Army Vet here. One thing I learned during service during reconnaissance is that if you have to move, only move forward or backwards. Not sideways. Eyes track lateral movement faster
As a Tracking Instructor with a 5 Eyes country, you are absolutely correct in saying humans, as a species, are lazy. However, you have reinforced this with scanning from left to right. This is the same direction in which we read, try scanning from right to left as this will force the eyes to actually see things.
Scattered scanning works well, randomly and quickly shifting your view like you're watching someone play whack a mole 😂 up, left, down, back up left, lefter, bottom left, right top etc. One way to help develop the technique is wordsearches, just use your eyes though, no tracing with finger or pen. I just played a mah jong app last night and that will help too, it's on a 10min timer so scan scan quick fast lol. I think that it's almost like the 'best' predatory vision encompasses a lot of prey vision practices.
@DavidBerrill Yes, agreed. Good tip. Decades of running hills and woods, chasing deer, turkey, squirrels, and at times a buddy or two lol, I've learned a few things that work for me. Scanning the environment from the point of lowest light to the point of brightest light, back and forth, up and down, quickly. My ears are hard at work, too. They guide my eyes if there is sound. With higher wind with lots of vegetation movement, I am then looking for the things that aren't moving or are moving wrong. East Tennessee is covered with one heck of a lot of big timber on steep mountains. Hundreds of thousands of contiguous uninhabited acres of it. A person with a bit of knowledge, minimal equipment, and physicality would be extremely difficult to find here. I'm not saying I'm that guy, but some guys. Ha ha! Maybe twenty years ago.
The Falconclaw channel on YT has great IR experiments. The thermal blankets/ponchos unfortunately did nothing to hide the person, as they contact the body & the heat transfers through. The best protection was actually an umbrella. Just a regular umbrella. Because it’s not in contact with the warm body.
one thing you did not mention... you never want to be at the top of a hill, if you are 1\4 way down and people look up your silhouette is not seen you have back drop behind you. also don't run up over the top but move around the top of the hill.
I'm no woodsman, I'm a town girl, but I'm also a FL born and raised Gen Xer, and at two minutes or so when you're scanning around, I'm looking higher in trees because I've had snakes plop out of trees into the boat, squirrels throw down pine cones, hornets and wasps build nests I'd rather avoid, and palmetto bugs and mockingbirds will dive bomb you from anywhere. Definitely learned a lot watching this, thank you!
@@TrineDaely curious what woods you traverse here? I surveyed alot of wooded areas and hunted them. Never had a palmetto bug or mockingbird dive bomb me..had the little tree scorpions land on me
Yes do more like this. I’m a hunter with a lot of time in the outdoors being hidden. I think tactical military guys can learn a lot from this type of content.
#humbled.. Thank you! I really appreciate the kind words and I will have more on the subject in the future.. I’ve really been wanting to do an urban one for quite awhile. I’ve just gotta get out there and make it happen.. Thanks for the support 👊🏻🔥👊🏻
@FueltheFires Good luck dragging Jason out of his pole barn. 😆 However, we look forward to it. Need one about how to cover your tracks in the woods . And when and when not to do that.
Love the video, hope you make more like it. Watched it with two of my children now they wanna walk around in the woods on Christmas break and I’m excited just to take them to the woods. Also, that post rule pop up, I really like that, never seen it before. I always allow my kids to watch your channel because we never have to worry about them learning bad habits, so Thank You..
That’s awesome to hear! Thanks for the positive feedback- means the world to us. Glad to hear the kids want to go outside and have some fun exploring and learning- quality time right there! We strive to make it family friendly here so thank you! 👊🏻🔥👊🏻
This is a great video. I sit still a lot even on my own property to see what animals are active on the property at a particular time. It’s amazing what animals you can see just by sitting still. I can see how this would translate to a tactical situation. Great content as usual.
Something that happened to me, hunting morels on hillside with scattered trees and near a marshy area. I was scanning the ground very intently and moving very slowly. I looked up and was face to face with a deer. Both of us were extremely startled to say the least. Some people might think that's a made up story, but it's a fact.
I believe it. I stumbled on a deer bedded down just before dawn one day as I was on my way to our hunting spot. I froze and the deer didn't even spook for a minute. Priceless.
Reminds me of when me and my brother were walking along , talking and crashing through brush. Suddenly a buck appeared and I brought the shotgun up to hip level and fired. That buck literally jumped over the blast and kept jumping. You never know what you will stumble across in the woods.
I went through USAF survival school near Spokane, WA when I had orders to Vietnam in 1969. It was March. 4 ft of snow in the mountains, but in the wisdom of the Air Force, it was on the schedule. A couple of months later, I was actually on my way overseas. I stopped off in the Philippines for jungle survival school. We had great instructors and a few natives called Negritos (I think that’s what they we’re known as). The Negritos were expert at hiding and in finding you. I believe they could hide in your backyard and you couldn’t find them. You could hide in the densest part of a bamboo thicket at night and they would tap you on the shoulder in a few minutes. They taught us how to make weapons, containers and cooking utensils out of bamboo. It was a great experience. I’m just glad I never had to use it for real.
So, I had the experience of falling asleep while walking, lol. I was a young infantryman, and we were training up for our EIB. We had 2 weeks of infantry stakes, and we road marched EVERYWHERE. We did a pre-dawn 6 miler, and, after a whole night of patrol base activities, I was drained. We were walking, the entire platoon took a left-except me. Walking straight, until someone grabbed me and corrected me lol. I didnt think that was possible, but, there I was.....
@@FueltheFires I am sure I am not the only one! Just one one else commented yet though. I now possess the ability to sleep literally anywhere though. Thanks Army!
