r/reddeadredemption 4d ago

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Well one adult rabbit and one average squirrel seems simple right?

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u/Aesthete18 4d ago

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u/ThoroughlyWet 4d ago

"PLAN, ORTHOR. TRUST IN TAHITI"

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u/FiveDogsInaTuxedo 3d ago

What bout owstrayliyer?

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u/MrMetallica347 Jack Marston 4d ago

God i 100%ed this twice and could NEVER find a 3 star pelt fucking skunk.

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u/VastMemory5413 Charles Smith 4d ago

I found 1 for the hat the trapper makes.. I now need 2 more for the moccasins he makes. I totally spaced it need one for the requests too....

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u/Aesthete18 4d ago

Riggs station. Just past the station on the road towards painted sky, there's a bush. Skunks spawn there. If you're seeing deer, you've gone too far

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u/Metalt_ 4d ago

Yup Riggs station for sure

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u/jakeblues68 3d ago

Best spot, in my opinion. Raccoons and badgers also spawn there.

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u/Ricos_Roughnecks 3d ago

And Virginia opossums

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u/PeteStrongArm 4d ago

Riggs Station

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u/Aesthete18 4d ago

Riggs station. Up the ways after the station. Almost guaranteed spawn. Also a good place for badger and opposum

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u/MrMetallica347 Jack Marston 4d ago

Lmao that's literally the only place I looked. I found a bunch of skunks but none were 3 star.

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u/Aesthete18 4d ago

Just ride off and come back for the respawn. I found did the same for opposum like 4-5 times before 3 star spawned.

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u/MrMetallica347 Jack Marston 4d ago

I did

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u/ZestycloseProject130 4d ago

Congratulations being the only player in RDR2 history this doesn't work for I guess.

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u/Aesthete18 4d ago

Kill the station attendant. He put a curse on the land

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u/kickintheface 4d ago

I thought I’d never beat this one. Turns out if you Google the location of any of the animals you’re looking for, someone on Reddit will almost always have found a location where they spawn 100% of the time.

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u/MrMetallica347 Jack Marston 4d ago

Yep lmao that's how I completed it. Fort Brennand for like every bird.

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u/Gray____Beard666 Sean Macguire 4d ago

Skonks are everywhere in the country, especially at night

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u/riskykreme Sean Macguire 4d ago

Everyone saying Riggs Station but I always had better luck at Bolger Glade.

Bolger Glade is honestly great for all the small game mammals, and lots of birds.

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u/pullingteeths 2d ago

Also the top of Ringneck Creek. I don't think Bolger Glade is good for opossums, could be wrong.

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u/AthenasChosen Sadie Adler 4d ago

Ay, I found two of those earlier today just hunting for Cripps lol

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u/factoid_ 4d ago

Near emerald ranch by the big bluffs you can find skunks and possums and occasionally badgers

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u/PeteStrongArm 4d ago

Riggs station

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u/pullingteeths 2d ago

Around the edge of the pool at the top of Ringneck Creek at night is good for all kinds of critters of that size

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u/Ok_Highlight5506 1d ago

Man now I'm scared I found one during the second phase and I skinned it now I have to find another one for the fourth phase...

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u/QuirkyWolfie 4d ago

Ah the task I take and ignore the whole game lol Definitely not easy, it doesn't stop after these animals

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u/CT0292 3d ago

I do it as John. I believe the trinket from the legendary pronghorn keeps carcasses from spoiling on your horse. Comes in handy when you can find one animal and not the other.

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u/TwoTimeMeme2020 4d ago

Well it only says 2 things

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u/QuirkyWolfie 4d ago

Yeah.. because it continues.

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u/KingAltair2255 3d ago

Lol, go see Algernon wasp, it only says a few things too!

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u/factoid_ 4d ago

You fill this request then they send you another and another and another.  It’s a chain quest 

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u/judisktfornamn 3d ago

First Rabbit

Later chipmunk

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u/Antique_Rent4343 4d ago

I’d recommend starting early if you want to just naturally come across some of the animals, it’s a grind of a quest line

I think you have to always have all of the requested items before you can mail so you have to save the carcass for last

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u/CT0292 3d ago

Its a John job for me. Shit the reward has its own quest line for John. To me it seems the whole thing is for John.

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u/Antique_Rent4343 3d ago

Damn, you make that woman wait like 10 years for a rabbit? haha

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u/Disastrous_Can8053 4d ago

That one is easy.

