How to Track a Human | Tactical Tracking
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- Опубликовано: 9 мар 2023
- Tracking is not a very commonly talked about skill, at least anymore. We did a video on tracking a while back with Seaux Larreau that you can find in our video archive, where he taught the basics of the step by step method. Those are the basic building blocks of the skill. In that video he mentioned Peter Kerr with TTOS (Tactical Tracking Operations School) ttoscorp.com . Peter teaches tactical tracking to close with the individual as rapidly as possible. Peter has been on counter drug task forces, taught swat teams and helped with Border security.
Well, we finally convinced Peter to share some of his knowledge with us… and you. This was really eye opening for us.
If you’ve spent a bunch of time outdoors you’ve most likely given at least some thought to what a useful skill this can be in so many contexts. Other than just tactical applications it’s useful for finding missing people, hunting or maybe finding your own way back to safety, just to name a few that come to mind.
Unfortunately, just like any other skill, you can get some great knowledge from watching this but you gotta go outside and play to develop these skills. Hopefully you find this useful, as well as a good motivator to go spend some time outside learning it for yourself.
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Dad said he was going to liquor store 15 years ago, finally found him. Thanks TR!
Was he at the local bar?
@@CunningOfReason yep, sitting next to my old man.
Happy to hear that so where the hell was he 😅
Hellfire i didnt even know i had brothers till i learnt this!
@@dennistate5953 it does pay to discover... or so the commercial goes.. every once in a while. ;-)
I took a tracking class by them in North Carolina. Good skill for tracking lost or unarmed people. Tracking an armed person is a good way to get unalived while you’re focused on spore
That's why trackers carry another tracker to cover their head-backs while they focus on spore.
There is a reason the military sends teams of armed scouts, not just one.
A really fun training game I used to do as a teen was to get a group of friends together, find a nice large chunk of Wildland, give one or two of the group an hour headstart. Then the rest of the group tracks and closes the distance. Like extreme hide and seek. We ended up teaching ourselves allot of the techniques shown in this video.
Awesome
I don't know if he's retired now, but Scott Donelan from Africa is one of the best trackers around. He used to teach the U.S. Border Patrol.
SD is a phenomenal tracker, and anyone would befit from attending his course. That being said maybe individual Agents took his class and retired Agents did teach at TTOS. But I don't think SD ever got paid to teach the BP. The Border Patrol was tracking and teaching others to track, include the military long before SD immigrated to the US. It all just predates the internet, so people either don't know or pretend it didn't happen.
The Rhodesian SAS guy Peter refers to in the video is David Scott-Donelan. Both Scott-Donelan and Peter Kerr came out to Okinawa around 2003-04 timeframe to train 3rd Recon Bn and some of the SF types on Torii Station.
I wouldn't put that on my resume if I was him.
i personally got trained by David Scott-Donelan in South Africa
Another tip I picked up from a Tactical Tracking Class: Every 2nd or 3rd set of prints, use your measuring stick/weapon/etc and do a 270 arc with the device and have everyone look at the arc to look for possible hides or places to hole-up. Just because a track goes in a particular direction does NOT mean that the subject is fully intent on that direction! The subject could be leading off to a place where they can obfuscate their tracks and direction, so as to go back to the hide location!
Always double back before setting up your firing position (Nightmare fuel for Tracker), in the tracking mindset it is easy to go beyond your target just to get jail raped from behind. That 270 needs to be 360
Holy crap thanks for making this I have always thought I was ok at tracking foot steps that how we find friends when they get separated in the woods from us here in south FL but learned a ton more from this!
I love this! I am pretty good at tracking animals in my home environment in Maine and I got an opportunity to learn some desert tracking in Arizona but tracking people sounds exhilarating!
Tracking aka stalking
I remember, I think it was 1981/82 while stationed at FT. Bragg, being sent to JOTC at FT.Sherman Panama.
It was their jungle operation jungle survival school, man that was a long time ago.
I believe we parachuted at the French Canal.
