 7mm

pressed record swapped to 338 bang ! idiot ! 😂

[rigid forge]

done that with a turkey. lets just say that .22 made a MUCH louder bang than it should have

[wooden junco]

Haha oops. accidently shot a turkey with the 300. Near shat myself not expecting the loud boom I got in the headphojes

Nailed a terror chicken the other night with 10g buckshot instead of bird. Knew by the extra blood spatter it was wrong load

[fast ridge]

game just crashed while I was going to pick a deer up 😩

[glossy cove]

I once shot a diamond roe deer with the 303 instead of 243. Still only have 2 diamond roe deer to this day. I have more fox diamonds then roe deer

[fast ridge]

😑 another one

[full cave]

Troll?

[fast ridge]

guaranteed troll

the 🦀 rack is also known as the troll rack

[tiny kestrel]

Just received the motivation I needed to start a whitetail grind

NEM here I come

[pliant oak]

lobster boy is trollboy

[cosmic gust]

i think im gonna do whitetail after i have my fun with lions

[lusty spindle]

i’m in the middle of the whitetail grind except i only have five tents so it’s no efficient at all

need to find a way to make lots of good money

shot a piebald a couple days ago tho so i’m not complaining

[cosmic gust]

te awaroa

red deer

they make BANK

like insane bank

[lusty spindle]

i’ll try it out

[cosmic gust]

that and lions too

[lusty spindle]

any specific spots?

[tiny kestrel]

Lions give plenty of money and xp

[spark osprey]

Me having enough diamonds now to gift them to people 😶

But it’s HM so technically cheating

[tiny kestrel]

It’s not cheating in the sense that you’re literally modding in diamonds, it’s just a manipulation of game mechanics

[cosmic gust]

aw man i accidentally killed a red deer zone killing turkeys

boowomp

oh i lied

it barely survived

it ended up between 2 really pink zones

oh no nevermind it is dead

unfortunate

[half harbor]

tbh thinking about 100% completing all reserve missions

grinding species is boring but i still want to be able to hunt. taking it slow without fixating on getting trophies would be a nice change of pace

[tiny kestrel]

Unfortunately have to take down my waterfowl setups on NEM

Hopefully soon I’ll manage to get a few great one WT

[fast ridge]

okay that herd was NOT here last time I was at this outpost

...it's fun when you hit a de-rendered rock instead of the animal

got him the second time though

[wooden junco]

Been finding that a bit past 2 weeks on TA deer where I had previously cleared or had HM down to nothing zone. Have been back over all the deer zones and yeah deer been popping up everywhere now.

[tiny kestrel]

NEM is, so far, pretty fun

Covered a good chunk of the map searching for WT zones. The river zones are gonna be annoying to deal with

[cosmic gust]

im getting a little bored of red deer

having to redo my hm and all

[somber turret]

Now kill 5000 more

And see how you feel after that

[cosmic gust]

yawn

one day

just gotta get everything way down

bro where are my zones 😭

its all 3s 4s and 5s

i havent seen a 7 in ages

[somber turret]

It sounds like you're succeeding

I would be killing all of those 5s so

[glossy cove]

I just had a crazy experience. I had a level 3 turkey in a rest zone in the same spot as a level 5 feral pig rest zone and the pig was max weight max score and I got attacked by the pig

I almost messed up the pig but got liver

[somber turret]

It sounds perfect Mississippi experience

[glossy cove]

It was te awaroa xD

I was hunting sika deer but then found the pig rest zone and track saw he was max weight estimate, changed time, went to main menu and then looked for him. but instead of seeing him i found a level 3 in his rest zone also resting.

I haven't had 2 diamonds in the same spot ( without hm ) in awhile

[half harbor]

quick, answer

diamond wt with the 454 or recurve bow

[somber turret]

Longbow

@half harbor

Or recurve

[half harbor]

kk

dudes not listening to my calls whatsoever

[pliant oak]

it wont be long 😉

[spark osprey]

I spent 8 hours on the game yesterday

What am I doing with my life

[pliant oak]

if you enjoyed it then nothing wrong with that

everything is just a passing of time

whether its video games golf playing cards or anything you can name

[wooden junco]

What about adult entertainment

[pliant oak]

whatever floats your boat but ..lets be sensible. 😉

[wooden junco]

taking a horror game break from cotw today. At point of thinking of a change of map to start fresh there on reds

[pliant oak]

i had a break from reds

was a nice change

[wooden junco]

Might start 1 cycling things and skip the tent reset cycling as that is starting to dull things a bit especially reds.

