Sighting Compass with Mirror Adjustable Declination,Fluorescent Scale for Orienteering Navigation,Map Reading,Camping Hiking Hunting and Survival

This is my first compass to learn on and for the price it’s pretty good.

The slope indicator sticks sometimes.

I am a former 19D (Scout) and a very experienced navigator, and even instructed land nav in the Army. I see 3 big problem with this compass. 1) My particular needle indicates 2deg West (358deg) when pointing at magnetic North. The error does seem to be consistent and repeatable, so it can be corrected for with the adjustable declination feature by adding 2 extra degrees to your declination value, but it’s one more atypical calculation you shouldn’t need to make. Also, you wouldn’t be able to easily tell this unless you have other known-good compasses to compare against. In my case I have 2x USGI, a Brunton TruArc20, and a Garmin digital compass to check against. Those are all within .5deg of each other. This one is a big outlier. It doesn’t sound like much, but a 2 degree error will put you almost 200 feet off for every mile you travel. 2) The mirror is not glass. It has a bunch of distortion and a grainy surface. Can be used during a bright day, but basically unusable in low light conditions. 3) The azimuth, back azimuth, and needle pivot reference dots are not in line with each other. These marks are what you have to line up with the reference line in your mirror to get a proper reading. The back azimuth dot indicates 2 degrees too much. It should be an even 180 degrees from the azimuth dot, but it’s at 182. Overall these are just quirks of the low quality that will come with a $12 compass. You can’t expect too much. It’s ok to use as a basic baseplate compass or as a training aide, but I wouldn’t trust it in any kind or real-world situation. If you need a good compass you can trust, I would recommend a Brunton, SUUNTO, or pre-2018 Silva. (Modern Silva’s have been outsourced and their quality has greatly suffered for it)

Good quality & practically for child

Notice the photos showing the several luminous features. Notice that the north end of the compass needle has no luminous dot? Duh? Who would put luminous points all over a compass, but not on the north end of the needle? Now we know! I guess that's why they include a teensy-tweensy flashlight. Good luck getting that to work with cold fingers or gloves.

Works as good as the Suunco any day.

Good for quite a while

I am not going to waste my time listing what is wrong with this item. It is junk. Buy it and find out.