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18 December 2011, 10:49
(This post was last modified: 18 December 2011, 11:05 by NorthernRaider.)
Behave yourselves, 
lets put this image to use.
If you were patroling through this semi mature decidious woodland (not a good idea in real life as the leaf litter is noisy and can conceal allsorts of nastys) You will need to gently move your entire head and eyes to the left and right ( especially at dusk and later) rather than just looking generally ahead. As you do so your eyes should (comes with practise) be drawn towards things that your mind subliminally identifies as being " out of sorts". Fitst in this case the humanish shaped hump in the leaf litter, secondly the darker colour of the more moist leaf mould draws your focus then thirdly the unnatural shape and mono colour of the footwear will or should have you backing up fast.
Each to their own of course Mike ( also an ex squaddie) may decide to investigate go through the wood, I personally would prefer to lay up outside and just watch with a spotting scope, and if the option was available I would go round.
NOTE if the photographer is on the edge of the woodland taking the photo the target should be located at least 30 feet back into the woodland.
Footer note If I had been patrolling with the family Were-Terrier the target would have got severely humped for his folly
Hmmmm just had a thought, AFTER TSHTF one thing other groups of survivors MAY have acess to that the military dont normally have is dogs, if so going to ground no matter how good your cam skills are the effort will be wasted, even if its just some survivors Labradoodle or Cockepoo or any sort of hound / terrier they will spot you in seconds. I think close quarter obs may be to risky for us in many cases,we would need to long range obs instead.
lets put this image to use.If you were patroling through this semi mature decidious woodland (not a good idea in real life as the leaf litter is noisy and can conceal allsorts of nastys) You will need to gently move your entire head and eyes to the left and right ( especially at dusk and later) rather than just looking generally ahead. As you do so your eyes should (comes with practise) be drawn towards things that your mind subliminally identifies as being " out of sorts". Fitst in this case the humanish shaped hump in the leaf litter, secondly the darker colour of the more moist leaf mould draws your focus then thirdly the unnatural shape and mono colour of the footwear will or should have you backing up fast.
Each to their own of course Mike ( also an ex squaddie) may decide to investigate go through the wood, I personally would prefer to lay up outside and just watch with a spotting scope, and if the option was available I would go round.
NOTE if the photographer is on the edge of the woodland taking the photo the target should be located at least 30 feet back into the woodland.
Footer note If I had been patrolling with the family Were-Terrier the target would have got severely humped for his folly
Hmmmm just had a thought, AFTER TSHTF one thing other groups of survivors MAY have acess to that the military dont normally have is dogs, if so going to ground no matter how good your cam skills are the effort will be wasted, even if its just some survivors Labradoodle or Cockepoo or any sort of hound / terrier they will spot you in seconds. I think close quarter obs may be to risky for us in many cases,we would need to long range obs instead.