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Mystik Spiral
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 Do you know how much that sextan has to be!!
I saw a modern plasic one for $600 or so.
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Drummer Dave
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It is an Awsome piece of Brass for sure.  I'll guess at $ 2000
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Brian
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Its spelled Sextant, and this particular one is only $220. Sweet price, but I would make sure it is fully functional before purchasing. My brother got one once, but it turned out that it wasn't made fully functional, which pretty much makes it *^(@, he is obsessed with sailing, but I mean come on, if you can use one of those, you got no worries. Kinda makes a compass look real easy to read 
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Drummer Dave
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Wow, $ 220 ? ..... thats cheap for an all brass sextant, unless its not " solid " brass & just coated steel, then $ 220 would make sence. Ya if you can read one of those a compass is like reading the ABC book in grade 3.
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flashlightfreak9
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I think I'll stick with my Brunton. 
I thought it was a sextant, but I wasn't sure.
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linsleyk
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sextant's are cool never used one though.I need to get a compass 
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flashlightfreak9
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Go buy a Brunton.
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Mystik Spiral
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I had the choice between the brunton 8099, and the Silva Ranger. IMO from looking at them both the ranger seemed more rugged, and I decided to go with the ranger because the brunton seemed like it's mostly about looks. Really there's probably not much difference quality wise anyway. Even a $10 baseplate compass will get you perfectly accurate results. 
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linsleyk
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thanks guys I might get one of there cheap ones and you can put it on your key chain which I bring everywhere
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Mystik Spiral
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My lanyard on my compass was really bugging me. You might say, then just take it off. Well It holds the declination adjustment tool on it so I can't take it off, so I fixed it. I braided it by tying alternate half hitches. Now it wont get tangled up with everything else.
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linsleyk
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that looks like a good idea.
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