Medium sized animals like coyotes, foxes, or beavers will only produce a perfect pelt if you hit a clean shot with a Bow or a Repeater.
Moderate animals like hawks, rabbits, badgers, and racoons require a clean kill with the Varmint Rifle. Luckily, the rest of the animal classes simply require a specific weapon rather than crafted ammunition.
To craft Small Game Arrows you need, well, arrows, plus shotgun shells and Flight Feathers, which you can earn by shooting most birds out of the sky.
This varies across the entire compendium, so always check before you shoot.įor example, small game like frogs, snakes, squirrels, and ducks require a clean kill with a Small Game Arrow - anything else will ruin the pelt. When you’re studying an animal to hunt, the aforementioned dialogue box that tells you if it’s pristine or not will also let you know what you need to use to kill it.