Least with Moose I get to play with wolves during or after fetching

Oh on the adult joke comment I licked up for free the entire leisure suit larry collection on steam for free in a steam/fanatical promo thing 🤣. Probably been close to 20 years since played that

[tiny kestrel]

I’m slowly beginning to like NEM far more. It also seems like a pretty good map to grind whitetail on

[torpid python]

Just got it

[cosmic gust]

nice man

im still grinding for mine

[tired mason]

how many kills?

[torpid python]

870

[spark osprey]

Lucky liver shot

[tame lark]

99% humidity 💀

[tiny kestrel]

55 kills into the NEM grind and I’ve already gotten a lvl 3 respawn. Haven’t even finished fully setting up

[cosmic gust]

mmmmm you're gonna make me want to grind wt stop it

i have to get my red deer g1

[tiny kestrel]

I paused my lion grind to try and get a few WT GOs and SRs

It’s surprisingly fun honestly

I’m sure this statement will not age well

[spark osprey]

Nope

[cosmic gust]

alright im done with red deer for a bit

i think ive gotten enough money

i picked up my tents from some places too so that saves me money as well

gahhh you've made me start whitetail oli

how could you

[tiny kestrel]

This is in no way my fault

[rigid forge]

https://tenor.com/view/this-is-all-your-fault-eric-cartman-south-park-s7e15-christmas-in-canada-gif-19511208

[tiny kestrel]

I wonder how consistent respawns are gonna be

[cosmic gust]

okay you know what i tried starting to set up whitetail on revontuli and. just decided to go back to red deer

i hate setting up man 😭

[tiny kestrel]

Oh shit I just shot a piebald through the brush I had no idea he was a piebald

[tiny kestrel]

Try NEM bro

[fast ridge]

that sounds a lot like the surprise melanistic NEM gave me

it was dusk so all of them looked dark in the shade

[tiny kestrel]

Wouldve been cool if it was a lvl 3 lol

A 252 minimum lvl 2

Jeez this is a really good start to the grind

3 diamonds already, a surprise piebald and perhaps even a fourth diamond

It made diamond nice

[cosmic gust]

where are the whitetail zones on NEM

[tiny kestrel]

Everywhere

There’s about 80 in total but good majority are on the river system

[cosmic gust]

how do you set up on rivers

[tiny kestrel]

Same way you’d do so around lakes

Just pick your best zones and set up on them

There’s some stretches of river with great visibility and several zones across it. I just set up a tent and few tripods along it and run that section

[cosmic gust]

im going straight to whitetail after i get my g1

also im so sick of not having anything

i found 1 7.

one.

in like... 5 rotations

i know that i have zones somewhere else.

but WHERE

red is where i shoot

blue is uhh

whats the word

exterior? excess? accessory?

something like that

blue is zones i dont shoot

4s and whatnot

but im not getting anything higher than 7 anymore

last biggest thing i shot was an 8

havent even seen a 9 in ages

so where could they be

i just had a realization

the 9s might be in my unrendered zones where i put my tripod

lets test this theory

[tiny kestrel]

I’ve had that happen before lol

[cosmic gust]

well i found a 7

this is a very good start

[somber turret]

On good small lakes use that as a advantage

[cosmic gust]

id definitely take advantage of it if i knew how to setup my tents good

man i was supposed to try getting my 5s down

how am i supposed to get my 5s down if i dont have any diamonds to stack

do i just have to get rng and have one spawn

[errant karma]

@cosmic gust

You need a Tent for the top left lake. Otherwise they wont spawn.

[tiny kestrel]

I think he means “render in”

[terse wyvern]

I started my wt grind again but I just hate it

[cosmic gust]

all my zones for the lake all the way up at the top left are either all females or mostly females with 1 level 4 male

so... ill use that lake for duck hunting at some point

it doesnt catch any respawns either

[errant karma]

In my Screenshot the top left lake

[tiny kestrel]

Have you tried NEM?

[cosmic gust]

in yellow?

