Youth Hunter Education Challenge
Orienteering
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This is one of the responsibility events. Kids will be tested in their orienteering skills. This is a field event where the participants are provided with a bearing and a distance and they need to navigate following a set of instructions which will test their knowledge on a wide variety of orienteering techniques.

The Hunting Archery Challenge has the maximum possibility of 300 points.

Key Points

Challenge will be conducted with participants taking bearings with their compass. Participants may also be asked to close a triangle, identify map symbols, or define words (i.e. contour lines, scale, or declination).
Participants may be asked to describe how nature provides individuals with different directions of travel (north, south, east and west, etc.). These situations, as well as others, may be used in the Hunting Orienteering Skills Challenge (not to be announced before the program).
Time limits may be applied to each task.
Only compasses may be used on the Hunting Orienteering Skills Challenge course.
The information for this event has been taken from NRA's The Hunter's Guide (see Section V, E. 2 for ordering information), the U.S. Department of the Interior - U.S. Geological Survey Topographic Map Symbols publication - ISBN 0-607- 84384-5 (contact 1-800-USA-MAPS for ordering information), The Backcountry Classroom by Jack Drury and Bruce F. Bonney, Compass and Map Navigator Book - The Complete Guide to Staying Found by Michael Hodgson.  (These Nexus publications as well as other orienteering resource materials, may be purchased through The Brunton Co., 620 East Monroe Avenue, Riverton, WY 82501  800- 443-4871), Be An Expert With Map And Compass Orienteering Handbook by Bjorn Kjellstrom, and Your Way With Map and Compass Orienteering by John Disley.  (These Silva Compass publications may be purchased through Johnson Camping, P.O. Box 966, Binghamton, NY 13902, or by calling 1-800 847-1460.)

... a word of wisdom

Know how many steps do you need to cover a 100 feet or 100 yards.
Trust your compass, not your eyes.
Become familiar with map symbols. 
Practice, practice.
 

 

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