Costs a bit more but killing argopelters with a musket saves a lot of frustration and time. One shot kills them. It also pays for itself since dried argopelter hides are 25s while a single shot is like 10s? Something like that. I also shoot deer when hunting them for animal glue since it saves a lot of time, especially if you suck at combat like me and have bone breaks 70% of the time that you fight them ^^ Also if you have a friend a good tactic to hunt, relatively safely, bears is to have two people shoot a bear with a musket at once, the one who gets aggro runs, the other reloads and shoots again. Requires coordination and good friends in case you get a bears paw ^^ This is for lazy hunters though since its costly in the long run, though some might argue that less time spent fighting = more kills which in turn = more silver and rare drops