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show your cool compasses.
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I'm going with this one.
Can be folded backward and attached to cloth with safety pin.
Very good for backcountry skiing and off the trail walking as I can use it with both hands free.
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Polar star is also shifting gradually, but will be there for some time.
Have one as well, but the one above is not a cammenga is it? North is different, no south, not tritium on the sight wire, and other little things.
Then have a few others... silvas, buttons, etc. Odd the post was made. I just lent a coworker, a the cheapo green silva and the book be an expert with a map and compass to borrow over the weekend since he wanted to learn how they work. I gave him a quick run down and he asked a few questions over lunch Thursday, see what he learned today.
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I don't do much technical orienteering or navigating, such as geocaching, calling in artillery strikes or anything that needs a lot of accuracy.
I hunt, and when you are following wounded game or chasing baying hounds, it is really easy to get turned around, believe me, I have spent several nights huddled around a fire waiting for daylight. I tried the GPS thing but it was more than was needed, bigger than I wanted, chewed through batteries and to complicated, so what I carry now is an old fashioned marbles pin on compass. It is turned from solid brass, has a real glass crystal, no liquid fill to develop bubbles and accurate enough for my purposes. I use it and a map to roughly navigate back to hard ball roads or rivers and then follow them till I know where I am, might be crude by some of yalls standards but after 30 odd years it is what I have found works for me. Sorry about the crappy pics, all I have is my cell.
I hunt, and when you are following wounded game or chasing baying hounds, it is really easy to get turned around, believe me, I have spent several nights huddled around a fire waiting for daylight. I tried the GPS thing but it was more than was needed, bigger than I wanted, chewed through batteries and to complicated, so what I carry now is an old fashioned marbles pin on compass. It is turned from solid brass, has a real glass crystal, no liquid fill to develop bubbles and accurate enough for my purposes. I use it and a map to roughly navigate back to hard ball roads or rivers and then follow them till I know where I am, might be crude by some of yalls standards but after 30 odd years it is what I have found works for me. Sorry about the crappy pics, all I have is my cell.
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I mostly use a Suunto MC-2G as well. It's an incredible compass. It even has a little tritium vial up top, which everyone knows makes an item much better. 
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I have never owned a good compass before. I have used the cheap military style compasses for my hunting, just finding my way in and out of a 2000 acre patch of hunting woods. Generally just an hour or two walk in any direction would get me to a road that I was very familiar with, so the cheapo did fine.
Purchased this about 2 weeks ago;
Brunton TDCL
I have read good things about it, but really have alot of learning to do.
Doc
Purchased this about 2 weeks ago;
Brunton TDCL
I have read good things about it, but really have alot of learning to do.
Doc
Some of my compasses including the box of 30 used for the classes I teach. I have at least three others I didn't grab scattered throughout my packs.
And that is a tritium compass that I carried and used for three years as an Army recon specialist (scout). Has sentimental value as they say. I rarely use it, but I still enjoy seeing it, like an old friend. And still trot it out during my classes for people to see the different types of compasses.
KR
And that is a tritium compass that I carried and used for three years as an Army recon specialist (scout). Has sentimental value as they say. I rarely use it, but I still enjoy seeing it, like an old friend. And still trot it out during my classes for people to see the different types of compasses.
KR
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I have the small Brunton round compass thats shown above, that I started clipping on my hunting gloves. I have had it there two seasons now, and love it, I can take a quick look at map or GPS then figue my general course and just follow that by looking down basically anytime. It hasn't ever been in the way.
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GI tritium compass for me my father had a cool compass he used for hot air ballooning...you looked threw it to see the numbers like a sight glass it was totaly closed up lit by tritium and cost a pretty penny I am sure......it fell to earth from 5500 feet after the neck cord broke.....so I guess I will never know what kind it was I know it was about 3"x3" and about 1/2 an inch thick. I also have an old Richie compass off a WW2 battle ship on gimbals mounted in a wood box...garage sale find for 10 bucks....and shes mint with no bubbles in the oil....