Jared how'd that ol boy walk 10 miles and not hit a road?

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Yeah I can easily see doing 10 ground miles in rough terrain just avoiding obstacles. I initially took the article to mean he was found 10 miles A to B.

Bet he totes a backpack from now on. Lucky guy. I wouldn't have been embarrassed - at least he's alive and has a good story.
BTDT. Thought I was going to spend the night in the woods once. I had a compass and two roads. One to my south and one to my east. These were really logging trails but we call them roads. Long story short I got way the hell turned around by taking a shortcut and walking around a big ass cliff. I got disoriented and quit believing my compass based on how far I thought I had walked. I just knew I had walked two or three times the distance to each road which I tried to find both of and was completely convinced I had somehow missed them and was totally lost. Heavy forest gets dark quicker than field or pasture which adds to it. It was dark enough that I was running into saplings with my face. I finally popped into the road and saw my truck. It was light under that broken canopy. Even had some blue sky left! I was probably hunting about a 1/4 mile from my truck as the crow flies, but I guarantee you I walked several miles in circles trying to find it.
 

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Yeah I can easily see doing 10 ground miles in rough terrain just avoiding obstacles. I initially took the article to mean he was found 10 miles A to B.

Bet he totes a backpack from now on. Lucky guy. I wouldn't have been embarrassed - at least he's alive and has a good story.

A story that he doesn't want anyone to know about. The fellow requested anonymity and I'm not sure I could blame him.
 

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This situation brings up an issue that I address every year at my training seminar that I give at the Oklahoma Youth Hunting Program. In 1966 I read a tip in Tapp’s Tips on Sports Afield, I think. The recommendation was to carry 2 compasses for when you are lost, dehydrated, disoriented, cold and scared. By carrying 2 compasses that have been proven to be accurate PRIOR to going into the field, you know 2 compasses can’t be wrong. I HAVE BEEN IN THAT SITUATION and didn’t believe the first compass. I pulled the second compass out of my pack and oriented it to my USGS map and compared it with what the first compass showed. The two compasses said the same thing. 2 proven compasses can’t be wrong. I followed what both compasses indicated and quickly climbed a hill and my road that I needed to get on was just over the hill. Within minutes I was back in camp.
The parent of one of my young hunters that participated in our compass class several years later told me of her personal experience of getting lost. She had her 2 compasses in her day pack, pulled them out and checked that they agreed and followed the course back to her car safely. Remember 1 other piece of information..... a compass battery NEVER dies since it doesn’t have one unlike a GPS. I ALWAYS CARRY 2 compasses in my pack even on my own farm that I’ve owned since 1982 !
 

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