3 Ways to Turn a Cheap Survival Button Compass into an Expensive SUUNTO MC-2 Compass!

Skills to Turn a Survival Button Compass into a High-End, Expensive, and Highly Accurate, Name-Brand Compass!
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[@azhomeboy2000]

We don't deserve a midweek video, but we'll take it.👍👍

[@badgertheskinnycow]

I have recently bought and tested over a dozen cheap and expensive button compasses. They ALL have issues - mainly they are not accurate enough or they are useless at night. Therefore, I have concluded that the best 'survival' or back-up compass is a spare lightweight compass. These (as long as they are a quality compass such as a Silva with luminous features) are both accurate and night navigation compatible. The lightweight Silva compass is not heavy and being almost flat does not take up a lot of space. If necessary - tape it to the outside of your survival tin. This method described in the video would work - and as a British Infantry soldier I learned similar methods However, it is complicated and very slow. Imagine carrying out that process if you are tired, cold, wet, hungry, injured. in the dark or being pursued. Knowing your location/direction of travel is SO important that a compromise in this area is not a risk I would take. Do not trust your life to a $2 compass. Buy a good spare. PS I trained with Rangers (at Fort Lewis) and have the greatest of respect for their skills.

[@peterbogart4531]

Did you ever encounter bear in the Ft. Lewis woods? I tried to walk once solo from old McChord to Ft. Lewis through timber & did not meet bruin. I should have carried a compass. Did find some MP's on patrol, though. Actually, they found me. Thought I was testing them, I believe. I was, but friendly. They told me I was lucky I did not meet a bear. I WAS lucky. Lots of field cam out there, obviously. After all, it is all a strategic military installation, where the trees have eyes & ears, & just look like ordinary timber. I carry now everywhere as a level 1 kit my small Silva compass with a Bear Grylls Gerber mini tool in a flat can, with water bags, fire starter, water purification tabs, & a snack.

[@dasta7658]

The most defined and well explained use of a button compass I have seen to date. Well done and thanks for posting.

[@marcoosvald8429]

There is a ton of really good information here for anyone who land navigates. I keep these very same SUUNTO compasses on each watch band and spares in my pack pockets.

[@channchum3542]

👍👍👍

[@Mike-kr9ys]

Land nav class - always appreciated. Thank you, Sir!

[@Jaden48108]

Pretty in-depth alternative if you're without a regular compass. I like button compasses despite the negative press they get. My reason to carry one is to confirm the direction of a standard compass, giving the adventurer an extra bit of confidence they are going in the right direction.

[@Elfaropurpura]

I do the same thing.

[@Jaden48108]

Awesome.@@Elfaropurpura

[@Elfaropurpura]

@@Jaden48108 Also, I use a compass app from Android, it helps too

[@Jaden48108]

I wish I were that competent@@Elfaropurpura

[@johntheidiot9046]

Again, an incredible video with information, cut and dry, easy to digest and easy to add to the book. Good job, Andrew!

[@miken7629]

I have a Brunton Map Compass around my neck and use it every time I get off trail to find my way back. When I get off trail to stealth camp or poop, point the compass in the direction I am heading off trail, rotate dial & put "Red in the Shed", that compass is set, only takes a second and my return direction is 180 degrees from that setting. People get lost when they get off trail in heavy foliage, since the trails aren't straight lines just 5 degrees off and they can miss trail completely, keep wandering and get totally lost. That is when people pull out their button compass and guess what, they are still lost, need to take reading BEFORE they get off trail.

[@TannerSwizel]

The radians would probably be a bit small, but etching a compass face onto a canteen cap seems like a good backup with 0 weight cost

[@NONEYAZ]

Very Knowledgeable And Transferable Information! Although, I Have Had Too Many Negative Experiences With The Small Button Compuses! I Have Learned To Only Rely On Or Use Good Quality Compuses! I Once Had To Use The Old School Milspec Method Of Using A Wrist Watch Dial And Hands With The Sun To Orient My Way Back To A Path And My Vehicle While Lets Say, Exploring! Thank The Good Lord It Was Day Time, I Had My Watch On, A Map Of The Area In My Awesome 1990's Belly Bag And Not In My Truck Glove Box, Lol! 😎

[@erolkavlakverizon6112]

Thank you Andrew for sharing this knowledge with us. Stay safe out there

[@ticiewilder7760]

That is 1 problem when I’m not in a familiar plase is finding my North and South direction but I’m working on it and your a great help , thanks for sharing your knowledge with us , From Kentucky always look forward to your videos

[@SteveIsGr8r]

I get asked all the time why anyone would carry a button compass since it's worthless. Now I have a video from a real survival expert to fwd to people so they have a real answer to the question. Thanks for being a shining light of useful information on survival instead of a walking advertisement for overpriced "Bushcraft" items.

[@ross.58008]

Damn dude. I think rangers direction finding is one of the best in any military. Love it❤🎉🎉

[@ImaLurkin]

Great stuff!

