BruntonLensatic Military Style Sighting Compass

I'm very pleased with the quality and accuracy of my Brunton Lensatic Compass. The metallic case is nicely finished and the compass card is easy to read. The case cover, thumb hook and the lense frame pivot nicely. Accuracy is good and coincides with the bearings I read on my electronic compass. I live where magnetic deviation is 6.4 degrees east, and I can adjust for that with 2 clicks of the rotating bezel on the compass. The compass card is nicely dampened by the spirit fluid and settles in just a second or two. I bought the compass to take transit sightings and for hiking trips. The only difference I can tell between this compass and the more expensive Commenga lensatic compass models is that there is no self-illumination on this model for night use and when the lense frame is closed, it doesn't lock down to immobilize the compass card. I would have paid another $60 for those features on the Commenga models. Realisticly if I was going to take night readings, I would have on my red headlamp anyway to read my map and read the compass. The compass doesn't have a lanyard or a belt case, so I'll have to add them myself if I find they are needed.I was originally hesitant to order this compass after reading some of the negative reviews regarding quality, but ordering through Prime, I knew returning it would be easy if I needed to. It turns out that I received a good one and that I have no regrets ordering it. I'm looking forward to using the compass.

Everything was very good, quality is also good, accuracy is also fine and its very much value for money I like it very much, deal.

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Exactly as advertised, and very good value. The parts are well-machined, robust and precision-fitted. It's light,accurate and compact, a no-nonsense tool for a host of applications. I bought one as a gift, and one for myself. (Very happy, after a miserable experience buying a non-returnable, engraved, very expensive, very inferior brass Asian knock-off of a lensatic engineer's compass in a really nasty leather case from another internet purveyor. Caveat emptor.)The Brunton compass is everything it should be, and at a very good price.

Great value for a lensatic, military-style compass