I've learned a lot from you, despite your lack of videos 😅. Please, please... make more videos. I respect the grind, and always give you credit when explaining herd management to people. Great video bro!🎉
I had a bear kill count of 1300 when they went to the dark side, and I gave up my grind. Thanks to iBUY and this video I modified my setup and kicked off again, 470 bears later I have a G1 in my lodge. I honestly never thought I would return to the bear grind. Thank you.
That’s so awesome you picked it back up! The bear grind is a bit tedious to start, but so fun and it pays a ton when it gets going! Congrats on the GO!!
Super helpful video! This is a great guide, I haven't set up a bear grind yet and this video will make it easy peasy! Thank you for taking so much time to create content like this and help the community out! ❤
I've also found if you shoot a lower level bear in the four Lakes and shoot a high level bear out of the zone it swaps the bears if you don't claim them and go back to your home menu.
Great video ibuy. Explained very well. You and Lady L are excellent teachers. EW should pay you bought . This helps new players as well as us vets. Thank you
What do you do when you have level 2 or 3 male bears show up on your main shooting lakes in Silver Ridge Peaks? Do you shoot them? Love the content man. Thanks
Dude I’m having the same issue so I feel you I placed on the other side by the purchased post but the funny thing was I placed my other tent to close to the lake spawned by 2 bears and killed em both tho when I appeared
So are you supposed to stack the 9s until you shoot down all of your exterior lakes??? Then also on average how many kills do you think this grind takes?
Ideally that is how that works. There isn’t really an average amount of kills it takes though. My first bear when they first came out was 6.2k. But I have been averaging them around 300 kills with the setup.
I know this is an old video but since the update screwed my tiger grind I was thinking of trying my first GO grind. Does this all still work after the update? Thanks 👍 great video!
For bears yeah. In fact the only difference really is that they drink during the daytime. With a drink time of 4-8 for the most part, everything else should be the same. The respawns for bears seem to be working well also.
Yeah, it changed with the dog dlc that dropped. There are a couple places there on that hill you can still place a tent. They are just a little bit of a pain to find. In my discord in the hunter call of the wild chat there is a picture of where you can place it now.
I think i finally got this to work! Gotta hurry up before the update! Found 2 level 9’s. Sometimes females still spawn in my shooting zones. And a level 8 keeps responding on the 5th lake.
Thank you so much for making this guide, I was really stuck when it came down to it. My one question is if I'm supposed to shoot the females out of the lowermost 'bouncing' zone?
Fantastic video! Ibuy doing the work for the community. How many zones did you find at the other lakes you managed down? How many do I need to start the HM grind?
@@ibuypremiums ok thank you. Also, I got everything set up and ready to go but when I tried to hunt the bears at the lakes, sometimes none would spawn. Is there a solution to this? Do you know if I’m doing anything wrong?
Awesome video iBuy, ima try and copy your setup the best I can, gonna be hard herd managing the map down but if I can do that I’d say it’ll be pretty fun.
thanks for making this vid, you have clearly done well on your grinds with the number of bears you got. are there any drink zones up in silver rise / prosperity pass? i saw your map of possible zones was partially covered lol
Not sure what to do once lakes are “primed” all my main lakes have 6,7 and 1 8. And my exteriors have all the females. Do I shoot the smallest males on the main lakes now?
@@ibuypremiumsbrother I get the HM and everything but I can’t see any of the bear in alot of my zones because of the grass. I can’t even see them, I have to spook them to be able to see where they’re. I’d put tree stands up but still don’t work. Any advice?
If you have tough spots that you cant see through grass, you can move back far until the grass renders out. Or you can try using the caller, that is what i do. It helps a bit. @@vapesmoker8738
Hi ibuy ive been following you for a little bit and im currently working on a black bear grind. Im on srp and ive shot down my exteriors but evry few rounds i keep getting smalll bears on my main lakes. im probably 3000+ kills in and im not getting any diamonds and still no great one. i dont want to give up but im really confused and not sure what im doing wrong because im doing what you and lady says in your guides. got any tips? thank you for your amazing content!
You will still get small bears to spawn on the 4 lakes for sure. But if you are over 3k without spawning diamonds, there is definitely some larger bears out there hiding somewhere on your map. It seems after the last change for the bears they tend to bounce out a bit more too. But you should be able to get out there and find them. Even a 7 or 8 out at another lake can really effect the diamond spawn rate. I hope you can find them, and i hope this little bit helps!
Hello I Buy. I've never really got into grinding but do frequent the same areas quite a bit. But today I have decided to change all of that. I'm going to take your's and Lady's advice and try to start a grind on Revontuly Coast. But I was hoping you could answer a few questions for me as I'm getting started. I'm starting off with Whitetails but was thinking about trying to do moose and maybe Brown Bears at the same time so I wouldn't be resetting the time so much and maybe would relieve some of the hunting pressure at the same time. Or do you think I'm just biting off way more than I can chew. Another question I have for you is that when you're grinding for a G1 do you stack your diamonds like some of the other people do? I just feel like you're the one I trust the most on this subject. Thank you for this awesome video!❤❤❤
Hey! Yeah so Revontuli whitetail are really good! As long as you are hunting a minimum of 8 zones, shooting 2 per zone your hunting pressure should be gone when you get back to the first zone. Setting up moose can work, but it’s a a lot of work. I would maybe stick to just one species since you are just starting out. And yea I do stack my diamonds as well. It just makes it faster to shoot the rest of the map down.
