How to be Mel Gibson in "The Patriot": Creating an Emergency Azimuth 

We absolutely account for the GM angle. Either dial declination or remember LARS. We can only show so much in a short video.

Didn't know that. What a cool film fact.

@@MrMcGuy the movie that forced the changed from just G, PG & R was Indiana Jones & The Temple of Doom. It was given a PG, but decidedly needed something more, so after complaints, the PG-13 was established. Helps to be old sometimes. Only, it just feels like 15yrs ago maybe.

Think of it this way. Those lines are elevation. For example every twenty feet you get a line, then you go up another, you get another line, then at 100, you get a thick line. Think of it this way. You have a lake and you draw a line around the edge of the lake. Then you empty the lake with enough water to lower the surface of the water 20 feet and you draw another line. Now do that again. Another line, etc. Where the lines are close together, that's a cliff. Where they are far apart, that's a flat place, like a plain. If there are a bunch pointing like a "V", that's a draw/canyon. If that V has a blue line in it, that's a river/water source.

@@CrackedCandy ok. Thanks

Go to Google look up your address change the settings from Street and roads to topographical this is how you can find your elevation. One thing you have to know with Google it will only show you limited viewing can't zoom all the way in and out under that view. You can get some really good screenshots and print them out on large paper and make your own maps.

Also…Would screaming wolverines at the top of my chest after every firefight be too much

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Right.

There are a number of free and paid sources for topo maps . Most any you get from the USGS will have an accompanying legend and scale , along with lat and longitude hashes on the margins , if not alsoarked as solid line grids on the map as the military / dod ones will have . They will also have a reference datum and , magnetic North deviation for the date which the map was drafted and any year of revision . Other privately prepared maps may or may not have all this in their data sets . You can download these maps to a file , which is advisable , since if you are bugging out , the internet has gone by by or will shortly . If you are worried about signal discipline and being potentially tracked , load the map files on a tablet that doesn't have a cell transmitter and keep the wifi and Bluetooth turned off or disabled . If you have a bugout bunker , bat cave , whatever , keep a few extra drives / sd cards / whatever with map files loaded on them . A printer that works with a computer and which neither require an Internet connection to work , would also be a good idea to stash away . Obviously you don't want to be trying to hump your whole office through the wilds of assrape Arkansas whike trying to dodge the commie hordes , foreign or domestic .

National Geographic’s website has 1:24000 that you can print for free. Beware, it sucks the color right out of the ink cartridge 😂

Another great map to have are the FAA sectional maps that pilots use. It shows everything and each one covers a fairly large area. It’s not going to show contours but it’s a wealth of info as far as towers, airstrips, mountain tops, railroads, military bases, and main highways. Check them out. FAA sectional maps.

Hiking stores, places that sell outdoorsy type stuff, REI, ranger stations, Bureau of land management (BLM), State dept of natural resources. Green trail maps, green dot maps.

Local Boy scout office for local maps. Use their orienteering merit badge booklet to understand maps and compasses.

But they used the tec-9?

I think if they retained the original idea that it was China invading it may have been a bit better but Hollywood didn’t want to anger the CCP.

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@@CrackedCandy emergency elevation would be a helicopter or heavy lift drone extraction. Azimuth by definition is angular deviation in a fixed horizontal plane. Finding an exit path into the sky is even better.

​@@Lykapodiumthat's only in the movies us poor common folks don't have any of that good fun toys. But offer a ride in one of them I would go without any question. Always been on my bucket list

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