[ARCHIVED THREAD] - Compass recommendations

Posted: 7/16/2005 7:55:45 PM EDT

What are your recommendations for a good compass, and where are the good places to buy them? Thanks!!

Posted: 7/17/2005 8:05:26 PM EDT

[#1]

I bought a Cammenga thru Brigade Quartermasters. I much prefer the lensatic, and the old Stocker & Yale I found is 5* off.

Still, what ever you buy, check it against a known accurate standard.

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Posted: 7/18/2005 11:56:22 AM EDT

[#2]

Quoted:
I bought a Cammenga thru Brigade Quartermasters. I much prefer the lensatic, and the old Stocker & Yale I found is 5* off.

Still, what ever you buy, check it against a known accurate standard.

Ops

The Stocker & Yale was 5 degrees off??? That is what everyone was recommending on another similar thread. Everyone was saying that you should avoid Cammenga and hunt down a Stocker & Yale. Imagine that

The other Compass thread

What did you use to check it against? I am curious because I don't know that i have anything right now that would suit for any accuracy check.

Posted: 7/24/2005 3:56:59 AM EDT

[#3]

I purchased a Cammenga from the manufcaturer. Military model with tritium and it works like a charm. ALso got a good deal being military.

Posted: 7/24/2005 9:14:54 AM EDT

[#4]

If you just want a good functional compass, get a Silva Ranger. You can usually get them at any outdoor shop.

Posted: 7/24/2005 6:31:37 PM EDT

[#5]

Is there anything one can do with a commercial orienteering compass, or other commercial compass, that he can't do with a lensatic, or vice versa?

Posted: 7/25/2005 7:08:21 AM EDT

[#6]

Lensatics are better for shooting bearings to landmarks to triangulate location.

I used a GPS magnetic north bearing after several other magnetic compasses showed a different bearing to magnetic north.

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