Your vid’s and streams really help me on the grind struggs…FINALLY got my red deer GO!! 267 fabled spotted…idk how many kills but well over 100 diamonds and rares!! Thank you for all you do!😊👍🏻
I also really, really wanted (and still want) to see Elephants, Rhinos, Hippos, Giraffes, Crocodiles, and Zebras on Tikamoon Plains. Why did the devs not add those animals to that map?
You should do a trophy lodge series or episode where you go in a random multiplayer lodge game and rate each one or a competition of some sort. Idk it seems like a fun idea and I would watch so fun!!!
-The Ibex starting running because it reached the top of the hill. I have no idea why this is a thing, but in Classic, when an Ibex that's doing their scrunched up "wall walk" reaches the top or bottom, it'll sprint for a little bit before settling down. It was extremely annoying to discover a few days ago as I watched a nice trophy Ibex go back and forth on top of an inaccessible hilltop. 2 others eventually came down, but not him. -As far as ibex scoring goes, total length and spread credit define most of the score. The 232 is clearly narrower than the 254 you got, and I'd expect that's where most to all of the difference is. It can be super hard to visually estimate ibex scoring because the human brain is horrible at measuring curves, so an ibex with less curl but longer horns can look worse than one with short horns but a better curl. Meanwhile they only get up to 3 points for the curl itself. -Ptarmigan have a tendency to fly back to the same spot because need zones are actually a thing in Classic. It's less predictable than CotW; animals will only seek out the correct biome/foliage type instead of going to a very specific spot, but many animals have feeding, resting, and drinking (even though animals have no drinking animation, they'll still go wander aimlessly around the shore or in the shallows) needs they'll seek out at specific times. If Ptarmigan are at a need zone, they'll fly back after 1-2 minutes of the last time they were spooked, usually. If they don't fly back, then that wasn't a need zone, and the flock was just incidentally idling there. -You didn't see the white tailed ptarmigan leave because they ran away. While rock and willow ptarmigan tend to bunker down until you flush them, white tails will sometimes run away and find somewhere else to hide without flushing. I find that generally the closer you are to the flock when they detect you, the more likely they are to freeze or flush. Sprinting at them or shooting from farther away tends to be more likely to cause them to run instead of flying. I love big racks and horns, so IMO a nice trophy ibex is one of the best things in the game... but hot damn do I hate hunting them. Their eyesight is insane: I've had them spot me prone, stationary, in full Alpine camo from 40+ meters. For the trouble of trying to get a clear shot on the uneven terrain of high Val De Bois without spooking them or having them run somewhere I can never get them, they're also second only to Banteng for the least cost effective species in the game to hunt. Those huge trophy billys you shot were only in the 50-60 gm$ range; I can make more than that off a 4X4 mulie who's 1/8th as wary and will walk within bow distance if I call. It's deeply frustrating to spend half an hour watching a 50 gm$ ibex lord it up on top of a mountain while I refrain from shooting five to ten times that value of ptarmigan that are just flying into shotgun range so I don't scare him even farther out of reach. Also as far as the need zones go, I don't have too much info on that because I only found out a few weeks ago myself. I've been keeping a google doc of when I catch either animals clearly engaging in a behavior, or when I find more than you would reasonably expect in the same place (3 brown bears together). So far I've only got about a page, and there's a lot more about it I'd like to confirm as I get more data.
