FatPie

I'm gonna put it simply so you don't have to ask about another method: No matter how you kill something, the kill is still yours unless somebody does more damage than you; meaning that whatever damage is dealt by you, a cannon, a familiar, dreadnips, (basically anything you use to kill something) is all counted together towards receiving the drop.

Red Chin's can be decent money at the moment depending on your hunter level; but you can't hunt them.. As most other people said, do herb runs (but ignore the Slayer, it's only really profitable when you can do Ice Strykewyrm's). I'd say, go with one of the resource skills (Mining/Fishing/WC'ing) or go to Blue/Green dragons.