Talk:Guides/Hound Repelling/@comment-70.167.111.220-20130701221735/@comment-219.90.158.64-20130702145809

I tend to also kill the McTusk elder with a blowdart - seems almost too easy though, not really satisfying. More fun to freeze him and kill him hand-to-hand as you stare him in the eye, so he knows that the hunter has now become the prey! Mu ha ha ha ha! ;)

You can also plant two spider dens right near the igloo spot during the summer, so by the time winter gets around they'll be level 3. Then when winter is over go and kill the spiders/dens and take any hats/tusks around, and a crapload of hounds teeth.

Or before winter is over if you're impatient. I find it less annoying than fighting him, since then whenever he doesn't drop the hat or especially the tusk, I get a bit pissed off at having wasted time hunting him AGAIN. Of course there's no guarantee you'll get both the hat and tusk in one winter either way, but the chances are reasonably good that you would.