[trackbird]

Have any of you played with the Bushnell Velocity radar guns yet? There was a guy at Mid Ohio with one and it was rather neat to see the straightaway speeds for some of the race classes, so I thought I should own one someday. That day is today. I ran across a deal on them through my friend the FFL (where I purchase all of my firearms). One of his catalogs had the radar guns in with the Bushnell scopes, so I ordered one. It reads from 6-200 mph and will clock a car from 1,500 feet away (per the manual). It will also clock a baseball from 6-110 mph and 90 feet.

I need to get outside to test this thing, it looks neat. All I can say so far is that it drives my radar detector insane when I squeze the trigger, I guess that's a good sign.

http://www.bushnell.com/products/digital/s...ecs/10-1911.cfm

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[Ojustracing]

I've owned three different types of radar guns. One car fixed mount(K band), Hand held(k band) and Stalker Stats gun(Ka Band). They are a blast to carry with you and find someone passing you that has a dectector, wait until a Bridge and hit the brakes. Also funny to see someone go by you with a dectector and it never go off!!! I've tested a bunch at work and had to get the gun within 5ft to get some model to go off.

But there was one downside for me. I actually had a person follow me, Once I stopped at my work, to remove the unit, the person that was behind me, went down the road turned around, stopped and asked if I was a cop and if I was testing a new radar system. Now the speed display unit was on the floor, the antena was between the head rest of the passenger seat. Not in plain view.... and night time. Only thing that tipped him off, was his dectector went off around me, when I wanted to see his dectector go off. Kinda freaked me out and didnt play with it much on the road. My last gun the stalker could pick up cars at 7,000+ ft, large highly reflective 10,000ft+, small fast moving targets like snowmobiles 2,000 ft.

John

Road America during OLOA 04' top car's 177mph. (IMG:http://www.frrax.com/rrforum/style_emoticons/default/drink.gif)

This post has been edited by Ojustracing: Dec 7 2005, 05:19 AM