Tomahawk Mastery

Tomahawk Mastery is a challenge added to both Red Dead Redemption and Undead Nightmare by the Legends and Killers DLC.

Challenges

• Rank 1: Purchase the tomahawk from general store at Manzanita Post.
  • Rank 1: (Undead Nightmare) Save Manzanita Post from an Undead attack.
• Rank 2: Kill one enemy with a thrown tomahawk, one with a tomahawk melee, and one while on horseback.
• Rank 3: Kill a bird with a tomahawk without using Dead-Eye.
  • Rank 3: (Undead Nightmare) Kill an Undead Bat with a tomahawk
• Rank 4: Kill five enemies in a row with the tomahawk without missing.
• Rank 5: Clear a gang hideout using only the tomahawk.
  • Rank 5: (Undead Nightmare) Save a town using only the tomahawk

Completing the Tomahawk Mastery Challenges gives you a Trophy/Achievement, and it causes you to gain tomahawks when you open chests in properties you own.

Tips & Tricks

Rank 3

• Clearing a gang hideout will cause vultures to spawn. They fly in a circular motion and are easy to hit.
• An easy (probably the easiest) way to get rank 3 is to enter deadeye, put an "x" on a bird, and exit dead eye as soon as Marston throws the tomahawk. If done correctly, it will not count as a dead eye kill since the actual kill was not made in dead eye, thus earning you the rank.
• Another easy way of achieving rank 3 is to complete the Twin Rocks gang hideout in order to get the cirling vultures, then climb either of the two rocks, from there, you can easily hit one of the vultures circling the empty hideout, as you are now much closer to their height.
• In some areas, such as the Great Plains, many birds will fly away when you appear. These are perfect opportunities to catch a low flying bird.
• In Undead Nightmare, a good tactic to hit an undead bat is to kill a Sasquatch in the Birth of the Conservation Movement Survivor Mission, and as a creature dies, bats will start flying, giving you a chance to hit a low-flying bat with a Dead Eye thrown Tomahawk.

Rank 4

• The best way is to simply melee attack five civilians. Whilst wearing the Bureau Uniform you don't attain any bounty. 
• The Tomahawk can also just be used to hit the undead in rank 4.
• It only counts shots with the Tomahawk, so you can kill someone then switch weapons and it won't reset the counter.
• Nosalida is a perfect place to get this rank, as the first enemies are preoccupied shooting the Mexican soldiers.
• Another easy place is the saloon in Armadillo. stand up on the second floor and there should be 5 Walton's Gang members sitting at the tables below. Ready up and rain steel down upon them.

Rank 5

• The easiest Gang Hideout to get this done at is Pike's Basin. The enemies in the Basin are pretty much stationary and you will only get rushed by 2 to 3 enemies at a time. This is the perfect place to set up an ambush and then collect your reward.
• Go through the Tesoro Azul hideout. Take out the first outlaw at the gate, then take out the two that will rush out soon after using Dead Eye. Everyone else will stay inside if done correctly. Rush in and find some cover. Yes, they are using cover but you have plenty of cover as well. Just wait for them to pop their heads up and take them out. With this hideout, you can obtain rank 4 and 5 easily.
• You can equip the Treasure Hunter Outfit and simply walk through the Gaptooth Breach gang hideout without killing anybody (at least occasionally, the player may encounter hostiles near the exit of the cave after acquiring the treasure). This will count as only using the Tomahawk and you should complete the challenge.
• You can throw your Tomahawk at explosive crates (causing them to explode) and still successfully complete the challenge. This can be especially useful in Undead Nightmare's Cochinay as you can kill many zombies using very few Tomahawks.
• In Undead Nightmare, you can use Death to help kill the undead while using dead eye to kill the undead with tomahawks, aslong as you don't use a gun this should work. Even if you run out of tomahawks just ride into the undead using Death to finish off the rest. You could also kill all the undead with Death and kill the last undead with a tomahawk, or just kill everyone with Death (confirmed without tomahawk even equipped).

Bug

• Killing the snipers on the top of the rocks at the Twin Rocks gang hideout with a sniper rifle from a long distance, then killing everyone else with thrown tomahawks (without missing) led to ranks 4 and 5 being completed.

Achievements/Trophies

	AXE MASTER 10 gamerscore Bronze bronze Complete all Tomahawk challenges in single player.