Sharpshooter 9: 3 Hat Shots in the Same Dead Eye.
Sharpshooter 9: 3 Hat Shots in the Same Dead Eye. #Story #PS5 Red Dead Redemption 2
Shoot three people's hats off in the same Dead Eye use.
Reward: 150 Dead Eye XP and $20
The people whose hats are shot off must not be killed or it will not count.
Normally the third level of Dead Eye is required to complete this challenge which is acquired in Chapter IV's "Urban Pleasures". This level of Dead Eye allows manually painting targets without the red X of a hit to use the weapon.
However, it is possible to complete this challenge as early as Chapter II. You will need to have completed "Pouring Forth Oil IV" which allows you to manually paint a target with a red X hit and stay in the same Dead Eye.
Go to a gunsmith and modify a shotgun with at least three shots available (such as the Pump-action Shotgun) to remove all upgrades. Standard rifling, short barrel, no sights, and so on. If your shotgun is very dirty/worn this is even better. A shotgun without familiarity also helps. You want to make this shotgun have the least amount of damage and lowest accuracy you can possibly get.
Equip the shotgun and choose normal shells for the shotgun.
Head to an area with people milling about that have hats on their heads. Valentine's main street between the shops works well but any town will do.
SAVE YOUR GAME! What you are about to try may or may not work the first time. It is entirely dependent upon how much damage you do shooting people in the face with a shotgun at a longer range. The further away you are, the better. More distance equals less shotgun pellets in the face, less chance of the victim dying, and still allows enough pellets to knock a hat off.
While the next part is a dastardly deed, you are going to shoot three people in the face with a shotgun with the hopes that the pellets will knock the hat off and only wound them terribly. Try to manually paint the head of each person as far away from the center of the face as possible in Dead Eye. You will have to register a red X hit to actually fire a round though so it is going to do damage.
When done correctly, three hats will fly off, the challenge will complete, and you will get a bounty for Assault. You did just shoot three people in the face on a crowded city street after all. Run away and pay off the bounty having completed this challenge two chapters earlier than Chapter IV's Dead Eye (which allows you to paint the hat with the X instead of the face).
The south side of Valentine station usually has a few people stood around or walking by. Despite it being a populated area you can escape quickly to the south.
Also, top hats like the ones used by the rich folk in Saint Denis, are a very easy target to avoid murder, and the wanted level is relatively easy to lose if the player knows their way throughout the city's alleys.
In the Epilogue, the sombreros from the Del Lobos and the grenadier hats from the Skinner Brothers are also easy to shoot off, especially from a safe distance.
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