Is killing moose with the Flare Gun difficult?

[Gun Tech.]

Here's a kill clip from my latest adventure in The Long Dark. See description and also, don't go yolo. Save your shells for surprise wolves.

 

 

Edited January 16, 2021 by Gun Tech.

[Sherlock Holmes 18]

You must be crazy. Who kills moose with a helping gun? 

[piddy3825]

Friggin Outstanding!!!

🎶 Bullwinkle with your nose so bright,
you're glowing like an Aurora light!
One more shot straight up your nose
is all it takes and then your steaks! 🎶

Thank you sir for the inspiration!

 

...I wish I could like this more than once!

Edited January 17, 2021 by piddy3825
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[Mistral]

Not so long ago, Loonsloon managed to kill a moose with just one flare on Deadman settings 😮

Go to 15:20 here:

And then watch the full series it's great

Edited January 17, 2021 by Mistral

[UpUpAway95]

Kimiota recently had been doing  a Flare Moose Challenge... to kill 5 moose with the 12 available shots with the flare pistol.  I know he managed 4 moose on one attempt, but I don't think he ever got to 5.  To get an assured critical hit is next to impossible given the RNG component when deciding if the player gets a crit on top of the aiming characteristics of the flare gun.

OP - Gotta love the frozen floating forward your moose did.  I've been seeing a lot of that lately, but usually not for that long at a time.

[Nina Pants]

lol never tried to kill a moose with a flare gun hahaha now i wanna try it

[Gun Tech.]

Same here, I was going to the Dam but decided to stay and try it.

@piddy3825 awesome poem 😁

@Mistral awesome and yes, you need 1-4 good hits on Interloper, Deadman is Interloper with condition recovery at rest turned off.

@UpUpAway95 yep we're friends on Twitch, and I caught a little bit of him trying to figure out how to get the # hits down. I knew from my understanding of the mechanics that the challenge could be up to just # of tries. But he seemed firmly convinced he could, so I stayed quiet. He'd just say no and I would sound negative.

And besides, if players observe and analyze, some factor or method might be found and exploited. I just summited on this character, so I could try for 4 moose on 8 shells as I pass them by, I'm going to loot the regions anyway.

[piddy3825]

It takes considerable more aiming than would be expected.  I decided to try my luck as well up on TWM is where i sought my prey and I wasn't disappointed.  
I arrived there with two other pistols, the one from the Ravine and the other from Bleak Inlet.  Between those flare guns and the shells I've collected I had 17 rounds of flaregun ammo.  when I did finally engage a moose, it took me 4 shorts before I actually finally hit him... once!  Then I tracked his ass back and forth and fired 3 more rounds before the final strike put him down.  It was however only two actual strikes need to put him down.  I shot a total of 9 flares...

When I finally hit the moose he bolted bobbing and weaving and glowing like a carnival ride

the second and final flare strike buried itself deeply in the nasal cavity dropping him immediately and just smoldered until it ran out...

Fun times, indeed!