Anyone know what the best golf cart for riding to and from my stands would be?

Golf carts are too slow and quiet, and they get stuck easily. Get yourself a souped up wheeler or trail bike, the kind the motocross folks ride. Ye haw.

Great minds think alike. Just this morning while covering the better half of 5 miles at a 3D shoot I mentioned to my friends about paving the paths. That is so we could use golf carts like they have over on the trap and skeet range. After all the wheel bow guys all carry stools these days. They an’it old guys either, I got socks older than most of them.

Well the real tree guys were using them on a show I just watched.,thought it would be cool to use one

We use a battery operated golf cart at the hunting camp. Almost zero noise and no gas smell.

I know the Bad Boy buggies (electric) were popular for a while.

Hmmmmmm, I think with zero noise and no smell there's NO WAY it could be considered "traditional".... ; ) Slippery slope - lasers and releases are soon to follow!

Old age might just trump Trad. Right now even my fake hip is sore!

Around here, guys buy a used 48volt electric. Lift it and put tires and wheels on it. The lift kit is around $150. Tires and wheels around $400. A good set of batteries will run around 700 to 800 dollars. They last about 5 years if well maintained. Any name brand cart is good. Mine is an EZ Go. Club Car is another. Used in decent shape can be had for around $2000. I love mine. They will go where an ATV will go if you get the right tires.

Crikey...why don't you take up golf? ;^)

I guess if you hunt a golf course youd be good ; )

Even them lifted hoop'di golf carts couldnt get down my driveway

My neighbor drags moose and deer with a skidder

Didja' ever consider that if you need a gold cart to haul you and all you junk into the woods then you just MIGHT have too much junk?? ;-)

The "impedimenta" is one of the reasons why I stopped hunting from trees!

So do you unti's carry your stuff to your hunting camp or load truck and hall it. It's not about halling a bunch of stuff maybe it's about helping someone who can't get around too good.

I had a similar idea, but to use as a cart of both carrying my bows and when I shoot clay's to carry my guns and ammo, water and such.

FORE!!!

I hope the naysayers never have hip or joint problems. I know several fine folks that couldn't hunt at all unless they had some type of motorized equipment to get them to the blind.

as far as what brand, I wouldn't worry so much as brand but has powerful enough motor and gearing for the terrain, good ground clearance and good set of tires.

I would use a golf cart, but, it would remind me how bad of a golfer I am.....,,

Club Car is a decent one. We got a basic used one for around $2200 years ago and it's held up great. That's with 2 teenage daughters and their friends driving it all over every summer. They're fun on the trails near camp, I've used it to cruise around and look for crossings then scouted on foot. Saves your energy for the fun stuff ;)

Golf carts are "da bomb"!;^) For huntin', fishin', and golfin', and gettin' momma to da snack shop!

used my atv to get a lot of deer out of the woods. sure a lot better than the old drag rope specially at 76 yrs old . you young chaps can have all the dragging you want. lol

My dad has Club Car with a lift kit and knobbies on it. It works good. Plenty of clearance and enough power if your sensible about it.

Hey guys, the world is bigger than what you see around you. Open that mind up for a minute per day, it will feel good.

K Cummings, I'll take two, one pink(for the Mrs.), and one in camo, of course.

When this thread was started, I thought it was a spoof.

Oh my gawd. No doubt about it, I'm an anachronism.

Like Pearlie said, if you are sensible, an electric golf cart can be really handy. A friend of mine hunts off of his. It gets you into the woods quietly and will go pretty good - some mud... some hills... It won’t go everywhere my ranger will, but it cost a third as much and it doesn’t scare the critters near as bad. It just depends on your needs. Machines aren’t taboo for me. If I am fishing the rigs out in the gulf, I go in a boat rather than swim... If I plan to hunt more than a mile from the house I am going to ride in something. I don’t mow my yard with a sling blade... I hunt with a bow to enjoy myself - not be the star of the next American Ninja show.

Looks like Babysaph got him a hole in one! You guys are too easy. LMAO

If its a tasteless joke? God help him when he needs one and the joke is in him.

by the time I'm old, they'll have this perfected.

still be trad, because there's no WHEELS! involved ;)

On a serious note, and a bit off topic, I bought a Rambo E bike for those 1/2 mile plus walks into the back of our lease. Quiet, quick, and scent free. Beautiful. No getting sweated up .... man!

