Can someone help me use a compass real quick.
Okay so I don't have an adjustable declination compass, wish I knew that before I bought a cheap one, but now I don't want to buy another one.
So I have a few questions I'll just mark them 1 through whatever.
1) To adjust for declination, let's say the declination is 15degrees E, do you turn the bezel counter clockwise 15 degrees, or do you turn it to the right clockwise 15 degrees?
2) let's say you need to set declination, and you have a bearing.. do you add the two numbers together and head in that direction? ORRR do you subtract the declination number from the bearing? I'm confused here. For example, say I head along a bearing of 50 degrees, and the declination is 15 degrees E, do I head to the bearing of 35 or do I head 65 degrees?
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