Compass orientation with a map and knowing your direction is a most important skill to acquire when you're out in the unknown wild attemptingtogetfrom point A to point B. Especially, if your gps breaks down, now what? This Compass allows you to orienteer to your surroundings with accuracy. Used it several times in the High Sierras and haven't been lost yet. Knock on wood....

Originally, I purchased a compass from Bass Pro and it was terrible. I bought this from Amazon at half the price and it works straight.

The top half of the compass is cheap plastic, and the lid is very loose. I thought that might just be mine but on reading other reviews it appears to be a common problem., At the end of the day, I just did not feel confident using it, so I returned the compass and bit the bullet and bought a very good one. After all, if you are in the field, you want kit you can rely on.

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this compass after looking at many of them all over the net is the bomb. even though it doesn't have adjustable declination. good purchase. using it in confidence as I travel around my backyard...

This is probably the most sturdy device I have ever known. It has great instructions to learn quickly how to use it in all its functions. BSA Scouts took to it almost intuitively. The only issue I had was how to shove compass, lanyard and instructions all into the equally robust belt packet, but I figured it out!

HEAVY DUDE!!! Not quite professional. Hard to see the DIGITS w/o Reading Glasses. The RING Glows in the Dark, but the NEEDLE doesn't. Doesn't lay completely flat on a MAP. Feels good in the hand. Bends your brain just to set the DELINEATION. Looks Military. Better than a cheap-bubble compass. Works the best for Me in the light/daylight while i am wearing My Reading Glasses - which is never outside: i have 20-15 Vision, but i also wear Reading Glasses. Indoor devices drive the compass nuts; computers, radios, fans, & cordless devices play havoc with THE GREAT WHITE NORTH!!!

This has to be the best survival you can buy! So accurate and extremely good material!A must have for hikers and survivalist! I won’t go in the woods without it!

Had a problem riding my bicycle from Abbotsford to Oregon. Sometimes I would get turned around and once or twice went in the wrong direction. This unit fixed everything. Oldster - don't use smart phones.

This thing is cool, durable, all metal and does go in my bugout/hiker/range bag or pretty much at anytime. I'm heading out to spots that need at least general idea of direction. One thing I really need to practice is using the compass and map read/hikes. It takes practice practice practice to get the hang of using the flip up range finder as you have to repeatedly need to refer back to the formula to figure it out and trust me you won't right out of the box first try, or I'm simply to average and it's just me. HAHA. It'll come to you, and you'll be able to very close "proximate" in no time. One other neat item is the compass has a peep hole that gives you compass readings in Degrees as well, that give you a more precise reading to set your compass needle as well as orientating the map correctly. This is now gumball rubber ball compass toy; it actually works, and the price is great for a lifetime tool.. Only reason for a 4 star is because "by me" I haven't truly field tested it but I'm confident it is going to do the job and get you back to beer camp if that were the case..

There are at least 20 of these compasses on sale here. They differ mainly in name and color, some have added clinometers. I suspect they are all made in the same factory in China. However, my past experience in similar circumstances suggests that the quality control on the purchase side makes all the difference. Therefore I decided to buy one that cost slightly more than the minimum price (currently around$10). I was not disappointed. The compass is solidly build from cast metal. All the parts line up as they should. The lines are placed correctly, the numbers are clearly visible. The sighting mechanism was what I was mainly interested in (I use the compass to position sundials). I was pleased to note that it worked really well: The compass card rotated quickly and damped down equally quickly. The sighting lines are easily visible with the compass right up to the eye. An accurate(?) sight was obtained rather quickly and easily. I compared this process with a similar one on three other compasses I own for the same purpose. This one was the simplest and quickest to use. The sight reading was within 2 degrees of two others (in the process I found that the fourth, the most expensive compass differed from the other three by almost 6 degrees but that is another story). I tried to verify the sights by using it with a map but was unable to do so: All three compasses were off consistently by several degrees to the west. I have not discover the cause of this and I am still working on it. Thus I am unable to confirm the absolute accuracy of this instrument at present.A few nit picks that stop me giving this item 5 stars:1) The bezel is calibrated in increments of 5 degrees while the sighting scale is calibrated to 1 degree. Even a 2 degree calibration would have been better.2) The bezel does not turn smoothly and tends to hang up. It is still usable, however.3) My main complaint is that the sighting scale has larger marks every 10 degrees only. It would have been helpful to mark the 5 degree stages also. What slows one down when taking a bearing is trying to determine if one is at 4, 5 or 6 degrees having to count the degree marks laboriously. I cannot comment on durability. The lines on glass seem to be printed, not etched, and one wonders at what stage they will begin to rub off.Overall, however, at just over $20 this is an excellent buy. It has become my go-to compass. A word of warning: Given its metal construction it is quite heavy and as such may not be the best choice for long distance hiking where every ounce of weight counts.Added 18/9/2016:I did some more testing. I took several bearings of local landmarks and after correcting for magnetic declination I compared them with the bearings generated by a computer from GPS data of each point. I was pleased that the worst difference was 2.5 degrees, others were much closer. Given the methodology I would consider this a satisfactory result.More to the point, I repeated the same sights using a new Iris 50 compass which is designed specifically for taking bearings. Most of the bearings were identical using the two compasses, a couple were 0.5 degrees apart and one 1 degree. Interestingly the Eyeskeye was almost as quick to get a bearing as the Iris 50 yet the latter has the advantage of eliminating parallax.If I could I would increase the rating to 4.5 star.A word of caution: If you are gong to use the tripod attachment make sure that nothing on the tripod, *especially the screw itself* are not made of iron. Ask me why :-)

I bought this compass for my husband for Christmas. Of course, I wanted him to check it out to make sure it was what he wanted, plus he picked it out. As former military, he knows best what he needs and what all a good compass should possess. It arrived quickly, and out of the box it came. He couldn't be happier! It has many functions, all of which we have not tinkered with or discovered yet as we only played with it for a very short time. I will update as we look at it more or if anything changes for the worse. It will mount on a tripod, that's pretty handy. It has little "rulers" on the sides, one in cm and one in inches, and tables on the bottom. It also has a glow in the dark feature, that should come in handy too! When you put it up to eye level there is a magnifying glass to help you see what you need to easier, loving that! It allows you to calculate your elevation as well. It's pretty sharp looking too...we got the camouflage one, though he would've prefered black it was not an option when we bought it...it's digital camo. It comes with a nice little case too; it has a belt clip, which is perfect for my husband, and the case and the compass are waterproof. It's very sturdy and much heavier than we both expected it to be, it's metal, not plastic. The heaviness is not a bad thing in his eyes, nor mine, though other reviewers have complained about the weight. We both think it to be very reasonable. This is a VERY NICE compass! I'll be the first to admit that I'm not great with a compass, but this one would be very easy to learn with both for adults and children. Anyone would be thrilled to get this compass! We both highly recommend buying this one. It's worth every penny...You won't be disappointed!