SOTV: ‘09 Turkey Hunts
Last year, Jeff and I were both successful in our turkey hunting pursuits - Jeff shot a nice jake, and I shot my first bird - a jake - as well.  And we were lucky enough to capture both of those hunts on film too. I love sharing these videos with all of you, and I love them for selfish reasons as well.  It's just great to, not only be able to re-live the moment in your mind, but also to be ab...
Sponsor On-Board
It's been one heck of a month here at SimplyOutdoors, and it just keeps getting better.  I'm very proud and pleased to announce that we have our first sponsor - Cottage Craft Works. Cottage Craft Works make all kinds of unique things - hand-made furniture, fishing lures, custom gun stocks, toys and, of course, my personal favorite, hunting calls.  They make box calls, slate calls, owl hoots, ...
Walks: Getting Outside Anyway We Can
Sure, a lot of the sidewalks are a muddy mess, and a few of them are quite treacherous - ice-covered and very slick from the snow that has melted during the day and then re-froze at night.  But that hasn't kept the wife, Abby, or myself from enjoying a walk the last couple evenings. It's interesting this time of the year as well.  On one end it's great to see the snow disappearing and the sta...
Michigan’s Changing of the Seasons
I walked out the back door yesterday afternoon - to take out the trash - and I was promptly met by spring.  This weekend the weather has been unbelievable, especially considering that we were ice fishing just last weekend; we hit the 50 degree mark yesterday, and we're supposed to be in the high 40's, low 50's all week this week.  So much for ice fishing, I guess. What I experienced this week...
SOTV: New Youth Video
Head on over to SimpyOutdoors TV and check out the new video we posted. During Michigan's Early Anterless Season last year, Jeff and Tyler G. did their best to fill Tyler's first tag. This early season allowed Tyler to experience all the emotions that come with hunting - the feeling that comes with missing, and then the elation that comes with.........well you'll just have to watch to find out...

The Quad Shopping Continues…..

Posted By: Arthur on March 5, 2009 in Equipment - Comments: 8 Comments »

The wife and I ventured out to one of our local motor sports dealers the other night, and officially started the search for our new ATV.  Unfortunately, this dealer wasn’t very accommodating, and after wasting close to two hours in their shop we decided we were going to continue our search.  In a nutshell, the first outing was very disappointing.

I was discouraged at first, but the wife – as always – was not deterred, and promptly found two very nice used quads the next morning at another dealer.  This dealer is a little bit farther away, but the two used quads she found appear to be in decent shape, and most importantly, are decently priced.  We are going to head down there tonight and see what they have to say.  Hopefully it works out.

At first we were focused on a two-person ATV, and that is what we looked at the other night.  But after pricing the two persons models,  it really makes just as much sense to buy two used quads, rather than one real expensive one.  Plus, that way we get to have equal the amount of fun, and not have to share the quad.  If you knew my wife, you’d know that is a much better way to go.  She told me she was fine with sharing, but I knew deep down that she wanted one for her very own.

We’re excited about the prospects of tonight, and hope that everything goes a little better than our first shopping trip.  This dealer appears to be a little larger, and has quite a few more options, so we’re optimistic about the trip.  We’re even hopeful – with the new quad deals we saw them advertising – that we might be able to work two new quads into the deal.

At this point, though, I’d be happy with a couple decent used ones.  Now everyone cross your fingers for us……and let me buy your trailer!!!!

Copyright 2010 SimplyOutdoors.net
Please visit our video site: SimplyOutdoors TV

Popularity: 2% [?]


8 Responses

You can follow any responses to this entry through the RSS 2.0 feed.

You can leave a response, or trackback from your own site.

  1. Blessed says:

    New Quads would be best!

    If you end up going used, I hope you have better luck with yours than we’ve had with ours… it’s fine now, after months and months of work and lots and lots of cash we hadn’t planned on spending. We would have been better off to have just bought something new!

  2. You are making me want to go buy one.

  3. jeff says:

    Good luck tonight!

    I want to ride this week-end so you better get one…or two!

  4. Rick says:

    Looking forward to hear how it all turns out. I have always wanted to get one myself.

  5. Eric Morehouse says:

    Keep looking. I found two 2004 Polaris 600 Twin Sportsmans with a trailer, One had 60 hours and the other 120….yes I had to repair a couple things. Nothing the purchase of a shop manual didn’t show me how to do. Got them for $9,000. I too didn’t want to pay the new price……deals are out there and it seems people are parting with them more and more here lately

  6. CDGardens says:

    Best wishes on your quad(s) with trailer hunting excursion. Sounds like a fun weekend on the way. ;)

  7. Marian says:

    Good Luck on finding your ATV’s..so much fun when you have two riding through the woods! :)

  8. Tom Sorenson says:

    I have no trailer…but boy have I got a deal for you! 2001 Dodge Ram 2500…man, you’ve just got to buy this baby! Sweet deal! Oh, and I’ve only been trying to sell it for 18 months. Can’t believe the pickup market done went and dried up at the wrongest of times!

    Good luck in your search for a 4 wheeler – never used one myself. At the expense of sounding like a baby I’ll go ahead and say they kinda scare me a tad!

Leave a Reply

SO Updates

Want SimplyOutdoors in your mailbox?
Click here.

You can find us on Facebook here

And follow us on Twitter here

Our Sponsors

Advertisements

About Us

SimplyOutdoors.net is a Michigan-based outdoor website. We are a family-oriented outdoor crew who enjoy the outdoors and enjoy sharing our passion for Mother Nature with all of you. We not only write about the outdoors, but we film our outdoor exploits as well and those are featured on our video blog, SimplyOutdoors TV. We hope you enjoy both sites, and we hope that you appreciate the real, simple, outdoor experience

Mission Statement

We will strive to be a positive voice for the outdoors. We will promote all persons, especially young people, who engage in outdoor pursuits as well as work to support our local and national outdoor organizations. We will promote our love and passion for the outdoors by working to portray a positive image of hunters and outdoorsmen through various outlets. We will HAVE FUN!

Archives