Anyone have experience with the Brunton OSS series compasses?

Just so others know what you're talking about, here's the low end of the line:

As low as $11 at B&H Photo.

I haven't used that Brunton, but I've generally liked their stuff and the price/features are certainly attractive.

There are other Brunton OSS models that have larger baseplates and a flip-up sighting mechanism.

And then, to paraphrase what Crocodile Dundee said about knives, " That's not a compass. . . . .THIS is a compass:

Unless you're a geologist and still believe what your field-camp instructor told you. Then you bring one of these:

or, as we engineers like to call it, "The World's most expensive shaving mirror."

I have one of those low-end Brunton compasses, purchased many years ago. It developed an air bubble very quickly, and it is still there.

–B.G.–

I have a low-end Brunton. Don't like it at all. The needle seems loose and wobbly, always seems imprecise. It's hard to tell when the red (which ain't red) is in the shed unless I'm hovering right over the top of it–makes it hard to get any kind of accurate sighting.