So ibuy im finished grinding and shooting all big bears out my exterior lakes but i went to the four lakes and i only have females there not. Even a low level male pls help
Have you ever counted your bear population on silver ridge? Like how many males and females exist? I know each map will be different by a small margin.
This isnt really working for me and wondering if I'm doing something technically wrong. Ive killed about 200 bears, killed off all the females to start after setup. I'm making the rotation on about 5 exterior lakes and the 4 shooting lakes. Can't seem to clear the jumpers (one maybe two each cycle) and level of the shooting lake bears is stuck at lvl 7 (mind the fact that I'm not shooting those on the 4 lakes). Just seems to be rinse and repeat over and over. Just as an UPDATE its a pretty consistent pattern I find tWO small bears at one of the 4 shooting lakes and 1 jumper at an exterior lake. I kill them all but they just reapear the next cycle.
This video is fantastic! Although is the step about killing all bears 4 and up around the map necessary, it’s just that I only got SRP yesterday so it would take me ages to do that.
The video helped me so much starting BB grind, but i do have 1 question... do you hunt the other lakes or check them and every now and them hunt them or do you have them in your rotation to hunt and those 4 lakes are the main that will spawn the g1?
I mostly just rotate the 4 lakes after they have a good amount of bears on them. But if the bears start to seem like there are less there. I will go around and check the other lakes again.
Sorry to bother you. I have a quick question about leaving any diamonds or G1's that you already have on your map whenever EU is planning on doing an update. Like the 1 that is coming for Halloween. Should I go ahead and remove anything I'm worried about losing?
@@ibuypremiums thank you so much. I was really starting to freak out. I instinctively shot the first diamond I saw. But I got ahold of myself and now I have 3 new guaranteed 1's in the last 4 days just chillin. Lol! Thank you so much for responding. I was just about to do something bad. Lol! Have you ever hunted IRL? I did for 40 years. And it's hard to stop when you're programed to fill the freezers!(-;
question about whitetail ... i had a zone with 3 males and 1 female and i shot all the males. now that zone only has that 1 female and the males aren't respawning. did those males go somewhere else and now the zone is dead? should i shoot the female or just leave this zone alone now ? thanks !
The males did go somewhere else and you have to find them. Any time that you have 3 bucks and 1 doe zone. You always have to leave at least 1 male and 1 female there or it will go doe only always.
Did you glitch the tent and tripod stand placement at the west end of the first lake? I tried placing both for about 30 minutes in the exact same spot and couldn't get it to stick. I kept getting either "slope is too steep" or "try placing over open ground."
No. When they did the retriever dog update it changed the terrain there or something. I had to run around that hillside for awhile to find a new place to put one down.
Is it important to have a specific amount of bears drinking at the "bounce" lake in order to "catch" the bears from the main 4 lakes? I got 5 females and a small male drinking there and my respawns aren't consistently as I expected them to be
I dont think there is a set number. If there is, i have not noticed. I just notice if my bears at the 4 lakes are a lower amount, and then i run around and find where they went. By doing that, i notice sometimes that some lakes have a tendency to eat respawns.
It depends on what you have on those 4 lakes. If it is all small bears, you will have low respawns. If you get lucky and have a good group of big bears, it might work out for a little. They can and will still bounce out from these lakes though.
I've been playing cotw since 2019 and still haven't had a g1. I've tried herd management, right ammo, good placement shots, everything. think you can help me out? thanks.
Pretty epic, having All variations of fur types is just unreal. Most of us would just love One,lol. I'm about to begin my grind,never tried before. Wish me luck 🤞 I've watched this several times, and have a question...1. How many times to you have to shoot the females on the main four to make them bounce/relocate? I keep shooting them and they just keep walking back out the next time I return. Just trying to make sure I do it correctly, this is the only GO that interest me, gotta get it right. Thx again!! Happy Hunting 💥🤘
Thanks a lot! It is pretty awesome having them all. Sometimes you do run into the stubborn respawns, you can continue trying with pickup. Or, you can shoot the female and shoot a male from an exterior while leaving them on the ground. Exit to menu to try and get the em to swap. I was able to just shoot and pickup to get mine swapped though.
