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Here's something a little cheaper. About $249 at WalMart/Target/Academy:

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I ride my Grizzly all over my 180 acre property all year and use it to fill corn feeders in the fall. There are several deer that actually come to the sound of the ATV.

I've never noticed a difference in deer sightings between sneaking in to the blind on foot and riding my ATV up to the blind and parking it within 10 feet of it. I often start seeing deer within 10 minutes of shutting off the ATV and have killed bucks within half an hour of doing so.

If I was hunting a new spot where motorized traffic was rare, I would probably become sneakier, but if the deer are acclimated to the regular sound of a motorized vehicle, I have never been able to detect a disadvantage to using one as long as it fits the regular pattern.

Another thing to consider is practicality. On Saturday I put a total of 47 miles on my Honda Big Red at the camp, using a boom sprayer clearing out brush for shooting lanes and food plots. No way could an electric UTV do anything like this.

If you run out of fuel with a gasser, you can siphon a bit from your buddy or even hike in with a couple canteens of it and get home. Run out of fuel with an electric, you can be in a world of hurt.

And I've got a John Deere tractor that will outdo the hell outta your Big Red.

Comparing a tractor to a 4 wheeler is kind of silly, they are so far apart in what thy are designed to do it ain't even funny.

And your point is?

Every day I'm riding a 4 wheeler on the farm taking feed out, checking fences, etc. I don't know how many are the same deer that are just used to it, but the 4 wheeler spooks them a lot less than me walking. I know they can hear/see the atv way before I get to them but they don't bounce off until I'm in their comfort zone. If I'm walking, as soon as I'm spotted they are hauling azz.

I think the impact of an atv on deer is minimal. If you think it's affecting deer you're hunting then you're driving it to close to where you're going to hunt.

You can cruise slowly by and watch but if you stop, the flags go up.

That you use them as they are intended. Where I whitetail hunt, carts are mandatory and they work. That's all.