SAS Guide to Tracking, New and Revised - Softcover

Carss, Bob

Softcover

ISBN 10: 1599214377 ISBN 13: 9781599214375

Publisher: The Lyons Press, 2008

Synopsis

Anyone who has spent even a little time outdoors has come across strange tracks left by animals or people and wondered, “What was here?” In this practical guide, former-SAS member Bob Carss shows how to track any moving thing, in any environment, and under nearly any circumstance. He begins by explaining common terms, such as a “top sign”, markings left above ankle height; “pointers”, signs that tell the general direction of the quarry; and a “conclusive sign,” markings that confirm the quarry’s presence. The difference between tracks left by quarry and false tracks are described, as well as how a pattern of signs builds into the tracking picture – the overall movement, direction, and motivation of the quarry. Included are tips on: ·Tracking in desert, forest, jungle, marsh, and grassy areas ·Interpreting animal, human, and vehicle signs ·How to preserve night vision ·Using time frames to eliminate misleading signs ·Detecting quarry when they backtrack or circle around ·How time and weather affect signs ·How to spot intentionally misleading signs The SAS Guide to Tracking is a remarkable guide to developing a new awareness of the outdoors and is the perfect companion for naturalists, outdoorspeople, hunters, wildlife photographers, search-and-rescue teams, and law enforcement.

About this title

About the Author

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 Carss and illustrator Stewart Birch live in Hereford, England, where the SAS Regiment is based.

From the Back Cover

The ultimate guide to tracking man or animal, from the SAS

Who Dares Wins.
Motto of the Special Air Service (SAS)

Anyone who has spent even a little time outdoors has come across strange tracks left by animals or people and wondered, What was here? In this new and revised edition of The SAS Guide to Tracking, Bob Carss a veteran of Britain's elite SAS shows how to track any moving thing, in any environment, and under nearly any circumstance.

Included are tips on:

Tracking in desert, forest, jungle, marshy, rocky, and mountainous terrain
Interpreting animal, human, and vehicle signs
Preserving night vision
Using time frames to eliminate misleading signs
Detecting prey when they backtrack or circle around
Knowing how time and weather affect signs
Recognizing how to spot intentionally misleading signs

An essential handbook for developing a new awareness of the outdoors, The SAS Guide to Tracking is the perfect companion for naturalists, outdoorspeople, hunters, wildlife photographers, youth leaders, search-and-rescue teams, outdoor pursuit and military instructors, and law enforcement organizations.

From the Inside Flap

Anyone who has spent even a little time outdoors has come across strange tracks left by animals of people and wondered what was here? In this practical guide, former-SAS member Bob Carss shows how to track any moving thing, in any environment, and under nearly any circumstance. He begins by explaining common terms, such as a top sign , markings left above ankle height; pointers , signs that tell the general direction of the quarry; and a conclusive sign, markings that confirm the quarry's presence. The difference between tracks left by quarry and false tracks are described, as well as how a pattern of signs builds into the tracking picture the overall movement, direction, and motivation of the quarry. Included are tips on:

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

The SAS Guide to Tracking is a remarkable guide to developing a new awareness of the outdoors and is the perfect companion for naturalists, outdoorspeople, hunters, wildlife photographers, search-and-rescue teams, and law enforcement.

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

Edition details

• Publisher: The Lyons Press
• Publication date: 2008
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 1599214377
• ISBN 13: 9781599214375
• Binding: Paperback
• Illustrator: Thomasson Roy
• Number of pages: 352