@@ibuypremiums Thank you for replying first off, it's appreciated! I'll keep blasting and hopefully figure it out. I'll check back in at some point and let you know how its going,hehe. Good luck on ur Super 💥
Thank you so much, i am gonna need all the luck i can get for that SR. I wish you luck on your grind, hopefully you can get it smoothed out! I am sure you can do it.@@NIGHTROCKER70
@@Valiant.Pacheco I'm giving it my best, not able play as much as other ppl, but I've been blasting away. Took a Lot of searching to find 10 or more male bears to send to those 4 lakes! Finally think I've done that. Its a work in progress,lol. Definitely wish I tried this a year ago, Before they ruined the bears and goats.
So I’ve been doing a whitetail grind on Revontuli, I’ve been consistently visiting essentially all of my zones (getting through about 1/3 of my zones per rotation) my initial plan was to leave the 1’s and stack diamonds.. would I be better off condensing my grind to fewer locations?
That came with the dog dlc. The map changed a little there. Or the rocks did. I don’t know exactly. But there are a couple of places to place a tent there still. In my discord in the call of the wild hunter chat there should be a picture of where the tent can be placed.
Absolutely. So with herds it can mess them up, and break your male respawns in that zone. And also create new zones. With bears, they are predators. So solo respawns, they bounce to other areas when you shoot them. It allows more males to be able to potentially respawn in that spot.
There is a new place to put it over there. When the dog came out, it changed that mountain a little and we had to find a new place over there to put a tent.
Hey is there a sertain method to placing the top left tent at the fifth lake It doesn’t let me place it in the side of that mountain where u have it placed
It changed when they released the dog update. They changed something with the rocks there. In my discord there is a new picture for where to place in the hunter chat if you can navigate your way there.
ibuy, i am about 3.5k kills into my bear grind with no g1, i rotate through every lake on the far left of the map. at the 5 lakes you rotate through I have a total of 11 female bears in those 5 lakes. do you advise I change my grind up and shoot the left side lakes down, except for the 5 you rotate through, and then shoot the 11 females out of those 5 lakes ?
@@ibuypremiumsright, i need to switch it up, as of now i get around 40 kills an hour. im asking that if i shot those females out of your 5 lakes would they swap with males ?
They will! You just have to make sure that you are hitting them off those lakes, and running around and shooting males from other lakes also! @@cadensechrist471
@@ibuypremiumsupdate, after 3 weeks and 6k kills, still no g1. i have perfected hm on my map and just spawned a sr blonde. how do i get that before a single g1. don’t you have over 10 with no sr ?
hey ibuy...i been grinding bears for almost a year now on and off and still no GO. no clue how many i shot since i don't keep count but i've shot a fk ton so far. i recently have this problem where all my bears spawn back as 4s. i have almost all 4s in my main 5 lakes in the upper left corner. all my exterior zones are shot down. i been checking them over and over and there's nothing much in the exterior lakes. any idea what's wrong or is it just some real garbage RNG? thanks !
Cool stuff but I am wondering right now if the game might be bugged because I been dealing with it I would hit a male and get a no organ and yet hit a female in what looks like the same spot and get a vital I don't understand why
I don’t think there are any new bugs on them. But they have had a weird thing where the animation was behind the actual hit box model. Like sometimes you shoot and to you it’s standing there normal. But the hitbox shows it standing up.
I buy is the first grind going to take longer because you have to shoot down all of your exterior zones or do you think they will all average like 3-6 hundred?
A couple questions. I heard black bears bounce around a lot. How do you know a GO won’t spawn on a exterior lake? I’ve been paranoid about that so I’ve been rotating through every lake. How many kills on average for your GO black bears? I’m at 2,308 kills and losing my mind. Thanks for any information!
Black bear can bounce around. What I have noticed is these top 4 lakes tend to get their respawns pretty consistently though. If your numbers fall off up there, then you know it’s time to run and check other lakes. Since this grind, my bears have been sub 500 for the last 9 GO bears. My first did take me 6200 though.
Once they get stacked up there, you should be able to rotate those 4 lakes for a good while. But they can bounce out a little here and there, when you find some that bounced out, set an extra tent there so you can quickly check that spot next time.
On the main 4 lakes I shoot all the bears. All the other lakes, level 5 and up is what I shoot. I do have like 3 level 5s that I left on the exterior lakes though.
I have another question, I started my grind and about 20 kills in my bears vanished from my zones, do you know what I have to do to keep them where I want?
You have to get shooting them quite a bit and get enough in there to have them stay. But, they are solos, so their tendency is to bounce around. You just have to find where they go and setup tents to be able to check from time to time.
Does the not killing any animals at 4 lakes work for moose on new England or whitetail on layten lake bc me and my friends need help getting set up for great ones but there are no videos to help us
No, those you definitely have to be shooting. I did some really good collab videos with LadyLegend. They explain most things really well. I also do have a NEM moose video.
Hey IBUY I’ve been doing this grind the past couple days and have gotten 2 diamonds 1 troll and a cinnamon. Well lately I’ve stopped getting males at my top 4 lakes. What should I do about moving more males in? Just start killing hoping they respawn at the 4? Thank you for the help and great vids keep it up!
