Compass Basics PT1: How to Shoot an Azimuth🔅
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*This is a video for beginners to using a compass. This will explain how to use a compass to shoot an azimuth (take a bearing) to a distant object for navigation. Also, how to set your compass to a known bearing and sight it for navigation. Again this is a first step for those who are just learning how to navigate with a compass. I am using the Suunto MC2 for the demonstration.
Thank you for your time and interest!
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this is my first try with A compass. I will be paying close attention to your teaching. there. a lot to learn. hope you don't mind me touching base. I just received the mc 2 in the mail ,also the mc2g is coming. It's been very confusing ,did't know which to get. What do you think. THANKS
Was recommended to you by Corporals Corner. Sure glad I found your channel! Thanks for the vids.
Shawn has one of the best instructional channels on YT in my opinion. He is an excellent instructor and a good friend. I really appreciated his endorsement of my channel. Thank you so much for coming over! I really appreciate your kind words. Welcome!
My Forest Mensuration professor posted this video to help prepare our introduction to compass navigation. Very helpful, thanks!
Excellent clear and concise. Well done.
For those of you who are new to using a compass. Get one. Preferably decent one but not a button compass.
Get outside and practice shooting azimuths to various objects that you can see.
Get good at aiming the compass.
Practice aiming at the ends of bridges. The azimuth will different for each end of a bridge.
This will help you visualize the difference in the angles and how far off you would be if you were walking that azimuth at the given distance.
For advanced aiming practice. Aim at opposite sides of water towers. There will be a slight difference depending on the size of the tower.
Practice with a friend and see if you come up with the same answers.
Above all practice a lot.
Very good advice Shawn. The key is practice, practice. It is fun to me playing with a compass. It used to not be my favorite activity but the more I have trained with it, the more accurate I have become. The more accurate I get, the more fun it becomes. Thank you for sharing and for your kind words my friend!
This is hands down the best explanation on RUclips. Using this series to learn with my daughter. Thank you, Matt!
Thank you for explaining so wonderfully, special kudos for this part 4:22 ! Thanks!
Thank you so much for your time, interest and kind words!
this is where a notebook comes in handy, marking our directions as we travel. combining what you are explaining and incorporating it w what Shaun (Corporals Corner) explains sure is helpful.
Good job Matt. This is one of my weak points. I'm spoiled to a GPS. I'll save this and the future installments so that I can continue to learn from them. Thanks for sharing my pal.
The GPS is definitely convenient! I actually don't own one but have used my phone for the purpose on the road. I hope you will enjoy the series and that it will be helpful for you. Thank you so much for your time and kind words my friend!
Got sent here by corporals corner. Great video. Subscribed. Thanks.
That was a really good explanation of how to use a compass. Thanks!
Thank you so much for your time and kind words!
Hi Matt, Land navigation is one of my favorite topics. I also agree that it under rated by many people and is vital to keeping the outdoors person safe. Although, I do feel that magnetic declination is also worth mentioning...anyhow, another great and valued video!
Thank you so much Vance! I really appreciate your time and interest. I will definitely talk about magnetic declination, especially as it pertains to using a map and a compass together. I think that is where people sometimes get confused. It is understandable that they do get confused when you tell them that there are 3 Norths! Thank you again for your time and kind words Vance.
So glad I found this channel. Thanks again
Thank you so much for coming over! I appreciate your time and interest!
A god recording. Excellent explanation, simply and well-presented. Thanks.
Thank you so much for your kind words friend! I appreciate your interest!
Im glad you posted this. I really need to work on my navigation. Great imformative video. I hope you have a fantastic week - Josh
Thank you for taking the time to tune in Josh! I am glad this will be helpful and I have several more videos to come in this series. Filming is already underway. I hope that you will enjoy the series. Thank you for all your kind words my friend. Take care.
Great tutorial and thank you so much for doing the series on this subject! This is a skill I want to master and your work will go a long way towards helping me do so.
Thank you so much for tuning in and I am glad this was helpful! I hope to pick back up on this series in the future as there are many more chapters to go. It is a very important skill so you are wise to pursue this. Thank you again for your support!
Fantastic explanation 👍
amazing guide! simple and easy to understand for a newbie like me. thanks!
Some of the best education I have had in a while. Thank you for another fantastic video Sir.
Thank you so much Larry! I really appreciate your kind words my friend! More videos on this topic will be coming very soon. Take care sir!
Hey Matt. Hope all is well. I have just ordered a Suunto MC 2, so I am watching your series now. Hope to be practicing soon. Thanks for the great vids and info!
THANK YOU! I needed to learn this for class and the other videos I found didn't show the compass face during the process. Thank you so much for showing the face of the compass!
Great info!! And important info
Thank you!
Thank you so much my friend! I think compass basics should definitely be studied by anyone who journeys in the outdoors. I appreciate your time and kind words!
Nice work. Now to remember to put the dog in the dog house. That was less daunting than I thought it was going to be. Nice lesson for the noobies
LOL, it is a good little way of remembering and referring to this for those just learning. Thank you so much for your time and interest Jack!
good job...!! Solid advice also. Look at the deaths from folks straying from a wilderness trail for some reason and not being able to find their way back. Simple land nav and topo map reading can save your life.....
Absolutely. I also like the added confidence that it gives just knowing that you know where you came from and are able to get back without following a trail of bread crumbs:) Thank you for your kind words brother!
