The Complete Guide to Tracking: Following tracks, trails and signs, concealment, night movement and all forms of pursuit by Carss Bob

Author:Carss, Bob [Carss, Bob]
Language: eng
Format: epub
ISBN: 978-0-7160-2366-1
Publisher: Little, Brown Book Group
Published: 2013-07-25T04:00:00+00:00

SUMMARY

DECEPTION TACTICS

The following is a list of deception methods:

• Walking backwards

• Conversion of sign

• Brushing the track

• Stone hopping

• Tiptoe walking

• Fade out

• Splitting up if the quarry is in a group

• Crossing or walking in a stream or river bed

• Looping back

Reasons for using deception tactics

• To gain time

• To lose the tracking team

• To kill the tracker

14

JUDGING THE AGE OF SIGN

The student of tracking who has been applying the skills so far described in this book will now be realizing how important it is to be able to give an accurate estimate of the age of the sign. Chapter 13 highlights this fact in what may be a life or death situation.

This chapter and the next will enhance the practical skills of the tracker. We are now moving more and more into the area of the application of our reasoning powers.

Judging the age of a track is the most difficult aspect of visual tracking and can only be achieved with confidence and a good degree of accuracy after practice and experience in an environment.

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