Compass-- more than a land nav tool

[Alan Halcon]

another article you might find useful up on dirttime

http://dirttime.com/?p=1542

Alan

[wjc]

interesting! thanks for posting it.

[iareConfusE]

Cool blog, bookmarked it for daily reading.

[GrizzlyGuy]

Nice! So simple but I would have never thought of it.

[PatriotnMore]

Like it. Great tool for the bag, thanks for posting the site.

[paradox]

Weak sauce. Get a brunton and measure width, height, dip and more:



The downside is that even at half price (www.moontrail.com), it costs more than a glock. Sometimes you can snag a mil surplus version for not all that much. Then there are the chinese clones.

At least the real Brunton is still made in the same american factory that has been making them since the start.

[Coded-Dude]

its been a while since i have used a compass. need to get back into it. thanks for the link....i love reading your articles.

[RoyBatty]

Nothing new..it's all in the Boy Scout Handbook

[Tanner68]

Good demonstration of compass skills, thanks.

[Prenub]

Thanks for the info.

[The Director]

Weak sauce. Get a brunton and measure width, height, dip and more:



The downside is that even at half price (www.moontrail.com), it costs more than a glock. Sometimes you can snag a mil surplus version for not all that much. Then there are the chinese clones.

At least the real Brunton is still made in the same american factory that has been making them since the start.

Uh....that's a Transit, which is a little more than a compass. I think the OP was trying to show field expedient ways of using your compass to measure.

If you want to get fancy bring a laser range finder and a laser distance measurer. Kinda defeats the purpose.....

[taladeganite]

I just scooped a brunton eclipse 8099 compass.. from rei.. lots of cool stuff come with it..