[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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[trackbird]

Sounds like fun toy.  Can you use to jam other radar guns?

It may confuse one that is close in frequency. However, each band is a range and this is on X band (according to my Bel radar detector). Unfortunately, Columbus Police Department issues laser guns and the sheriff and crew use K or KA band stuff. So, it's probably a non issue.

So is legal for any "joe civilian" to own one of these and use it on the road?

The package says it "conforms to all FCC rules for home or office use" (whatever that means). It doesn't seem to say anything about "use it on the road", but I haven't yet seen any specific law against it (not that I've looked).

Actually, I bought it to take to the track and check straightaway speeds. Might also be neat to see how fast cars are coming through the traps at autocross events, etc.