Golf carts are not trad, you have to have a 26" bicycle with wheel Barrow wheels and an old Harley engine installed with straight pipes because you want to alert everyone you are coming so no one accidently steps out in front of you.

This was similar to what I built when I was 15 so I know it's trad.

Get back to work Kevin,

Son uses ours to get to the edge of the property and walks into the swamp to his stand. Saves time and sweat. Again, no noise or gas fumes.

One night my brother was sitting around the camp fire after dark and all of a sudden we heard in a loud voice,"can I play thru" as he pulled up to the fire. Startled the crap out of me but it was fnny.

M60. I hear you. I have that fake hip Metal wrist screws in elbow. Metal cage in back. Scrap metal in forearm. Oh yea and age. Getting long in the tooth. Ther are times I think about one of those carts. But would rather just go slower for now. But like we all say what ever it takes to keep us getting out there. LoL

I've found the best to be.....someone else's.

Same goes for a boat, tractor, and chainsaw. Among other things.

;-)

My Dad had a battery powered john Deer Gator that I though would have made a dandy hunting rig...........dead quiet

J.R.'s only serious when he hands you a bill. And then I'm not so sure. I'm pretty sure he likes fishing though.

Golf carts are great for 'cruisin' for babes, but i prefer Red Wings for hunting. to bad I don't golf. A few years back the game warden offered me and my wife a permit to ride a four wheeler on public land with a gait key. I told him, that i would keep it in mind, but I was not ready yet.

I knew an old timer who had one hip and both knees replaced over a couple short years...he found a golf course that went under and picked up a used Ez Go...he replaced the batteries and tires and it served him well getting back and forth to his stand for a couple seasons until his strength and mobility came back

Hahaha. Hold in one. Gets easier everyday.

I'd think about a 4x4 cart but I'd prob. roll it or crash it or do something stupid like get cut somehow and bleed out.

I probably would be smart if I got help I fallen and can't get up beacon. But if the bush I might not want them to know where I am and get my spots.LOL

Or steel my game like Frisky might do if he seen I had a critter winched across deck. LOL

Easier each day? What day might that be coming Iz waiting on that day to hurry up.LOL

"If you don't have joint problems riding a golf cart is a good way to get them.

Np wonder the health and fitness level of the average person is so terrible."

I take it you aren't familiar with my friend Arthur Itis. Bone on bone in the right knee and needing replaced next winter.

I used a bike when i lived in virginia. Mostly uphill push, but made the run to the truck easier

I thought about using one here in wilderness area, but alas, no wheeled anything. Fair rule

Being in the golf industry, golf carts are very limited over terrain, but could get you to an exit point to go into the woods by foot very quietly. Gas golf carts are better than electric for reliability on hills, and many small golf courses where terrain is a factor have gone to gas. Gas carts also cost less to operate as charging a bank of batteries can get pricey. Batteries are also real expensive and you need a good place with air circulation to charge electric carts.

We see deer and lots of wildlife when driving across the golf courses almost everywhere and they don't seem scared of a gas engines from equipment or gas carts as much as from the noise of foot traffic. Think golf carts are at a big disadvantage over small ATV's, especially one with tall tires and a winch.

To keep quiet when walking in the woods, I used to use soft leather soled hand sewn moccasins a fellow made for me who was listed in Fur Fish and Game (long ago). They allow you to be so quiet, you could sneak up on a cat. Those type of moccasins where a you send in a traced pattern of your feet are still avaialble as soft soled pac mocs, but they are much fancier now and real expensive. With some Pac Mocs and two pony-shanks (legs), your better off than riding a golf cart.

Why don't you move to The Villages and start a 'Mature Bucks Only' hunting club there? ;^) There is no shortage of Golf Carts, and mature game animals, my friend. :) I guess drugs too.

https://www.cbsnews.com/news/florida-drug-raid-the-villages-retirement-community-heroin-meth-golf-cart-chop-shop/

J.R., you know I'm just kidding, right? There are actually more golf cart hunters with bait stations in the Carolinas... ;)

Babysaph is bored

Sometimes we should laugh at ourselves.Years ago I started a thread asking to help me name my ATV to ride to the feeder and shooting house and got similar answers. :)

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