Red Dead Redemption 2

Worked perfectly!

There’s a bear north west of Wallace station, where’s the other bear u speak of & watsons cabin?

Near the stream south west of the station. A second grizzly can spawn there. He wasnt there every time but at least 1 in 3. The other bear always spawned without fail for me.

this worked perfectly, although I never could get the one near Watson's cabin to spawn, the one near Wallace station would always spawn if you go to the location in the morning between 6:00 and 8:00. Sometimes the bear would one hit kill me but after respawing and going back I was able to kill it.

Worked 99% of the time for me. Great guide!

I started this method with ten kills to go and a bear showed up 10/11 times. Two or three times a bear showed up right when I was about to head to the train so its possible I just didn't wait long enough the one time he didn't show. Never got two bears in one go, but at least I always got one.

I did this on the X. I didnt have that issue. There was alot of bear corpses but this method always spawned new bears for me.

I was working well until today, the bears appear but now when I kill him the percentage does not go up, I have it in 66% and it does not go up anymore, I do not understand why.

I'm using this method, but for some reason only one bear spawns on each trip. Sometimes one, sometimes the other. Oh well, still get the achievement at some point.

Using the pump shotgun as it seems to be a one-shot kill.

Can someone please clarify "quit to dashboard?" Do I just have to select "exit game" from the start menu? Or do I have "quit game" from the xbox menu? Thank you!

This isn't working for me. The bear only spawns once in around every five trips to Wallace Station for me. I'm travelling back to Saint Denis after every kill and quitting to dashboard. I seem to be having the same issue as someone else in the comments. The bear corpses are still there when I go back to Wallace Station and that seems to prevent them spawning.

If you're having the spawn issue/too many bear corpses laying around, die. This refreshed the world and all previous dead bears disappeared for me.

I randomly came across a grizzly in Dakota river, shot it, let it attack me then killed it whilst I was on my back. I reloaded my latest save came across the bear again and did the same thing. Tracker still says I’m on 5% from the one that is pretty much a given in the story, so the 2 kills haven’t counted?

Something glitchy about the achievement!

i always find 1 grizzly bear and 1 black bear that always run away

This is working perfectly! Here are my exact steps:

1. Go to Wallace Station.
2. Walk more or less in a straight line towards Watson's Cabin. Make sure you have a powerful weapon. I brought along my pump-action shotgun.
3. Let grizzly #1 attack you, enter the "battle scene" where you have to fight it off, stab it, then shoot it dead.
4. Continue walking towards Watson's Cabin.
5. Repeat step #3 but this time for grizzly #2.
6. Walk/ride back to Wallace Station.
7. Take train to to St. Denis.
8. Save the game.
9. Quit to dashboard.
10. Quit out of the game.
11. Start the game.
12. Repeat steps #1 to #11 until you get the achievement!

NOTE: If you don't see the grizzlies, you might have to walk around and stray from the "straight line" path to the cabin.

@Swyer87: Did you save/reload, or just reload from before you'd killed it? I'm playing on PS4, with no tracking, but I believe the counter is in the save, not on your profile, so reloading without saving first will reset the counter back to N-1.

This worked well enough for the first 14 or so bears, albeit only one per trip would spawn. Now its a grinding hault, with 1 bear every 4 trips or so. I'm not saying this solution is dead wrong, but we can't definitively say this IS guaranteed to work. There must be more variables to the equation we, collectively, don't understand.

The xbox achievements are all saved to our profiles now because the game saves were exploited in the past.

I think you have to be mauled by the bear then kill it with the shots you fire while on your back. I've had several now where I show it, but had to stand up and reload and those didn't count

Great guide, unfortunately only had the 2nd grizzly spawn once so far.

Also, took the train to Annesburg and only quit to the main menu. Didn't have to dashboard and they still spawned for me.

Not sure if it is because I'm on the One X, but this did not work for me - at best I had one bear spawn and once I'd killed 2 or 3 they just stopped spawning.

