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Old 05-30-2007 | 09:56 AM
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LebeauHunter
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Default RE: Bad Boy Buggies, good or bad?

Allright, here's my take on the Bad Boy from experience.

(1) It is very quiet and great for two hunters. We had it for about 2 weeks and when we came around corners (we have a lot of blind corners), we were almost always catching deer by surprise. You also don't have all the exhaust and fume smells. Those are big positives. BUT

(2) Where we hunt the clay is real thick and sticky and clumps to the tires. Once it gets bogged down in the mud and clay it drains the batteries fast. After it died 3 times in the field, we decided it just would not work for us (and now have a Kawasaki Mule).

(3) The people with Bad Boy took it back for a full refund, which I thought was very professional. If you are really worried, ask to try it out for a week or so and see if they will do that.

(4) If you are going to be using it for driving around in the woods, or do not have lots of thick mud or clay soil that will ball up your tires, I think it would be a pretty good option. For example, on a gravel road that thing will go all day (like a golf cart), but once you get the tires balling up with clay/mud, you've got about 15 minutes or so of juice. Normal topsoil mud probably won't be too bad either because it will not ball up the tires.

(5) For food plot duties or hauling, an ATV or Mule is also better due to torque, longevity, etc.

The "Bad Boy" we bought was about 2 or 3 years ago, so they may have improved the longevity by now, I don't know.
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