How to Evade A Professional Military (Tracking, Countertracking)

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Can I just say how crazy it is we can have a professional SERE instructor teach us this stuff over the internet

The "becoming deadly" series is my favorite garand thumb content by a mile.

I am a old retired river-rat mushroom poacher. Pretty much everything you taught in this vid we learned as kids to evade landowners and the law. Sneak in and out right under their nose. Once the law was after me and my cousin, we took them into deep woods that had several very deep criss crossing ravines. They got lost (got caught going in circles) and had to be rescued - LoL. I have my own land now full of deer and turkey and mushrooms. I still enjoy the sneak and teach it to my grandkids, boys and girls alike. I am grateful to God to have lived outdoors all my life and be one with his creation.

It is funny. You mentioned as kids playing hide and seek in this series. As a youth on boy scout camping trips we often played a night version. The seekers had flashlights and those hiding had to get past the seekers to the camp fire without being caught. Of course the seeker/sentry was not allowed to be near the fire but actively looking and had to declare who you were with the light on you. One thing i learned was at times people gave up because they assumed that the sentry had seen them. Only to startle the seeker at thier surrender. More than once i has a flash light directly on my location but staying still was sufficient to evade capture. I even had two seekers standing inches over me discussing how they heard something moving in the location and thier plan to flush me out. My fear was that one of them was going to step on me since there feet were only a few inches away. None of us had camo. All I had was a non military green hooded jacket. I had the hood over my head lying completely still in the tall grass and what we called mule ear ir indian tobacco, hoping none of the blase orange jacket liner showed. I was sure that they would discover me any moment because of the intensity of the flashlight lighting up the ground all around the edge of my hood but they never found me. I think that game taught a valuable lesson. I almost assumed they caught me, and was tempted to get up. But being quiet and still kept me from being seen even at thier feet.
On the occasions I was a seeker I used this knowledge to my advantage. I claimed "I see you" while pointing the flashlight in a general location of possible noise, just to see if someone would move or assume I saw them, when I actually did not see anything. It oftentimes worked.
I know kids game! But our leaders were often concerned with the intensity of the game. Especially as the number of seekers increased for each hidden person caught. I think games like this are a great way for young people to learn some skills that could save their life. What do you think.

Less gun reviews, more knowledge transfer. This information is amazing and so valuable…especially in these times.

If you ever finish this series you need to put it either in a book or a dvd set.

My ancestors were farmers and ranchers in the Philippines during WW2. They learned very quickly that it was ultimately up to them to determine their own fate. They became guerrilla fighters, spies, etc. helping U.S. forces drive the Japanese out of the islands. They were civilians, many of which received training from U.S. military personnel. Don't ever think that a well motivated, organized civilian militia is something for the enemy to scoff at. As a civilian myself, I still feel like it's an homage to them to learn these kinds of skills. After all, if it wasn't for them, I might not be here.

As a person who lives in the mountain lands, this has made evading the czech government superbly easy, very informative, thank you

One thing you didn't mention. When filling your water bottle from a stream, always point the neck of the bottle downstream. That way you don't pick up additional debris floating by.

Mike on behalf of all of us out there who aren’t 15 years old. Please keep this type of content coming. This stuff has value beyond measure for regular people. The meme content is very fun and it’s important to have fun. Still though The “becoming deadly in the mountains” series as well as the black screen guns/gear reviews are what brought me to this channel and what I think most people really love. Keep up the good work

The instruction about needing to keep your rifle at arms length brought back a lot of memories from the finnish military

A couple tips I have, from having a pack of tracking dogs, are
-rocks, concrete, etc doesn't hold scent as well as soft ground
-animals do figure 8s, loops etc to lose the dogs. It often works
-putting scent higher on a tree like slapping high up, might make them think you climbed it, or at least make the dog stop to see if you did.
-wind is your friend

Just wanted to say thank you. Over a year ago when you had your other video like this, you ended it by saying if your not fit your dead… this hit me hard like nothing else before, I’ve never forgot that. I’ve lost almost 60 pounds and still working because of you. From one Jones to another, thank you!

Just discovered this channel. It's been said a million times, but I'll say it again. The fact that this video, by these guys, with their knowledge, and the production quality exists for free on YouTube is absolutely staggering and mind blowing. I genuinely can't believe it.

In eastern Europe poachers use a simple method when tracked by a dog. They carry a siringe filled with Clover thick blech or hydrochloric acid mixed with sulfuric acid from car batterys or drain opener and put periodically some drops on the trail. The dog following his track will sneeze an start to shake his head usually the dog recovers within 2-3days, depending on the chemical used.

My father was in the infantry and when my brothers and I were younger he would take into the mountains and at that time it just seemed like we were playing games like this. As I grew older I realized what he was teaching us. Thanks dad.

step 1: never leave moms basement

Something I’ve heard was kinda like: “The more I scroll through social media, I often find myself getting confused about life” from Ben Patrick (something like that), and it’s personally true to me at least so after a confusing day or moment I tend associate my grounding with these videos. I crave long form content and Garand Thumb perfectly is catered to my interests in exercise, experience, knowledge, and creativity which is a hard thing for me to find outside of doing things myself.

I had the thought and i guess it shines true: the best chance you have is always being prepped and traing with said prep. If you're reccing, bring your bugout bag and make sure that bob has basic survival tools. Camo tarp, trench tool, hatchet, rations, firestarters, ect. Id do these excerises with two or more firearms on me (mostly one of my bolt guns, a semi auto, and my 1911) because thats how id go out into the woods