I'm surprised how well wrapping that thing around your head works. You'd think the pattern on it would stand out. But it blends in way better than a human face. Pretty cool
Thank you for the video. If you had a tanned deer hide you could sit/sleep on it for conductive heat as well as a place to work on. They also make camouflage reflective tarps. Thank you again.
I absolutely could.. I think sometimes I just take a lot of that info for granted because I did it for so long.. I appreciate the positive feedback 👊🏻🔥👊🏻
Great topic. I spent many years in the woods you are correct on alot of it, but I would not go to the top of the hill I would work my way around it to easy to see you on top. I also carry a Sniper suit if it is needed. Great job
Just came across your videos, awesome. Very interesting, never thought about stuff like that, thank you for taking time and making this video. Definitely can’t wait to see more.
Great topic and examples. I hid from 2 4-wheeler hunters along a road in the 1980's in South Carolina low country wearing jungle camo, boonie, boots, and laying on other side of a log from them on side of road. I tossed 2 or 3 hands full of leaves and pine needles above upper body an let fall over me. could hear them talking when they stopped to discuss dear tracks in road mud, and then they went on. I cleared out staying in woods following trails back to a parking area at a gravel pit. EVERY thing you showed really does work, not stand out and moving slow and deliberately.
You're very knowledgeable! You touched on this, but people should move like the animals - in the wind, rain and bad weather. That's when it's hard to hear leaves and sticks cracking, and visibility is usually lessened.
Great video and everything made practical sense! I will be waiting for an urban environment video and be ready to take notes! Lot’s of us in the cities who are getting older and not as mobile as we used to be, especially running, climbing, etc. thanks again!
This is good info for all sorts of reasons. A man that moves naturally thru the woods is someone.that knows the woods. Not just where your located, the wood ways in general.
Lead a patrol in Marjah from one FOB to another cuz coms went down in the middle of the night, it was an issue with crypto. Don't remember most of it or how we even got there. My Marines said that I was moving extra slow. They thought I was being extra observant, I was knocked out and moving off muscle memory.
I learned a few things. I flagged this video to come back and watch it again later. Right now I am taking a walk and going to employ what I learned. Thank you. Subscribed.
Love these type of videos and really appreciate the knowledge. Please do make more like this, very helpful for the times we are vastly approaching May God bless you & yours
That is what I loved best about bow hunting deer. You can wear camo and blend in. It is amazing how lively a forest is as everything from mice and voles scurrying over you to bear and deer walking past. I have had squirrels and chipmunks climb up me and birds land on me, the best was when a hunter was 10 feet away and starting to construct his firearm season deadfall blind about 15 feet away from me and didn't notice that I was there until about 8 minutes of labor. That was a funny one. I learned from deer that sometimes the best hiding spot is a small scrub area in a field instead of the forest as I now check out those small brush areas from downwind and approach midday.
I enjoyed the review and brought back good memories of hunting. One time I was taking a break from the hunt and laying of the ground. At that point I had 4 deer almost run over me. lol That is what concealment and being still will do.
When you ask what was there alot of? The first thing I thought b4 you said it, was leaves. As a kid growing up in NC I would get up early while still dark and go to where I would hunt that day and cover myself with leaves, go to sleep and when I wolk up I would slowly move the leaves from my eyes and look for game. Always did well with this plan.
@12:45 people going to pipe up. If you don't rest, your body will... as I got out of hospital Friday night, and have been laying here in bed since, an will till Thursday when I can get these balloons out of my nose , both sides, my inr was 7, and blood pressure was 240 over 190... 🙃! And as a guy you may know preaches, if you can't save your own ass, you aren't saving anyone else. Right now, I stand up, take two steps and my heart is pounding, can't breathe. My point is take care of you.. 1st.. I gave all I could until I couldn't anymore. Now I'm down for a while... and multiple surgeries coming! Great video JJ! topic should go viral!
@@FueltheFires Spent a lot of time in forest as kid on the farm, so very comfortable-- but, never did a lot of reading the forest/trees at this level, more than what you would learn from just spending time in there, average stuff... So this was great expanding my understanding of what I saw much of my life!! So, my brother, thanks for putting this info out!
During war games, whether in service or afterwards, I learned that movement was a clear give away. Sometimes, depending on the situation, having perfect camo was not necessary. Thank you for your videos and God bless.
I hiked a lot of wilderness areas when younger out of the Navy. Most Army guys I meet want to gave nothing to do with getting out of their comfort zone. Most people literally run trails never observing, when just off established trails is where the wildlife are. Human laziness can be exploited. Knowing the thought process of trackers and blending can only be cultivated when you first become comfortable in the environment. It takes a lot of practice, patience and situational awareness . Thanks for sharing
Soldiers are just fine with getting out of their comfort zone when there's something at stake. If you're out for a nature hike, leaving the trail is dangerous at worst, difficult and inconvenient (with a map and compass) at best. There's nothing wrong with leaving the trail if there's a point to explore, but straight-out/straight back is the best way to stay safe, especially when you're far away from civilization. If someone is hunting you, then by all means, get into the most difficult terrain possible. It will save your life.
👊🏼🔥👊🏼 Dude, awesome content. We called it "speculative tracking" and that's how we head someone off by bounding. I teach it as building a profile of a person based on all the info they're leaving. Then zooming out on the situation and adding in your observations like direction of travel, pace, use of countertracking, etc. Tracking is much like knowing a language. Trackers read sign.
5 min in im gonna like and subscribe. Ive been a wood tick my whole life, you have describe how my mind is running when im out in the bush. Top quality flick.
Thanks for the video. I find it useful as your exercise can also show how to effect a successful rescue by following your advice & in some cases doing the exact opposite. Especially, if your not sure if your rescue has been orchestrated yet or if at all. This might be all taking place in a less then friendly environment where you need to have the right people find you as well...
