Using a Compass to Follow an Azimuth or Bearing

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I notice as I mention with the need of survival school today we're going to use a compass to follow an asthma mayor so once you have turned your bezel ring and decided which direction that you're going to go you need to go north west and you've rotated yourself in your compass until the red North needle lines up at the red box you don't have to follow that bearing the two main ways of following an asmath or bearing one of them is to line up your needle so you're standing on the azmuth and you walk keep an eye on the needle and keep it inside the box the whole time and as you stop wavering off you have to keep your eye on it you have to keep correcting yourself to keep that needle inside the box not a big fan of that method because you find yourself constantly making s patterns as you're trying to line up your compass you can see my compass is lined up I like to follow the sites right here and walk to that location in this case be right there

a little clump of trees my azmuth is on that left that left clump which is right there

so then I would walk to that location shoot another azmuth make sure that I'm going from item to item location to location leapfrogging on my azmuth following azmuth in that manner is far more accurate in my experience than walking and as you walk the needle bounces around a little bit and you're constantly snaking your way through the landscape instead of pinpointing a spot walking to it continuing on you're a Spurs it's been Mitch with native Bible School thank you so much see the next one take it

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