Do you still carry a real compass in the woods?

Don't you have the compass app for your smartphone? Seriously, been carrying the same  engineer style compass for many years. (Also, backcountry navagator smartphone app...)

I have one of the pin-on compasses for my bird vest, and a brass match case with a Brunton compass built in to the top.  They're both real handy when I have been wandering in very thick woods, when I just need to know the cardinal directions.
Wes
 

I always carry a small one like the German Army uses, when I am invited for a hunt in a hunting ground that I do not know, even Germany is not that kind of country where it is so easy to get lost.But there are regions where one does not have any mobile reception . Doesn't add so much weight to the equipment and needs no batteries or the like....
Always good hunting

Tom

Your right about batteries, GPS's and GPS enabled phones eat em up! If you are into smartphones, the backcountry Navagator app allows you to download maps ahead of time and enables gps to run independent of phone service, use it quite a bit pretty good maps/ good record a track function, but still the gps is gobbeling up the battery. I use it mostly in the rig, pretty nice for forest service and logging roads.
 

@ admin,
@ all forum members,

Hello everybody,
admin,
thanks for the information, I am not into these smartphones  but since I plan a hunt in Scotland in September/October next year I think  the said app will be fine.
users in general,
my compliments and great kudos to everybody in this forum. I am new in here and a user in two "U.S." - forums (the other one is the "S&W - Forum", but with another "nick"). I have read a lot of messages and postings during the last three days and can say the same as it is with the other U.S.-forum:
Uncomplicated way of dealing with a new member, good manners, by no means any vulgarities - don't get me wrong, I don't want to cozy up to anybody -  it's good to be here and it is a lot easier than to feel home within German hunter's or shooter's forums.

Keep on the good work, greetings from Germany - and always good shooting !

Tom

P.S.: I apologize for my (now and then) fat fingers and English

Thanks for letting me join...... nice to know I'm not the only old fashioned one walking around....
I learned to land nav with a lensatic compass from my Uncle Sam.   Topo map and that cannot fail.... smartphone is fast and easy but no reception sometimes where I like to fish ditto gps devices in some hollers....   I've taken quite a few $20 bills from kids (that definition keeps sliding up)  coming up with exact postions from bearings.  
Tritium doesn't run out like batteries either........
 

Hi Marty. Hope you pack a little iron once in a while when you are fishing. I always did just to be on the safe side. Chris S

Always..... even in AK never really felt a bear was coming for me but the pigs (boar) in east tn   dictate a sidearm (as well as meth heads in the national forrest).... I've not had to shoot one but twice been charged and thought I was going to have to pull the trigger
a blackhawk in 44mag covers either eventuality with aplomb.   El Paso makes a tankers holster for dang near anything    unobtrusive under the vest and reachable in waders.....   in more civilized places an sp101 in 357  gives one a pleasant sense of peace.   If I fall in stainless makes cleanup not a big deal....  unload  oven on warm  turn off oven  set pistol on rack on some newspapers  drive out water    field strip   re-lube.......

Still carry my compass & smartphone; compass came in a box of crackerjacks some years ago & it has never failed - smartphone has... I agree that its a good thing to pack when getting around in nature; like a Blackhawk 44m...

Gee, I'm only about a year late to add this but, here goes.

My compass and waterproof match case
Chris S
 

I keep a compass (green Leopold ) in my knapsack all the time.