Nice video. The only thing I kept hearing was the leafs crunching, but that's okay, because there's a lot of them. But I do agree with the game trails. If anybody's ever, been in the woods with their dog as a child, I had a Shepherd mix super smart Dog. I would follow him in the woods and he would always find the deer. It was amazing. Just like he mentions It was almost like he was leading me. Through the easiest path possible, amazing Dog i miss him, he pretty much taught me how to navigate through the woods, me and him years almost every day we would go through the woods and track all types of animals. Very nice, I also had a terrier that was very good at hunting and tracking. The good old age I miss those days. Have a nice day everybody😊😊😊
Great content. Thank you for providing inexpensive options and explaining their uses and applications in lieu of more expensive or military issued products. I think people (myself included) easily pigeon-hole our own way of thinking that only a specific product will solve a specific problem. We want the quick fix, or we want people to solve the problem for us. But showcasing the need for critical and adaptive ways of thinking is necessary if we want to improve the situation we're in. Thank you!
I appreciate that you appreciate that fact. The goal here is to teach the principles behind everything and let people decide what works best for them.. Thanks for watching! 👊🏻🔥👊🏻
I learned some things from your video thanks. In my younger days I started to bow hunt, I got tired of idiots shooting guns across the canyon and bullets wising over my head. Dad taught me well hunting with rifles. With a bow its an different story. Took me a couple of years to learn it. I would look at the path I was taking for a few feet to not make much noise. Then I would stop and listen. Deer and elk are noisy moving though the woods as well. Also when I stopped I wouldn't move my head at first just my eyes. Movement in the woods shows up pretty quick. Doing this, a lot of times I either see them or hear them first. Dang sorry this is getting to long. Just wanted to pass on a few of my experiences as well. Good video brother! Oh just subscribed as well 👍
Excellent video. I have spent decades living, hunting and hiking in wilderness areas. This is a pretty good video. I would say that 99.9% of the survival videos on RUclips are presented by inexperienced folks who learned a little info and are presenting it from their backyards or City Park to the neophyte public. Many of the demonstrations of survival are downright dangerous and life threatening if actually used in real time. Yet still, the presenters are so ignorant they have no idea how irresponsible their messages are. Here we have a man who, from my experience, is downloading valuable information.
Many years ago I trained with stalking wolf's grandson tom brown junior. Survival techniques and tracking. Tom could read Tracks like a book. He could also read the Centrical rings. I'm in my Seventies now, But I Still enjoy Fox walking through the forest.
Agreed about the desert camo our Special Ops guys when I was in Afghanistan wore either desert camo or woodland depending on the area they were in until multi cam came out, a lot of people wouldn’t believe a lot of Afghanistan isn’t desert it’s wooded mountains a lot like Colorado. My favorite for spring and summer in the Tennessee area is multicam tropic or Kryptek Highlander and Mandrake both work good as well. But carrying a small piece of scrum or even a small piece of military camo net like I have is good to carry you can throw it over yourself or your gear and it packs up small and weighs nothing.
This is all very true and I appreciate you taking the time to post.. When multi cam came out it became my favorite immediately.. Your choice in camo is excellent for the area you are in 👊🏻🔥👊🏻
Great video, thanks for doing this. I feel better that I was able to actually have a good guess where your pack was. And yeah, your eyes don't care that the label says "desert" or "forest" or "Mossy oak" disruptive patters disrupt the eye.
Thanks for the well presented material: solid and insightful..sea story-> In the gulf the weather could go bad and our ship took rolls up to 30 degrees, you get acclimated to the constant motion and after being relieved from watch I fell asleep in front of the urinal (omw to rack out) I was woken up by a EN3 laughing at me for sleeping standing up for four hours. My fly was still unsecured 😅 (I mean that’s what a guy on my ship said happen to him…cough)
I have always used this method very similar when deer hunting in NS Canada.The woods are just so dam thick in black spruce. If you want the big fellas the swamps are their bedding and breeding regions so you really have to narrow out the high ground on their routes. Deer need 2 out of three senses to bolt. High ground mid high ground are your best spots for blinds. Deer use it for their sense of smell. The costal regions are hard because the winds change all the time so scent discipline is paramount.
I used this method playing airsoft. I was the old man of the group and nobody wanted me on their team, at first. I was the deadliest guy in the field. After three games I was first round pick everytime. I used my leafy turkey poncho alot. People would get so close to me that I couldn't shoot, I had to say bang.😂 I'm a deer hunter as well and you nailed that one.
Evading with dogs after you is near impossible. Therefore I carry a couple cheap key chain pepper sprays on pack . A random spray every now and again will destroy the dogs sensitive nose, forcing them to retire it and bring in other dogs. Likely giving you additional time to e&e out of the area with out the dogs constantly giving the trackers a bearing on your direction of movement.
Pack turbo charged energy supplements like 5 Hour, or Monster, just in case you need to keep moving through abnormal hours. It's also confidence inspiring knowing you have options and items you can rely on, which helps keep a clearer head in a stressful time.
Great video, lot to learn. Only one thing, the reflective stuff is cool until youd body heats it up. After that i is useless. Take the tinfoil, keep it in your pokcet an look through IR. All materials hide you from IR if they are as cool as enviroment around you. If they warm up, and they do if they are in contact with yout body, they are visible.
I was really surprised that even that checkered shamog with the sas wrap made your silhouette less distinguishable. That blends in better than your white face and hat. Wow
That sniper Vail is sweet, it dissappears fast with just a little bit of debris! I made a ghillie suit out of some netting that I spray painted and then some burlap sack painted as well teed off and then shredded and it's crazy how quickly it Blends in does just shrubberies and such with just a little bit of material!
Good to know. I have never hunted in a forest like this. I have only hunted in the Rockies, and there is no deep leaf litter like what you are in. Pine needles, and rocks. Much easier to be quiet.
