Observations on ferrous interference on compass use

[Bushman5]

I stumbled upon this thread and it's very interesting :thumbup:.

I didn't want to make a new thread since a lot is already covered here, so here it goes. I thoroughly concur with what you wrote above. That being the case, to get a good reading from the compass, should I strip all my gear beforehand ?

nothing wrong with hiking nekid!

 

[koyote]

When I lived on a boat I mounted a new helm comass and it's common for marine comasses to have an adjustment setting you make to the dial for the 'interference' of the boat and rigging. While this wouldn't necessarily help a lot with random rocks, you might be able to make the calculations for standard gear.