[errant karma]

Yeah

[terse wyvern]

It's not even map I just hate wt

[errant karma]

All yellow marked lakes could have zones

[cosmic gust]

ill check those out

thanks

[errant karma]

No problem

[tiny kestrel]

That’s fair. I just started my WT grind and I’m loving it so far

[terse wyvern]

The wt GO is the bane of my existence

[tiny kestrel]

If this game can’t give me an albino lion then surely it can give me a few WT GOs and perhaps an SR or two

[cosmic gust]

two 🤣

[tiny kestrel]

I have two red deer SRs so it’s not that outlandish of a request

[terse wyvern]

I want to grind red deer again but I don't really have a good reason too

[tiny kestrel]

I won’t touch red deer until the spook range changes

[terse wyvern]

I'm curious what actually is gonna change

It may not be what anyone is expecting

[fast ridge]

if the game had been nice to me and had my second WT GO have a different rack than the first one, I wouldn't have to grind for a third

[terse wyvern]

At least you have a wt GO

[tiny kestrel]

I’m hoping I can manage to get the typical rack and drop tine rack

They’re my favourite of the six

[cosmic gust]

i just want mixed racks

love me some mixed racks

if i got some really weird looking mixed racks? perfection

give me a moose great one half basket half spider

[terse wyvern]

Honestly just give me a wt GO, and then I will actually be able to get sleep at night

[tiny kestrel]

Tbh I wouldn’t mind an uneven rack as long as the two I mentioned are fully even

On another note, I’m gonna do one more run and then head to sleep. Tomorrow will be hella grind time

[terse wyvern]

But then I will want a BB GO which I'm just convinced will not happen unless I get some insane luck

[tiny kestrel]

God I’m just not excited to grind black bear

[plain raptor]

No one ever seems to really want to grind black bear lol

We do it because we have to, but we won’t like it sort of deal

[terse wyvern]

I'm kinda hoping maybe the changes in the next update might have some effect it but I doubt it

[tiny kestrel]

Tbf who actually grinds cuz they like it. All we care about is the trophies

[terse wyvern]

Honestly I just want the old srp drink time again cause it was very manageable

[plain raptor]

awkwardly raises hand

It’s a stress reliever

[terse wyvern]

I have nothing better to do lmao does that count

[tiny kestrel]

Me when I lie

Grinding is anything but stress relieving

[plain raptor]

Not to me

[tiny kestrel]

But hey, if it brings you joy then you do you

[terse wyvern]

I feel very mixed emotions when grinding

[plain raptor]

Except when I grind black bear and those lions keeps fleeing them away. Granted, I have not hunted them since the time change

I was grinding moose, but got burnt out

[terse wyvern]

Sometimes I wanna dump a bucket of nails on my head, and sometimes I'm excited to grind

[plain raptor]

😭

[terse wyvern]

I feel like grinding is very much a gambling addiction to me, cause it keeps me coming back knowing I could get something cool on the next respawn

[rigid forge]

https://tenor.com/view/whisker-lynx-cat-big-cat-whiskser-gif-25875475

[tiny kestrel]

Anyone else remember when WT GO racks were like pure white

[plain raptor]

Kitteh!

[rigid forge]

https://media.discordapp.net/attachments/758070747653734554/1072587631168331816/ezgif-2-a32162a0c1.gif

[terse wyvern]

It's crazy how when I'm not recording my cat will meow, but the second I stop recording she's going nuts

[cosmic gust]

@errant karma THANK YOU

THANK YOU SO MUCH

I WENT TO THE RIVER ZONE YOU POINTED OUT

3 7S AND A GUARANTEED DIAMOND

[errant karma]

No problem

I already have my g1 Red deer and other people helped me to

So I am happy if I was able to help you

[cosmic gust]

and an 8 down by glencalloch

[hazy valve]

are level 3 red deer stags uncommon?

[north nova]

I find them to be common

[pliant oak]

not rare just small

[wooden junco]

I have a few 3s about but so far only found a single level 2 lol

Yet to find a level 1 🤔

[hazy valve]

Are the lvl 1 sika males uncommon?

[cosmic gust]

okay im gonna get me really good diamonds today

gonna stack up for like the first half of today and start shooting in the second half

[tiny kestrel]

Whitetail time

It seems no matter what time I change it to, whitetail are always a bit late to their zones

[jagged moth]

Seems like they come in on the south side of maps a little quicker for me. Sometimes I will go to my trophy lodge after I rest and come back and it helps get them there if they are slow.

