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How to stretch out hunting on a low level

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I haven't played in years and decided to check out what's new. I'm fine depositing but I don't want to spend a lot and I'm not looking to become an uber or anything, I just find the hunting somewhat cathartic and I'm trying to stretch out my play. I know a lot of things have changed wrt to the loot cycle, and I've been reading and watching some recent tutorials and posts to try and get up to speed.

I'm finding that most of my runs I'm getting 75-85% returns, and I haven't been able to even come close to bridging the gap. I've tried a variety of weapons (all maxed), including the armatrix ones (which have ridiculous MU, but are supposed to be good), with or without armor, and lots of different low-level mobs that should be within my range. But my returns just suck. I don't need to be profitable but my peds are just draining too quickly.

I understand that I should be hunting for MU, but is this even achievable any more without investing tens of thousands of dollars and hours?

- Allegedly weapon efficiency is important, but I don't see how you can get anything with a high efficiency on the lower levels. The armatrix ones seem to be the highest but even those aren't great, and the L ones add a shitload of MU that I also need to cover. I think the smallest UL one is around 13k ped?

- Looter profession: Is my loot just going to suck until I've grinded however many thousand hours to get my looter skill up?

- I noticed that time to kill seems to make a noticeable difference. I did a a couple of runs with weapons of the same efficiency but different dps on the same mob. I noticed the gun that took about 10-12 shots to kill returned mostly just shrap and eye oil, but the one that took 2-3 shots to kill gave tier components, paint, and extractors much more often. Is this true or was this just luck cycles?

At the end of the day, though, even with looking for high MU items, I'm just not getting enough of them to make a difference. To give an example, I did a 500ped hunt on foul young (100hp), and got 400ped TT back. Most of it was shrap and eye oil. I got about 6ped worth of tier 2 components, a few peds worth of purple paint, and less than a ped worth of various extractors -- all of those things have good MU but definitely not enough to make up for a 20% loss on the hunt. These are only level 4 mobs btw.

Any thoughts or guidance? Cheers

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