What did work for me was the solution put up by whateverken referencing the PS4 trophies video. There is less time lost on travelling and I had 2 bears spawn on seven of the eight attempts.

cheevo stuck@ 33% no matter how many times I kill the bear, anyone else have had this problem?

You have to let the bear attack you, fight it and when it backs away, you fire. Just shooting the bear from distance does not count.

I'm stuck at 33 too

I got out of 33% but not all attacks work, you have to kill it during the animation or seconds after, use shotgun if you can, if he get a few strides away from you apparently it won’t count.

I would agree with the Saint Denis method. I would go to the saloon/inn and sleep 19 hours until morning, and the bears would always be there after riding the train back to Wallace. Yes it takes some time, but so does riding around and reloading saves hoping the bear would be there. The automatic spawn was enough to convince me, knowing I wasn’t wasting my time for something that might happen. In fact, many times I was able to get 2 to spawn in the same area. One would be in the lower valley part, near the wood pile and the remains of the cable. The second would be higher up, in the space between the bear and the cabin to the northwest. Make sure to have some health cures or moonshine handy in case you see two in rapid succession!

Solution is not working for me. The bear corpse still there after I return (did everything the guide says). To circumvent this, I need to sleep almost 40 hours of game time in Saint Danist to make the corpse disappears and new one respawn.

I simply set up camp, killed 2 bears, slept 16+ hours and was able to get at least 8 kills

My advice would be to split this achievement up while doing the story, I was able to get 55% done before they stopped spawning frequently, now I intend to do more of the story and then come back to finish it after all the corpses disappear and what not.

What's a "bear attack?" You can't just kill them with a sniper rifle as they're eating honey? 🐻🍯😭 Edit: Never mind - I have just spotted the guide video, below👍. TIL, the camp acts as a respawn point! I was forever packing them up, due to the fire hazard! 😅

lol. you dont need to blow your console up everytime, just save and reload a save, no need to quit the whole game. all i did was save and reload and it worked pretty much every time

save your game, find the bear and kill it. return the save sleep 20 hours, kill the bear and keep doing it.

Be extremely careful when approaching the bear,

Make sure the bear jumps you and not bitch slaps you because that will kill you instantly

Yes, you need to turn away from the bear to not get killed instantly.

Fatest way to kill the bears and respawn it:

1. Kill the bear
2. Save
3. Reload the save
4. Sleep 16/18h
5. Sleep again 16/18h
6. Save
7. Reload the save
8. Sleep 16/18h
9. Sleep again 16/18h
10. Repeat step 1

Works 100% of times.

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I did mine while also replaying missions for the 70 gold medals. I stuck north west of Wallace Station. After killing a bear, I would save, set up camp and sleep for the longest I could. Then I would load up one mission. Most of the time when I got back I found another bear hanging around. The last time I even got two.

I've survived and killed two bears and it didn't count 😠 (I'm playing on PC and tracking the achievement progression on Steam)
Guess I'll try not to aim like you said.

All the bears went on vacation for me... Had some reliable spots in the beginning getting some 7-8 kills, but now.... Nothing. No more bears. Lol.

You should add that you can take down a Grizzly with a single Poison Knife. When hit they go off and lie incapacitated so you can easily get the final blow in.

Just tried near Wallace Station and found a bear, it roared at me then disappeared and I mean fully despawned in front of my eyes. Tried reloading/sleeping and it happened again. I'll never get this bloody cheevo 😑

I for some reason can't get this to work at all. I'm not sure what's going on. The corpses of the bears I've already killed don't seem to go away and it seems that this is what's preventing the new bears from spawning - this is something I've noticed over my time with the game and hunting, I could never really farm an animal in one location because they wouldn't spawn if the body of the previous one was there.

A theory I have is that, because I have an X, the locations of the dead animals are more likely to stay and for longer because of the higher RAM available for the game to store this info on. However it doesn't really make sense because that should be cleared once you dashboard. I just don't know how I'm going to get this achievement reliably. I have 250 hours in the game and only 6 counts towards the achievement.