[tiny kestrel]

Might have to try that out

I usually start on the North end

Uhh hello there sir

This is the first diamond eastern wild I’ve ever seen and I didn’t have a class 1 gun on me

[fast ridge]

You know where he lives so you can come back for him later

[tiny kestrel]

True true

[somber turret]

Eh common uncommon getting one of the tiny lvl 2s is where it's at

[somber turret]

That's why you never walk a map with them without one

[tiny kestrel]

It was the same problem on Medved

So many lvl 3 caps

[wooden junco]

Part of why I learnt to use and carry a shotgun now so carry 3 types of ammo if something pops up

[rigid forge]

Not me spending an hour and a half tracking one of those mo’fos

[tiny kestrel]

Wtf just found a new zone of like 9 whitetail

Welp time to alter my setup already

[somber turret]

You could literally carry the 22 pistol

At least

[tiny kestrel]

Yeah it’s about all I can fit lol

I love seeing all the wonky racks on WT

[cosmic gust]

im starting to become very confident with my shooting

im getting... a shocking amount of heart shots

[sturdy marten]

After I get a super rare and start going for the second one

I think I might try abandoning herd management

Wanna see the comparison between more rare spawns and more diamond spawns

[cosmic gust]

half crab

i wonder if i could get a half crab diamond

[simple kestrel]

Spawns seem far messier and harder to keep up with, I’ve noticed this with various species such as Moose, Caribou, Grizzlies, Black bears and Red deer

I started herd management in grizzlies and moose and it’s far easier for diamonds to spawn

[cosmic gust]

woah

biggest crab rack

second biggest crab rack actually

[simple kestrel]

I’ve only had rares from my red deer grind from not using HM no diamonds, correlation between them is quite questionable

[simple kestrel]

I’m jealous

I would Taxi that beauty

[cosmic gust]

i dont save crab racks

only diamonds

i want a half crab diamond

[tiny kestrel]

Almost at 200 kills

Tbh I think NEM might just be the best whitetail map

[steady rover]

Can anyone confirm if you can get a melanistic whitetail G.O.?

[tiny kestrel]

Both whitetail and moose GOs can have their respective rare fur types, with whitetail having its own unique variant of piebald

[cosmic gust]

oh wow thats

thats nice

i think im taxing this one

[wanton rapids]

Do I just shoot 2’s & 3’a for white tail until a GO comes in?

[tiny kestrel]

@wanton rapids to start off, what map are you grinding on

[wanton rapids]

Revontuli

I get 2’s a lot. 3’s are a little difficult to find. But I’ve seen them.

[tiny kestrel]

Okay. Now, are you familiar with the different grinding methods and have you done any grinds in the past

[wanton rapids]

Never found a GO. But on Te Awaroa my map is filled with 7’s. A few 8’s. Had 4 9’s spawn on a multiplayer session on my map with a few guys a couple nights ago

[tiny kestrel]

Alright, your goal is a great one correct?

[wanton rapids]

Yes

[tiny kestrel]

If so, herd management is entirely optional

It doesn’t affect the GO spawn rate

[wanton rapids]

Now how would I manage

[tiny kestrel]

Your goal would be to shoot every 2 and 3 you see

Stacking can help you in the early stages with building up a high number of lvl 1 bucks

Just leave lvl 3s you find in your main zones

After you’re satisfied with how many small males you’ve got on your map, shoot all the 3s and continue grinding as normal

[wanton rapids]

Not really there is still a lot of triv’s

[tiny kestrel]

Then purge a few of them

[cosmic gust]

okay this is a very nice crab rack

i will not lie

man ive been shooting so many stags

i havent been able to stack another diamond

i need to get my 5s and 6s down to 4

[sturdy marten]

where are these geese at

[cosmic gust]

i might just stack 8s and 9s

i dont have the patience to get another 9

[tiny kestrel]

Haven’t seen a max weight buck this run. That’s strange

[cosmic gust]

oli where are my 9s 😭

[tiny kestrel]

Where are my max weight bucks

[cosmic gust]

@tiny kestrel i found my 9

you should find your buck soon

[tiny kestrel]

I found a few max weights at this lake

[cosmic gust]

ayy there we go

[tiny kestrel]

Is our RNG synced or smn 😭

[cosmic gust]

lets hope we get g1s soon

[tiny kestrel]

