John Marston and Son

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Red Dead Redemption missionJohn Marston and Son
Start	Beecher's Hope
End	Beecher's Hope
Given by	Jack Marston
Location	West Elizabeth
Progression
Unlocked by	Abigail Marston mission strand: "The Outlaw's Return"
Unlocks	Jack Marston mission strand: "Wolves, Dogs and Sons"

“Now the trick to hunting is calm and patience. You gotta think and move like an animal to catch an animal.”

–John Marston

John Marston and Son is a mission in Red Dead Redemption.

Story

John meets Jack reading an adventure book under a tree, and John takes Jack out to teach him how to track, kill and skin wild animals, in this case, elk.

Walkthrough

Mission Prerequisites

Before this mission becomes available, the player must complete:

• Abigail Marston mission: "The Outlaw's Return"

Mission Objectives

To complete this mission, the player must:

• Follow Rufus.
• Kill and skin an elk.
• Follow Rufus again to find another elk.
• Allow Jack to shoot and skin an elk.
• Ride to Manzanita Post and sell the elk products.

Mission Details

Mount your horse and follow your dog, Rufus, into the Tall Trees area. The dog will eventually find you an elk. Shoot it, preferably in the head, and ride over to it. Skin it and get back on your horse. Now it's Jack's turn to kill an elk.

Watch him kill the elk, or help him, and then watch him skin it. After watching him do it, you're going to head over to Manzanita Post to sell the meat. Once you arrive in Manzanita, dismount your horse and head into the store to sell your meat and skin. Return to your horse and ride back home with Jack and Rufus.

Mission Dialogues

Main article: John Marston and Son/dialogues

Mission Failure

The mission will fail if the player:

• Assaults or kills Abigail, Jack, Rufus or Uncle.
• Abandons Jack.
• Kills his own or Jack's horse.
• Abandons his horse.
• Loses sight of Rufus.
• Intimidates or holds-up the shopkeeper at Manzanita Post.
• Breaks the law.
• Kills a dog.
• Commits vandalism.
• Assaults or kills townsfolk.
• Dies.

New Game Elements Introduced

• Hunting

Trivia

• The book Jack is reading can be seen as a reference to Red Dead Revolver and foreshadowing to the Stranger side-mission "Remember My Family", as Jack says it's about "how this man, this brave man, hunts the man who killed his father".
• Although it appears that Jack did not not finish skinning the downed elk, the corpse afterwards is the same as the elk John skins.

Bugs

• If you have a lot of skinned animal parts and you sell them all here, the "yellow dot" will stay on your mini map and you will have more parts in your inventory. Do this twice and it should be empty.
• GOTY Version: The yellow dot at the shopkeeper will stay on your mini map forever. No matter what you do, there is no way you can fix this enormous bug. Things that do not work (hopefully someone will have an idea): having more than 2 elk meat in inventory before starting a mission and selling them one by one, having more than 2 elk before a mission and selling them all together, having nothing in your inventory and starting the mission, selling hunted elk meat through mission one by one or all together, hunting only 2 elks and selling them, shooting the first elk and letting Jack shoot the second one, abandoning the shopkeeper, thereby forcing you to restart from checkpiont, dying and reloading from a checkpoint, reloading the mission all together, reloading from any previous mission and playing them to reach this mission, killing another animal and then selling its skin and meat, before or after the dot selling elk. Even reinstalling the game does not help. (Unconfirmed)

Video Walkthrough

Achievement

Completing this mission contributes toward the following Trophy/Achievement:

	REDEEMED 100 gamerscore Gold gold Attain 100% List in the singleplayer game completion list.