Red Dead Redemption 2: Things I wish I knew when I started out

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So I bought this game and I've been playing it for hours now. It's awesome, but there are things that had me wondering a bit when I started out. Being a huge game, it has a lot of details that take time to learn.
I play this on the Xbox One, hence the button references are to the Xbox One controller. Button references will be within parenthesis.

Horses and Stagecoaches

• Don't press (B) near your horse, turns out that you will throw a punch at the horse and lose some bonding points. Not a good thing.
• (Y) will allow for safe jump on your horse or jump up to the drivers position on the stagecoach. Took me forever to figure the stagecoach thing out in the middle of a mission, ended up shooting my gun instead and waking up the whole house. Thus failing the Hosea stagecoach stealing mission.

Hunting

• Get the right caliber weapon for whatever you are hunting. I.e. .22 caliber for small animals. If you don't then the quality of pelts harvested will go down.
• Only shoot once, figure out where the animal goes down on one shot. If you shoot more then once, then the quality of pelts and furs go down as well. Still haven't managed a pristine, ***, three star, pelt of any kind.
• Always check (L+R) when going hunting and continuously while on a hunt to get wind direction. Always have the wind in your face while hunting, or at least away from the direction that you are going.
• Deer and bucks, aim for the hear or neck to get a one shot kill.
• You don't have to lift off the animal carcass that you want to sell from your horse if you want to sell it. Just have your horse close by and approach a vendor. Saves a lot of time once you figure this out.
• Use the bow for hunting deer, that was you don't damage the pelts. Using a rifle will most likely take away one star

Money making

• Do the missions. Any other means to money is useless in this game.
• Collect the gold bar from the burned out village south-west from the Horseshoe overlook camp and sell it to a fence
• Loot all enemies! Sell all looted valuables to a fence

Ok. Hope this helps someone out there! Good luck, have fun!