RE: Lesson Learned the Hard Way: Compass
I have a Magellen. The blue one. It does have a real time compass and I did calibrate it when I started hunting the day before. It had 7 satellites at the time. Maybe I should have stopped and recalibrated it but I was a bit nervous at the time. With the temperature falling I just wanted to get out of there. I wouldn't say I lost my nerve but I definetly wasn't my usual calm self.
It will be a while before I trust it again. I'm going to just switch over to a compass and use the gps unit as a test.
I did get the deer back to camp but I had to chop down two trees that had fallen across the road after I came back with my truck. I was totally exhausted and couldn't drag the deer the quater mile back to camp. I should have because I left in on the side of the path and couldn't find it. I had to walk the path with a flashlight. I should have marked the road with a branch or something. I guess it wasn't the highest thing on my list at the time.
Tom