Posted: 10/11/2014 10:48:44 PM EDT
| Looking for a decent compass don't really need a GPS |
| Cammenga Model 27 CS from Amazon. A little spendy, but your great grandson will thank you for having bought it. It is the real deal, not the chickenshit plastic crap most places sell. I have a real deal mil surplus I bought when I went into the Scouts in 1969 that still glows at night. I just gave it to my Grandson this past summer when he went from Webelos to the Scouts. Buy once, cry once. ymmv |
| An inexpensive Silva goes a really long way. A Suunto or Camenga will be better, but they all get the job done. |
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I agree. If you learned to use a compass in the military, then get a camenga. Otherwise, get the suunto. Quoted:
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Sunnto MC-2. International version if you travel to southern hemisphere. 3rd for the Sunnto MC-2 IIRC in the US it's hard to get a good Silva because a Chinese company snapped up the trade mark and a lot of the Silva branded are the equivalent of a knock off. |
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There is no need for a boat anchor, lensatic compass with tritium inserts unless you're calling in artillery.
Silva compasses have gone down in quality as of late. Suunto and Brunton orienteering style compasses with several scales (the longer base plate) are the way to go for navigation. The ones with an adjustable declination are handy. The rest is knowledge and practice of those techniques along with a good topo map of your area. A compass can only point you in a straight line. It doesn't tell you where you are or where that line is headed. |