Thread: GPS?

While we are talking about not getting lost.. While you're out there having fun honing your compass skills, don't forget to keep looking behind you, make mental notes about stuff you're looking at etc. @Aly I hope you're watching this thread too, girl!

For me and a lot of new hunters, being alone in the bush is the most frightening thing about the new skill.

Keep looking around and keep going for it. Practice makes perfect. And you don't always need to be in a hunting area to practice nav, sometimes it can be good to work on one skill at a time (leave rifle at home, take map and compass for an arvo!)


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Originally Posted by Dougie

While we are talking about not getting lost.. While you're out there having fun honing your compass skills, don't forget to keep looking behind you, make mental notes about stuff you're looking at etc. @Aly I hope you're watching this thread too, girl!

For me and a lot of new hunters, being alone in the bush is the most frightening thing about the new skill.

Keep looking around and keep going for it. Practice makes perfect. And you don't always need to be in a hunting area to practice nav, sometimes it can be good to work on one skill at a time (leave rifle at home, take map and compass for an arvo!)


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Well I am now... haha!

I'm definitely all for the compass and map, on top of a GPS investment (might be my bday/xmas pressie to myself ) - compass skills are pretty invaluable!
Something goes wrong and you lost your GPS/it spazzes out/runs out of battery, with the right compass skills you can get your exact bearings and walk yourself in a straight line to where you wanna go.
Something some mates and I did in the middle of the night, rain pouring down we spent 3 hours walking from one side of Lees Valley to the other just by calculating our bearings to make sure we walked right on top of a clue we were looking for on a map had our team captain making us stop every 50 m to readjust our angles!
Plus they help tell the time, too.

That being said my compass skills are shoddy but you can get a NZ instruction book offline simple as

Originally Posted by Aly

Well I am now... haha!

I'm definitely all for the compass and map, on top of a GPS investment (might be my bday/xmas pressie to myself ) - compass skills are pretty invaluable!
Something goes wrong and you lost your GPS/it spazzes out/runs out of battery, with the right compass skills you can get your exact bearings and walk yourself in a straight line to where you wanna go.
Something some mates and I did in the middle of the night, rain pouring down we spent 3 hours walking from one side of Lees Valley to the other just by calculating our bearings to make sure we walked right on top of a clue we were looking for on a map had our team captain making us stop every 50 m to readjust our angles!
Plus they help tell the time, too.

That being said my compass skills are shoddy but you can get a NZ instruction book offline simple as

I have an old etrex you can have.

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