@@ibuypremiums I’m sure your probably pretty tired of talking about the bear grind by now but I have one more question. When your bringing males in from exterior zones are you only killing 1 or 2 of your small bears from interior then killing 1 or 2 bigger bears from exterior and resetting? Or just killing all the small interior bears and exterior?
Awesome video! Keep em coming!!!
Thanks Lady! Much love! I will try haha.
Love both your videos
How far should I shoot the bear from for a good shot without spooking it
I've learned a lot from you, despite your lack of videos 😅. Please, please... make more videos. I respect the grind, and always give you credit when explaining herd management to people. Great video bro!🎉
I definitely need to get some more videos out. I will do my best. Thanks for the encouragement.
Love the video! can really tell and see the time and effort you put in to putting out awesome content for the community!
That means a lot coming from the black bear king!
@@ibuypremiums met all of my expectations and exceeded them
I had a bear kill count of 1300 when they went to the dark side, and I gave up my grind. Thanks to iBUY and this video I modified my setup and kicked off again, 470 bears later I have a G1 in my lodge. I honestly never thought I would return to the bear grind. Thank you.
That’s so awesome you picked it back up! The bear grind is a bit tedious to start, but so fun and it pays a ton when it gets going! Congrats on the GO!!
I can't seem to find a flat surface to place this tent 3:54 . can someone help me out?
i'm almost done setting up this is going to be so much fun !
iBUY is such a great man and always replies to comments. Keep up the good work.
Thanks bro
Using your method, I got my first great one to spawn before a diamond! Still shaking!!! TYSM!!!
Let’s go!! Congrats!🎉🎈🍾
The luck is strong with this one
Sheeeesh wish my other lakes would show up this fast xD
2 lakes 1 bear for life bro. HAHA
@@ibuypremiums A actually started shooting 2 and am getting the same amount of diamonds xD
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Great vid & tips🤙🏾good luck everyone with the grind
Thanks bro! 🙏🏻
Super helpful video! This is a great guide, I haven't set up a bear grind yet and this video will make it easy peasy! Thank you for taking so much time to create content like this and help the community out! ❤
Thanks Sane!
I've also found if you shoot a lower level bear in the four Lakes and shoot a high level bear out of the zone it swaps the bears if you don't claim them and go back to your home menu.
Great video! Thanks for explaining how the grind has to be done. You have an amazing amount of GO's!!!
Great video ibuy. Explained very well. You and Lady L are excellent teachers. EW should pay you bought . This helps new players as well as us vets. Thank you
Thank you so much for the kind words! I appreciate that!
Great video, with perfect explanation! I got my first great one moose thanks to his videos!
What do you do when you have level 2 or 3 male bears show up on your main shooting lakes in Silver Ridge Peaks? Do you shoot them? Love the content man. Thanks
Great job bro! Glad you got this one out today, especially after lady and ray tried to give you a hard time last night. Much love bro
Appreciate it brother! Happy to get it out there too. I think it came out pretty good!
On that 1st lake i cant place my tent anywhere on the hill
It has changed since the update. EW changed the terrain there.
@@ibuypremiums where do you recomend i place it
Dude I’m having the same issue so I feel you I placed on the other side by the purchased post but the funny thing was I placed my other tent to close to the lake spawned by 2 bears and killed em both tho when I appeared
I’m setting my bear grind up now so I’m super happy you’ve put this vid out😂
Good luck, I hope it helps!
Looking back a this mid grind and realizing bro said so calmly and we do have a 10 fabled right here 😂 if that was me I’d be in the ground screaming
Lol. I have just shot a ton!
how do you place the tent on top left side (silvestre's lake) tho?
Thank you so much ibuy. I got my Fabled Cream after 407 kills 🥳🥳
Hey man I used your method of stacking and just killed a great one after only 2 days and less than 100 kills ….mindblowing !
You are insane! That was all you! Well done!
So are you supposed to stack the 9s until you shoot down all of your exterior lakes???
Then also on average how many kills do you think this grind takes?
Ideally that is how that works. There isn’t really an average amount of kills it takes though. My first bear when they first came out was 6.2k. But I have been averaging them around 300 kills with the setup.
@@ibuypremiums is the first one gonna take longer because I have to setup all of the exterior zones? Or
I know this is an old video but since the update screwed my tiger grind I was thinking of trying my first GO grind.
Does this all still work after the update? Thanks 👍 great video!
For bears yeah. In fact the only difference really is that they drink during the daytime. With a drink time of 4-8 for the most part, everything else should be the same. The respawns for bears seem to be working well also.
lets gooo! this is very helpful! great video man!
Appreciate it Prof! much love buddy!
Really awesome video ur tips helped me get my first GREAT ONE BEAR THANK YOU SO MUCH CANT WAIT FOR MORE VIDS
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Is it normal I can put a tent on the first lake like I can’t put in the mountain
it’s not letting me place that tent in the top left lake the main tent
Yeah, it changed with the dog dlc that dropped. There are a couple places there on that hill you can still place a tent. They are just a little bit of a pain to find. In my discord in the hunter call of the wild chat there is a picture of where you can place it now.
