Here’s the second method to obtain the Bolt Action Rifle early in Chapter 2  😁
It’s not quite as simple as the first one, but it’s fun, a bit more challenging, and shows off some useful techniques and game mechanics you might find handy going forward.

Just to reiterate: if you enter Valentine after 10:00 AM and before 7:00 PM, the Sheriff won’t be standing in front of the Sheriff’s Office. In that case, all you need to do is turn away. The event is essentially preloaded and will trigger as soon as you give it enough time and distance to render by turning away from the area. You can even be looking in the opposite direction as you stroll in 👀

I also mention 60 seconds to deal with the Sheriff, but this can be longer depending on which direction the patrol has walked off to. Either way, just be quick about it 😅

And if you think I’m done… you’d be mistaken 😏
I’ve got one more Bolt Action Rifle early Chapter 2 video coming. Originally, this upcoming video was going to be the first (and possibly only) one, but after developing the second method, I thought it made more sense to show the full progression and all the different options for getting the Bolt Action Rifle right at the very start of Chapter 2.

For those of you who don’t mind a challenge… or two… or three… stay tuned 😉🔥

WORK HARD & EAT PLENTY! 🤠👍

Fun method! Thanks for sharing

Thanks for sharing, brother.  Here is another approach that eliminates some of the interaction you included. Once you see the sherrif on the gallows, go in closer with your horse to get the hanging started. Once the trap door is sprung, head back to the tree next to the saloon across from the gunsmith. When the on his way back sherrif makes the turn behind the gunsmith store lasso him and ride up the hill on the right side of the church. Then make a right going through the trees towards the railway track. There will be no witness alert or wanted notification. Once you get to a safe distance hogtie him, loot him, put him on the horse, take his hat and ride to around the same point as in your video. Take him off the horse, untie him, and knock the rifle out of his hand, etc.

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This is great! Very informative. Thanks for sharing this! Looking forward to seeing your next one.

I love it...I got mine from Sean's rescue and wasn't brave enough at that stage nor was my health at a point where I thought I could survive the first method at the hanging... but this method on a new playthrough is a priority... great work again champion 🤝🏼...I see someone ask about Calloway... I did the aggravate bartender method then immediately went to the doc's for the Schofield for a double revolver sting that took hardly any time 🍻

Nice video. I like your style. I'd be interested to see your take on the 'Calloway''s Revolver' exploit. Liked and subbed.

the easiest way to get that bolt action is during the hanging go to the rooftop in the general store and headshot sheriff malloy with an arrow and then get the bolt action in the gallow hehehehe

If you find a way to obtain the "letter to ma" from the Valentine newspaper boy, without killing or hurting him, you will be my favorite RDR2 youtuber...

You don’t have to do all that you can just disarm the sheriff in front of sheriffs office 🤷🏻‍♂️

I just tried this on my current playthrough to obtain my top 4 weapons for Arthur.

Every went flawlessly until I somehow knocked the sheriff out of the safety zone and knocked him out.

The second I put old Sheriff Malloy's lights out, all hell broke loose..

Javier and Charles came to the rescue because they were already sitting at Smithfield's, waiting for me to start "Americans at Rest".

I grabbed the bolt action and skinned outta there without shooting anyone and still got a $35 bounty.😆

On my next playthrough, I'm gonna make sure that I keep myself and the sheriff in that safe zone.

Thanks again for sharing this incredibly cool video partner!

Outlaws for life!

I just wanted to share my experience in case someone botches the final part (entering the camp area) like I did, and to make them aware that it's not necessarily a 100% guaranteed failure in that scenario.

In my case, I was able to get back to the camp area, approached from what I thought was the correct angle, but apparently messed it up because before I reached the sentry (Karen in my case), the "you cannot bring prisoners into camp" notification popped up, at which point Arthur knocked Malloy off the back of the horse and got off and untied him (this happened automatically without me being able to control Arthur). The Sheriff immediately started fleeing away from camp, and, since I was kind of frustrated I'd messed it up at the last minute, I took it out on the Sheriff and started shooting at him. I did get the notification that said shooting too close to camp can lead people into camp, but I kept shooting because I knew I was going to have to reload my save and start over anyway. I killed Malloy and nothing actually happened about me shooting or killing him close to camp. When I approached him to loot him, I noticed he'd dropped the bolt action rifle when he died, so I was able to get it without a bounty or penalty for killing him just outside camp. This probably won't work every time. I feel like I probably just got lucky, but I wanted to share in case someone else ends up in my situation that it's worth trying at least before you give up and reload the save.

I've been playing RDR2 on and off since it came out in 2018, and I've just started a new playthrough and recently discovered your channel, so I've been trying your methods out with great results- the only times something hasn't worked is because I failed to execute it properly, but all off your tricks and tips are spot on! 👍

In Ch. 1 I can lure the O’Driscoll to knock the Bolt Action out of Bill hands, but unfortunately it cannot be picked up like Micah’s double action rlvr 🥺