For about 10 i was part of an Inmate recovery team (IRT). We did other tracking (search and rescue, lost children, and of course training. I took away from this experience 4 things. 1) we as humans, are incredibly easy to track. 2) The sitting bivy is 100% the best shelter. 3) if you are being tracked, the best way to counter track....... Set a trap or ambush with intent to cause injury. Then break contact and disperse from the area erratically. (Pro tip: A rabbit stick makes a great improvised weapon that can be easily procured, thrown, or swung and is incredibly effective). 4) Always maintain the following on your person: Knife, paracord for shoe/boot laces, 6 inch sinker nail (you will be blown away with what you use it for) $200 in bills $20 or smaller, high value trade item/s (watch, gold coin, or other item/s of value) and a water proof layer. And, be ready to constantly adjust.
I second the folks saying this should be a series, there's so much to say about the subject, like the difference from being still and freezing. When everything else is moving, just a little, the motionless lumps stand out. From what you are describing, I wonder if a basic study of landscape drawing would help deepen some people's understanding of things like figuring out where a bag should be hidden (ie, almost, but not exactly, where a root should be, because nothing in wild woods is ever exactly where it 'should be'). And the camo is just straight color theory. If you've got your burnt umber and your payne's gray you've got the wilderness.
Thank you.. There’s absolutely a LOT of talking points on all these subjects.. This is the kind of stuff I love so I will definitely do more on the subject in future videos.. Thanks for the feedback and I appreciate you watching 👊🏻🔥👊🏻
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Army Vet here. One thing I learned during service during reconnaissance is that if you have to move, only move forward or backwards. Not sideways. Eyes track lateral movement faster
As a Tracking Instructor with a 5 Eyes country, you are absolutely correct in saying humans, as a species, are lazy. However, you have reinforced this with scanning from left to right. This is the same direction in which we read, try scanning from right to left as this will force the eyes to actually see things.
Scattered scanning works well, randomly and quickly shifting your view like you're watching someone play whack a mole 😂 up, left, down, back up left, lefter, bottom left, right top etc.
One way to help develop the technique is wordsearches, just use your eyes though, no tracing with finger or pen.
I just played a mah jong app last night and that will help too, it's on a 10min timer so scan scan quick fast lol.
I think that it's almost like the 'best' predatory vision encompasses a lot of prey vision practices.
That's how I can ride my bike at nite, even off-road without a light. However, much of where I ride is slightly familiar to me, at the very least.
@@jed-henrywitkowski6470 I wouldn't ride offroad at night with my eyes haha, that's slingtime 😂🤘
Lazy isn't the right word. Untrained is more accurate.
@DavidBerrill Yes, agreed. Good tip. Decades of running hills and woods, chasing deer, turkey, squirrels, and at times a buddy or two lol, I've learned a few things that work for me. Scanning the environment from the point of lowest light to the point of brightest light, back and forth, up and down, quickly. My ears are hard at work, too. They guide my eyes if there is sound. With higher wind with lots of vegetation movement, I am then looking for the things that aren't moving or are moving wrong. East Tennessee is covered with one heck of a lot of big timber on steep mountains. Hundreds of thousands of contiguous uninhabited acres of it. A person with a bit of knowledge, minimal equipment, and physicality would be extremely difficult to find here. I'm not saying I'm that guy, but some guys. Ha ha! Maybe twenty years ago.
The Falconclaw channel on YT has great IR experiments. The thermal blankets/ponchos unfortunately did nothing to hide the person, as they contact the body & the heat transfers through. The best protection was actually an umbrella. Just a regular umbrella. Because it’s not in contact with the warm body.
one thing you did not mention...
you never want to be at the top of a hill, if you are 1\4 way down and people look up your silhouette is not seen you have back drop behind you. also don't run up over the top but move around the top of the hill.
I totally meant to 😂 Thanks for adding that- you are absolutely correct 👍🏻
Skylining is allaround bad. 🤘
Absolutley!!!@@OldNavajoTricks
I'm no woodsman, I'm a town girl, but I'm also a FL born and raised Gen Xer, and at two minutes or so when you're scanning around, I'm looking higher in trees because I've had snakes plop out of trees into the boat, squirrels throw down pine cones, hornets and wasps build nests I'd rather avoid, and palmetto bugs and mockingbirds will dive bomb you from anywhere.
Definitely learned a lot watching this, thank you!
@@TrineDaely curious what woods you traverse here? I surveyed alot of wooded areas and hunted them. Never had a palmetto bug or mockingbird dive bomb me..had the little tree scorpions land on me
Once you have the fundamentals, the more you learn, the smarter you become . Excellent work.
Yes do more like this. I’m a hunter with a lot of time in the outdoors being hidden. I think tactical military guys can learn a lot from this type of content.
Best topic i think I've seen you cover. Good video. We need a mini series on this as well as in a urban environment. I mean if you dont who will?.
#humbled.. Thank you! I really appreciate the kind words and I will have more on the subject in the future.. I’ve really been wanting to do an urban one for quite awhile. I’ve just gotta get out there and make it happen.. Thanks for the support 👊🏻🔥👊🏻
@FueltheFires
Good luck dragging Jason out of his pole barn. 😆
However, we look forward to it.
Need one about how to cover your tracks in the woods .
And when and when not to do that.
@@yakfishin4912I can make that happen.. We plan on filming together soon 👍🏻
Jason rocks.
@@yakfishin4912yes he does 🤘🏻
Your deer rub analysis is excellent. I don't hunt deer but I hunt upland game birds. Well done on educating me.
I appreciate that. Hunting and learning from all the animals can really up the game.. Thanks for the feedback 👊🏻🔥👊🏻
Love the video, hope you make more like it. Watched it with two of my children now they wanna walk around in the woods on Christmas break and I’m excited just to take them to the woods.