I think i finally got this to work! Gotta hurry up before the update!
Found 2 level 9’s.
Sometimes females still spawn in my shooting zones.
And a level 8 keeps responding on the 5th lake.
Thank you so much for making this guide, I was really stuck when it came down to it. My one question is if I'm supposed to shoot the females out of the lowermost 'bouncing' zone?
Nope! That little 5th lake I leave. I only shoot females from the main 4 lakes.
@@ibuypremiums okay. Thank you for the quick response
Fantastic video! Ibuy doing the work for the community.
How many zones did you find at the other lakes you managed down? How many do I need to start the HM grind?
I start shooting right away. Start getting the females off those top lakes, and running the map to shoot high level male bears.
Awesome video, super helpful!! One question though. On the first lake you show, how do you get the tent and the tripod on the side of the hill?
That hill got some kind of texture change or something when the retriever got released. So I had to find a new place there to put it down.
@@ibuypremiums ok thank you. Also, I got everything set up and ready to go but when I tried to hunt the bears at the lakes, sometimes none would spawn. Is there a solution to this? Do you know if I’m doing anything wrong?
3:56 Could someome help me to put my tent up please in silvestres trail? What are your coordinates? It's on the side of the rocky slope. Thank you
Lady legend has a newer video but try placing a ground blind down in front of where you wanna place it, and it should let you put the tent down
Bro great video and super helpful. Appreciate all you do for the community.
Thanks a lot Nelson!
How many outer lakes should you have, and which outer lakes should you choose?
Exterior lakes are all the other ones except the main 4.
So I just hope around every outer lake and kill big male bears?
Yes, while also shooting low level bears and females from the main 4 lakes. The guide explains it well. @@B1GT007
@@ibuypremiums thank you you're the best at COTW Keep up the grind man!
Awesome video iBuy, ima try and copy your setup the best I can, gonna be hard herd managing the map down but if I can do that I’d say it’ll be pretty fun.
Good luck, and thanks! Its a fun grind when you get into it!
thanks for making this vid, you have clearly done well on your grinds with the number of bears you got. are there any drink zones up in silver rise / prosperity pass? i saw your map of possible zones was partially covered lol
Nope, all the zones are visible. Anything covered up, doesn’t have zones.
@@ibuypremiums cheers brother!
Not sure what to do once lakes are “primed” all my main lakes have 6,7 and 1 8. And my exteriors have all the females. Do I shoot the smallest males on the main lakes now?
Followed this video, got my great one to appear in 400-500 kills.
Let’s go!
Great video definitely made the black bear grind feel less confusing
Thanks Tucker!
@@ibuypremiumsbrother I get the HM and everything but I can’t see any of the bear in alot of my zones because of the grass. I can’t even see them, I have to spook them to be able to see where they’re. I’d put tree stands up but still don’t work. Any advice?
It won’t even let me spot them with my spotter scope so I can’t even get a shot off
If you have tough spots that you cant see through grass, you can move back far until the grass renders out. Or you can try using the caller, that is what i do. It helps a bit. @@vapesmoker8738
Amazing video ibuy!!
Much appreciated jt!
Hi ibuy ive been following you for a little bit and im currently working on a black bear grind. Im on srp and ive shot down my exteriors but evry few rounds i keep getting smalll bears on my main lakes. im probably 3000+ kills in and im not getting any diamonds and still no great one. i dont want to give up but im really confused and not sure what im doing wrong because im doing what you and lady says in your guides. got any tips? thank you for your amazing content!
You will still get small bears to spawn on the 4 lakes for sure. But if you are over 3k without spawning diamonds, there is definitely some larger bears out there hiding somewhere on your map. It seems after the last change for the bears they tend to bounce out a bit more too. But you should be able to get out there and find them. Even a 7 or 8 out at another lake can really effect the diamond spawn rate. I hope you can find them, and i hope this little bit helps!
Thanks for the information hopefully makes my grind easier
You are welcome! Good luck!
Hello I Buy. I've never really got into grinding but do frequent the same areas quite a bit. But today I have decided to change all of that. I'm going to take your's and Lady's advice and try to start a grind on Revontuly Coast. But I was hoping you could answer a few questions for me as I'm getting started. I'm starting off with Whitetails but was thinking about trying to do moose and maybe Brown Bears at the same time so I wouldn't be resetting the time so much and maybe would relieve some of the hunting pressure at the same time. Or do you think I'm just biting off way more than I can chew. Another question I have for you is that when you're grinding for a G1 do you stack your diamonds like some of the other people do? I just feel like you're the one I trust the most on this subject. Thank you for this awesome video!❤❤❤
Hey! Yeah so Revontuli whitetail are really good! As long as you are hunting a minimum of 8 zones, shooting 2 per zone your hunting pressure should be gone when you get back to the first zone. Setting up moose can work, but it’s a a lot of work. I would maybe stick to just one species since you are just starting out. And yea I do stack my diamonds as well. It just makes it faster to shoot the rest of the map down.
