Weapons Expert challenges 1-10

Knives, tomahawks, crafted shotgun ammo, dynamite, bow stealth and the grizzly - mostly at Six Point Cabin, with the exact method.

Reward: Weapons Expert 1-10 complete
Video time: about 10 min, plus travel
Steps: 17
When you can do it: Chapter 2 or 3 (see each step)

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The steps

Weapons Expert 1: knife kills at Six Point Cabin
- Where: Six Point Cabin, near Valentine
- Weapon or tool: Hunting knife
Go to Six Point Cabin near Valentine (Hanging Dog Ranch also works) and kill 3 enemies with your knife. Kills sometimes do not register, so have a few spare enemies.
- Sneak up
- Kill 3 enemies with the knife
See it in the video at 2:48:42
Weapons Expert 2: the Emerald Ranch chickens
- Where: Emerald Ranch
- Weapon or tool: Throwing knives
Even though it says enemies, killing the chickens at Emerald Ranch works. Put your bandana on first.
- Put your bandana on
- Kill 3 chickens fast
See it in the video at 2:49:03
Weapons Expert 3: buy all of Seamus's tomahawks
- Where: Seamus, Emerald Ranch
Go to Seamus (or any fence) and buy all the tomahawks.

See it in the video at 2:49:18
Craft 3 improved tomahawks, buy 3 more
- Ammo or bait: Tomahawk + eagle feather
At camp craft 3 IMPROVED tomahawks (1 tomahawk + 1 eagle feather each) - they are more accurate. Then go back to Seamus and buy 3 more in case you miss.
- Craft 3 improved tomahawks
- Buy 3 more
See it in the video at 2:49:30
Shoot a deer, drag it off the road
- Weapon or tool: Rifle
Shoot something big (a white-tail deer) to attract scavenger birds - they count as birds of prey. Move the body away from the road.
- Kill a deer
- Drag it off the road
- Wait for ravens
See it in the video at 2:49:54
Tomahawk the ravens
- Weapon or tool: Improved tomahawk
Throw tomahawks at the ravens circling or landing on the body. 3 kills.

See it in the video at 2:50:21
Weapons Expert 4: incendiary buckshot
- Ammo or bait: Shotgun shells + moonshine
You need the INCENDIARY BUCKSHOT PAMPHLET - buy it at the Saint Denis fence or get it from the burnt house in Copperhead Landing. Read it. Craft the ammo: 1 regular shotgun shell + 1 moonshine each (moonshine is sold by any fence).
- Get and read the pamphlet
- Buy moonshine at a fence
- Craft incendiary buckshot
See it in the video at 2:50:36
Shoot 10 enemies with it
- Weapon or tool: Semi-Auto Shotgun
- Ammo or bait: Incendiary buckshot
Shoot 10 ENEMIES with a shotgun loaded with the ammo you crafted. They must be enemies (hostile) or it will not count.
- Put your bandana on
- Kill 10 hostile enemies
See it in the video at 2:51:12
Weapons Expert 5: knife riders
- Where: Road near Six Point Cabin
- Weapon or tool: Throwing knives
On the road near Six Point Cabin, ANTAGONIZE people on horseback until they draw a gun and show as a RED dot. Kill each with ONE throwing knife. Wagons do not count.
- Antagonize a rider
- Wait for red dot
- One knife = one kill (5 times)
See it in the video at 2:51:39
Weapons Expert 6: volatile dynamite on the campfire group
- Where: Six Point Cabin (group shown on the map at 2:52:45)
- Weapon or tool: Volatile dynamite
Back at Six Point Cabin there is a group of O'Driscolls by a fire. Stay on the outskirts - if someone spots you they scatter. Run in close and throw ONE volatile dynamite from the angle shown.
- Stay on the outskirts
- Run in close
- Throw one dynamite at the group
See it in the video at 2:52:24
Weapons Expert 7: leave 5 alive and hogtie them
- Where: Six Point Cabin
- Weapon or tool: Lasso
At Six Point Cabin kill the others but leave 5 O'Driscolls ALIVE. Hogtie all 5.
- Kill all but 5
- Hogtie the 5
See it in the video at 2:53:12
Kill them with the SAME tomahawk
- Weapon or tool: Improved tomahawk (one)
Choose ONE type of tomahawk. Throw it, pick it up, throw it again. Do not switch from improved to normal or it may reset.
- Throw
- Pick it back up
- Repeat for 4 kills
See it in the video at 2:53:39
Weapons Expert 8: 15 kills with a long-barrel sidearm
- Where: Oil plant near Valentine (or Hanging Dog Ranch)
- Weapon or tool: Volcanic Pistol
Kill 15 enemies with a long-barrel sidearm - the video uses the Volcanic Pistol at the oil plant near Valentine (Hanging Dog Ranch keeps your honor).

See it in the video at 2:54:33
Weapons Expert 9: bow stealth at Six Point Cabin
- Where: Six Point Cabin
- Weapon or tool: Bow
Stay as far from the camp as you can - some O'Driscolls are not on the map and will alert the others. Sneak to the little group.
- Crouch
- Sneak to the little group
See it in the video at 2:54:51
Shoot only when their back faces you
- Weapon or tool: Bow
It only counts if their BACK faces you (not sideways). After each kill run a little away.
- Wait for a back
- Shoot
See it in the video at 2:55:21
Run to the house to respawn them

Run down to this house - they respawn. Head back: they will be in the same positions. Repeat to 9.
- Run to the house
- Come back
- Repeat to 9
See it in the video at 2:56:21
Weapons Expert 10: the grizzly near Valentine
- Where: Near Valentine (map at 2:56:54)
- Weapon or tool: Throwing knives (poison)
The bear spawns in this area near Valentine / Cumberland. Stand somewhere he cannot reach you, or stand still and throw knives. A POISON knife saves knives.
- Find the grizzly
- Stand where he cannot reach
- Throw knives until dead without getting hurt
See it in the video at 2:56:54