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I have always liked Silva Compass, ever since I was in Scouts and this is great compass for hiking

Its worth paying more for a good compass then less for one that may not work... its not the type of item you don't want to have 100% faith in. and boy do Silva know how to make a good compass.The Ranger S 2016 is great, it has everything you would expect, all made to the best quality.

A quality product, works as intended, easy to use.Nb. Mine d id not come with the measuring lanyard as advertised, but them's the breaks, I guess.

What's not to like?Been using Silva for years and recently purchased the ranger from Silva as my old one got broke.Perfect 👍

Forget the rest silva are the best any model

The compass works well but it’s described and shown with the measuring lanyard but it actually comes with a standard lanyard.

Accurate compass, easy to use, useful scale on lanyard.

This is the first one star review I've ever submitted (the delivery was vey prompt though). Clearly it would seem that the compass needle had either become demagnetised or was never magnetised in manufacture. At first I thought it might have been a model for use in the Southern hemisphere, but that would only effect the settling angle (the needle being balanced to compensate for a different angle of dip, inclination) but I'm sure this is not the case. The compass displays all the attributes of an unmagnetised needle, that is very low torque (so a long time to settle in aligning with the earth's H flux lines) and then pointing almost 180deg the wrong way. Let's hope this is just a one-off batch problem, or perhaps an issue in transit where the item was packed next to very strong magnets effectively demagnetising the needle.