Originally Posted by
Tussock
30m is heaps!
Work object to object. Hold the compass in your hand, find an object as far away as possible on the bearing you are walking, walk to it. Find the next object. Go to it. In this way you can walk an arrow straight line across country reasonably quickly.
It goes to pieces when you start guestimating "I think I was a bit to the right off...." or when you get too finicky and waste five minutes at every station (object). Just get the hang of holding it up, chosing a point, walking to it. After a while you don't slow down.