Major Dammidge

THE TOWER GUN OIL: one on top of a barrel in the camp as well as coffee. The other gun oil inside the ground floor in a chest you have to open. The chest also contains predator and herbivore bait. FOOD! Again ground floor, immediately left of the door there is a bookcase full of canned goods. PREMIUM AMMO Coal Bin: go around to the back of the ground floor and go downstairs into the coal bin. You will find Express and high-velocity ammo pistol and rifle. Early on, I reserved these rounds for big game hunting. BONUS: if you are there in the early evening or night, you will hear wolves and can score some big game meat and pelts. WARNING: sometimes a gang hideout and you really need to be careful from the guys in the tower's lookout, atop. @Purple Cactus @#SadCowboy @Qu3ster

Susie ("Black-Eyed Susan") is okay with mounted gunshots, and with snakes if I am in the saddle. Unmounted, she high-tails it if a gator's nearby but, once I kill it, one whistle brings her back in a flash. She'll also beat feet if not hitched at a hideout/shootout. {Little-known game fact: horses' stamina is restored when hitched... So I try to do it at every opportunity.}

I must've had a griefers' target on my back. So instead of accomplishing what I set out to do, my Susie (Nokota) was dodgin' 'n dancin' 'n divin' as my pump shotgun was smokin' from recently acquired exploding slugs and incendiary buckshot. Made me wish I had a stick and a couple 'o bags of marshmallows, 'cept I kept blowin' em right off the server. Incl. the 4-rider griefer posse led by a Lvl 138 that included a well-seasoned Lvl 10 despite them putting me down 4 or 5 times.

I have played enough to s-l-o-w-l-y and painstakingly grind my way to Level 114. I have an unsubstantiated notion there is a world of players out there who have not gone online because it is a beta version. I'm retired and I would rather play RDO than checkers or fingerpaint at the local seniors center 😉 If R★ wipes the slate clean to start everybody at equal footing once beta ends, I'm confident I won't be the worst player out there.

I have five horses. I stabled my trotter, I stabled my American thoroughbred, I stabled my Turk, I stabled my red Arabian.. all because I got a superb horse at a bargain: Race Horse: Nokota Dappled Grey Roan. With an upgraded gerden trail saddle or exotic saddle and the best stirrups and Spurs you can afford nothing can touch it. It is 50% less than the Arabian. Black legs, light gray body, and because of her all black face I call her Black-Eyed Susan after a flower. She runs faster than a looter with a new TV. 😂

Very funny, unusual encounter with a griefer. I am in my camp and this idiot is riding circles around me again and again....whose gamer tag is very very red. I grabbed my shotgun and load exploding slugs. I lower the flag and take aim following him as he circles me two times. He draws his revolver and I let him head shoot me. It's on. I ride after him and blast him about three times. He sends me a text: I only shot you because you were aiming at me. I said of course I was aiming at you, doing laps around my camp like an idiot. He replied "wow, you're a 107 using explosive ammo against a 65? Really?" I responded Yes, I earned the privilege that comes with a level from XP earned, and you will do so, too, when you get to level 91 or so. You were asking for it, and I gave it to you." 🙄 He does not respond so I sent another text:. FYI I only purchased the shotgun slugs pamphlet. I did not use explosive rifle rounds on you. That is a close-up weapon and I reserve its use for Griefers. He replies oh, okay. All good. 🤪 As the comedian Ron White says oh, you can't cure stupid.

@dredd1961 I'm currently riding with Posse members from Netherlands and Poland. They speak English but wondered about my horse name. They don't know that as a flower and I'm wondering if they thought there was something racial about it.... It's cleared up thanks to Google imaging

That's not what kills you. The empty stall is $750 + $125 insurance. That's a lot of black squirrels and jack rabbits, Cowboy. Everybody raves about the black Arabian but the sticker price makes me weak in the knees and I just can't pull the trigger. Somebody at Rockstar must have a garden because I was surprised her name passed the censors. I'm saving my remaining gold, waiting for Rockstar to release the hot air balloon like the ones used in the so-called Civil War 😂

My guess: * COLT .44 Peacemaker, "the revolver that won the West!" It is a one-shot-kill hand cannon but don't listen to me, check the experts: Interesting article-- https://www.popularmechanics.com/military/weapons/a23685/colt-single-action/ I sent this suggestion to the Developers. * New Horse Breed - I submitted a suggestion to R☆ for a Paso Fino. Horse experts will tell you they are the ultimate trail horse, four-footed hybrid gait makes this an equestrian ATV with one of the smoothest rides available. Not large, but beefy,muscular build, whether from the Colombian or Puerto Rican bloodlines. Take an educated guess!

