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Looking to purchase my first mud motor. Several of my friends have longtails and surface drives and I have hunted with them on their boats for a few years now. I want to buy a surface drive but do not know what I want. With reverse not being an issue, what is the fastest, most powerful, best for running in grass and shallow water motor? It will be for about a 16-17' Gator tail or Uncle J boat. What motor is the most powerful stock? Which motor is the best/easiedt to mod? Any input will help. Thanks guys


Tue Dec 11, 2012 8:44 pm
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Call up mudbuddy and set up a test drive in the unicorn v.


Tue Dec 11, 2012 9:04 pm
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Pintail ---- thanks for the help. I will be running a little of everything but mostly shallow water that is full of vegetation. I was already leaning toward the prodrive because of the full power reverse so if it is a better motor for vegetation like you say then i am leaning toward it even more now.


Tue Dec 11, 2012 9:33 pm
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Hang on, the GT boys will be along shortly to argue this and I'm sure they'll have videos as well, lol.


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Go with the pd. all it will come down to is gator tail gator tail gator tail at the end of this forum

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GatorTail is hands down the best.

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Whoop here it is....Gator Tail, Gator Tail, Gator Tail, Gator Tail !!!!!

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Do yourself a favor and get a godevil.


Wed Dec 12, 2012 12:06 am
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I was in some shit the other day that I know for a fact a GTR would have had a hell of a time backing out of. If I had the money I would have both (PD & GTR) I run thick nasty vegetation and just don't see anything backing up like the Pd in the some places. Me and the other PD folks need to make some videos...LOL

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Sext has the video's ya'll are always stuck :lol: :lol:

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Gator tail if youll be running in conditions with sand bottom. just my opinion.


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If you don't want to stay stuck or be slow go with GatorTail!!Thats a fact jack!

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We have 1000's of boat launches around here. Out of everyone of them you can find any kind of stuff you want to run. Some things are tunable some thing are not. Is their even water lilies in fla. Lol

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I been in it all,,,mud vegitation...floats.etc etc...I WILL SAY THIS....LILLIES ARE THE DEVIL!!!

Whent the tide falls they pile up so tic,,,i seen a mud boat with a subaru burn up his clutch trying to get through,,,and a mud boat with a 350 barely make it through...

Trust me,,,,you can almost get out and walk on the side of shit this mud boat will go though!!!! He had enough power to push the whole float!!! But the lillies gave him trouble..

I will also add,,,the GTR Couldnt move in this!!! Stuck like chuck....at least i could back out!!! Maybe a product of know how,,i dont really know, but he ran his ass in there behind the mudboat and stayed unitll that dude came back and pulled him out!


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Like I said their are thing that can be run and their are things that cannot!!

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These topic,"what is the best motor" should be banned. Whatever one you buy will be the best in your opinion.


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And by the way, what you call lillies is water hyacinth, that's the bad stuff and we have it also.

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Most power? Mud buddy hyper sport HD 7000. Best all around motor? Go devil surface drive 35!!

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^^^Thats funny :lol:

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