The SAS Guide to Tracking,9781493044306

The SAS Guide to Tracking

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Edition: 3rd
ISBN13: 9781493044306
ISBN10: 1493044303
Format: Paperback
Pub. Date: 2020-04-01
Publisher(s): Lyons Press
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Summary

With a Foreword by John “Lofty” Wiseman, author of The SAS Survival Handbook!

Anyone who has spent any time outdoors has come across strange tracks and wondered, “What was here?” In this new and revised edition of The SAS Guide to Tracking, a veteran of Britain’s elite Special Air Service shows how to track any moving thing, in any environment, and under nearly any circumstance. An essential handbook for developing a new awareness of the outdoors,this book is the perfect companion for naturalists, outdoorspeople, hunters, wildlife photographers, search-and-rescue teams, and law enforcement organizations.

Included are tips on:

  • Tracking in desert, forest, jungle, marsh, and grassy areas
  • Interpreting animal, human, and vehicle signs
  • Preserving night vision
  • Using time frames to eliminate misleading signs
  • Detecting quarry when they backtrack or circle around
  • Interpreting how time and weather affect signs
  • Spotting intentionally misleading signs

Author Biography

Bob Carss began his military career at age seventeen with the King’s Own Scottish Borderers. He transferred to the world-famous Special Air Service (SAS), where he received training as a tracker in the jungles of New Zealand and with the Iban trackers in Brunei, desert tracking in the dunes of the Empty Quarter and the Sahara, and in all terrains in between. Both Bob Carss and Stewart Birch live in Hereford, England, where the SAS Regiment is based.

Table of Contents

The SAS Guide to Tracking, New and Revised

Part One: The Briefing

  1. Tracking today – some modern applications
  2. Some definitions and explanations
  3. Sign in tracking – defined and explained
  4. Factors affecting sign
  5. The attributes of a tracker


Part Two: The Pursuit

  1. Observation indoors
  2. Observation out-of-doors
  3. Observation of the individual
  4. The principles of stalking
  5. Stalking techniques
  6. Night movement
  7. The track pursuit drill
  8. Deception tactics
  9. Judging the age of sign
  10. Deductive skills
  11. The lost track drill


Part Three: Advanced skills

  1. Training trackers
  2. Military tracking
  3. Dogs and tracking
  4. Map-reading
  5. Human prints
  6. Animal prints
  7. Vehicle sign
  8. Preserving prints


Part Four: The Future

  1. Developments in tracking


Index

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