[@benterwellen]

Good info, and demo, ty for sharing

[@williammccaslin8527]

I knew how to use a compass from my boy scout days over 50 yrs ago. But I didn't know how to make one from paper, never did an never saw how, but I loved it, way to easy. An to use a round whatever, canteen cap, an the tens, man you just made my day with this one. One for the tool box, that I will never forget. Thx for the vid Andy

[@TheFossilChannel]

Excellent video. Great info!

[@NewHampshireJack]

This video may be labeled as a "crash course" in land navigation. Our thinking is, to absorb the information and practice where you can not get lost. You can build up your skill level with a little time and effort. Multi thumbs up for Ranger Survival and Field Craft!

[@user-kx9mt1kb5k]

Stay on course and navigate like a Ranger to survive.

[@sw33n3yto00]

Great vid and incredible info. Thank you!

[@dw.bushcraft2780]

Outstanding Andrew great job

[@168Diplomat]

Here we go. This is more like the. Videos that we are used to getting from you. Great job!! Thank you for the time and effort that you put into these it is appreciated.

[@butchie2752]

Another great “don’t forget your good stuff” video.

[@michaellucas8927]

It's videos like this one that make learning interesting. Interest=retention.

[@tanneroverton1338]

See you tomorrow at the exxon. Great tip on how to improve your compass.

[@nauticalknotcraft]

Great class Andrew! A double dose of very useful info this week, thanks.

[@kiki_8]

very informative video awesome job keep it up

[@JJ-JOHNSON]

Thanks so much Brother for sharing your skills with us.

[@Edwardford123]

Thank you, Andrew. Another very helpful video.

[@tarinindell8217]

Im sure there are a handful of decent options, but the Suunto Clipper Compass is my favorite for a small compass. Wazoo also makes a pretty good one.

[@MKylander]

Clipper is great with the rotating bezel, not at all common feature in button compasses.

[@josephmarciano2584]

Amazon is full of negative reviews for the Clipper. Dubious about it.

[@tarinindell8217]

@@josephmarciano2584 Most suunto products are pretty solid, and the clippers ive used have all been solid, especially when compared to other button compasses

[@pollyhatch5426]

Mind blown! Thanks for this excellent information. Outstanding!

[@shadomane]

Great instructional video Andrew!!! Thanks for sharing your thoughts, ideas and experience with us.

[@winfieldagonoy]

Best source of skills and think outside the box ideas that goes well in survival and bushcrafts. I greatly appreciate all your presentations and leaderships, Sir.

[@jeanhebert2130]

Excellent, Merci

[@herbsmith6871]

Great info my friend 🤠

[@joshuabomar6974]

Top notch information & important to me because I've had a difficult time grasping some of the concepts of basic land nav know how. This video was very helpful & much appreciated. Keep em coming bro

[@darylsarbaugh3491]

After carrying a button compass on my wrist and a protractor in my PC for over 30 years, I now know how to use them together. Still gotta orient the map accounting for declination angle. The method of getting the azimuth lines on the paper is genious. I never go anywhere without a 7.5" map of the AO. The problem I faced early on were: 1. No UTM/MGRS lines, only ticks on the edges. So you have to make your own lines. 2. Military protractor doesn't have 1:24,000. 3. Converting between UTM and LON/LAT. 4. Learning how to plot LON/ LAT. I love UTM because you only need to see a small part of the map to plot points and it is easy to guesstimate points by eye to 6 digits. LAT is easy but LON takes half the map to plot. And guessing is sure to get you misoriented.

[@32FluidOz]

Awesome, Andrew!

[@donaldburton6869]

Wow, that was awesome!

[@edwardknudsen4806]

Outstanding

[@robertdodd9623]

Awesome Video !

[@spartan7042]

Great video thanks

[@TripleAAA53]

Outstanding tutorial !! Thx!!

[@lloydh1100]

Excellent info as always, thanks!

[@bryanfaulkenburg462]

I saw a video the other day of an guy who took duct tape and made a pen holder on his write in the rain notebook. With this idea I ran with it and made a pen and map marker slots and a pouch sleeve for my protractor on the back . Great video . I am learning and practicing land mav with my group.

[@RamboBlood-bw8ey]

GENIUS!

[@TheBanjo53]

Awesome

[@johnwyman5939]

Holly smokes !! That was a awesome Job on going over the different ways of land navigation!! Memories, Memories!! One hell of a Awesome Video!!🤝🤝🇺🇸🇺🇸🪓🔪👍👍

[@unfi6798]

Cheers for the updates Major.

[@alanrice39]

Good one Andrew!

[@mrkultra1655]

Great techniques, thanks Andrew

[@whiteraven1911]

Great vid brother, keep up the great work

[@Elkhunter313]

Great work

[@briani7858]

awesome video.

[@robbabcock_]

Good stuff!

[@rickyhill85]

Thank you.

