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After the first story mission in Emerald Coast, Australia, I was given the next mission called Kangaroo Crossing. Should have expected a mission like this early on from an Australian map...right?
This was not a tough one just a mission telling me a lot about this native species and why they want me to control its population. Without a natural predator, they can become a pain to the local ecosystem and damage them by overgrazing or overpopulation. That's when these big landowners have to work closely with the government and have to hire professional hunters like me to take care of this problem. It all made sense to me.
This population management is our main goal in this reserve. For this specific mission, we were directed to go towards the east to those overgrazed areas and spot a Kangaroo while the owners told me more things about this Kangaroos.
We were at the local outpost and before going out to find the Kangaroo we had to collect Soph's present for Roboo who gave us this task. This was a stuffed Kangaroo wearing boxing gloves and looking all ready to box lol.
I remembered that I was running out of arrows for my bow so I bought like 100 of them. These might not be so helpful in the area with less vegetation (exactly where I was going lol) but they will help me when I move further north in the woods.
Then we left for that overgrazed area marked on my phone. You could easily see a long distance in front of you. A paradise for long-range hunters which provides little to no cover for big animals like Kangaroo or deer.
I didn't get distracted by the animal calls I was hearing and continued until my first objective was over, which was reaching these plains. The next objective was an optional one. It involved climbing a Fire Tower or a lookout tower. There was a tower not far from here and it would mean doing the next objective easily.
Now, the last objective was to just spot a Kangaroo. It was the easiest of them all. There were a couple of them roaming north of the tower and coming closer to me. I thought the next objective would be to kill one of them completing a harvest check. But nope, they just told me to hunt them ethically which means using the right calibre bullets, shooting at the vital organs, not shooting more than twice etc.
I have hunted these in the past here in multiplayer sessions and most of the time they are skittish but sometimes get aggressive at you.
These two sensed my presence and tried to get away from the tower. But not both of them could go unharmed from here. I took a shot right from the tower which went through both of its lungs and spine and instantly fell to the ground.
Just a few minutes after this one I was looking for another target and found a big male Sambar deer. It also tried to get out of the danger. But that one looked too good to miss.
A 150-meter-plus target going away from wasn't the best of angles. I always try to aim for the lungs which is the safest option. I thought about shooting the neck for a second but these are easy to miss and if you miss the neck bone then it might survive or die after a long time. So, I aimed at the lungs and took the shot.
To my surprise, it died quickly, almost instantly. This only happens when you make a brain, neck, heart, or vertebra shot. It was a rare heart shot. It has been a long time since I got a heart shot.
It barely penetrated enough flesh to reach the heart. That was a lucky heart shot on a moving target with a narrow-angle.
I roamed around the water streams to find animals drinking or just to mark their need zones. I found some need zones for Red Foxes, Kangaroos and Sambar around this area.
I found another group of Kangaroos lurking in the bushes. Maybe they were resting there.
By the way, did I tell you after the Kangaroo Crossing a new side mission popped up called Kangaroo Management with a lot of objectives? One of the objectives was to harvest a Kangaroo shot from a Handgun.
I wanted to complete this objective which was a bit down on the list of objectives (now that I think of it, I should finish them top to bottom or they might not work). Anyways, I had a handgun but it had a no-zoom scope which kind of sucked. I still took the shot hoping it would hit.
I landed the first shot but he ran away and didn't die. Must have been a bad flesh shot which hit no organ. Sadly, all the others got spooked too. I was hoping that one of them would become aggressive and come to fight me. Sometimes, they would but this time I wasn't lucky enough.
Here is the list of all the objectives for Kangaroo Management.
Among all of them, the last one is the toughest. Finding a Leucistic fur-type Kangaroo is rare. Only 0.21% of them are this fur type. But this is going to be interesting for sure. I will try to complete this list as soon as I can. Some of them are surely challenging like shooting down one without scope from 125 meters.
Thanks for reading...
Until next hunt...