Brings back memories.
During Grenada Invasion, I was sent out a couple times to do some tracking.
I sometimes go out on my remote property and track animals, just for fun, keep my skills up.
But if I dont go out for a while, I overlook things, realized i have to sit down, slow down,focus, and remember, attention to detail.
Awesome video so much info packed into a short time. I love these practical videos can't wait for the next installment.
More to come!
Glad to see interest growing in tracking please do more on the subject! Would love to take a deep dive into more of the Psychology aspect, presenter was great.
You got it!
What a baller subject. The tradecraft behind this is such a rabbit hole
Was glued to the screen the whole time, very fun learning experience
also love an oppurtunity to see karl pull his goofy stunts 😂
Most Canadian hunters have some kind of tracking ability. I also have some skills. I've noticed American hunters love to wait in blinds to shoot, but because of the large population of predatory beasts here in Canada, we normally have to keep moving, or the other extreme of camouflaging yourself and snipe from a long distance.
Animal tracking tips: Learn the feces of all animals of your region. Learn the footprints. Look for broken stems that are low to the ground. Look for blood droppings on leaves. Looking carefully at a clear footprint you can see the depth of certain angles to weight, speed, direction, and where its' major injury is located. Closely examining a scat sample by feeling its texture to determine when it shat. Smell will aid in time. Follow game trails. Look for watering holes. Look for caves or crevasses. Look up, cougars have a tendency to hang out in trees and sometimes will pounce from above. . . There is so much I want to divulge, but I'm sure most would not appreciate it. I hope this helps a little.
Nah mate this is quality stuff. If you have the time, do divulge because some of us love gleaning knowledge from people with “dirt time” who share their hard-won experience! Cheers
Animals aren't stupid, they've been tracked before, once tracking a moose for a good distance through the snow suddenly it took a sharp left on the high side of the terrain. I follow only to find it had doubled back to a vantage point.
It stood there long enough to take a piss and watch me below pass by below then took off crossing it's tracks down the hill at a good pace.
I had been busted.
@@loco4dogg My method: long distance shot, then follow the injured animal until it's tired enough for me to go for the final kill, thank God for the meat, and enjoy!
Most may not care but the little you have shared is helpful. I’ve never been taught to track but I read books about people in wild places and how they’d need to track . I figured if they could do it so can I . Thank you for the pointers .
@@paulthomas8989 Oh, you're most welcome! I guess I was so used to being put down by other Canadians, as in when they tell me they know how to track and to shut up, that I assumed it was common knowledge.
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"Necessity is the mother of invention"
When you hunger for meat, you will learn any way possible to acquire it.
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I'm no way near the level of a professional tracker, but at least my skills will always land meat.
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Time factor: don't expect immediate capture. My longest hunt was 3 weeks. The shortest was merely by fluke, meaning that I saw a coyote right beside me and immediately knifed it. Coyote is not good eating.
Definitely one of the best demonstrations and explanation of tracking very informative
Glad you think so!
I would love to see another video like this one I feel like I have learned so much awesome job everyone 👍👍
More to come
Good intro. You can incorporate a lot of this into property defense, if you’re securing a large property. Go figure out the lines of drift in your property, look for and identify spoor traps, on those lines of drift. If there’s not one, make one, by setting a small obstacle across the line and prepping the ground on the other side of the obstacle, for tracks. Cellular game cams are good too
This is a awesome video even just by watching it you’re 100 times better off than somebody with no knowledge at all. Thanks a lot T are you guys rock. I always learn something watching you guys exclamation
Glad you enjoyed it!
This is a great video. Reminds me of all the nonfiction I've read about stories of expert trackers.
New skills and TR teaching can't be beat!!😎👍👍Thanks for bringing us the best🙏🙏 I knew this was old hand for Karl, but surprised that Imri wasn't already a master like Seaux as well or is he!?🤔🧐
Glad you enjoyed it
as a young army cadet (prior to my ADF service) I attended an Arustralian Army tracking course for two weeks. Amazing. However the Aboriginal trackers can jog when tracking, they're so good
Awesome video, skills that can be applied in hunting, and people searching. I would love to see how this could be turned into a fun game as a part of skill progression.