Also, that post rule pop up, I really like that, never seen it before. I always allow my kids to watch your channel because we never have to worry about them learning bad habits, so Thank You..
That’s awesome to hear! Thanks for the positive feedback- means the world to us. Glad to hear the kids want to go outside and have some fun exploring and learning- quality time right there! We strive to make it family friendly here so thank you! 👊🏻🔥👊🏻
This is a great video. I sit still a lot even on my own property to see what animals are active on the property at a particular time. It’s amazing what animals you can see just by sitting still. I can see how this would translate to a tactical situation. Great content as usual.
Thank you so much and you’re right about watching animals- I love doing that too!
I don't often watch RUclips videos, but this one popped up and sparked my interest. Well done JJ!
Thanks babe! Glad you liked it- maybe you learned a little somethin’ somethin’ 👊🏻🔥👊🏻
@@FueltheFiresI always learn stuff from you, Man Tracker!
Great video ,a 5 or 6 part series would be great. Thank you for the education
Cool.. I will definitely be doing more of this in the future 👊🏻🔥👊🏻
Something that happened to me, hunting morels on hillside with scattered trees and near a marshy area. I was scanning the ground very intently and moving very slowly. I looked up and was face to face with a deer. Both of us were extremely startled to say the least. Some people might think that's a made up story, but it's a fact.
I believe it. I stumbled on a deer bedded down just before dawn one day as I was on my way to our hunting spot. I froze and the deer didn't even spook for a minute. Priceless.
Reminds me of when me and my brother were walking along , talking and crashing through brush. Suddenly a buck appeared and I brought the shotgun up to hip level and fired. That buck literally jumped over the blast and kept jumping. You never know what you will stumble across in the woods.
I went through USAF survival school near Spokane, WA when I had orders to Vietnam in 1969. It was March. 4 ft of snow in the mountains, but in the wisdom of the Air Force, it was on the schedule. A couple of months later, I was actually on my way overseas. I stopped off in the Philippines for jungle survival school. We had great instructors and a few natives called Negritos (I think that’s what they we’re known as). The Negritos were expert at hiding and in finding you. I believe they could hide in your backyard and you couldn’t find them. You could hide in the densest part of a bamboo thicket at night and they would tap you on the shoulder in a few minutes. They taught us how to make weapons, containers and cooking utensils out of bamboo. It was a great experience. I’m just glad I never had to use it for real.
So, I had the experience of falling asleep while walking, lol. I was a young infantryman, and we were training up for our EIB. We had 2 weeks of infantry stakes, and we road marched EVERYWHERE. We did a pre-dawn 6 miler, and, after a whole night of patrol base activities, I was drained. We were walking, the entire platoon took a left-except me. Walking straight, until someone grabbed me and corrected me lol. I didnt think that was possible, but, there I was.....
Thank you for posting! I knew someone would step up and verify it can definitely happen- thanks for being real 👊🏻🔥👊🏻
@@FueltheFires I am sure I am not the only one! Just one one else commented yet though. I now possess the ability to sleep literally anywhere though. Thanks Army!
@@oldsoldier181they’re out there and know who they are.. Military service will do that to you 😂
@@FueltheFires if you ever "ebmraced the suck", you know. Lol
I fell asleep while driving in a convoy on Fort Bragg at night, and when I woke up, I was still in the convoy and, and we were still moving.
I'm surprised how well wrapping that thing around your head works. You'd think the pattern on it would stand out. But it blends in way better than a human face. Pretty cool
Definate series potential with this topic.
Roger that- thanks for watching! 👊🏻🔥👊🏻
DEFINATE? 😂😂😂 WHERE DID YOU GO TO SCHOOL?
@slappy8941 well done slappy. Good job.
@@slappy8941 it wasn't where he went, but that his time there was finate.
What an excellent tutorial!! Focusing on the eye-brain interacting was golden!
Thank you! 👊🏻🔥👊🏻
Thank you for the video. If you had a tanned deer hide you could sit/sleep on it for conductive heat as well as a place to work on. They also make camouflage reflective tarps. Thank you again.
Great video, JJ. Love the sniper veil/reflective tarp tip. Keep Fueling Those Fires.
Thank you! Glad you picked up something cool from the video- Roger Wilco 👊🏻🔥👊🏻
Awesome video! You could do a whole series on this.
I absolutely could.. I think sometimes I just take a lot of that info for granted because I did it for so long.. I appreciate the positive feedback 👊🏻🔥👊🏻
Great topic. I spent many years in the woods you are correct on alot of it, but I would not go to the top of the hill I would work my way around it to easy to see you on top. I also carry a Sniper suit if it is needed. Great job
Just came across your videos, awesome. Very interesting, never thought about stuff like that, thank you for taking time and making this video. Definitely can’t wait to see more.
Cool! Welcome to the tribe- thanks for watching 👊🏻🔥👊🏻
Great topic and examples. I hid from 2 4-wheeler hunters along a road in the 1980's in South Carolina low country wearing jungle camo, boonie, boots, and laying on other side of a log from them on side of road. I tossed 2 or 3 hands full of leaves and pine needles above upper body an let fall over me. could hear them talking when they stopped to discuss dear tracks in road mud, and then they went on. I cleared out staying in woods following trails back to a parking area at a gravel pit. EVERY thing you showed really does work, not stand out and moving slow and deliberately.
You're very knowledgeable! You touched on this, but people should move like the animals - in the wind, rain and bad weather. That's when it's hard to hear leaves and sticks cracking, and visibility is usually lessened.
First time watching you. Thoroughly enjoyed and I’ll be re-watching and looking forward to more from you.
Alright! Welcome to the Tribe 👊🏻🔥👊🏻
Love the Video and the firearm of choice and all that you say as a Terrain Vet is awesome. Respect and Salute.
