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To: _Jim

So how close in accuracy can you get with a map and what a compass?

Of course as a young devil dog I didn’t care to ask too many questions but as I age I am more curious as to the details. Heck a few weeks ago I spent a night trying to find out how they emplace 81mm mortars, and damn there was scant info beyond aiming stakes and stuff.


45 posted on 07/18/2019 6:14:44 AM PDT by junta ("Peace is a racket", testimony from crime boss Barrack Hussein Obama.)
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To: junta

re: “So how close in accuracy can you get with a map and what a compass?”

Depends on the terrain (flat as in no features/creeks, hilly with passes), how many land features are noted on the topo map, and how good your “range estimation” faculties are with your two eyeballs.


50 posted on 07/18/2019 6:24:34 AM PDT by _Jim (Save babies)
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