Tactical hide and seek
I hate how it took only the first 30 seconds for this to be the coolest video I ever seen
Kept me engaged for the whole hour!
fountain of knowledge. Thankyou for providing this opportunity.
Great video looking forward to more!
I would love to have the training to track as efficiently as what I am hearing from this video but I have learned a lot in my part of the world. I live in South Alabama and I can tell you that we have reactive plants here, they aren’t native but the mimosa closes with rough contact and in lots of places it’s just small ground clutter. We also have lots of plants that will funnel anything but maybe a hog. The hogs go around most of it as well unless they are scared or mad. Spanish bayonet is a good example, most animals of any size can’t go through it. Some people call it palmetto I believe.
Thanks for the great video. It was a great introduction to principles to build on.
Great video! I took a lot of notes, can't wait to get out and have fun applying all this great info! 👍
When I was a teen, my brother and I would randomly pick someone at the mall and stalk them like a Detective. It was fun. Sometimes in the woods I like to track prints I find.
Just found your channels guys and love this content. Thanks for sharing. Cheers from Alberta!
Welcome aboard! Thanks for watching
I used to track escape convicts on an inmate recovery team. Loved my time on that team.
What did they usually do? What gave them away?
Seems like most of the time you just have to go to their girlfriend's house.
Awesome stuff. I was lucky enough to do course taught by Peter and the Rhodesian he was mentioning. Great skill and super useful.
Cool, thanks!
Outstanding knowledge drop- Cheers!
Glad you enjoyed it!
My buddy is a border patrol agent out in the mountains east of San Diego. He does this everyday.
Had a brother stationed Chula Vista. those hills are some tough terrain.
Awesome as always...keep up the energy...
Thank you! Will do!
First and foremost, I haven't watched the video in it's entirety. Trash is another thing that helps age some sign. I have noticed colors red and yellow fade first from labels, whether it be off a water bottle or a something plastic. Another thing I've looked at was left behind water bottles or things that held fluids. If you see the tiny specks of water or liquid at the top of a bottle, it's been there a while. But if that is not present, that bottle has been discarded very recently. One I spent a few hours apart of a tracking team, and I found a water bottle with vibrant yellow on the label and no water specks at the top, but there was a bit of water at the bottom, I figured the bottle was extremely recent. The next day we went out there and someone with a IR camera spotted who we were tracking 300 yards from where I found the bottle. They had hid under brush and slept for the night.
Greetings and Salutations
Well, everyone does not have it like you do, that's why you easier to find
I had that nerve cluster moved years ago 😊
Great upload, thanks
Great video! Love the effort and knowledge and time and I really appreciate it guys! Great job by the sound guy too! RUclips - quit shadow banning these pro-American channels. This should have tens of thousands of more views.
Much appreciated!
Really interesting and straightforward! Thanks a lot, cheers from France!
Glad you enjoyed it!
TR is the real deal. Quality information. Always.
Thanks for watching, TR
Excellent video! And love the AZ backdrop!
Glad you enjoyed it
Loved it, thanks guys!
Our pleasure!
What a great video!! I’ve tracked criminals. No training!! Thankfully some of the stuff I did was actually textbook!!
The best search and rescue and military tracker in North America and probably the world is Pat Howard in northern New Mexico. Cool video.
Excellent video, now for the counter-tracking techniques
Great idea!
@@TacticalRifleman it's really kind of an assumption but it makes sense to me that spec ops who knows that they're being pursued by an opposing spec ops team will move differently knowing that they're being tracked.
It was something that was very briefly touched on during a couple of training sessions with some army guys a few years ago.
Great video as always Brothers, Blessings.
Much appreciated thanks for watching, TR
Great training
Awsome video, very useful info. Cant wait to practice.