🫡… Thank you! 👊🏻🔥👊🏻
Boom! The spirit be moving. JJ having church up in here 🔥👊🏻
Well praise the Lord! 😂Hallelujah 👊🏻🔥👊🏻
Great video and everything made practical sense! I will be waiting for an urban environment video and be ready to take notes! Lot’s of us in the cities who are getting older and not as mobile as we used to be, especially running, climbing, etc. thanks again!
Thank you! I plan on doing an urban video sometime here in the future- thanks for watching 👊🏻🔥👊🏻
This is good info for all sorts of reasons. A man that moves naturally thru the woods is someone.that knows the woods. Not just where your located, the wood ways in general.
That sounds ga... strange.
Very interesting!!
More videos on tracking
and counter tracking would be great!
Great content!
Nice! I really appreciate the feedback- thank you! I will make it happen 👊🏻🔥👊🏻
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Thanks!
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Lead a patrol in Marjah from one FOB to another cuz coms went down in the middle of the night, it was an issue with crypto. Don't remember most of it or how we even got there. My Marines said that I was moving extra slow. They thought I was being extra observant, I was knocked out and moving off muscle memory.
Thanks for posting this- you know EXACTLY what I’m talking about 👊🏻🔥👊🏻
I learned a few things. I flagged this video to come back and watch it again later. Right now I am taking a walk and going to employ what I learned. Thank you. Subscribed.
Welcome to the tribe and glad you like the content.. Be safe out there and look forward to talking to you in the comment section- thanks for watching!
Love seeing you in your “church” ! The happiest I have seen you in a video in a long time!
I love doing that kind of stuff 🔥❤️🔥
I've been waiting so long for this!! Thanks JJ!
Awesome sauce! Glad you liked this one- more to come 👊🏻🔥👊🏻
Love these type of videos and really appreciate the knowledge. Please do make more like this, very helpful for the times we are vastly approaching
May God bless you & yours
Nice! Glad you like this kind of content and can learn something from it as well- thanks for watching 👊🏻🔥👊🏻
That is what I loved best about bow hunting deer. You can wear camo and blend in. It is amazing how lively a forest is as everything from mice and voles scurrying over you to bear and deer walking past. I have had squirrels and chipmunks climb up me and birds land on me, the best was when a hunter was 10 feet away and starting to construct his firearm season deadfall blind about 15 feet away from me and didn't notice that I was there until about 8 minutes of labor. That was a funny one. I learned from deer that sometimes the best hiding spot is a small scrub area in a field instead of the forest as I now check out those small brush areas from downwind and approach midday.
I enjoyed the review and brought back good memories of hunting. One time I was taking a break from the hunt and laying of the ground. At that point I had 4 deer almost run over me. lol
That is what concealment and being still will do.
Right?!?! 😂 Only people that have experienced this really get it.. Thanks for sharing 👊🏻🔥👊🏻
"Slow is smooth, smooth is fast" gave me flashbacks to firearms training. A lot of good memories.
When you ask what was there alot of? The first thing I thought b4 you said it, was leaves. As a kid growing up in NC I would get up early while still dark and go to where I would hunt that day and cover myself with leaves, go to sleep and when I wolk up I would slowly move the leaves from my eyes and look for game. Always did well with this plan.
@12:45 people going to pipe up. If you don't rest, your body will... as I got out of hospital Friday night, and have been laying here in bed since, an will till Thursday when I can get these balloons out of my nose , both sides, my inr was 7, and blood pressure was 240 over 190... 🙃! And as a guy you may know preaches, if you can't save your own ass, you aren't saving anyone else. Right now, I stand up, take two steps and my heart is pounding, can't breathe. My point is take care of you.. 1st.. I gave all I could until I couldn't anymore. Now I'm down for a while... and multiple surgeries coming! Great video JJ! topic should go viral!
I wish you well ! 🍃🌺🍃🌺🍃🌺🍃
Well damn brother- I’ll keep you in my prayers.. Sending you good vibes.. Rest up and Godspeed on a full recovery 💪🏻
Appreciate it 🙏🏻 💯 👊🔥👊
Prayers for a full recovery!
Hoping you get well soon.
I learned a lot! Please share in depth!
Sweet! That’s what I always hope for.. We’ll cover more on these subjects in upcoming videos- thanks for watching 👊🏻🔥👊🏻
Ya man, good vid.
Learned a lot... And, yes would like to see more in the same vein...important!
Keep up the good work!
Thanks and Roger Wilco! 👊🏻🔥👊🏻
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Spent a lot of time in forest as kid on the farm, so very comfortable-- but, never did a lot of reading the forest/trees at this level, more than what you would learn from just spending time in there, average stuff...
So this was great expanding my understanding of what I saw much of my life!!
So, my brother,
thanks for putting this info out!
During war games, whether in service or afterwards, I learned that movement was a clear give away. Sometimes, depending on the situation, having perfect camo was not necessary. Thank you for your videos and God bless.
I hiked a lot of wilderness areas when younger out of the Navy. Most Army guys I meet want to gave nothing to do with getting out of their comfort zone. Most people literally run trails never observing, when just off established trails is where the wildlife are. Human laziness can be exploited. Knowing the thought process of trackers and blending can only be cultivated when you first become comfortable in the environment. It takes a lot of practice, patience and situational awareness . Thanks for sharing
Soldiers are just fine with getting out of their comfort zone when there's something at stake. If you're out for a nature hike, leaving the trail is dangerous at worst, difficult and inconvenient (with a map and compass) at best. There's nothing wrong with leaving the trail if there's a point to explore, but straight-out/straight back is the best way to stay safe, especially when you're far away from civilization. If someone is hunting you, then by all means, get into the most difficult terrain possible. It will save your life.