Nokota Dappled Roan. I couldn't resist buying a 5th horse and busting out some gold to do so. My red Arabian, Turk, Am. Thoroughbred and Missouri are going to get considerable barn time. With the upgraded stirrups saddle and spurs, nothing compares. If you have one do you agree?? She's got black legs and a black face, so I named her after a flower: "Black-Eyed Susan.' 😎👍

You can only go in prepared to shoot your way out of danger. Arm yourself with twins sawed-off shotguns. If you do not own them have a pump shot gun or repeater shotgun in your hands when you join the Posse. Of course if you get lassoed quickly switch to your knife and it breaks immed or they cannot lasso you and 100% of the times they have lassoed me they are shocked when I jump up and slice their throat and switch to shotgun/s.

Not sure but I believe the black Arabian has a better speed and acceleration rating. During a mission if your horse gets killed, run away from it and it will respawn. But you cannot change. To change saddles, at the Stable. Select Manage Owned Horses, Select the horse you want and select Active. Then, click on the horse breed. Choose Saddle. A list of saddles you own will appear. Highlight the one you want and select Swap. The stirrups automatically transfer with the saddle.

STRAWBERRY WELCOME CENTER: Loot the upstairs rooms-- liquor, ammo etc.

Are you playing through discord? I don't know what that is so the answer is no... How to join "Aces 'n Eights Posse "? If you see that I am online and playing, first thing to do is invite me to a party. That way I will not shoot you when you magically appear right next to me. Join my game. I will invite you to my Posse. When are you "in the air" and visible in the Posselist, because there is a big gap in timezone? Sometimes I do not have the Posse active. on my friend list I have you as a favorite which means I can see when you log on to play red Dead. I will invite you to a party, invite you to a game, activate the Posse and then add you to the Posse 😁👌

I am on Xbox, U.S. Central Time. I ride on a posse with Parth1c who is a streamer in Australia. He will let you join. Additionally my gamertag is The Grey Hare. I will friend you and you are welcome to ride with me in my Aces 'n Eights Posse, Herta 👍

Be careful. There are posses out there and many of them that, as soon as you join, the Posse leader selects friendly fire and blows your head off for the XP.

@lumper I got sick and tired of grinding and didn't know how sick and tired I really was until I got another guy to ride in a posse. And then a third guy joined us. Instead of grinding by fishing and hunting and fighting off Griefers, we started running story and stranger missions and the levels just piled up as did the treasure maps. It was a whole lot more fun. The 'noob' in my Posse was a level four. Two weeks later he was Level 28. I am now a posse member with a guy in Australia and another guy who is in great Britain. I'm in the central time zone but I make it a point to be online at 5 a.m. Central to play-- and all of a sudden I'm at level 94. Hooded stirrups, Gerden Trail then upgraded Gerden Trail saddles make just about any horse competitive!!! I don't even worry about ability cards. I did buy one expensive pamphlet for explosive shotgun slugs and those are reserved for Griefers or battles when we are outnumbered or against guys with extremely high levels. Just food for thought for you, Lump Friend Me, XBox Gamertag: The Grey Hare and if you see me on I will activate my Posse and good things can come of it for u.

Ditto. But to and from peeps who've been in the sh*t, it's a Band of Brothers kinda acknowledgement. And I know you get that 👍

Xbox? If so what time do you play? My gamertag: The Grey Hare, level 93 or so.

@lumper I know you can change your hair and maybe because you have a male character you can do something with facial hair which can make a huge change. I glitched my favorite character early on and for giggles chose a female. My options are extremely limited aside from stupid looking clothes. I wanted to make her look like Annie Oakley but Annie Oakley's hairdo costs a bar of gold. I'm on the fence but I know I'll probably spend the bar of gold in the name of historical accuracy. OBTW her given name was Phoebe Ann Moses, b. 8/13/1860, d: 1926

Yes I think proximity and the minimap are key. BUT I think it could be a side effect all of the proximity change relative to the griefing so-called solution and minimizing the viewing area. Lately I have been picking up 1 carcass were bird and running toward the other kills and standing over the next one before I skin

A)It's not the stable fees that kill you. It's the insurance. I was going to add a fifth horse until I saw that the stall was $750. So a $950 horse + 750 + God knows what for insurance killed that idea. I'd rather spend a thousand bucks on a pamphlet. B) you can assign your horses. Left directional button under stables you can choose which is your story mission, race, free roam, and (I think ) competition. It's convenient because you don't have to detour to find a stable for your particular activity. I have an Arabian, American thoroughbred, Missouri Fox Trotter and Ardennes--and I love to switch them out.

SHHH, don't give anybuddy ideas. Ambarino's been my hunt for awhile, big game e z p z as in wolves. And I love to take elk maxing out on venison: they are slow so I lasso them and get the extra XP for a knife to the throat. BIG FUN 😂👍 I have started hunting deer the same way in the lowlands and it is improving my horse control skills 😉

I made three north-south rotations a couple days ago, a few minutes north of the railroad track junction and then down toward St. Denis. 3 trips. One bird. No gators.

@Purple Cactus the small buildings surrounding the Braithwaite estate have lots of goodies also if you got the patience 😉 I hope the great people on this forum chime in... I'm not a who cruises YouTube and I remember how difficult it was in the early going of this game. Guys here helped me bigtime