Great video, bro! Keep up the good work!!
Thanks Amy!
So ibuy im finished grinding and shooting all big bears out my exterior lakes but i went to the four lakes and i only have females there not. Even a low level male pls help
Have you ever counted your bear population on silver ridge? Like how many males and females exist? I know each map will be different by a small margin.
I haven’t.
Thanx ibuy
Are all the bears single zones?
Yes they are. Even though you see multiple bears at one drink zone. they are all solos, that happen to use the same drink zone.
Then when u shoot the males
They can respawn anywhere?
This isnt really working for me and wondering if I'm doing something technically wrong. Ive killed about 200 bears, killed off all the females to start after setup. I'm making the rotation on about 5 exterior lakes and the 4 shooting lakes. Can't seem to clear the jumpers (one maybe two each cycle) and level of the shooting lake bears is stuck at lvl 7 (mind the fact that I'm not shooting those on the 4 lakes). Just seems to be rinse and repeat over and over. Just as an UPDATE its a pretty consistent pattern I find tWO small bears at one of the 4 shooting lakes and 1 jumper at an exterior lake. I kill them all but they just reapear the next cycle.
Since the retriever released the respawns have been bouncing a lot more. You may have to expand your search to more exterior lakes.
This video is fantastic! Although is the step about killing all bears 4 and up around the map necessary, it’s just that I only got SRP yesterday so it would take me ages to do that.
It is pretty necessary to go around. You could shoot like 5 and up. The difference wouldn’t be to bad. It still requires a lot of shooting.
The video helped me so much starting BB grind, but i do have 1 question... do you hunt the other lakes or check them and every now and them hunt them or do you have them in your rotation to hunt and those 4 lakes are the main that will spawn the g1?
I mostly just rotate the 4 lakes after they have a good amount of bears on them. But if the bears start to seem like there are less there. I will go around and check the other lakes again.
Took the go bear crown back
Hi Ibuy a just wanna ask that … great one can spawn from any level? Or it has to be spawned from killing atleast lvl 8-9.
Da bear, suppose I should get back at that grind. Nice vid
Thanks Whiz! It is a fun little grind when you get into it!
LFG!!! Great work as always iBuy.
Lets Go bro! Thanks alot!
Sorry to bother you. I have a quick question about leaving any diamonds or G1's that you already have on your map whenever EU is planning on doing an update. Like the 1 that is coming for Halloween. Should I go ahead and remove anything I'm worried about losing?
So, they haven’t been full resetting for some time now. And the Halloween thing is for the hunter classic. So we are safe on cotw.
@@ibuypremiums thank you so much. I was really starting to freak out. I instinctively shot the first diamond I saw. But I got ahold of myself and now I have 3 new guaranteed 1's in the last 4 days just chillin. Lol! Thank you so much for responding. I was just about to do something bad. Lol! Have you ever hunted IRL? I did for 40 years. And it's hard to stop when you're programed to fill the freezers!(-;
Ok, now I have to try bears again. Great vid 🎉
Good luck!
question about whitetail ... i had a zone with 3 males and 1 female and i shot all the males. now that zone only has that 1 female and the males aren't respawning. did those males go somewhere else and now the zone is dead? should i shoot the female or just leave this zone alone now ? thanks !
The males did go somewhere else and you have to find them. Any time that you have 3 bucks and 1 doe zone. You always have to leave at least 1 male and 1 female there or it will go doe only always.
Did you glitch the tent and tripod stand placement at the west end of the first lake? I tried placing both for about 30 minutes in the exact same spot and couldn't get it to stick. I kept getting either "slope is too steep" or "try placing over open ground."
No. When they did the retriever dog update it changed the terrain there or something. I had to run around that hillside for awhile to find a new place to put one down.
You should do whitetail reventuli next
Is it important to have a specific amount of bears drinking at the "bounce" lake in order to "catch" the bears from the main 4 lakes? I got 5 females and a small male drinking there and my respawns aren't consistently as I expected them to be
I dont think there is a set number. If there is, i have not noticed. I just notice if my bears at the 4 lakes are a lower amount, and then i run around and find where they went. By doing that, i notice sometimes that some lakes have a tendency to eat respawns.
Thanks a lot! I will check more lakes occasionally
Good luck!@@Flobie.
what happens if you just rotate on the four lakes but don't shoot down you other zones
It depends on what you have on those 4 lakes. If it is all small bears, you will have low respawns. If you get lucky and have a good group of big bears, it might work out for a little. They can and will still bounce out from these lakes though.
Thanks for putting this out. Helps a lot.
I've been playing cotw since 2019 and still haven't had a g1. I've tried herd management, right ammo, good placement shots, everything. think you can help me out? thanks.
Once I get 10-15 5-9 shootable bear do I just never shoot at the outside zones every agine
You don’t really need to unless those 10-15 become less. Then you will know you have bouncers you need to track back down.
