When tracking there are many indicators you should look for. There will always be some disturbances in the soil. The vegetation will be crushed, bent forward, and turned with each passing step. When you pass through grass wet from rain or dew, you will brush or knock some of this moisture off the vegetation. Causing … Continue reading Tracking in Wet Grass
Water can be deposited from a person's step. Leaving evidence of their passage on hard surfaces that might not normal leave much evidence. Some will a day that tracking is simply looking for footprints, left in the soil. That is a basic definition but incomplete. Tracking would be more accurately described as using all of … Continue reading Tracking – Water Transfer
To mantrack most effectively it takes a team. If you have followed very much about the world of mantracking, a bulk of the information is limited to individual training techniques and references to the Rhodesian Bush War. Those are both valid and if you are interested in tracking, you should study them both. Today we … Continue reading Mantracking | It Works Better with a Team
The basics of blood tacking to recover game.
Image source: https://idfg.idaho.gov/hunt/bear-info/overview Its spring black bear season in Idaho! One consideration for those in either northern Idaho or in the southeast corner of the state is the presence of grizzly bears. Thankfully there are ways of telling both types of bears apart, based on visual characteristics and on the type of sign (tracks) left … Continue reading Bear Track Differences
A scuff mark on the log, from where a deer brushed again it in the snow. Why consider tracking? It is mostly a dying art, kept alive in a few circles. Military scouts, African anti-poaching teams and hunters, the Border Patrol, search and rescue teams, and die-hard hunters and trappers are keeping the art alive. … Continue reading Why Consider Tracking?
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