Sorry for the late replies, I've got to get to work soon so ill reply real quick. ill give more detailed answers when I get back.
>>617172>How does one get gud at animal tracking?You have to study the behaviors, habits and mannerisms of the particular animal that you are tracking, and this is enveloped into local knowledge of your geographic area.
So your best bet would be to ask your local hunting club, or perhaps get a book about the animal and go to the areas where they frequent and observe them.
As for books, Bob Carrs was put as recommended reading by my instructors. Most recently I've read Tracking Humans by David Diaz and its pretty good.
>>617183It depends on the environment and climatic conditions you are in.
Assuming you know the sign of the person your looking for, you look at how the erosion of the print has affected the sign. Things like erosion at the sharp corners and the vertical columns of the lugs.
Animals and insects also provide pointers, how they contaminate the track and how the chase has contaminated theirs, which goes into local knowledge as I pointed out to
>>617172 you know when the spiders make their webs, when the deer go for a drink and when small animals cross game tracks.
If you find a clean print, and you're unsure and there is a bit of wind, you pick up a handful of dirt and let it slowly trickle through your closed fist to get wind direction to get an idea of how much dirt the wind is picking up.
Then make your print next to it, you try to scuttle a similar amount of dirt over the clean print until it is similar to the chase's print.
A bit of dirt
> one houra bit more
> two hours etc. >>617184Ill answer this a bit later I'm in a bit of a rush.
sorry mate, but yeah I'm the same guy.
>>617539I actually wanted to go out and get some pictures for
>>617172 for local animal tracks as examples, but I slept in.
