User Guide

Recording Movies

You can record in-game movies. Press the F5 key to begin recording; when you want to stop

recording, press the F5 key again. At the prompt, enter a movie name, and then click on the

SAVE button to save your movie.

Pause Menu

Press the Esc key during a game to display the Pause Menu.

Quit Hunt: End your current hunt and return to the Main Menu. Note: When you quit a hunt

before reaching the bag limit, your progress in that hunt is not saved.

Settings: Adjust controls, video or audio settings (see “Settings” on page 11). When finished,

click on the HUNT button.

Quit to Windows

: Exit the game and return to the Windows

desktop.

Cancel: Continue hunting.

TROPHY ROOM

To view all of the current hunter’s whitetail trophies,

blacktail trophies, mule deer trophies and more, click on

the TROPHY button on the Main Menu.

Hunters who play the game on Normal difficulty level or

Expert difficulty level (see page 10) will have a chance of

bagging Record Book animals. The top-scoring Record

Book deer for each species will display in the Trophy

Room as a World Record.

To view more animals, click on the up / down arrow buttons. To delete the currently displayed

animal, click on the DELETE button.

Inventory

Bag limit icons

Inventory item slots

Bag limit icons: As you bag legal game animals, green check marks appear over the grayed-out

bag limit icons. If you have committed infractions, red X’s appear over the icons.

Inventory item slots: Your inventory has nine numbered slots. To select a weapon or item, simply

press the corresponding number key (1-9); you can also toggle through the inventory slots by

pressing the Tab key for the previous slot, and the Caps Lock key for the next slot.

Using Equipment

Weapons

You must be in scope view before you can fire your weapon. To activate scope view, left-click.

When you’ve got the target sighted, left-click again to shoot. Exit scope view by right-clicking.

Items

To use a piece of equipment such as a scent or a call, first select it and then left-click. When

you’re finished, left-click again to put away the item.

Setting Up the Tree Stand, Blind or Tripod

To set up a concealment, first select it and then left-click. Once assembled, press the 0 key or the

Enter key to enter or exit the concealment.