20′-100′ seems ideal.īuzz Bee did opt for some improvements in device utility.
Meanwhile, close range use (with the built-in speakers) results in nasty feedback.
I do not know what kinds of testing brought about the 300′ range claims, but in practice it’s extremely hard to hear at those distances. Within 100′, barring any sort of obstruction, the blasters can be used to communicate effectively. The Covert Squad has this long gone blaster pair beat twenty years later, with better radios. In practice, however, these blasters were just full of static, and were expensive for the time period. Each also had a radio advertised for use up to 100′ away. They each fired one dart at a time, using a pullback priming method. Those blasters retailed for $29.99, a high price at the time, and also came in pairs (one the “Recon” unit, the other the “Command” unit). The Covert Squad blasters automatically bring to mind the old Commlink II blasters from the Nerf Cyber Strike line.
