TurnOnSport Orienteering Compass - Advanced Scout Compass for Hiking, Camping, and Backpacking - Best Survival Gifts for Kids

i got these to teach my nephews map and compass. the first thing we did was to place the compass on a compass prover i made some months back. i was really surprised to see that one of them is .5 of a degree out, the other was on the money. my opinion, this is a great value for beginner or someone not looking to spend a ton of money on something that will be used for back packing but wants a quality, trustworthy instrument. i would trust it with land nav in a heart beat.

We’ve used the compass to do some beginner orienteering and it has worked great! Sturdy enough for an 8-year-old Cub Scout.

Perfect simple ‘Boy Scout’ compass. It has a great design with it mounted on an approx 1/8th inch thick clear plastic rectangle approx 4x6” (from memory)… which allows you the lay right on your map/ stretch and using the edges easily draw your compass bearing on your map. I’m an active ham radio enthusiast and a very popular fun event we do multiple times a year is called a ‘Fox Hunt. Not a real Fox… but one member volunteers to leave a Club breakfast early and go hide somewhere… usually within 4-5 miles away… (behind a school, town park, along a hiking trail, pretending to be fishing out on a public dock… or marina. club President does a countdown at the breakfast parking lot… and We’re Off! with our quirky simple homemade direction antennas… usually an a single loop of stiff copper wire (we call a ‘halo’ that when held up a bit (like a small dart board target)… when you slowly rotate your body holding the loop up a bit… their will be a a wide ‘arc’ area of good signal and a pretty narrow ‘null’ aka very weak signal… THATS THE DIRECTION OF THE ‘F0X! Using this compus all you do is lay it flat on you local map and drawl a line from your position in the determined FOX heading. Drive closer…but also deliberately pick your next stop location for next DF with intent for of some ‘right angle-mess’ so next reading will result in a ‘X’ marks the spot! … and repeat process from there if FOX not found…

Easy to read compass with ruler and small magnifier. I put this in every shoe box ministry box that I send.

Great price. Same as the $10 version, except no special logo

seems to point north just fine

Excellent safety feature as my daughter travels

I was a bit disappointed by the size of the numbers and readability. I can barely read the temperature from inside the house (about 8 feet away). But the quality and accuracy seem good.

In my youth, I used a compass in the forest, but this time I needed one just to adjust my TV antenna in line with the TV transmission towers. Simply used a map for towers locator to get the coordinates, which I got from tvfool.com. This compass is perfect and not expensive. It is reliable.

I wanted a simple compass for travelling overseas and could not go past this one. It is clear, easy to read and strong enough to handle the knocks that are inevitable during travel. It is sturdy and very well made. I recommend this item highly.

We bought this very basic compass because our child watched Stranger Things and immediately decided that navigating the unknown (or at least the backyard) now required one. This compass does exactly what a compass is supposed to do: it points north. Reliably. Consistently. Our child tested it extensively by standing very still, squinting intensely, and announcing directions like they were on a secret mission. Overall it helped our child feel 87% more adventurous and 100% more serious. Sturdy, simple, and perfect for young explorers who believe orientation is a survival skill (which, in some cases, it definitely is). Would recommend — especially if your household is currently experiencing a Stranger Things phase.

Es un artículo que si bien no lo usas al tener gps u artefactos electrónicos es útil si no los tienes aunado a qué es útil en situación de supervivencia

I bought this for my son for his first compass but honestly the quality is amazing for $9.98 I have nothing but good things to say. I would use this myself.