Glad it was helpful!
It's amazing the things you can learn from playing hide n' seek as a kid. .
This was great !
One thing not mentioned is a limp can identified and really stands out.
Super job on this one.
Thank you! Cheers!
Have you guys ever considered a video long form on how to make a homestead more readily defensible both close and long range.
I will add it to the video idea list
Great info!
Very professional
Glad you liked it! Thanks for watching, TR
Some gorgeous country-side there...! Saying that as an expat living in a lush green tropical S.American country...The content may be really useful for my scriptwriting work for a possible new post-apocalyptic adventure series, where a stranded Russian special forces operator is a mercenary hired by the story's chief villain, to relentlessly track our main protagonist on her epic bugout journey to a sanctuary community.
I wish I had half this guys energy
Even though he is 55, most of the voices in Karl's head are in their early twenties.
I always carry a roll of window caulk rope. While I have lots of uses for this stuff one good use is to plug/unplug your boot treads to create a variety of patterns. Makes it much more difficult to be tracked. Simply use the caulk to change your boot pattern every time you enter a high traffic or rocky area. Then use a different gait until you are well clear of the area. The idea is to slow them down allowing you to increase the distance between you and them. It also makes you look smarter than them which makes them more cautious which serves the same purpose of slowing them down. Placing a chemical hand warmer in a tree crux of an inaccessible place if they have infrared or wiping your face and peeing on a piece of clothing and then throwing it down a cave crevasse or some inaccessible hiding place then back tracking before setting off in the opposite direction is also a good move if they have dogs. Trying to track me is a lot of fun for me. 😂
Solid advice
Take a shot every time instructor says what not! Yeaaa buddyyy!
Thank you for this! I wanted to take a tracking course through Greenside Tactical but I need more currency before I can do such
Wow sick 🐾
Brilliant I really enjoyed this
Glad you enjoyed it
It's good to use a mirror, when you stand up, turn your back to the direction they are moving. Using your measuring stick hold the mirror 3"x4' they will look more at the sticks and your back than the mirror. It's a trick I used in Nam. With your back to them you will be able to see them in the mirror.
Awesome video
deception technique could mean the person being tracked keeps turning around to see if his being tracked or being followed that would let the tracker know that the person being tacked might be close
During my time in the forces I learned that our training on tracking and ambush position identification were not great. As a private playing OpFor for more experienced troops I was consistently able to ambush them. It wasn't through any particular skill or talent on my part, but definitely through a distinct lack of training on the Forces part.
Karl take it easy on those old knees. I could hear them scream all the way across the country.
Good luck on your recovery.
Thanks guys
Our pleasure!
This totally makes me want to get back into esar
Awesome guys...I sense a possible NETFLIX Series : - )
Living in the country you find out who’s tire marks were in your drive! Tape your footwear up to eliminate tread marks and don’t dig your heels in 😅and never walk in a straight line or take even pace and step on hard surfaces that don’t retain a print 😊
Very interesting.
Glad you think so!
Super informatieve, also good to see Karl having a go at the moonwalk across the road.
Glad you enjoyed it!
Intro rocks brother
Love it commenting for the algorithm
I think I heard about this school a decade or so ago. They the same ones that had help from the guy that developed the tracking course for the Rhodesian Selous scouts back in the day?
That guy's history is wild.
One of the Mongolian children nearly got out of the Forest, thanks for the Advice!
Can a really good tracker foil other trackers' abilities and thereby move without detection?
There are tricks of the trade. If you know what to look for, it is easier to hide it
Well yes. The reasons American slaves went through rivers and swamps was to avoid leaving footprints.
Different art to tracking and summoning people via abstract internet clues.
It's pretty fun once you get the hang of it.
Like hide-and-seek, but with consequences.
