R.A.T. Land Navigation Course

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trailside22

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I along with my dad and brother were able to attend a land navigation class taught by Jeff Randall of Randall's Adventure Training. Jeff also had help from Jimmy Dunn who laid out the course and a guest instructor who is/was and Army Ranger. We spent about two and a half hours of class time learning about orienting maps, declination, dead reconing, reading topo maps, pace counting, finding yourself on a map, terrain association, triangulation and UTM coordinates.

I must say that this was an excellent course. There were seven students in the class and all of us got to be the point man, pace count and be the map guy. Our course was about 4700m through the woods, up and down hills, across creeks and even through really thick undergrowth (thanks Derrick) :-). I really cannot tell you how much I learned from the class and I have been in compass classes before, it was awesome. Jeff is so knowledgeable from his time in the jungle and is very patient when it comes to teaching to make sure everyone understands.

This is a great class, I can only give it the highest marks. I hope Jeff will consider and advanced land navigation course and maybe we can do it at night. The class was more than worth the cost of $25.00.
 
Sounds great. I will have to go to one asap.
 
$25 dollars is one of the best bargins I have heard of for a class! The Rat guys are a class act. Good for you!
 
I love land nav. Makes me miss all the night land nav we did in the cav..... Sounds like a terrific class!
 
The R.A.T team is starting some domestic training and the cost is cheap, the quality is top notch. They have a 5 day course coming up with land navigation, 2 days field/combat medicine and 2 days of carbine class for like $400 that to me is a bargin. I was very impressed with their training and will be back for more.

I believe the more training we can get the better off we are going to be when we get in the situation where we must survive. Plus, the training is so much fun!
 
I'd love to do that stuff again.

I had Land Surveying class in college and I do a lot of navigating backpacking but I've forgotten half of the stuff I learned.:confused:
 
We talked about and got to play with all kinds from button, base plate, base plate with sighting mirrors and to lensatic. They like the Silva Ranger and Jeff really likes the Brunnton 8099 Pro. I have one of the 8099 pros on order now. They really stressed getting one with adjustable declination, the lensatic does not have adjustable declination.

We talked about GPS as well, during the class we were in several places the GPS would not get reception.
 
Man, those are some killer prices for that kind of learning! I wish I was closer...at least temporarily!
 
I really cannot express how excellent of a class it was. It would be worth anyones time to take a class from them.
 
RAT has a nice Power Point map and compass course free download here Some other useful links as well:)
 
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