03rd of September 2010
Bushnell GPS BackTrack Personal Locator specifications:
Bushnell GPS BackTrack Personal Locator Description:
There is nothing quite as refreshing as a good hike or snowshoe trip, but there is nothing quite as terrifying as to get lost on the trail. Enter the Bushnell GPS BackTrack personal locator, which gets you back to your car or home base carefully and easily. The BackTrack is a breeze to use, with an intuitive two button design that employs GPS technology in its most basic format. All you must do is mark the place of your car, campsite, or anything else the BackTrack stores up to three locations , then forget it till it is time to return. At the end of the day, just choose the stored place and the BackTrack will display the direction and distance to travel till you return. You may be able to use it to find a treestand or trailhead, to find your car in a crowded parking lot, to rendezvous with a group. Plus, it is very compact, so you may be able to stow it conveniently in your pocket, pack, or purse. The BackTrack is weather resistant and operates on two AAA batteries not included. It also comes with a lanyard for easy attachment. About Bushnell
Bushnell was the business leader in high performance sports optics for more than 50 years. The company’s guiding principle is to offer the highest quality, most dependable, and most cheap sports optics merchandise on the market. Bushnell product lines improve the enjoyment of every outdoor pursuit, as well as nature study, hunting, fishing, birding, and stargazing. Indoors, the company’s binoculars bring the audience closer to the action in fast moving sports or the good arts at theaters and concerts.
Bushnell GPS BackTrack Personal Locator Reviews:
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63 of 64 people found the following review helpful:
4.0 out of five stars
Get to where you were,
December 4, 2008
By ,H. Fields See all my reviews
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This item is great for both the backwoods and shopping mall. I got it for my wife to find her car when she exits the mall. Yes, many of the parking lots are huge! The day that we received it, we went to a new park and brought the Backtrack along. By the time we got to the field that our grandson was at, we could not see the parking lot, and there were four of them.
When the game was over, I pressed the car icon and followed the direction that the Backtrack pointed us to. It led us to inside some feet of the car!
It works great and is easy to use.
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184 of 198 people found the following review helpful:
2.0 out of five stars
Not prepared For Prime Time,
September 14, 2008
By ,Steven E. Hollingworth “TooCoolGuy” Hemet, CA United States See all my reviews
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The Bushnell Backtrack is an interesting idea. An idiot simple dirt cheap GPS meant to do only one thing. Get you back to your starting point. If you are constantly losing your car in big mall parking lots, then Bushnell thinks it has a solution. Simply set your Backtrack and go shopping. At the end of your day of mall bliss your Backtrack should lead you right back to your car. Does grandpa get lost on walks? The Backtrack hanging from his neck is intended to get him home. At least that is how it is supposed to work..
I’m a long time user of vehicle GPS systems so out of curiosity I took a Backtrack device to the mall. Before I left my car I turned on the Backtrack and inside five minutes it had located itself. To be just it most likely could have taken half that time outside my car but how many customers, particularly seniors, will stand outside in the rain so their GPS can find satellites a bit faster? I set the place of my car by finding the car icon and holding the set button till it memorized the place, , then I went shopping.
While I was in the mall my Backtrack went into sleep mode. No big deal, and I just woke it up as I left the store and waited a couple of minutes for it to find satellites. GPS devices rely on motion to orient themselves, if you turn on the Backtrack and do not move it’ll know about where its at but will dont have clue what direction you are facing and the fitted GPS “compass” will point pretty much at random. In this case it was in find my car’ mode and it had no clue what direction to go so I started walking. It took about 100 feet of walking at a good clip for it to get its bearings and point unclearly in the general direction of my car. If course if you stop to get your bearing and turn to look around then it will not know that it is now pointing the wrong way. And if you are moving too slow it may not realize that it is moving and will remain lost. So I walked another 100 feet at a good clip to get another bearing, etc, etc, etc. It only took about three times longer to reach my car than it could have with dead reckoning. Somebody less tech savvy may have made an afternoon of the search if they depended Exclusively on the Backtrack.
