Thread: Setting up a quad for hunting

I just use a 2 wheel farm bike with y bars on the front , use less gas ,go more places ,cheaper to buy but unfortunately doesn't have the quad wank factor.

Does this count??

Not my bike, but I've spent an awful lot of time using it for shooting. Drop-rack on the front. Toolbox (full of farm junk so I didn't use it, but still a handy rest at times) Rifle in rack which you can barely see just behind the toolbox.

Good to have a rubber mat or platform on the back, for meat and/or mates.

Hot-grips.

The rabbiters seem to like using high-sided wire-mesh cages front and back, to fill with ammo/gear/rabbits

No power steer on this beastie, but use it on the can-am quads and it's absolutely fantastic. Makes a world of difference.

4 fallow on the bike at this point, and still had another one to shoot and throw on the back. Fine on the flatter tracks, but asking for trouble if you took it on the steep stuff like that...

Striker whereabouts are you down that way? Have you crossed paths with my dad? (Ivan?)

Originally Posted by Ryan_Songhurst

Striker whereabouts are you down that way? Have you crossed paths with my dad? (Ivan?)

Fairlie most of the time. Can't say I've heard the name, but I don't have the energy for much more than a very small social circle, so not that surprising..

Ah ok, youre a bit further north, he stomps around Hakataramea/Twizel/Omarama sort of thing

Originally Posted by von tempsky fan

I just use a 2 wheel farm bike with y bars on the front , use less gas ,go more places ,cheaper to buy but unfortunately doesn't have the quad wank factor.

And some people still drive Morris Minors.

Originally Posted by von tempsky fan

I just use a 2 wheel farm bike with y bars on the front , use less gas ,go more places ,cheaper to buy but unfortunately doesn't have the quad wank factor.

Also doesn't have the quad ability to carry heaps of shit factor...

Welded up some brackets and installed winch today, seems to work pretty good, got sent the wrong bullbars so have sent them back and awaiting correct ones, put some decent flood lights on and wired them up through a relay to come on high beam only, have a spotlight with a handlebar mount coming, along with some rifle mounts. Might throw a set of new tyres at it and I reckon she's ready to go hunting.

Originally Posted by Ryan_Songhurst

Welded up some brackets and installed winch today, seems to work pretty good, got sent the wrong bullbars so have sent them back and awaiting correct ones, put some decent flood lights on and wired them up through a relay to come on high beam only, have a spotlight with a handlebar mount coming, along with some rifle mounts. Might throw a set of new tyres at it and I reckon she's ready to go hunting.
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Winch on a quad....
A few years back suzuki brought out a green 750 it came with a free winch as a sales pitch.
We trade them every 2 years as it costs fark all and anyhow there was brand new one in the shed, we had a big night the boat got pushed a fair way out.
When I got up the next morning the quad was halfway up the tree on the front lawn!


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Will be interesting to see if I ever actually use it, the only time I have ever felt the need to use one was a couple years back when we ran CanAm's here (that's a story in itself...) got myself bogged and thought "no worries, these things have a winch" there was a fence post about 4 or 5 metres away so I pulled out the wire and got about three metres and that's all the bloody wire it had on it!

The warn winch has about 100feet it's impressive
To be honest I also only used it the once when stuck in the creek and the share pin broke running it out!
Haven't bothered with them since.


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I have found with a winch that you tend to get stuck far more than you did before the winch

Winch, you don't need them often but when you do you really need it

Originally Posted by MSL

I have found with a winch that you tend to get stuck far more than you did before the winch

Yes, I can see that being a possibility, more risks taken! I broke my neck when I was a wee fella so have always had this fear of landing on my head, I rode motocross all through my teens and it was always front of mind, then a few years back I got one of those Leat neck braces, subconsciously it must have made me thought I was bulletproof as I rode way faster than before, crashed way more often too!