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Sometimes you aren't too concerned with how fast something is going, but rather how slow it's going. Want to know how safe your warehouse is? How slow is that forklift or pallet jack? Most handheld radar guns will only measure down to 10 MPH, because the main concern is how fast can or is moving. The Decatur Prospeed Professional Cordless Sports Radar Gun CR-1K will actually measure down to 5 MPH. Not only this, but it is built for the environment. It is made from tough ABS plastic to similar specs as your power tools. It even uses the Black and Decker VersaPak batteries that you are probably using in your various power tools.

Going to the race track or the drag strip? The Decatur Prospeed Professional Cordless Sports Radar Gun CR-1K also will measure the fastest speeds at 310 MPH. The versatility of this handheld sports radar gun is about as good as it gets.

Ryan

I am frequently asked about which radar guns someone can use to stop speeders in their neighborhood. The truth is that any of the models will have the same outcome: a lot of notes followed by a phone call to your police department. Hand held radar guns are a great way to figure out the average speed of traffic along your streets (or that hot rodder in his new sports car) so you can make an official complaint to your police department. They may then send out an officer to patrol the area. In order for data from a radar gun to hold up in the courts, two things must be true:

1) The Radar Gun is certified for law enforcement use
2) The operator has been officially trained in the use of police radar guns.

Taking all of the above into consideration, you can use any sports radar such as the Bushnell Speedster II Radar Gun . This model does not have the range of a Police Radar Gun, and is not certified, but it will work just fine for the Neighborhood Watch. If you want a little more range, you can get a nicer Sports Radar Gun such as the JUGSpeed Cordless Radar Gun or a Handheld Police Radar Gun such as the Decatur Genesis Handheld Directional Police Radar Gun.

Ryan

I had the opportunity to bring home a couple handheld radar guns over the weekend for some comparative testing. The models that I am testing out are as follows.

Bushnell Speedster II Radar Gun
JUGSpeed Cordless Radar Gun
Decatur Prospeed Professional Cordless Sports Radar Gun CR-1K
Decatur Genesis Handheld Directional Police Radar Gun GHD

So far, I have gone as far as to inspect the packaging, as I had some company over the weekend. They were all packaged well with little to no chance of damage during shipping. My guests brought their 4 year old daughter with them and all of my samples survived. (still in the packaging) This week, I plan on breaking them out and actually testing them for their intended purposes as sports radar guns and police radar guns.

Ryan

We are often asked to explain the difference between the Bushnell Velocity radar gun and the Bushnell Speedster II radar gun.

Basically, the Speedster II is a special edition of the Velocity made exclusively for OpticsPlanet.com. You cannot buy it anywhere else. It reflects the strength of our partnership with Bushnell as their number one dealer in the world on radar guns.

Originally, the main difference between the two radar guns was simple. The Speedster II offered reading in both miles per hour and kilometers per hour and the Velocity read in miles per hour, only. The Speedster II also offered an updated electronics assembly.

Recently, Bushnell has upgraded the Velocity so it is now current with the Speedster II for features - it also reads in miles per hour and kilometers per hour.

Of course, we still sell the Speedster II for a little less and also offer it with kits not available with the Velocity, even though it is the same radar gun as the current Velocity. That makes the Speedster II the most affordable radar gun on the market and you can only purchase it from OpticsPlanet.net.

Joanie

In the article I read yesterday again talks about speeding. There are more people killed in traffic accidents than murdered in the USA. So it's getting very serious, and police is trying to resolve this situation.
Des Moines police (Iowa State) said that one of their top complaints is about speeding drivers in a neighborhood's 25 mph speed limit. They get more than 300 complaints about traffic problems every year and a majority of them are about speeding.

A neighborhood near 12th Street and Shawnee Avenue in Des Moines is a very bad one when it comes to speeders. Speed limit in residential areas is 25 mph, but nothing, including putting up additional 25 mph speed limit signs, or discussing this issue in local newspapers, helps. Drivers simply ignore them, that goes on until they see a police officer with a hand-held radar gun, or red lights and siren go on.
Too many people from Ankeny going to work cut through residential areas, but they do it with no regard for those who live on these streets.

After three young people were killed April 3 in a traffic crash on Colima Street in Whittier city, CA, city officials made plans to install a solar-powered speed trailer on this road. The city officials said that this $10,000 sign should be installed within 10 weeks.
At the same time starting Monday the speed-limit along Colima between the area just north of Mar Vista to the city limits near Hacienda Heights has changed from 45 mph to 55 mph.
It may seem irrational to raise a speed limit on a road where motorists already drive dangerously fast. But surveys done by the city to measure speeds on this section of Colima showed 85 percent of drivers averaging 53 mph. That's how the city used that average to establish a new speed limit. Because under California law, cities are required to undertake similar surveys before officers can use radar guns in order to enforce speed limits. Therefore, the previous 45 mph limit was not radar-enforceable.