Always cool how much hunting parallels survival education 🎉🎉. Especially this🎉😊
I love how it does that! Just so cool in my opinion 👊🏻🔥👊🏻
Well done man and thank you for the info.👍🏼🙏🏼
Thank you- I appreciate the kind words and thanks for watching 👊🏻🔥👊🏻
👊🏼🔥👊🏼 Dude, awesome content. We called it "speculative tracking" and that's how we head someone off by bounding. I teach it as building a profile of a person based on all the info they're leaving. Then zooming out on the situation and adding in your observations like direction of travel, pace, use of countertracking, etc. Tracking is much like knowing a language. Trackers read sign.
5 min in im gonna like and subscribe. Ive been a wood tick my whole life, you have describe how my mind is running when im out in the bush. Top quality flick.
Would definitely be interested in more of this kind of info. Thanks
Copy that 👊🏻
Thanks for the video. I find it useful as your exercise can also show how to effect a successful rescue by following your advice & in some cases doing the exact opposite. Especially, if your not sure if your rescue has been orchestrated yet or if at all. This might be all taking place in a less then friendly environment where you need to have the right people find you as well...
You’re absolutely right.. Goad you can understand the principles behind this 👊🏻🔥👊🏻
JJ , I have tried these tactics for years, but my wife still finds me ! 😜
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I am at Peace in the Woods and on Water. Love both.
I only have two words for the statement that you made about falling asleep while you’re walking Semper Fi
Great video. I was thinking about game trails as well to show LESS (not zero) sign.
Thank you and you’re on the money 👊🏻
Nice video. The only thing I kept hearing was the leafs crunching, but that's okay, because there's a lot of them. But I do agree with the game trails. If anybody's ever, been in the woods with their dog as a child, I had a Shepherd mix super smart Dog. I would follow him in the woods and he would always find the deer. It was amazing. Just like he mentions It was almost like he was leading me. Through the easiest path possible, amazing Dog i miss him, he pretty much taught me how to navigate through the woods, me and him years almost every day we would go through the woods and track all types of animals. Very nice, I also had a terrier that was very good at hunting and tracking. The good old age I miss those days. Have a nice day everybody😊😊😊
Great content. Thank you for providing inexpensive options and explaining their uses and applications in lieu of more expensive or military issued products. I think people (myself included) easily pigeon-hole our own way of thinking that only a specific product will solve a specific problem. We want the quick fix, or we want people to solve the problem for us. But showcasing the need for critical and adaptive ways of thinking is necessary if we want to improve the situation we're in. Thank you!
I appreciate that you appreciate that fact. The goal here is to teach the principles behind everything and let people decide what works best for them.. Thanks for watching! 👊🏻🔥👊🏻
Great video!!!
Definitely want as much information on tracking etc as possible!
Spring, Summer, Winter, Fall different types desert jungle etc.
Great video JJ thanks for sharing keep em coming 👊🔥👊
You got it brother 👊🏻🔥👊🏻
I learned some things from your video thanks. In my younger days I started to bow hunt, I got tired of idiots shooting guns across the canyon and bullets wising over my head. Dad taught me well hunting with rifles. With a bow its an different story. Took me a couple of years to learn it. I would look at the path I was taking for a few feet to not make much noise. Then I would stop and listen. Deer and elk are noisy moving though the woods as well. Also when I stopped I wouldn't move my head at first just my eyes. Movement in the woods shows up pretty quick. Doing this, a lot of times I either see them or hear them first. Dang sorry this is getting to long. Just wanted to pass on a few of my experiences as well. Good video brother!
Oh just subscribed as well 👍
Very interesting video. Thanks. Keep up the good work
Roger Wilco and thanks for watching! 👊🏻
Excellent video. I have spent decades living, hunting and hiking in wilderness areas. This is a pretty good video. I would say that 99.9% of the survival videos on RUclips are presented by inexperienced folks who learned a little info and are presenting it from their backyards or City Park to the neophyte public. Many of the demonstrations of survival are downright dangerous and life threatening if actually used in real time. Yet still, the presenters are so ignorant they have no idea how irresponsible their messages are. Here we have a man who, from my experience, is downloading valuable information.
Many years ago I trained with stalking wolf's grandson tom brown junior. Survival techniques and tracking. Tom could read Tracks like a book. He could also read the Centrical rings. I'm in my Seventies now, But I Still enjoy Fox walking through the forest.
Desert camo is also good in corn and beans at harvest time, and corn stubble. Good Video
Agreed about the desert camo our Special Ops guys when I was in Afghanistan wore either desert camo or woodland depending on the area they were in until multi cam came out, a lot of people wouldn’t believe a lot of Afghanistan isn’t desert it’s wooded mountains a lot like Colorado. My favorite for spring and summer in the Tennessee area is multicam tropic or Kryptek Highlander and Mandrake both work good as well. But carrying a small piece of scrum or even a small piece of military camo net like I have is good to carry you can throw it over yourself or your gear and it packs up small and weighs nothing.
This is all very true and I appreciate you taking the time to post.. When multi cam came out it became my favorite immediately.. Your choice in camo is excellent for the area you are in 👊🏻🔥👊🏻
I like that reminded me of things I'd forgotten. We get lazy and compla ent about things.
Just discovered you and thoroughly enjoyed the splendid video. I’m a subscriber here on out. Thank you for the subject matter.
From 3/4 to the top of a ridge is called the "military crest". That is a searchable term.
Great video, thanks for doing this. I feel better that I was able to actually have a good guess where your pack was. And yeah, your eyes don't care that the label says "desert" or "forest" or "Mossy oak" disruptive patters disrupt the eye.