If we both find a GO at the same time that’ll confirm it

[tiny kestrel]

Gonna continue the tradition of taking GOs with shotguns whenever these 10 Fableds decide to spawn

[somber turret]

He needs to find that bird too

[tiny kestrel]

You’ve just become Cash now

[somber turret]

Cash has you after stuff you dunno if you have you literally had this bird sitting on your shoulders almost but your noobnes kicked in it seems and you didn't have anything to kill it with

[tiny kestrel]

He’s not in the nearby feed zone he must’ve spooked from further off

I’ll have to search a bit to find him

[spark osprey]

I’ve gotten a 240.8

From a level 8 crab rack

[full cave]

does anyone have a NEM whitetail zone guide?

All are different

meant possible places for deer to be

[rigid forge]

everywhere

[tiny kestrel]

Whitetail can drink at any source of water on NEM

There are roughly 80 zones around the map

[full cave]

Okay thanks

[tiny kestrel]

NO FUCKING WAY

TEN FABLED

[rigid forge]

👀 👀 👀 👀 👀 👀 👀 👀 👀 👀 👀 👀 👀 👀 👀 👀

[spark osprey]

Waaaaa

Let’s see it

[tiny kestrel]

TWO DAYS OF GRINDING

[spark osprey]

👀

👀👀👀

Lucky af

WT?

[tiny kestrel]

Yes

It’s the cluster rack

[spark osprey]

Idk which one that is

Also

Funny how when you just find a GO

I just found ANOTHER initial spawn diamond moose

Ty for that

[spark osprey]

You will have to show me

[tiny kestrel]

Only 300 kills in this is nuts

[cosmic gust]

this HAS to mean im getting mine soon

[tiny kestrel]

Which shotgun should I shoot him with?

[rigid forge]

20ga

buckshot

[cosmic gust]

you think he makes diamond 🤣

whats the record for crab rack

[tiny kestrel]

Oh hell no

[spark osprey]

Nope

[spark osprey]

Crossbow

My new fav weapon

[tiny kestrel]

Shotgun

[rigid forge]

10ga

[tiny kestrel]

I’m not doing buckshot Cash

Not on my first one atleast

[somber turret]

20 gauge side by side white stock

[fast ridge]

Niiiice

[somber turret]

And you kill the turkey with birdshot from the same shotgun

[rigid forge]

20ga slug then

[somber turret]

That is two votes for 20 gauge slug

[tiny kestrel]

Ima use the 20g semi auto

[somber turret]

Noooo

[tiny kestrel]

I haven’t used it for a GO yet

[somber turret]

Side by side

[rigid forge]

https://tenor.com/view/penguin-attack-rocket-gif-10576432

[tiny kestrel]

Dude I took my big rack red deer with the side by side

[cosmic gust]

huge crab rack

this beats out my level 9 crab rack

[somber turret]

That's Actually average basically

238-241 is normal

[cosmic gust]

this is an 8

[somber turret]

Ye

[tiny kestrel]

Aight I’ve grabbed the shotgun

Iron sights + slugs

[spark osprey]

I have a lvl 4 moose estimated 233-281

Looks big

[spark osprey]

👀

[somber turret]

248.5

[spark osprey]

Record it

[spark osprey]

Probably right

[tiny kestrel]

I’m on PS it’s an extensive process to actually acquire videos offa the capture gallery

[spark osprey]

Understandable

I’m on Xbox

[somber turret]

I just transferred them to a external drive

[spark osprey]

I think I’m gonna start a moose grind

So far I’m having fun finding zones

3 lvl 5 initial spawns so far

[cosmic gust]

just spawned my 3rd 9

250 low estimate

same rack as my guaranteed

basically another guaranteed

that big crab was a good sign

[full cave]

Insane

Wtf

[tiny kestrel]

He’s down boys

[somber turret]

The turkey....

[tiny kestrel]

Piss off with the turkey

[spark osprey]

Lemme see

[tiny kestrel]

Give me a sec to grab the SS

I was slow crawling the entire goddamn way lol

Check #🦌︴trophies for the rest

You know, it ain’t one of the racks I wanted but this is still pretty solid

[spark osprey]

Lmao

Still a GO

I don’t have one yet

Maybe I’ll get an initial spawn GO moose with the luck im having so far 👀

[tiny kestrel]

That’s 3/4 GO species done too. All that’s left is black bear and then I can finally say I’ve gotten a GO of every species so far

[cosmic gust]

have you checked for an initial already

[spark osprey]

I’m running through my map rn finding zones

[cosmic gust]

also 3 diamonds on my map should be enough to guarantee my stags get smaller right

[spark osprey]

Ask Ron

He’s a red deer grinding specialist

[cosmic gust]

who might that be

[spark osprey]

ronMctube

[cosmic gust]

scratch that 4

wait is this big rack?

