What if you floated down a river? It would take a long time for the guy to find your exit point. What if you swam upstream a quarter of a mile and he went looking down stream instead?
I was taught how to track by Border Patrol agents and practiced tracking illegals who don't want to be found so I know all the tricks, what works and what doesn't.
The only people who can track me would be the Border Patrol.
Lose the damn cameraman. Cannot possibly be anything but a burden.
Depends 100% on the terrain. I believe they try to set things up so the prey and the predator both have an even chance, giving weaker prey more favorable terrain. There may be rules on night travel since you could travel slowly and rest in impassible terrain by day and then bust all the way to the finish by trail before the sun even rose.
keep in mind, it's a tv show. ever notice how the chase ALWAYS goes two days regardless of how blatantly incompetent the contestants are? one way or another, they need to fill an hour time slot. i'm sure mantracker could have easily caught a good number of those prey teams only a few hours into the hunt, just as i'm sure a few of the teams would have liked to keep moving well into the night, but i bet the producers told them both the same thing-"absolutley not"
One episode the prey went into the mantrackers camp late at night and decorated his horse.
IMHO, this means the game has to be played during the day becasue Mantracker wasn't even watching his own camp. So, I steal his saddle at night as well as his horse and hide them. Then when morning comes he has to spend at minimum an hour on finding his horse and then another on the saddle.
Doesn't matter how good at coveraing a trail I am at that point. LOL.
Have not seen and thus know nothing bout the show but
with todays techo stuff, it is impossible to hide from a determined hunter.
Using the mind and the eyes only, that would be another thing.
There are two things that aid in tracking
Knowing your prey and their most likely actions
and
Power of observation
Tracking is to a certain extent the ability of the sub concious to get in touch with the concious. The sub concious is all seeing and all remembering where as the concious is logical and limited in scope.
Not getting physic on you here, just stating facts of how the two minds work.
No, I couldn't evade him. I'd have to disable him in some fashion. That fashion would depend on whether your talking about the setting of the show or if he was tracking me for something more sinister in my view.
The way folks usually beat him is to just run along a road until Mantracker runs up behind them, then they jump into the bush where he can't follow with his horse. They continue to make their way through the bush until they get to another trail and then run along it until he catches up, at which point they jump into the bush and do it all over again.
After watching 5-6 episodes and seeing the exact same thing over and over, the show really loses its appeal. The person literally has to fall down in front of Mantracker in order to be "caught", and it gets really lame, really quick, watching folks "escape" over and over simply by running into some tees.
Obviously you can't do anything to Mantracker or to the cameraman or there wouldn't be a show. They never move at night because it is too hard to film. IMO, that cameraman is the #1 obstacle in evading Mantracker.
The easiest way to beat Mantracker is to jog the entire stretch. Years ago (before I got married and fat lol) I was able to jog a straight 14 miles. I believe the total distance they travel on the show is 22mile (I haven't watched it in awhile). It could easily be jogged with some resting time.
I can recall an episode where a team jogged quite a bit and won. Mantracker himself said he couldn't ever hope to win against a team that ran the entire time.
enscheff said:
After watching 5-6 episodes and seeing the exact same thing over and over, the show really loses its appeal. The person literally has to fall down in front of Mantracker in order to be "caught", and it gets really lame, really quick, watching folks "escape" over and over simply by running into some tees.
I think a single shot paintball gun would be much less painful. If he gets you within range of that thing then you are "caught", regardless of how thick the bushes are that you jumped into.
I would like to think I could. Been trained by SAR and Sheriffs dept. Have a lot of hunting and tracking experience, so I know what to look for. The few times I've seen it I spent most of the time yelling at the TV. Yeah, it's reality TV but it would still be fun to do. I'd do A LOT better 10 or 20 yrs ago. Still be fun.
You cannot track what you cannot find. Man Tracker depends on the prey to keep moving inexorably toward some pre-established target. In real life, you just go deep into the bush and sit tight. No fires, just be still for a couple days. Move away small distances at night. Stay in thick bush where his poney cannot tread, and in a few days you are beyond reach to track.
Honestly.. Probably not! Perhaps if there was more time! Manhunter isnt dumb. And he has a freaking horse! :
Even the 2 soliders barely made it! And one of them was a freaking commando! You might be better doing it solo rather than team. Less cooks, less spill. In other words, less tracks!
Could I elude Mantracker? Sure, let him try to follow me in Atlanta rush hour traffic.
I think he's an arrogant SOB and very full of himself from what I've seen of him on TV. He also has an advantage by tracking in territory he is familiar with.
Let him try being successful where he is not familiar with the terrain. To me that will prove his true skill at tracking.
I could do it. The challenge is - its a TV show. Some of my counterparts were on a "tracking show". the behind the scenes story was very interesting, there's advertising to sell.
BTW - I've worked with some of the "scary good" folks and they are that, but everyone and every asset has good and bad days.
As to how that depends on the particular situation, terrain and other variables. I agree it is very much a subconscious endeavor. The better one's tracking skills, the better they can be at evading.
Even with a prosthetic leg, I know I could beat him to the finish. I would have to have a little fun with him though. Having this prosthetic leg, I am able to turn the foot on it completely around facing the opposite direction. I would just have to turn it around and walk down the road a ways. Really screw him up with one foot going one way, and the other headed back the towards where he just came from. Have a good camo, and a small shoulder pack pr web belt with a few pouches, butt pack, and canteens on it with the bare minimums that I would need to carry.
I'd first try to learn as much as I could about the terrain I'd be "running" in and pack the necessary equipment to help aid my in my escape. If I could, I would absolutely travel by night, though not being familiar with the land and working my way through tough bush in the dark could be a disaterous mistake. Especially if the guy is in a location to see a flashlight or torch.
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