Eyeskey Multifunctional Military Lensatic Tactical Compass | Impact Resistant and Waterproof |Metal Sighting Navigation Compasses for Hiking, Camping, Motoring, Boating, Boy Scout

It's design is inferior to the standard USGI military compass, and many of the operations cannot be done in the same way. It does not open all the way flat to lay out on the map in the course direction as normal; it lacks a thumb loop for holding up to the cheek for sighting; it does not have the ability to measure degrees inclination to a distant object. However, it is sturdy and accurate, and able to perform regular map reading and orienteering functions.

Fluid leaked, air inside the compass, dial hangs up. Useless. Based on other reviews it is a common problem

When I took the compass back to base and gave it a field test out performed what I thought it was meant to handle.Very well made, I am surprised at the bottom "peep" window to see the degrees. The "targeting" glass was clear and precise and the measurements are precise to the "T".The customer service is outstanding, they kept making sure that I was pleased with my product through emails, and made sure there wasn't any item damage. It's one area to sell a product, its another area to tend to your customer's needs, I wish more retail stores were like this.Thank you!

This Compass seems well made and is everything that I remember when I was a Boy Scout many, many years back. It made me have to check out how to use the instrument again, but it came back really quick. Even with GPS and other electronics available, this unit will not fail me or anyone who purchases it. It is a nice, well made instrument and like a slide rule, it is as accurate as it can be. Eyeskey did a great job in finding this and putting it on the Market. I don't think that my reliance on GPS is as needed as it was before. Shipped promptly, efficiently, and intactly. Well Protected and packed ...A great reunion with a compass in about 40+ years. I love it.

I don't know if I just received a defective unit or what, but this thing is completely unusable. It arrived leaking fluid, and the dial will not spin freely. Sitting level on my desk the "compass" indicates that north is at about 100 degrees.

I like this product for my uses of camping and hiking. I bought the camo design. I find that it is well made and accurate. After exposure to light for a couple of minutes it will glow in the dark. I am able to read the compass up to about an hour after light exposure. The compass is made of metal (aluminum according to manufacturer). It is not a cheap, light weight kids toy. The face is easy to read. The compass comes with a nice case made of a strong fabric. It has all the features, that I can remember, of my compass issued by the Army. It’s a nice, well made product and I would recommend it to a friend

I really looked forward to this purchase. I wanted to teach my son how to read a compass. Product arrived broken and missing screws. Returned for a refund.

Well mine arrived as pictured. Completely useless. So much air in the compass that the float couldn't even float properly.

There are at least 20 of these compasses on sale here. They differ mainly in name and color, some have added clinometers. I suspect they are all made in the same factory in China. However, my past experience in similar circumstances suggests that the quality control on the purchase side makes all the difference. Therefore I decided to buy one that cost slightly more than the minimum price (currently around$10). I was not disappointed. The compass is solidly build from cast metal. All the parts line up as they should. The lines are placed correctly, the numbers are clearly visible. The sighting mechanism was what I was mainly interested in (I use the compass to position sundials). I was pleased to note that it worked really well: The compass card rotated quickly and damped down equally quickly. The sighting lines are easily visible with the compass right up to the eye. An accurate(?) sight was obtained rather quickly and easily. I compared this process with a similar one on three other compasses I own for the same purpose. This one was the simplest and quickest to use. The sight reading was within 2 degrees of two others (in the process I found that the fourth, the most expensive compass differed from the other three by almost 6 degrees but that is another story). I tried to verify the sights by using it with a map but was unable to do so: All three compasses were off consistently by several degrees to the west. I have not discover the cause of this and I am still working on it. Thus I am unable to confirm the absolute accuracy of this instrument at present.A few nit picks that stop me giving this item 5 stars:1) The bezel is calibrated in increments of 5 degrees while the sighting scale is calibrated to 1 degree. Even a 2 degree calibration would have been better.2) The bezel does not turn smoothly and tends to hang up. It is still usable, however.3) My main complaint is that the sighting scale has larger marks every 10 degrees only. It would have been helpful to mark the 5 degree stages also. What slows one down when taking a bearing is trying to determine if one is at 4, 5 or 6 degrees having to count the degree marks laboriously. I cannot comment on durability. The lines on glass seem to be printed, not etched, and one wonders at what stage they will begin to rub off.Overall, however, at just over $20 this is an excellent buy. It has become my go-to compass. A word of warning: Given its metal construction it is quite heavy and as such may not be the best choice for long distance hiking where every ounce of weight counts.Added 18/9/2016:I did some more testing. I took several bearings of local landmarks and after correcting for magnetic declination I compared them with the bearings generated by a computer from GPS data of each point. I was pleased that the worst difference was 2.5 degrees, others were much closer. Given the methodology I would consider this a satisfactory result.More to the point, I repeated the same sights using a new Iris 50 compass which is designed specifically for taking bearings. Most of the bearings were identical using the two compasses, a couple were 0.5 degrees apart and one 1 degree. Interestingly the Eyeskeye was almost as quick to get a bearing as the Iris 50 yet the latter has the advantage of eliminating parallax.If I could I would increase the rating to 4.5 star.A word of caution: If you are gong to use the tripod attachment make sure that nothing on the tripod, *especially the screw itself* are not made of iron. Ask me why :-)