Silva Ranger 2.0 Compass

Good cooperate

Everything one needs in a compass

Despite its production origin, it's a decent bit of kit, although lacking in support information with the packaging. It took a while to find the lanyard and then the declination adjustment tool in the lanyard (I guess I'm not the sharpest pencil in the box!). It lacks the nighttime performance that I have got used to with my Recta DT420 or that my Silva 6/54 used to have, so I'll use it during daytime. I miss tritium! Update: item returned as night performance inadequate and sighting mirror too loose when sighting.

I have been using Silva compass products for over 40 years without any issues. Unfortunately having bought this Ranger compass I can confirm that the item I received was poorly manufactured with a bezel that seemed to be fitted off centre. This meant that when set to 270 degrees the North arrow and gridlines were not at 90 degrees to the compass body! Consequently measurements using the compass are approximately 2 degrees out of true. The inbuilt clinometer was also affected and inaccurate. Silva compasses used to be second to none in my opinion but sadly if my example is representative of current quality then that is no longer true in my opinion. I returned it for a refund and then bought a Suunto compass instead.

Is a bit bulky to use and the part that attaches the lanyard wasn’t in the packet