User Review: Cammenga Compass

Above: The current Cammenga Compass, which may differ slightly from the version reviewed.

Reviewed March 4, 2009 by Michael Manzo

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Price Paid: 90 dollars

For some reason...I'm the very first member to review this compass. I've always been a major fan of this compass. It's the standard issue military compass. The model has tritium inserts and appears to be made of aluminum.

The cross hair style lensatic compass is EXTREMELY accurate. I've even successfully started a fire with the small magnetic lense.

No compass can match its durability. I once dropped a Silva compass (plastic) from about 4 feet and it shattered! Plastic is very cheap for the companies to construct a compass from. It was about -32 F. out that day. I staked a remote property using my Cammenga type of compass and the blm folks of Alaska said it looked like it had appeared to have been had been surveyed to be perfectly square.

This compass is expensive but will never fail. The only issue I have with this compass is the olive-drab paint. It is chipping off on the corners. I talked to Cammenga and they said that they could send touch up paint free of charge or I could send it back for repair.

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