Love the video and the information, but my main takeaway was this: if you're not using a team, and using multi-int tracking, you'd better be tracking faster than they're moving. Which isn't likely if they're a reasonably fit adversary.
true but the tracker switched to macro and used the road. All the dancing around to mess with their heads was a waste of time. In theory, if we wanna believe it, they've found him very fast and before the sunset. The tracker dude may be able to run and still see the tracks just like native Americans in the fkn Vinnetou but the night would stop them in their tracks. If the trap didnt work they would have to go back. (What I was missing is doing circles from the last known.) If he didnt sleep much during the next day he would be two nights ahead soon. Unless they can track him on e-bikes, he always has an advantage. He can use the road, rivers, move away on rocks etc. Dogs and men on horses or e-bikes would be hard to shake off
TNX
Is there another video with crayons for Karl? One in which he's followed by a pack of ferrets that like to follow the scent of Old Spice and Preparation H? 😁(Sounds harsh, but this was always how my vet friends talked)
Great video. Thanks. Truly informative.
Great video Sir 👍I was wondering if these methods work about the same at night using ir illuminator and nvg ?
Yes, absolutely. However, you'll want a handheld IR Flashlight.
Have taken classes from John Hurth and Fernando Moreira. Would love to attend a class with this instructor.
Hurths book is good for us rednecks. Tons of info I would have never considered. I bet immersion in a class is fantastic.
let's get this gentlemen out to the SERE Challenge!
I love how tv and movies make tracking some sort of mysterious magic that only a wizard would know.
At the high levels that is how some of the legendary Rhodesian trackers seemed
@@bureaucratbayonet
Zimbabwean trackers**, you want to name a country after a guy named rhodes may he rot in hell.
@@AncientPharaoh sounds like the country just resembles hell now
@@bureaucratbayonet
Many countries have gone through hell and bounced back. The type of hell you’re talking about is designed by your people. Regardless of how it is, the people there are resilient, tough, and they’ll overcome stronger. How do you think among the best designer perfumes come from Europe? It’s documented that Europeans used to be the worst smelling beings ever. There were queens and princesses who vowed to never wash their undies, the plague came because of filth, and incest worst than the devil. Yet, Dior, Hugo Boss, Armani, Versace, Tom Ford, and etc came out of that filth. Zimbabwe will bounce back too.
good luck tracking me in the upper midwest! aint anything like this easy terrain in the video! i hunt deer by tracking/ stalking, more fun than baiting or hunting from a stand or blind
measure twice, cut once . . . I like it 👍🏼
You got it!
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Mike!!! Love your recent posts. Keep fighting the good fight
Utilized this once when tracking a homicide suspect. the foot print detail they did in this video actually helped a great deal when it comes to speed and direction as well as the primary contact (heel vs ball of foot) to really hone in on deception of people trying to walk backwards. Great stuff and this is actually good skills to learn for both LE and Military.
Thanks for watching and thank you for your service. TR
A good skill to have 🐸🔱
awesome video, the Czech border guard under communism was best, the iron curtain has a 3m sandbar from each side in middle was a 3m T shape signaling fence, and some parts were guarded with independent dogs(Czechoslovakian Wolfdog), and a few people were eaten alive. You had approximately a 10% chance of escape😎😎
Karl's doing fancy side steps, back steps, jumping and weaving - the camera man is just laughing leaving his prints all over 😂
Good Stuff
Thanks for the visit
Tom Brown made a great series of books. I still struggle with judging aging tracks.
Great content!!!!! It would have been funny If Karl j hooked and set up a hide, then lit them up with some paintballs!!! Good stuff!!
Next time!
Nice info! Thx!
Btw What kind of jacket is he wearing?
fleece jacket idk whta brand
Imri, my second favorite Jew. Loved it!!!!
Carl's a good catch I'd keep him. Be exelent for guard duty
Find, Fix, Finish! Graduated 2010.
I wonder if this expert has ever been tracking a circle and realizing the person he is tracking is tracking him also. I would watch a video on those deceptive techniques. I gave a 👍ty for the education
Good question! I will add it to the video idea list. Thanks for watching, TR
That was some good info,.....now go find a Sabe or Wolfman.