You need to let bear charge attack you and then fight it off you by pressing B. Then you have to kill the bear with a gun while you are still laying on your back. Killing the bear once you get back on your feet wont count towards this achievement.

I think we need some clarification if this is surviving 18 CONSECUTIVE bear attacks or 18 TOTAL. The problem I'm having is I was at 13 bear attacks with 77% progress on my achievement tracker, I killed one and then one immediately spawned right near by (lucky me) and I had low health so it killed me upon attack.
Since then my achievement tracker has not been going up which makes me think you have to do 18 in a row which is really dumb and grindy.
Anyway, does anyone know from experience if they died from an attack and still got it with the few they had left?

EDIT: For some reason my tracker stopped tracking, I killed another bear and it then caught up to 94% (I had killed probably 4 or 5 before the tracker caught back up). I think the tracker bugs and I don't think the kills have to be consecutive or that you have to stay alive on all of them consecutively.

Do the save quit to dashboard method and sleep method for this and for all animal spawns as a matter of fact when you are hunting/studying for those achievements. This achievement is unlocking 100%.

Actually this seldom works without specific methods.
You'll only register the retaliation kill 100% of the time if it's a one shot kill:

1. Use whateverken's guide for the campsite location and make camp on the ridge, then put down a red marker📍 on the bear's nearby location, NNE.
2. Make 18 explosive rounds for the Springfield rifle and load them, and have this rifle in the left/shoulder slot.
3. Sleep 17/18hrs x2.
4. Save and reload game.
5. Sleep 17/18hrs x2.
6. Save and reload game.
7. Get on your horse and dismount near the brown bear at the bottom of the valley, NNE from campsite.
8. Turn your back on the bear, and bash B to stab it during the attack.
9. As soon as you've stabbed poor Ursus🐻 twice, start rapidly pressing RT to shoot the bear ASAP, without aiming, from the ground (this early shot with an explosive round guarantees the necessary 1 shot kill, and has the added bonus of leaving the bear on all fours - which gives no skinning animation).
10. Whistle your horse; Pick up your hat; Skin the bear (waste not, want not), which isn't animated; (Do not search for the rarely seen second bear, but kill it the same way if it appears - you weirdly don't need more health) Ride SSW back up to the campsite and dismount.
11. Sleep 17/18hrs x2. Repeat steps 4-11.

This truly will register a kill 100% of the time on the achievement-tracker (I like mine displayed middle-left) . You'll have to deal with the slaughter-guilt yourself 🐻❤️😭.

Works like a charm.

Worked well!

It works as a thousand wonders! You kill the bear .. You sleep 2 times and I save, I recharge .. When I reload, I listen to the bear !! Speechless!

Excellent, thanks for sharing!

You don't need to bother with explosive rounds. Just use the shotgun as the video shows.

By far the best solution out there.

Extra info I discovered. There are TWO bear spawns everytime, however, it takes a full 72 hours of sleeping AND you have to wake up in the morning. So you may need to do another reset of sleep to ensure you wake up in the morning. Therefore, if you are killing one and not reseting the full 72, then you may only be killing one at a time while the other resets. If you DO NOT SKIN the bear, the paw print indicating the carrcas will stay on the map UNTIL it respawns. THIS DOES not mean you will find the bear if it spawned far away, but it lets you know if it has because if the bear carcas is still on the map then you haven't waited long enough.

IF the bear does kill you, RELOAD the last save and do it again, as the bears will reset. I had my camp saved within walking distance of BOTH bears which made this easier and dying seemed to upset the spawns.

It is best if you mark the locations where you encountered the bear. For me (as i reloaded if i died) the bears generally kept respawning close to those locations.

Bears would spawn in one of two ways. 1. the would suddenly appear near you, alerted if you approached quickly. 2. They would be generated by you galloping through an area. Often i circled through an area only to return and there was a bear.

Lastly, if you circle your well known area and don't find one, sometimes it is better to sleep and reset the area then to journey around, even if you keep hearing growling in the far distance.

