This is very helpful! I didnt know that you didnt need to find all your zones for respawns to work. I'm currently grinding Roosevelt elk in their feed zones. I've got two diamonds and 5 trolls so far. The grind is for a 400+ scoring elk. Here's my personal process for setting up a grind. 1. Hunt Without grinding just hunt your map for whatever species and collect all zones that you can. Realistically you won't find every single one (unless you're grinding drink Zones) but thoroughly hunt all of they're home range and you'll have 90% of all your zones. See pro xck's map guides and every speices homerange is in thier. Solo zones are always changing once you kill them so those plus one or two straggler herds makeup for that 10%. Quick tip : If you just want to hunt that animal instead of grinding but you already have all of their zones, just hunt a different Zone time and you'll have all new zones to find, however other than respawns from whatever you've killed so far you'll be running into the same animals just in a different Zone. 2. Pick zones Pick your favorite zones to hunt and set up tents tree stands and tripods if you want / need to. It doesn't have to be every Zone you have but at least 10 to 15, the reason for this is in the next step. Keep in mind how many zones you're grinding depends on the species and the size of their home range on whatever map. This part doesn't apply for drink zones but for feed or rest if I have zones Within 300M of each other I make a route. meaning I just start at a tent or Outpost and hit one zone, and then the next one in one go. Routes just depend on how lucky you get with your zones if you get a lot of zones close by each other then you can get a route of three or four but for my elk grind I've been pretty unlucky and I've got it one Zone at a time mostly, and a few routes of 2. How good your routes will be depends on luck and the species your hunting. 3. Grind/ respawns From here you just grind. Keep an eye on Hunting pressure because blowing out your zones is really bad especially if you're doing feed or rest zones. So there's a few reasons you need to be grinding 10 to 15 zones. Reason one is that each time you do a run on your grind you want the hunting pressure to be constantly erasing itself. Reason two is for respawns. If respawns are being weird and animals aren't respawning or showing up to certain zones you need to have other zones to grind in the meantime and then check back on the weird zones that aren't working in some way at least once every run. I've got some zones that only give me respawns every 2 runs. So you want a lot of zones to compensate for anything like that. The last reason is to make the most out of your Zone time you should have at least enough zones to last you the whole Zone time. You don't want to be resetting the time every 15 minutes.
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This is very helpful!
I didnt know that you didnt need to find all your zones for respawns to work.
I'm currently grinding Roosevelt elk in their feed zones. I've got two diamonds and 5 trolls so far. The grind is for a 400+ scoring elk. Here's my personal process for setting up a grind.
1. Hunt
Without grinding just hunt your map for whatever species and collect all zones that you can. Realistically you won't find every single one (unless you're grinding drink Zones) but thoroughly hunt all of they're home range and you'll have 90% of all your zones. See pro xck's map guides and every speices homerange is in thier. Solo zones are always changing once you kill them so those plus one or two straggler herds makeup for that 10%. Quick tip : If you just want to hunt that animal instead of grinding but you already have all of their zones, just hunt a different Zone time and you'll have all new zones to find, however other than respawns from whatever you've killed so far you'll be running into the same animals just in a different Zone.
2. Pick zones
Pick your favorite zones to hunt and set up tents tree stands and tripods if you want / need to. It doesn't have to be every Zone you have but at least 10 to 15, the reason for this is in the next step. Keep in mind how many zones you're grinding depends on the species and the size of their home range on whatever map. This part doesn't apply for drink zones but for feed or rest if I have zones Within 300M of each other I make a route. meaning I just start at a tent or Outpost and hit one zone, and then the next one in one go. Routes just depend on how lucky you get with your zones if you get a lot of zones close by each other then you can get a route of three or four but for my elk grind I've been pretty unlucky and I've got it one Zone at a time mostly, and a few routes of 2. How good your routes will be depends on luck and the species your hunting.
3. Grind/ respawns
From here you just grind. Keep an eye on Hunting pressure because blowing out your zones is really bad especially if you're doing feed or rest zones. So there's a few reasons you need to be grinding 10 to 15 zones. Reason one is that each time you do a run on your grind you want the hunting pressure to be constantly erasing itself. Reason two is for respawns. If respawns are being weird and animals aren't respawning or showing up to certain zones you need to have other zones to grind in the meantime and then check back on the weird zones that aren't working in some way at least once every run. I've got some zones that only give me respawns every 2 runs. So you want a lot of zones to compensate for anything like that. The last reason is to make the most out of your Zone time you should have at least enough zones to last you the whole Zone time. You don't want to be resetting the time every 15 minutes.
13 likes is so low for your content but keep the good work
Do i need to pick up every kill?