Hunting is a side-activity featured in Grand Theft Auto V. It can only be accessed by Trevor Philips between 5:00 and 21:00.
Description[]
The hunting activity appears to be based on the one featured in the 2010 open-world western Red Dead Redemption, another game made by Rockstar Games. The hunting activity takes place in a single location in Blaine County, the Chiliad Mountain State Wilderness. Although wildlife can be encountered in many other locations, and optionally killed by the player, only in this one location can Trevor earn money and points for doing so.
Hunting is available after Trevor meets Cletus and completes his second mission "Fair Game". After starting the hunt, by finding the appropriate icon on the northwest side of the map that looks vaguely like an elk head, and entering the trailer at this location, Trevor is equipped with the animal call that Cletus gave him in the intro mission and also has unlimited sniper ammo for the duration of the hunt. He also automatically wears the hunting outfit given to him after "Fair Game". After this, the player can wear the Hunting outfit at their leisure when playing as Trevor by equipping it at Trevor's wardrobe at his safehouse.
Each kill must be photographed and sent to Cletus using Trevor's smartphone. Cletus will then send money based on the type of animal killed and how it was killed. Heart shots, neck shots and headshots earn the player extra points and money which will help one move toward higher medal rankings for a single hunt. A Blazer is available outside the trailer. Hunting is available from sunrise to sunset. Cletus will send the player a warning text when time is almost up and a final text when hunting is over for the day and then return to the trailer.
Animals[]
Animals known to be hunted:
Challenges[]
There are also challenges that the player can perform during the hunting, to increase the score and get the gold medal more easily. The challenges are divided in three categories:
Master Hunter Challenges[]
- Rank 1: Kill an Elk with a heart shot.
- Rank 2: Kill 2 Elk in a row without a call.
- Rank 3: Kill 3 Elk in a row undetected.
- Rank 4: Kill 4 Elk within four minutes.
- Rank 5: Kill 2 Elk with a single shot.
Weapon Master Challenges[]
- Rank 1: Kill a Coyote with a shotgun.
- Rank 2: Run a Boar over.
- Rank 3: Kill a Mountain Lion with a grenade.
- Rank 4: Kill an Elk without looking through the scope.
- Rank 5: Kill any Bird with the Sniper Rifle.
Nature Photographer Challenges[]
- Rank 1: Text Cletus a photo of a Doe.
- Rank 2: Text Cletus a photo of 2 dead Elk.
- Rank 3: Text Cletus a photo of a dead Coyote and a dead Boar.
- Rank 4: Text Cletus a photo of an Elk corpse and a charging Cougar.
- Rank 5: Text Cletus a photo of an Elk, a Cougar, a Boar and a Coyote corpse.
Gallery[]
Video[]
Bugs/Glitches[]
- Sometimes, when the player finishes hunting, the game will not show the score and will become glitchy. Pick-ups, such as money and weapons become unavailable to be picked. If the player tries to buy weapons from Ammu-Nation, money will be spent, but the ammo counter doesn't increase, making it a total waste. Saving and reloading the game will fix the glitch.
- Another glitch exists where text messages from Cletus during a hunting session will replace all previous text messages in Trevor's cell phone.
- A glitch can occur if the player attempts to run over an Elk with the Quad Bike while attempting to get the Master Hunter rank five challenge completed, where the game will consider the Elk killed the same as if the player killed two Elk at the same time.
- A glitch can occur randomly when attempting to send Cletus a picture of a doe for the first Nature Photographer challenge, which leads to the game freezing in the process, therefore requiring a restart.
Trivia[]
- In the Ammu-Nation in San Andreas the player can hear the advertising speaker talk about anti-materiel rifles for hunting with the famous punchline: "You don't need to clean the deer when it's already been minced!".
- As in Red Dead Redemption, using very powerful weapons such as the rocket launcher or minigun may damage the animal so one couldn't skin it. Even if the animal can still be pictured, Cletus will pay much less if powerful weapons are used (except in the case of heart shots).
- One can send the photographed kill to almost anyone in the protagonist's contacts list on the cellphone, and they will text back randomized reactions.
- Possibly due to a designer oversight, this works even if the person is dead.
- Possibly due to a designer oversight, this even works with human corpses. It also works if the photo of the dead person is sent to Cletus.
- Either way, no hunting challenges will be completed, no medals will be awarded, no money will be made, and Trevor's ranks won't advance.
- After a hunting session is completed, Trevor can call Cletus, and Cletus will refer to Trevor as his "meat partner", adding that he bagged a good meat supply thanks to Trevor's help. Trevor will tell Cletus that he's helping out the "organic food movement". Impressed, Cletus will tell Trevor to hunt more animals.
- It is possible to access Fort Zancudo without getting an instant 4 stars.