Man Tracking

[TeeDee]

Has anyone read or got a copy of this book:-

Tactical Tracking Operations: The Essential Guide for Military and Police Trackers
by David Scott-Donelan


or can anyone suggest any other titles specific to Man Tracking?
I have the Bob Carrs book , just wonder if anything else is worthy of study?

Cheers

 

[woof]

A fascinating subject, and most people are easy to follow/ track, an old soldier and countryman once told me. if you've had to track animals for food, then men are easy.

 

[addo]

Yes loads of sign with man. Not much scat though.

 

[Rob]

Yes loads of sign with man. Not much scat though.

Depends on how many people there are

 

[C_Claycomb]

Has anyone read or got a copy of this book:-

Tactical Tracking Operations: The Essential Guide for Military and Police Trackers
by David Scott-Donelan


or can anyone suggest any other titles specific to Man Tracking?
I have the Bob Carrs book , just wonder if anything else is worthy of study?

Cheers

I have both and of the two and I reckon that the one by Scott-Donelan is more of a "big picture" book. It is aimed at man tracking for the military and law enforcement, has a section on the use of aircraft, radio communications with tracking teams, it talks about booby traps in anti-tracking and has a good deal of information on suitable weapons for trackers, and contact drills. I think it is better written than the Carrs book, the layout is better as are the diagrams, but Carrs tries to include more information on the subjects discussed. Personally I found Carrs to be a little vague in places, lots of lists of things that a tracker should pay attention to, but there wasn't always a follow up to explain the significance of particular observations.

Neither seems to be all that great for tracking lost people, there isn't much discussion on the common reactions and motivations of people who are lost. Its certainly out of the scope of the D S-D book.

If you can deal with Tom Brown, the Science and Art of Tracking has a good deal of information about looking at individual prints and how details within them can be interpreted.

Sorry not to be more help, it is a year or more since I read any of them

 

[Wolfie]

You could also try a look at Tracking: A blueprint for learning how by Jack Kearney. This together with the TTO book are the best texts on the subject that I have seen so far.

There is also Tracking - Signs of man, signs of hope by David Diaz, but personally I don't think it is as good as the two mentioned above, although there is a detailed section (incl. colour photos) on human scat.

Best thing is to do a regular search on Amazon

 

[Bushwhacker]

there is a detailed section (incl. colour photos) on human scat.

I think there's some top-shelf Dutch publications on a similar theme.