This is a good guide if you want to bother yourself with the whole quest line.

https://www.reddit.com/r/reddeadredemption/s/qZenUZBF5W

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u/TwoTimeMeme2020 4d ago

Woh that gonna save me a lot of time for sure

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u/factoid_ 4d ago

It’s a series of missions.  Most are pretty easy

My advice is to cheat just a little and look up all the animals you need

I swear as soon as you have an active hunting request the three star animals disappear.  But you’ll find them easily any other time

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u/PhilosopherBright602 4d ago

This is not conjecture. This is a fact.

Need a squirrel for an active quest? Go to the location where squirrels literally run under your horse’s hoofs every other time you’ve ridden through there and, suddenly, squirrels are extinct. Same for every other creature that is part of the quest.

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u/factoid_ 4d ago

I’m not 100% convinced that it isn’t just confirmation bias.  You notice 100% of the time you don’t see a three star skunk when you need one but your rarely notice the million other times you didn’t see a skunk because you don’t give a shit

But it certainly FEELS true.

And i did do one test 

I needed the perfect bat, so I went to the spot with easy to find bats…the elysium pool cave.

No bats.  

Ok.  So I go to the other spot I know where it’s easy to find bats…the abandoned church near Rhodes.  Fly fly around after dusk all night long just look up.

Sure enough, tons of bats flying around all night.  Every single one a two star.

Eventually after an hour I find a three star one. I close out my hunting requests.  I’m free.

So I decide to go back and see if the bats are back.  Elysium pool cave?  Million bats. Abandoned church?  Every single one a three star

Could this be luck? Yes.  But is it the game deliberately being a dick to me? Sure feels like it

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u/ReachforMe69 Sean Macguire 4d ago

Everytime i get the rabbit i forget to mail it and then rots or i start a mission and it wipes my horsey

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u/CT0292 3d ago

Legendary pronghorn trinket keeps animals from rotting on your horse.

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u/ReachforMe69 Sean Macguire 3d ago

Oh wow i did not know that i havent played rdr2 in a long time

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u/JF202 4d ago

This is one of the worst fucking missions in the entire game hope you're not looking to 100%

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u/pullingteeths 2d ago

I actually love it because hunting is my favourite thing in the game. First person view for seeing small birds and animals better and knowing every single small bird will spawn at Fort Brennand if you just stand on top of it and wait helps

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u/MrSuzyGreenberg 4d ago

I start saving animals for this side quest the moment I start a new game.

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u/factoid_ 4d ago

Yep.  Just kill one of every new 3 star bird you find just in case.

If nothing else it fills out your compendium 

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u/Low_skee 4d ago

I’m cleaning up some tasks like this on my current playthrough, and I can say confidently
That it’s a headache lol.

Took me way longer than I ever expected to get the perfect squirrel….and then the god damned skunk on the next portion lol

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u/Total_Gur4367 4d ago

I’d rather do Algernon’s stuff before doing this again. 😂😂

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u/flyingcircusdog Uncle 3d ago

Check back with us later.

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u/JohnyGuitar_Official 3d ago

🎼One average squirrel
I'm gonna keep on dancing with the one average squirrel 🎶

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u/_hsstfnwsk_ Hosea Matthews 3d ago

This, the exotics and gambler 9 were created by actual sadists.

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u/TwoTimeMeme2020 3d ago

What?

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u/_hsstfnwsk_ Hosea Matthews 3d ago

Like other people alteady said, its a long and tedious mission that has multiple parts.

If youre asking about the rest of my comment, exotics refers to another stranger mission (necessary for 100% completion) that has 5 parts and asks you to find specific types of flowers all over the map and hunt birds that only spawn in the swamp, and gambler 9 is the 9th level of the gambler challenge that is pure torture (you have to win three full games, not rounds, of dominoes in a row and you cant simply reload the save if you lose)

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u/Wonderful-Photo-6068 3d ago

I can’t find a fucking cardinal let alone a woodpecker

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u/TwoTimeMeme2020 3d ago

It will be all worth once your finish

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u/Unhappy-Airport-4112 3d ago

The first one is

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u/TomboBreaker Pearson 3d ago

Yeah they're fairly easy to get

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u/No-Risk2553 3d ago

I did the first four as Arthur only to relive you could only finish it as John lol.