Electric ATV

[mpoor]

A friend of mine just bought a Polaris electric ranger. I've seen these advertised as the next in the "must have" products. Do you think gas four wheelers scare deer? Is electric really better, or are they just a fad? Anybody using one?

That Polaris is pretty cool, but for me I still go places that require a four wheeler. BTW $12,000

[Wizard]

A few years ago, a deer walked right in front of my stand just a few minutes after my father dropped me off with the four-wheeler.  It was still dark, but I could see it walking down the pipeline and it walked just a few feet in front of my stand.  I couldn't tell whether it was a buck or doe (most likely a doe).  It was during archery season and I was really tempted to shoot it, but thought better and let it walk.

From that experience, I'm going to assume that deer aren't scared of the sound of a four-wheeler if they are exposed to it on a regular basis.

[ducktape]

A friend of mine just bought a Polaris electric ranger. I've seen these advertised as the next in the "must have" products. Do you think gas four wheelers scare deer? Is electric really better, or are they just a fad? Anybody using one?

That Polaris is pretty cool, but for me I still go places that require a four wheeler. BTW $12,000

those electric rigs are pretty slick, but for that kind of money you could just get the ranger 800 and call it a day, more power than you could know what to do with.

If all you are using it for is deer hunting and with no chance of super muddy areas, i.e. flooded rice field, i would think an electric would be the way to go.

I just picked up a ranger 800 a few months ago, hands down baddest side by side out there, just wanted to mention that.

[Kevin]

From that experience, I'm going to assume that deer aren't scared of the sound of a four-wheeler if they are exposed to it on a regular basis.

This is my feeling. Just like anything else, if they are exposed to it a lot and it becomes part of their environment, they aren't going to react to it as offensively as if you drove up on them opening day for the first time ever. Then they are going to be scared shitless.

[ArkansasSloughboy]

I was watching a spike from the stand about 30 yards in front of me this season when some people road by on a 4wheeler at about 100 yards. He just raised his head up and watched them go by and then kept eating.

[jncviper]

Here is the only reason I would invest in electric over gas.  If I had a large (over 500 acres) plot of land with plenty of good four wheeler trails/dim roads that I turkey hunt.  Being able to cruse around silently through the day listening for gobblers would certainly be nice.  Probably keep me in the field all day.  I always feel like I'm motoring right past a possible gobbler when I am ridding around on a four wheeler. 

I have always liked those bad boy buggies.  Then seem like they would be pretty bad ass for turkey hunting.  However, I dont think I would want something electric if I dont already have a gas option for those times that electric wont cut it.

[Duck_it]

I own a bad boy buggy and they are nice for driving flat ground but if you have to drive up hills the batteries on the thing will go dead quick. We take ours to sporting clay competitions and by far the coolest looking ride there and will definitely last a day or 2 on normal terrain but hills will kill it. Hunting wise I compare it to bass fishing they say you will have a better chance of catching something big if you dont make alot of noise (banging around in boat, trolling alot...ETC). In my opinion the noise of a four wheeler might not scare off smaller deer but those older bucks are smarter and all it does is take a portion of chance a way of seeing a big buck.......maybe ......maybe not but why take the chance if you equally like both electric and gas.

[mpoor]

That is what I've been told too. Some folks that manage deer swear by them, and they get paid to endorse them too. They claim that checking game cameras and hauling feed they see a lot more deer than they did on a gas rig. That makes sense to me, but I'm concerned about battery life, and what do you do if they go down in the woods, and the price. I can see the use on a farm or short trips to the stand, but for now I will stay with the good ol polaris 700. Electric might be the thing of the future though.

[20ft up in a tree]

I have a honda 4 wheeler but the only thing i use it for in the woods is to retrive a deer. I usually walk in to hunt for the reason i dnt wnt to spook any deer. But i have friends who are scared of the dark and ride nearly to there tree stand. And they have killed some nice bucks. But they have always had the luck.

[mpoor]

Hey 20, I live in Dardanelle too, on Nebo Road, welcome neighbor.

[20ft up in a tree]

Hey mpoor I live in Harkey Valley on slo fork rd. I have servral friends who live on Nebo Rd. Mind if I ask what your name is may know you. If you dnt wnt to I will understand. My name is Jonathan Wilcox.

[mpoor]

Sure, my name is Mike Poor

[Fly Tier]

I have a 4 wheeler and have done some riding around the property.and never have spooked deer they just watch me ride on by.We have loggers here cutting some pine and hardwood off of 40 acres joining ours.when the loggers are done for the day the deer funnel out to the feed site.I'm getting about 75 to 80 pic's a night.