G'day BHB, was referred by Shawn Kelly, great channel, happy to sub.
Excellent video brother! I lack this skill, and this explains it very well. Look forward to seeing more on this. I have a good sense of direction, but I know that really doesn’t count.
Thank you so much for the kind words and for tuning in brother! I hope the rest of this series will be helpful for you as well! Take care!
Great video. Thank you sir.
Thanks for making this understandable .
You are quite welcome Michael. I am glad you enjoyed the video and I appreciate your time, interest and kind words!
Great info. Also, remember to keep your compass away from metal when you are trying to get a reading. Huge pieces of ferrous metal like a car can really mess up your readings. Smaller stuff you might have on your body (e.g. neck knife) can mess them up if held close. Remember, it’s a magnet!
Very true John and a good point. I have seen even small pieces of jewelry tilt the needle a bit. It is something to really watch for as it can throw you off track pretty bad if you don't realize what is happening. Thanks for watching and commenting!
Thanks for the explanation, what would the procedure be to find a straight line using coordinate points through a heavily wooded property? I know where all 4 corners are and 3 of the lines but I'm trying to figure out how to mark out a straight line from one point to another through a heavily wooded area without hiring a surveyor if possible. Thanks!
Where do you keep your little declination adjustment tool after you change out your neck cord on the MC2 to pace beads?
Thanks for this great intro video on compass use. I just got recommend to you from Corporals Corner. I do plan on watching this whole playlist. But I have to know, being I have no experience with the Suunto, just flat based Silvas and GI lensatics, what the heck is that floating black needle?
What type Compass are you using? New to survival Bushcraft I think of myself more of a prepper. Do you know of a good survival School in the Southeast I live in South Georgia just about in Florida if you do not have your own could you recommend one would like to start with the weekend and then work my way up from there. Thank you for your time keep up the videos Blackie referred you. 🚶💀
I appreciate you coming over from Blackie's Channel! He is one of the guys I enjoy watching most here on YT. The compass I use primarily is the Suunto MC2. I own 2 of them and I have found them to be excellent. I actually do teach with The Pathfinder School LLC. We recently did a Basic Survival class down in Watkinsville Ga. There is a place there called Georgia Bushcraft and they do a lot of different events there. They have a website so that would probably be worth looking into for you. If you are ever interested in traveling a bit to train in OH at the Pathfinder School, let me know and I can give you all the information. I wish you the best! Thanks again for your time and interest.
What's the hole for if you're using the notch?
Please confirm that if I KNOW which way I want to go I adjust the bezel to “red in the shed”
If I am going Magnetic North I orientate my body to “red in the shed” pick something in the distance and walk to it, then repeat until I get to where I am going?
If you want to go North, dial North (0/360 Degrees) to the top of the bezel and then align your body so that Red is in the shed. At that time you will be facing magnetic North. Whatever your desired direction of travel is, that is what you dial to the top of the bezel and once you align red in the shed that is the the direction you will be heading.
Matt, When I go you your self reliance outfitters affiliate page is shows items on sale. When I put the items in the basket it shows the sale price however when I go to checkout to pay for the items it shows the regular price and not the sale price. What goes?
Hi John, I really appreciate your support in using the link sir. You should definitely contact Self Reliance Outfitters as they run the site. I am not sure if that is a technical issue or what is going on. I haven't heard of this happening. They run the site internally so that part of the operation is out of my hands. However, I will reach out to them regarding this message. Thank you again!
I'm really struggling to find high detail topo maps. I'm looking for 1:10000 UTM topo map for hiking, hunting, and land nav practice. REI, Sportsman's Wharehouse, USGS, don't sell them anymore. Please help.
Hello, we get all of our maps custom made at mytopo.com. You can get anything you need custom printed there. You will be pleased. Thanks for tuning in!
I just bought a Suunto baseplate compass. Ive looked all over the web, wth is that lil skinny black arrow for???
It's an inclinometer. It is used to measure angles, determine heights of trees, angles of slopes, etc. I handy little addition!
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No mention of declination? This is a good way to get lost when taking bearings from a map.
Hi Pete, I agree with you wholeheartedly that declination is a very important consideration when working with a map however, that is not the topic in this video. This is part 1 for beginners who have never used a compass. This is to familiarize them with how it functions and how to dial in and sight their compass at a particular bearing. This didn't include any relations between map and compass. That would be for a different video. Many people get intimidated by compass use so I tried to create a very simple multi part series to get people familiar with it first. Map and compass will at some point be a different series. This one is building towards PAUL Navigation and self mapping. Thanks for tuning in.
What version of the MC-2 is that? Which one should I get for North America? I went to go buy one and the had the more expensive one (global) and some metric ones and I didn’t know which one to get. Thanks in advance!
I've watched exactly 1-2 videos out of way too many nav and compass videos than I can count that has even mentioned the black clinometer needle in the bezel area.
It would have been great to be told to ignore it and that it had no relevance except in advanced compass level use that most people won't run into.
As a newbie exploring all these kinds of videos, that drove me a little crazy because everything was being explained away except for that little stupid piece.
So, you're welcome if that's where you're at now.
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Bearings are from 0-90 degrees. Azimuths are from 0-360 degrees. Wrong terminology in video
I am operating using terms of 0 to 360. As you said, that is an azimuth.