[@thomasmarable6927]

Great information

[@thaddeusmikolajczyk4518]

Very helpful info thanks for sharing.

[@johnovanic9560]

In all my years of Outdoor Adventures I have never been lost. Powerful confused for a month or two but never lost. Great video Andrew

[@shaunparker2929]

🤯 THANK YOU, THAT WAS SO INFORMATIVE!!!!

[@jimhale3879]

Very cool!!! Thank you. Something new to practice with.

[@mervmartin2112]

Tape the compass to the back of the protractor. Then you can read it as you're walking your azimuth. Love the video!

[@davepoole5582]

Fantastic show mate.... Map skills made easy... Thanks

[@BUZZKILLJRJR]

This is amazing thank you another awesome video

[@chriskeating5926]

This Guy is a walking survival course !!! Wicked Awesome video... Congratulations on being an instructor at SRO...I hope to take a course you teach their in the near future ...Cheers Andrew

[@corleyoutdoors2887]

Congratulations on being the lead investigator at the Pathfinder School!

[@nicolau63]

Excellent

[@adamsecret9912]

New subscriber; love the videos. Appreciate the time and effort it takes to make them. Thank you!

[@jeffechols5302]

Excellent tutorial 👌

[@1banjrpkr]

That was great! I can’t wait to share this with my son-in-law.👍🏻

[@glennsag5397]

Great video

[@jammer2isme]

This one took me back to JROTC - Lt. Col. (USMC Ret.) Moore was Artillery. We LEARNED the compass and map reading and had to make our own then demonstrate them using a grid square map.

[@outbackowl4026]

Hi Andrew , greeting from Australia, thank you for your time to make these videos.

[@unixpro2]

Brilliant! You rock Andrew. Great video elevating the simple button compass to a much more accurate navigation device.

[@redbeard6606]

Outstanding video, Andrew. Thanks for sharing some alternative methods to navigate.

[@petezahrbock]

That's awesome Andrew!! 👌 super cool video 📹!! All the things that I don't know.. Keep up the great work!! Appreciate it.

[@jeremybryant5778]

definitely never seen this done before. thanks and God bless

[@JohnnyHildebrand1969]

Very informative and extremely helpful. Thank you and God bless.

[@craigvermillion8244]

Great hack Andrew! I'll practice these techniques this weekend. Thanks!

[@jamesbassett8470]

Excellent video! This really added something new and valuable to the available body of land nav content.

[@davidjacobs828]

Truly impressive...

[@chrismoore600]

Outstanding that is bad ass.

[@nazaninnaderi3783]

To me an original way to use the button compass and also making it so much better. As always teaching by show and tell, making it easy to follow. Thank you for putting so much effort into your videos. Looking so forward to more of your navigation videos (among others you produce). Wish you the very best.

[@pnyarrow]

Hi Andrew. What a super idea - another one for my tool box - thank you. Stay safe. ATB. Nigel

[@toughscoutsurvival3347]

Very useful tip.... 👍👍👍

[@jonathanhughes8670]

This makes button compasses a much more realistic tool, Thanks Andrew!

[@stuartniven2401]

Mid week video?? Thanks Andrew!! Appreciate all of your work!

[@mrmustachio6297]

Ur the man!

[@EduardoGarcia-fj2uc]

Excellent tip my friend thanks for share. Saludos Amigo

[@paulzimmerman3895]

Awesome class! I really enjoyed that. Learned a lot. I'm going to Rio Chama this weekend. I'll try out there. Yes, making written out compass is something I must do. Looking forward to learning that method. Certainly appreciate the added knowledge. Now practice...

[@ka2pbo]

Great demonstration and explanation! I have the Suunto Clipper on my watch. It has a rotating bezel which makes things a little easier but Im sitting here looking at my Rite in the Rain notebook and I just have to try this! Thanks

[@WildWoodsman]

Nice one, I especially liked the simple solution at the end

[@dammitdan106]

I can't much tie my shoes with sleep and calorie deprivation. But Rangers can land nav like shown here.

[@johnlobsta3640]

Dude, fantastic video. Would be great to teach kids this kind of thing in school. Good thing I'm home schooling my kids! Adding this and some of your other videos to our curriculum.

[@wmluna381]

Sweet

[@user-mh3ws1ol5c]

Everytime we get something new to learn Thanks for the information sir 🇮🇳🙏🕉️🙏🇮🇳

[@abz_bushcraft]

Hello, the survival button video was really great

[@edpottinger849]

Really good video.Thats something anybody can use if lost or needing navigation. I would like to learn how to accurately follow the stars for navigation.That was something my ancestors knew very well.The only problem being if it's not clear enough at night to see them. My dad's ancestors in 1864 had to sail the ship they were on because the captain went nuts,around the horn of South America.They did it strictly on star navigation,they had no other form of navigation.

[@shanevance7090]

Great instructions I was never taught that in land nav