Pretty epic, having All variations of fur types is just unreal. Most of us would just love One,lol. I'm about to begin my grind,never tried before. Wish me luck 🤞
I've watched this several times, and have a question...1. How many times to you have to shoot the females on the main four to make them bounce/relocate? I keep shooting them and they just keep walking back out the next time I return. Just trying to make sure I do it correctly, this is the only GO that interest me, gotta get it right. Thx again!! Happy Hunting 💥🤘
Thanks a lot! It is pretty awesome having them all. Sometimes you do run into the stubborn respawns, you can continue trying with pickup. Or, you can shoot the female and shoot a male from an exterior while leaving them on the ground. Exit to menu to try and get the em to swap. I was able to just shoot and pickup to get mine swapped though.
@@ibuypremiums Thank you for replying first off, it's appreciated!
I'll keep blasting and hopefully figure it out. I'll check back in at some point and let you know how its going,hehe. Good luck on ur Super 💥
Thank you so much, i am gonna need all the luck i can get for that SR. I wish you luck on your grind, hopefully you can get it smoothed out! I am sure you can do it.@@NIGHTROCKER70
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@@Valiant.Pacheco I'm giving it my best, not able play as much as other ppl, but I've been blasting away. Took a Lot of searching to find 10 or more male bears to send to those 4 lakes! Finally think I've done that. Its a work in progress,lol.
Definitely wish I tried this a year ago, Before they ruined the bears and goats.
So I’ve been doing a whitetail grind on Revontuli, I’ve been consistently visiting essentially all of my zones (getting through about 1/3 of my zones per rotation) my initial plan was to leave the 1’s and stack diamonds.. would I be better off condensing my grind to fewer locations?
I personally do condense down to main grinding zones. It’s much more efficient. But really, however you enjoy hunting is what you should go with.
My tent on the lake with the rocky hill( furthest left out of the four lakes) keeps getting the beaver issue, any way to fix this?
That came with the dog dlc. The map changed a little there. Or the rocks did. I don’t know exactly. But there are a couple of places to place a tent there still. In my discord in the call of the wild hunter chat there should be a picture of where the tent can be placed.
Well done iBuy ! Thank You for the Tips
Thanks Davey! You are very welcome.
So when grinding fallow moose etc you don't shoot the females can I ask why do you shoot females in you main zones with black bear ?
Absolutely. So with herds it can mess them up, and break your male respawns in that zone. And also create new zones. With bears, they are predators. So solo respawns, they bounce to other areas when you shoot them. It allows more males to be able to potentially respawn in that spot.
Awesome thankyou 😁👍
Am I gonna need all 16 tents for this setup?
I use 9. But the others I use to quickly check other lakes in case I am missing bears.
From what i understand your supposed to have 5s and bigger top left and 3-4s anywhere else?
Correct
Is there any way to add more bears to the rotation? I only have 8 on the four lakes
You just have to shoot more from exteriors and get them to bounce to those 4 lakes.
Thanks for the info. Any chance you can do a revonuli white tail grind setup?
I definitely have plans for one coming up!
So at my main four lakes do I shoot all the males or 5 and up males
tent placement on first lake doesn't work anymore
I know. It’s pretty lame. There are still a few spots there that work though.
At Lago da Silves Trail you have a cabin on a mountain, how do you put it there? I've been trying for two days and I can't put a cabin there
There is a new place to put it over there. When the dog came out, it changed that mountain a little and we had to find a new place over there to put a tent.
I was trying to get it on that side of the mount and it was practically impossible
Hey is there a sertain method to placing the top left tent at the fifth lake It doesn’t let me place it in the side of that mountain where u have it placed
It changed when they released the dog update. They changed something with the rocks there. In my discord there is a new picture for where to place in the hunter chat if you can navigate your way there.
@@ibuypremiums ok thanks!
ibuy, i am about 3.5k kills into my bear grind with no g1, i rotate through every lake on the far left of the map. at the 5 lakes you rotate through I have a total of 11 female bears in those 5 lakes. do you advise I change my grind up and shoot the left side lakes down, except for the 5 you rotate through, and then shoot the 11 females out of those 5 lakes ?
if i shoot those females and get them into new lakes, then it will open up slots for the males ?
That’s really up to you on how you want to grind them. I like the setup the way I have it. It works pretty easy.
@@ibuypremiumsright, i need to switch it up, as of now i get around 40 kills an hour. im asking that if i shot those females out of your 5 lakes would they swap with males ?
They will! You just have to make sure that you are hitting them off those lakes, and running around and shooting males from other lakes also! @@cadensechrist471
@@ibuypremiumsupdate, after 3 weeks and 6k kills, still no g1. i have perfected hm on my map and just spawned a sr blonde. how do i get that before a single g1. don’t you have over 10 with no sr ?
Does the new update with the fast traveling affect this strategy?
