# Pit Boss Navigator 1300

- Source: https://stierproducts.com/products/pit-boss-navigator-1300
- Category board: https://stierproducts.com/categories/pellet-grills
- Placement: #4 of 15 in Pellet Grills, B tier
- Brand: Pit Boss
- LP on this board: 535
- Last researched: 2026-08-25T13:59:12.195Z
- Method: https://stierproducts.com/methodology
- Dataset: https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.22062813 - every board at once, one dated snapshot per release, same licence, prices and photographs left out
- Reuse: Text, rankings, tier assignments, LP values and verdicts are free to quote and reuse with attribution to stierproducts and a link to the source URL (CC BY 4.0: https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/). Product photographs are not covered: they belong to their respective owners and are reproduced to illustrate the product being reviewed. Do not redistribute them under this licence.

## Verdict

Excellent value with a robust five-year warranty. Its WiFi control is dependable.

## For

- Robust construction
- Easy-to-use WiFi control
- Five-year warranty
- Value for money
- Solid performance

## Against

- Sporadic firmware updates
- Higher failure rate

## Flagged as one to avoid

This product entered 1 of 6 runs as one buyers cross-shop but should not buy, rather than as a pick. It is published here rather than dropped.

## Evidence

Consolidated from 6 cited sources across 4 outlets

| Outlet | Said by | Stance | Link | Link status |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| Facebook | Leo Gold | B | https://www.facebook.com/groups/186479683176315/posts/1448675526956718/ | fetched and confirmed |
| The Flat Top King | - | B | https://www.facebook.com/theflattopking/videos/welcome-home-my-very-first-pellet-grill-was-a-pitboss-navigator-its-deeper-so-yo/1642719230554196/ | fetched and confirmed |
| Meatwithme | meatwithme.ca | B | https://www.meatwithme.ca/blogs/the-butchers-journal/best-pellet-smokers-under-1-000-in-canada-right-now?srsltid=AfmBOoqmoC_cqDk8HvjoO4ua_mqPhEhFwiDoyyPmlrIERFy0R7lYmYyg | fetched and confirmed |
| The Flat Top King | - | B | https://www.facebook.com/theflattopking/posts/welcome-home-my-very-first-pellet-grill-was-a-pitboss-navigator-its-deeper-so-yo/1044757574806842/ | fetched and confirmed |
| Facebook | - | C | https://www.facebook.com/groups/2472661179662495/posts/4281456105449651/ | fetched and confirmed |
| Meathead's AmazingRibs.com | amazingribs.com | C | https://amazingribs.com/ratings_reviews/pit-boss-navigator-1300-review-and-rating/ | fetched and confirmed |

## Nearest alternatives on this board

| Rank | Product | Tier | Page |
| --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | Camp Chef Woodwind Pro 24 | S | https://stierproducts.com/products/camp-chef-woodwind-pro-24 |
| 2 | Traeger Ironwood XL | A | https://stierproducts.com/products/traeger-ironwood-xl |
| 3 | Recteq RT-B380 Bullseye | A | https://stierproducts.com/products/recteq-rt-b380-bullseye |
| 5 | Z GRILLS | C | https://stierproducts.com/products/z-grills |
| 6 | Traeger Woodridge | C | https://stierproducts.com/products/traeger-woodridge |
| 7 | Camp Chef XT 24 | C | https://stierproducts.com/products/camp-chef-xt-24 |
| 8 | Traeger Pro 22 | C | https://stierproducts.com/products/traeger-pro-22 |
| 9 | Weber Searwood | D | https://stierproducts.com/products/weber-searwood |
| 14 | Z GRILLS 450A Pioneer | F | https://stierproducts.com/products/z-grills-450a-pioneer |
| 15 | Traeger Tailgater | F | https://stierproducts.com/products/traeger-tailgater |

The full board is at https://stierproducts.com/categories/pellet-grills.

## What this tier means

- B: Good. A solid choice with real caveats worth knowing.

## How to read this

- Each category is researched in four independent runs, one per lens (expert consensus, value, reliability, community pulse). Every run ranks a board of candidates that deliberately includes products buyers cross-shop but should avoid. Placements score on a ranked ladder (LP), and tiers are derived from LP, so no tier is ever assigned by hand.
- LP is this product's points on its own category ladder. It is comparable within a category and not across categories.
- Link status reports what our pre-publication link check found when it fetched the cited URL. It says nothing about the quality of the review.
- A citation with no usable link is listed rather than dropped, and is excluded from the counted total above.

## Image

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