[spark osprey]

Maybe

[tiny kestrel]

It’s what I call the “pseudo big rack”
You’ll notice it’s frontmost brow tines are split

It scores far lower than a normal big rack

[cosmic gust]

i dont know my racks lmao

dont think i have a big rack diamond

[spark osprey]

You probably do

Looks like this

[cosmic gust]

i actually dont

ill have to look through to make sure

but all of my diamonds have been the ones where it kinda looks clumped up at the end

bunch of little tines at the ends

[spark osprey]

Yep

[tiny kestrel]

Madi is gonna be fucking pissed when she wakes up tomorrow lmao

[spark osprey]

Who’s that

[tiny kestrel]

She’s gone many thousand kills without a WT great one

[spark osprey]

Damn

[rigid forge]

@wary mason

[tiny kestrel]

Welp time to continue grinding and get n°2 within 100 kills

[tiny kestrel]

Been staring at my GO for nearly an hour now

[sturdy marten]

Fr making me wanna go hunt whitetail now

But I know I’m not gonna get that lucky with the kills and I’m gonna be 8,000 kills in bored out of my mind

[cosmic gust]

my red deer grind is about to pick up again

red deer g1 Soon™️

diamond #1 for tonight

[tiny kestrel]

@rigid forge tell you what, I’ll take my 3rd WT GO with 10g buckshot

[cosmic gust]

#2 just now

looking for #3

ive got like 4 or 5 on the map rn

some big 7s and 8s scattered about too

gonna be some big respawns

theres #3

#4 is going to be at the same lake as #2

and theres #4

hoping to spawn #5 tonight

actually im gonna go mess around in multiplayer

[tiny kestrel]

Imagine I get a 2nd GO today lol

Or an SR

[cosmic gust]

you better not

[tiny kestrel]

Would be funny

I have a feeling my next one will be sub 1K too

Well I just got a lvl 3 respawn

[cosmic gust]

just managed to get #5 right before hopping off

good day

got my hm back up and running

and 5 diamonds

10 red deer diamonds and 14 total

0 rare red deer though 😭

[wary mason]

Bitch I told you it would be under a couple months

How tf are you so lucky

[half harbor]

what a beauty

i love the thicker racks

[pliant oak]

hmm reds or fallow deer today

2nd fallow deer diamond on map

wonder which sr will come first

[spark osprey]

Do you have a grind set up for both?

[pliant oak]

i do now

made a guide yesterday

for fallows super easy

[spark osprey]

Yeah

[pliant oak]

also probably best money you can earn fast

fallows

[spark osprey]

I like how they drop instantly with a lung shot

[pliant oak]

yeah 308 melts em

they dont run

[spark osprey]

How do you do it with only 16 tents?

[pliant oak]

so you can kill a lot of males quick

[spark osprey]

I think they are glitched

[pliant oak]

i dont need tents apart for two spots

no its cause they smallish

so 308 hammers em

[pliant oak]

think red then think fallow

[spark osprey]

This happened to me

[pliant oak]

but in a few hrs i managed to spawn two diamonds

so could be really nice for a super rare

[spark osprey]

SR is my dream

[pliant oak]

reds i dont have any luck with that

[spark osprey]

I don’t even have a melanistic yet

[pliant oak]

hundreds of diamonds now

not one

[spark osprey]

I might grind moose on rev

[pliant oak]

fallow deer the great one would be perfect

[spark osprey]

I bought it yesterday and found 3 lvl 5 initial spawns so far

[pliant oak]

especially how you grind them would work really well

[spark osprey]

I oughta check for all fallow zones

[pliant oak]

dont really need to its just round the coast middle river and three small ponds

[spark osprey]

I just want to make sure there’s no initial spawn diamonds

[sturdy marten]

Fallow time

Gonna try and get a couple more diamonds

If one of them happens to be a rare 🤷‍♂️