My pleasure.. I love doing stuff like this.. Glad you understand that principle 👊🏻🔥👊🏻
Thanks for the well presented material: solid and insightful..sea story->
In the gulf the weather could go bad and our ship took rolls up to 30 degrees, you get acclimated to the constant motion and after being relieved from watch I fell asleep in front of the urinal (omw to rack out) I was woken up by a EN3 laughing at me for sleeping standing up for four hours. My fly was still unsecured 😅
(I mean that’s what a guy on my ship said happen to him…cough)
😂 You know EXACTLY what I’m talking about- thanks for sharing! 👊🏻🔥👊🏻
Awesome video! Best one yet!
Schweet! Thank you 👊🏻🔥👊🏻
Great video! Keep up the good work....
Thank you! 👊🏻
Awesome video!!! Love learning this technique
Cool! Glad you liked it and thanks for watching! 👊🏻🔥👊🏻
More, more, more!
Enjoyed this vid, J 😉👍🏼
Awesome! I’ll make it happen 👊🏻🔥👊🏻
I have always used this method very similar when deer hunting in NS Canada.The woods are just so dam thick in black spruce. If you want the big fellas the swamps are their bedding and breeding regions so you really have to narrow out the high ground on their routes. Deer need 2 out of three senses to bolt. High ground mid high ground are your best spots for blinds. Deer use it for their sense of smell. The costal regions are hard because the winds change all the time so scent discipline is paramount.
Definitely want more more more
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I can make that happen brother 👊🏻🔥👊🏻
Merry Christmas 🎁🎄❤
I used this method playing airsoft. I was the old man of the group and nobody wanted me on their team, at first. I was the deadliest guy in the field. After three games I was first round pick everytime. I used my leafy turkey poncho alot. People would get so close to me that I couldn't shoot, I had to say bang.😂 I'm a deer hunter as well and you nailed that one.
That was great Bud! Learned a lot. Thanks
Cool- thanks! 👊🏻🔥👊🏻
WASR for the win!
Evading with dogs after you is near impossible. Therefore I carry a couple cheap key chain pepper sprays on pack . A random spray every now and again will destroy the dogs sensitive nose, forcing them to retire it and bring in other dogs. Likely giving you additional time to e&e out of the area with out the dogs constantly giving the trackers a bearing on your direction of movement.
Love the video, Learned a lot!.. Would love more of them..
Cool- I can do that 👊🏻🔥👊🏻
Pack turbo charged energy supplements like 5 Hour, or Monster, just in case you need to keep moving through abnormal hours.
It's also confidence inspiring knowing you have options and items you can rely on, which helps keep a clearer head in a stressful time.
Because I’m always on patrol while hiking. 👍🏼 😎
Right on 👊🏻🔥👊🏻
Thank you for confirming my shed hunting. I’m old but my father was a Marine that taught us similar lessons. Spot on from southeastern Massachusetts
Great video, lot to learn. Only one thing, the reflective stuff is cool until youd body heats it up. After that i is useless. Take the tinfoil, keep it in your pokcet an look through IR. All materials hide you from IR if they are as cool as enviroment around you. If they warm up, and they do if they are in contact with yout body, they are visible.
Good stuff. You should do more videos like this!
Thank you! I definitely will 👊🏻🔥👊🏻
I was really surprised that even that checkered shamog with the sas wrap made your silhouette less distinguishable. That blends in better than your white face and hat. Wow
Well done. Very important info.
I really appreciate that- thank you 👊🏻🔥👊🏻
That sniper Vail is sweet, it dissappears fast with just a little bit of debris!
I made a ghillie suit out of some netting that I spray painted and then some burlap sack painted as well teed off and then shredded and it's crazy how quickly it Blends in does just shrubberies and such with just a little bit of material!
Good to know. I have never hunted in a forest like this. I have only hunted in the Rockies, and there is no deep leaf litter like what you are in. Pine needles, and rocks. Much easier to be quiet.
More good stuff, thanks JJ! Nice AK.
I appreciate it and thank you! 👊🏻🔥👊🏻
Great video
Thank you!
Good refresher corse for us old guys and i got a few new tips
Thanks
For about 10 i was part of an Inmate recovery team (IRT). We did other tracking (search and rescue, lost children, and of course training.
I took away from this experience 4 things.
1) we as humans, are incredibly easy to track.
2) The sitting bivy is 100% the best shelter.
3) if you are being tracked, the best way to counter track....... Set a trap or ambush with intent to cause injury. Then break contact and disperse from the area erratically. (Pro tip: A rabbit stick makes a great improvised weapon that can be easily procured, thrown, or swung and is incredibly effective).
4) Always maintain the following on your person: Knife, paracord for shoe/boot laces, 6 inch sinker nail (you will be blown away with what you use it for) $200 in bills $20 or smaller, high value trade item/s (watch, gold coin, or other item/s of value) and a water proof layer.
And, be ready to constantly adjust.
I second the folks saying this should be a series, there's so much to say about the subject, like the difference from being still and freezing. When everything else is moving, just a little, the motionless lumps stand out. From what you are describing, I wonder if a basic study of landscape drawing would help deepen some people's understanding of things like figuring out where a bag should be hidden (ie, almost, but not exactly, where a root should be, because nothing in wild woods is ever exactly where it 'should be'). And the camo is just straight color theory. If you've got your burnt umber and your payne's gray you've got the wilderness.
Thank you.. There’s absolutely a LOT of talking points on all these subjects.. This is the kind of stuff I love so I will definitely do more on the subject in future videos.. Thanks for the feedback and I appreciate you watching 👊🏻🔥👊🏻
Another Great Video Brother
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Thank you! 👊🏻🔥👊🏻
Excellent, keep the info rolling. Stay Safe
Roger Wilco- thanks for watching 👊🏻🔥👊🏻
Im colorblind and spotted your pack almost instantly. Most military issue fatigues are sprayed or coated with an IR blocker.