Thread: Navigation with compass and map

Originally Posted by Tussock

30m is heaps!

Work object to object. Hold the compass in your hand, find an object as far away as possible on the bearing you are walking, walk to it. Find the next object. Go to it. In this way you can walk an arrow straight line across country reasonably quickly.

It goes to pieces when you start guestimating "I think I was a bit to the right off...." or when you get too finicky and waste five minutes at every station (object). Just get the hang of holding it up, chosing a point, walking to it. After a while you don't slow down.

So how do you multi task navigating like that and hunting at the same time? I've seen a guy in the kaimais with a compass strapped to the side of his butt. That intrigued me how effective it wouled be.