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Offline stick-um

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Map and compass
« on: March 02, 2010, 07:47:00 PM »
Does anyone still use a map and compass or is it a lost art. I still use it when hunting in colorado because I just don't trust a gps in the mountains and it's kind of fun. Just wondering
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Re: Map and compass
« Reply #1 on: March 02, 2010, 07:49:00 PM »
Yes and there was a thread some time back about it.If you do a search you may still find it.A lot of good reading on it.
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Re: Map and compass
« Reply #2 on: March 02, 2010, 07:53:00 PM »
I believe in a compass 100% I camped and hunted in northern Jersey a few yhears back and had a new hand held GPS which couldn't get readings under the tree cover , glad I had my compass .I never go on a hunt without one .
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Re: Map and compass
« Reply #3 on: March 02, 2010, 08:16:00 PM »
Map and compass for me, too. I carry a GPS, but as I learned in the service, it is a secondary nav tool.
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Re: Map and compass
« Reply #4 on: March 02, 2010, 08:21:00 PM »
Since the recent earthquake moved the earth off its axis, I wonder what affect it had on magnetic north ?
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Re: Map and compass
« Reply #5 on: March 02, 2010, 08:39:00 PM »
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Since the recent earthquake moved the earth off its axis,...
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Re: Map and compass
« Reply #6 on: March 02, 2010, 08:55:00 PM »
You bet Map And Compass for me, and an Altimeter in country with more elevation! In the foggy/cloudy/snowy mountains an altimeter is a wonderful tool!
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Offline Iron

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Re: Map and compass
« Reply #7 on: March 02, 2010, 08:59:00 PM »
VTer.... NASA    says something about the recent earthquake in Chili may have thrown the earth of it's axis a bit...i didnt read the whole article...google it!
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Re: Map and compass
« Reply #8 on: March 02, 2010, 08:59:00 PM »
Compass & Map for me... The GPS's do make great paper weights
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Re: Map and compass
« Reply #9 on: March 02, 2010, 09:01:00 PM »
Map and compass, my compass has never had a dead battery!
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Offline redfish

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Re: Map and compass
« Reply #10 on: March 02, 2010, 09:01:00 PM »
Yep, map and compass. Never held a GPS.
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Re: Map and compass
« Reply #11 on: March 02, 2010, 09:06:00 PM »
True north and magnetic north is still 3 degrees difference.
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Re: Map and compass
« Reply #12 on: March 02, 2010, 09:06:00 PM »
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Originally posted by ChuckC:
Since the recent earthquake moved the earth off its axis, I wonder what affect it had on magnetic north ?
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Still showing the same. Might be off a little. I never marked it on the Sundial.
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Offline twitchstick

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Re: Map and compass
« Reply #13 on: March 02, 2010, 09:09:00 PM »
Map and compass for me,no batterys.
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Re: Map and compass
« Reply #14 on: March 02, 2010, 09:15:00 PM »
Anyone trusting the technology of a GPS without a Map & Compass backup, along with the knowledge in using all of them together is making a potentially life threatening mistake.
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Re: Map and compass
« Reply #15 on: March 02, 2010, 09:23:00 PM »
I ALWAYS carry a compass, even when I'm hunting familiar property. I was turkey hunting on property that I've hunted for over 20 years.  the fog was so thick that day, I got turned around big time.  If I didn't have that compass, I would have ended up a long way from camp.
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Offline acadian archer

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Re: Map and compass
« Reply #16 on: March 02, 2010, 09:39:00 PM »
I carry both Compass and gps. here in Nova Scotia you must carry a knife, waterproof matches and a compass.

If hunting in an unfamiliar area I will also have a map.
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Re: Map and compass
« Reply #17 on: March 02, 2010, 09:58:00 PM »
GPS is great until the batteries go dead.  Map and compass always, GPS when I want to mark hutning blinds, animal kills, etc... They are really helpful when hiking out in the dark.
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Re: Map and compass
« Reply #18 on: March 02, 2010, 10:08:00 PM »
Map and compass.  Batteries die suddenly, the magnetic field changes, but slowly.  16 degrees East out here in Oregon.  It has moved about 3 degrees since I first learned to use a compass in Boy Scouts in 1969.  

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Re: Map and compass
« Reply #19 on: March 02, 2010, 10:15:00 PM »
10 years ago on my first elk hunt I carried a GPS only and depended on the electronic compass in the unit...I promply spent my first night in the Rio Grande Nat'l Forrest under a fir tree shivering. As soon as I got down the mountain I got out my topo and compass. I still use the GPS for reference but NEVER without one of the 3 compass' I have with me at all times. Have been turned around but never lost since!
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