When fighting the bear, stay back as a single paw hit can kill you and let it charge you from a distance. Then mash B until it gives you a chance to shoot.

This seldom works without specific methods.
You'll only register the retaliation kill 100% of the time if it's a one shot kill:

1. Use the video for the campsite location and make camp on the ridge, then put down a red marker📍 on the bear's nearby location, NNE.
2. Make 18 explosive rounds for the Springfield rifle and load them, and have this rifle in the left/shoulder slot.
3. Sleep 17/18hrs x2.
4. Save and reload game.
5. Sleep 17/18hrs x2.
6. Save and reload game.
7. Get on your horse and dismount near the brown bear at the bottom of the valley, NNE from campsite.
8. Turn your back on the bear, and bash B to stab it during the attack.
9. As soon as you've stabbed poor Ursus🐻 twice, start rapidly pressing RT to shoot the bear ASAP, without aiming, from the ground (this early shot with an explosive round guarantees the necessary 1 shot kill, and has the added bonus of leaving the bear on all fours - which gives no skinning animation).
10. Whistle your horse; Pick up your hat; Skin the bear (waste not, want not), which isn't animated; (Do not search for the rarely-seen second bear, but kill it the same way if it appears - you weirdly don't need more health) Ride SSW back up to the campsite and dismount.
11. Sleep 17/18hrs x2. Repeat steps 4-11.

This truly will register a kill 100% of the time on the achievement-tracker (I like mine displayed middle-left). You'll have to deal with the slaughter-guilt yourself 🐻❤😭.

Nice Guide thx a lot

Here is my way, i hope it will work for everyone

Kill the bear near Wallace Station ( area on the pic).
Go to Wallace Overlook, make a camp, sleep 18-36 hours ( if its possible, sometimes u only can sleep 18 hours max)
Go back to the bear area, and kill him again ( repeat this 18 times)
I tried it 6 times now, and it worked every time.

Does it supposed to track the progress because every time the bear attacks me I am not able to kill it while my character is on the ground. Killed it twice and my tracking is still at 0% unlike all other achievements. If it supposes to track which weapon do you recommend.

Ink Splitter, i used Springfield rifle in one of the empty slots, the other is empty. When you are attacked by him keep pressing B without stopping, after the animation he stabs the bear he is in a kind of slow motion, at that moment you press RT to shoot. a single shot of the gun is enough, just like the video. Before that I also had trouble tracking

I've been killing more then 10 Grizzlys now with this method, but my achievement counter doesn't move. It's stuck on 5% for days now. Anyone knows whats going on..? Am i the only one..?

GOLIATHS KILL3R, I'm sorry to hear that. I also had problems with tracing stopped at the beginning. He came back just after 2 or 3 days later, but I do not know why.

@Mynameisnosreme - I can confirm that. After the "QTE" moment, bear must be killed when your character is laying on the ground. If you stand up and kill them then, counter doesn't move.

@Up N Smokes - thank you, works perfectly.

Yes also noticed when working on this that if you don't get it while you are on your back it won't count. Use the time while they charge you to get the right gun out.

I can confirm you need to be still on your back when killing the bear.

I think this achievement is bugged. I've killed 5 bears and the tracker just stays at 33%

yeah was attacked twice now and killed grizzley both times and counter says zero

@Neve12ende12 The achievment is not bugged. YOu need to save the game after every kill. Its tracked in the games savefile and not overall.

I used a rolling block rifle since that's a 1 shot. Also to guarantee a spawn (because sometimes using these strategies they didn't appear), take the train to Saints Denis, rent a room and sleep until you can't anymore. Then return to Wallace station via train. It takes a little longer on paper, but it ends up being about the same as like I said sometimes the bears don't appear with this solution.

@eV Deadline Thanks for that tip. I was super confused why my kills weren't counting and my counter was stuck at 16%. I must have killed a bear and then not saved my game because it got to 22% after I killed 2 bears. If anyone else's counter is stuck, just keep killing them and saving until the bears you have killed on your game save have caught up with your achievement progress.