Emergency Prep | Outdoor Skills on Instagram: "How to measure distance using mils on your compass. 🧭 👉🏻 Note: The 2,000 meter example is a theoretical. In the video it’s explained that I AM 1,000 meters away and the towers are 300 meters apart. And then the example is given of how you would just multiply by 2 IF I had been 2,000 meters away when I got those readings. If I had actually walked 2,000 meters away in the video, the video perspective would’ve been different cause I would’ve had to

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