Map and Compass (Simplified)

Thank you awesome video 😃👍

Good video! I personally could use a lot more detail and repetition. I was lost once you moved to the 2nd point.. basically not understanding how you applied the info you used to get to the first point, to the rest of the points. you did the first one but then skipped thru with just the numbers written down.

Thanks and very cool. The new normal people will not like this. Paper, writing instruments and no electric buttons. It will be like kryptonite to them and they all believe they are superbeings. Godspeed you have a friend in Pennsylvania.

One of the best videos on using a compass and using a compass with a map.

This was super helpful. I’m learning to navigate for a planned hike in 2024. This decoded the map for me.

👏Best LN video I have come across

🎉I'm learning 🎉🎉🎉🎉🎉

Glad I found this video and your channel! This was an easy to understand explanation of how Landnav with a map and compass works. I met a Doc where I work who was an SF guy that I wanted to chat up about this topic but didn’t even know where to start. Now I’m plenty educated to be able to stay that convo as well!

You explain it all so simply that a complete newbie like me can understand it. THANK YOU so much!! I have watched other videos but you make it so much easier for me to follow and grasp what you are explaining. Thanks again and PLEASE keep posting your videos.

I didn't understand but from Mg to Gn +. And from Gn to Mg - this only applies to the East declination, because for the West declination it is the opposite ? Thank you.

You are correct, practice,practice,practice.

I went out on a patrol in 1966 with Lt. Roberts and an old wino gunnery sgt. The gunney looked at a hill which he identified as such and such (wrongly i might add) Then he put his map down and lined it up by compass to where he thought that the patrol was located. Worked every time, of course, but he had identified a hill that actually was part of a ridgeline, and the hill that he was looking at stood alone. I had seen the hill in question as the team was flown into the LZ and straightened things out for the Lieutenant, but the gunney was not pleased and complained to the Chief at the BAS. I was told never to read a map again (LOL).

You did a great job explaining that and I learned from it! Thank you!

It’s too bad Suunto ruined their MC2 by eliminating the south part of the “doghouse”, replacing it with branding. I will not buy a new MC2 because of that change.

No where your at and where you are going !

Semper Fi Devil Dog
excellent school circle

Awesome! Thank you.

Thank you for great information

Very good video, very detailed and informational, and never boring.

Thank you. You have a knack for putting it where the goats can get it.

I just wanted to let you know that I appreciate all of your videos. Sometimes I learn good techniques and information. Other times I get a good refresher course and the rest of the time I just enjoy watching your Bushcraft lessons, activities and the equipment you use in a woodland location where I don't recognize many of the plants and trees, and that's also very interesting. So thank you sir, you are appreciated 👍

Man oh man that was a lot of info to take in but all of it made sense and answered my questions. Gonna have to revisit this and do notes next time and go try somewhere I wont get lost lol.

🇵🇬🇵🇬,m,m,m,

Great video (as always)! Gonna need to do some studying to get the feel for this, but I know it's a damned necessary skill for even something as simple as a day hike.

Thank you for the video!
Your style is easy to understand!!

This was the very best training on using a compass and topographic map that I have seen. GREAT JOB!! Thank you. I have saved this video for a future refresher.

Hi, I’m a retired Aussie Infantry SGT.
Your lessons are excellent and easy to follow, so far. I’ve actually learned a couple of things from this video (I need to buy a Suunto compass instead of the SILVA I am currently using).
Having said that, I’m a little confused. I was always taught that GRID Lines are different to Lat/Long lines. I noted you called the Grid Lines Lat/Long lines…is this how you’ve been taught in the US?
I’ve worked with US soldiers and Marines in the past and hey used our Aussie maps without problems, and LOCSTATS were the same as we use…hence my confusion.
Can you please explain how you use Lat/Long as GRID Lines?

👍Love it thanks

This might be the best video you ever made! I am trying to follow it correctly but think I might need to learn this in person with someone.

you did the world a solid

I look at maps all the time. I've been interested in them since I was a little kid just look at different maps, atlases, and globes. It still made me feel excited like you were uncovering hidden knowledge from these maps and compasses. I wish there was at least an elective class in hs about navagation. It seems with a proper map, compass, and skill in using them, its incredibly unlikely to ever get lost.

👍

👍

melike

Part of my job involves training adults with very technical and applied concepts. From one teacher of adults to another, you do a great job!

CPL. Clen your whiteboard. I suddenly had the urge to wipe at marks on my screen that weren’t really there. 😁 Good info. Simper Fi.

DAMN good video. I appreciate the time spent on detail, thank you very much 😊

I prefer MILS to ° I was a Mortarman and I just understand MILS better 17 MILS = 1° so they are a lot more precise.

Awesome vidio thank you for sharing your knowledge and experience .
Just getting started time to set up a practice.

Is this same for artillery fire ? Like the movies...haha

nice one perfect refresher on what i learned in the reserves. the way i was told about map to magnetic was a bit different though. mag to grid they told me remember mothers got aids and grid to mag was grand mother suxs, for the add and subtract. a rather crud but memorable acronym :P

Thanks again Corporal. Have a great Memorial Day weekend. Thank you for your service. I can’t wait until tomorrow’s video.

If you live in U.S.A. I take it you buy the Northern Hemisphere compass ?

Thanks Shawn,,, Your land navigation video’s are Excellent and easy to follow.,,, this is about the 4th time I’ve watched them,,,, it’s starting to sink in,,👍👍👍

Just a reminder for American's travelling; only the US uses imperial since Angola abandoned it, so all maps you encounter outside the US will be in the metric system, which is easy, 1:10:100:1000 etc. No weird calculations required. 1:10000 on a map means 1cm of map is is 10000 cm, 1000cm is a meter, so 10 meters (the average pace of a man is usually a meter, but roughly ten paces). Rather than needing a calculator you have the calculator god gave you, your hands.

I used the Silva 1 2 3 method in Ranger school, I came in first in Land Nav