What I do not think the designers took into account are restrictions of GPS technology, particularly technology matched with a $70 retail price. And the restrictions of the people that will be wanting to the Backtrack to find their car for them. At the technology end the processor and display are way too slow, and updates are so slow and jerky that I think many people will find themselves perplexed. The fact that you must be moving at a good clip to help the Backtrack orient itself is impractical particularly for seniors. Grandma’s Hoveround had better have a turbo! Bushnell should incorporated a digital magnetic compass to keep the device oriented while stopped. As it’s it is just going to mix up a big chunk of its target audience and leave them lost.
Where it can be useful is as a low cost way to help the older kids find their way back to a camp site, or help tech savvy adults that are healthy enough to walk fast enough to keep the device oriented. But to do either of those it needs more complete directions. Like directions explaining that you have to be moving and moving at a good clip.
As a side note the lanyard meant to keep it securely around grandma or grandpa’s neck broke the instant I tried to use it for the 1st time.
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24 of 24 people found the following review helpful:
4.0 out of five stars
Bushnell Back Track,
January 4, 2009
By ,Maleko “islndsnw” ala moana, hi See all my reviews
The Back Track does what it says, holds three waypoints, with three icons, a house, a car, and a star, if you were on a hike you may be able to set your car or the house icon as the base, and use the other two as waypoints, so it is not bad for day hikes. The unit has two buttons a mark/backlight button, and an on off/waypoint button. You turn on by holding down the on/off button, then tap the on off button to cycle through the waypoints. To mark say the car, just hold the mark button down and it clears it and sets it to 0yds. Once you start walking it shows how far in yards , then miles you have walked and the arrow points back to where you started. It turns off automatically in ten minutes if you do not touch any buttons, and when you turn it back on, resumes where you left off so your waypoints stay intact till your reset them. It does seem to get fast with the sirf star chipset, it is correct as long as you keep the unit horizontal. Once it is vertical the arrow tends to point down, so on occasion if it is tilted in your hand the arrow will move off true north or not exactly at your car, but as you walk closer it is dead on. The blue backlight is not that strong but is obviously observable at night. All in all, it does what it says. It does lead you back to your car, house, campground, and the fitted compass could assist you on a hike. A fitted clock with gps time could have been nice, maybe next version? Well worth 50 bucks though.
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May 1, 2009 at 10:26 pm
I am selling it in Houston area if anyone is interested, great price.
May 2, 2009 at 9:13 pm
Review pretty much sums it up, great deal
May 3, 2009 at 8:17 pm
Where can i find a coupon for bushnell gps backtrack valid in Austin
May 4, 2009 at 4:50 pm
Well wholesale may have it cheaper than Costco or Ebay
May 5, 2009 at 2:47 pm
Anyone know of a coupon for San Francisco area?
May 6, 2009 at 0:20 pm
It’s one of the better sports electronics out there. Good Pricing.
May 7, 2009 at 2:55 pm
Will check local outlet for any discounted deals on
May 8, 2009 at 6:13 pm
Looked for coupon sites
May 9, 2009 at 4:29 pm
Staples had it for sale
May 10, 2009 at 7:14 pm
Compare bushnell gps prices here or on ebay, is my best guess
May 11, 2009 at 6:55 pm
Clearance prices aren’t much more discounted than this so may as well buy it now.
May 12, 2009 at 0:12 pm
What is the warranty like?
May 13, 2009 at 5:21 pm
I saw Bestbuy has it for sale
May 14, 2009 at 6:44 pm
Saw it discounted somewhere, great deal but forgot where
May 15, 2009 at 9:15 pm
Read reviews, all positive
May 16, 2009 at 10:47 pm
Is online price generally better than store price?
May 17, 2009 at 3:25 pm
Pros: Great product for the low price. Cons: Difficult to find in stock
May 18, 2009 at 9:59 pm
It’s hard to find it on a discount or closeout sales
May 19, 2009 at 9:37 pm
Your best bet is to compare bushnell gps backtrack prices on ebay
May 20, 2009 at 0:18 pm
Check Amazon reviews
May 21, 2009 at 11:39 pm
Compare online prices, dont bother with store price