No
hey ibuy...i been grinding bears for almost a year now on and off and still no GO. no clue how many i shot since i don't keep count but i've shot a fk ton so far. i recently have this problem where all my bears spawn back as 4s. i have almost all 4s in my main 5 lakes in the upper left corner. all my exterior zones are shot down. i been checking them over and over and there's nothing much in the exterior lakes. any idea what's wrong or is it just some real garbage RNG? thanks !
Sometimes the rng will just swing your respawns low like that. You just have to keep on shooting and they will pick back up.
Cool stuff but I am wondering right now if the game might be bugged because I been dealing with it I would hit a male and get a no organ and yet hit a female in what looks like the same spot and get a vital I don't understand why
I don’t think there are any new bugs on them. But they have had a weird thing where the animation was behind the actual hit box model. Like sometimes you shoot and to you it’s standing there normal. But the hitbox shows it standing up.
I buy is the first grind going to take longer because you have to shoot down all of your exterior zones or do you think they will all average like 3-6 hundred?
There is no average. I mean you can spawn one while you are running around and shooting stuff down. The GO spawn is just random.
Great video as always man, thank you 👍
Absolutely!
What color are you using as a spotting color? Really stands out better than green
I usually use red
Hi can you do a tutorial for the grind with the new drinking time ? Have a nice day
I will yes.
@@ibuypremiums thanks
When the great ones spwans and willl it gurenteed spawn at the four lake or dose it have a change to spawn at the other outside lakes
It’s possible I suppose for it to spawn outside of them. But I have spawned 20 with this grind, and they have all been at the 4 lakes.
Is it okay to just shoot 5s and up at the exterior lakes instead of 4 and up?
Yep
Do i need to use tripods or treestand? is it important to not kill the zones?
Killing the zones happens when you kill the bears. They are solos. So the zone deletes when you shoot it. It’s ok without tripods.
A couple questions. I heard black bears bounce around a lot. How do you know a GO won’t spawn on a exterior lake? I’ve been paranoid about that so I’ve been rotating through every lake. How many kills on average for your GO black bears? I’m at 2,308 kills and losing my mind. Thanks for any information!
Black bear can bounce around. What I have noticed is these top 4 lakes tend to get their respawns pretty consistently though. If your numbers fall off up there, then you know it’s time to run and check other lakes. Since this grind, my bears have been sub 500 for the last 9 GO bears. My first did take me 6200 though.
@@ibuypremiums I might cry if my grind takes 6,200 kills. Lol
Haha! I almost did ngl. It took forever!@@tommytomtoes
So when I stack my four mains lakes with 10 to 15 shootable bears do I shoot all of them and just restart the process I am kinda confused on that part
Once they get stacked up there, you should be able to rotate those 4 lakes for a good while. But they can bounce out a little here and there, when you find some that bounced out, set an extra tent there so you can quickly check that spot next time.
@@ibuypremiums I found a spot for that tent but it’s 168m away can I just walk back to 250m so they render in
I have many solos zone on my main zones, can i just shoot them? I just need a double check. And do i have to check my exterior zones often?
Black bear are all solos.
On the shooting zones leave level 4 5 and 6? Or shoot those out as well until they are 7s and higher?
On the main 4 lakes I shoot all the bears. All the other lakes, level 5 and up is what I shoot. I do have like 3 level 5s that I left on the exterior lakes though.
@@ibuypremiums thank you boss
Will the zones come back if you destroy them?
Yes they will!
I have another question, I started my grind and about 20 kills in my bears vanished from my zones, do you know what I have to do to keep them where I want?
You have to get shooting them quite a bit and get enough in there to have them stay. But, they are solos, so their tendency is to bounce around. You just have to find where they go and setup tents to be able to check from time to time.
Awesome dude! Still loving your content.
Thanks Karyssa
Does the not killing any animals at 4 lakes work for moose on new England or whitetail on layten lake bc me and my friends need help getting set up for great ones but there are no videos to help us
No, those you definitely have to be shooting. I did some really good collab videos with LadyLegend. They explain most things really well. I also do have a NEM moose video.
Hey IBUY I’ve been doing this grind the past couple days and have gotten 2 diamonds 1 troll and a cinnamon. Well lately I’ve stopped getting males at my top 4 lakes. What should I do about moving more males in? Just start killing hoping they respawn at the 4? Thank you for the help and great vids keep it up!
Also have no females and a 2 on my top 4
Yes. If your bears respawn off these lakes, you have to go around and shoot big bears that bounced off them to get them back.
@@ibuypremiums sick thanks bro. How often would this happen to you?
It seems to be random! I just try to stay on top of the amount i am shooting, and thats about it.@@westonf69
@@ibuypremiums I’m sure your probably pretty tired of talking about the bear grind by now but I have one more question. When your bringing males in from exterior zones are you only killing 1 or 2 of your small bears from interior then killing 1 or 2 bigger bears from exterior and resetting? Or just killing all the small interior bears and exterior?
Do you think bear great ones gets effected by herd management?
Everything gets effected by it. If you shoot bigger animals most of the time, you have more chances at better trophies.
@@ibuypremiums ok thanks for the help!