Almost every guide I've seen says to train on Red Salamnders from 59-80 hunter. One saying to switch to dashing/dark kebbits at 69, which made sense. I trained on it from 59-63 and decided to try out Red Chinchompas just to see how fast they are and I seem to catch them just as fast as I did Red Salamanders, only the Chinchompas give more exp. I could certainly see dashing/dark kebbits being faster from 69-80. However I don't see how Salamanders are faster than Chinchompas until then, although it seems most people say they are. Could someone give me some input?

maybe it 'seemed' faster because in your head you wanted it to be..

I timed it... I was catching red chinchompas every few seconds. Where as Red Salamanders averaged about one every ten seconds or so.

I think you were just getting a little lucky.