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Re: Ballistic boats? [Re: i-Fish] #13635163 07/18/20 03:37 PM
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Re: Ballistic boats? [Re: i-Fish] #13635164 07/18/20 03:39 PM
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Re: Ballistic boats? [Re: i-Fish] #13635170 07/18/20 03:48 PM
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GREAT looking boat right there!

Re: Ballistic boats? [Re: i-Fish] #13635279 07/18/20 06:04 PM
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Originally Posted by i-Fish
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There pretty good for an aircraft carrier. There groupies has been bad taste in a lot of people’s mouths so it’s hurt there business. Kinda a copy between several boats and weigh a good bit. Have to run big motors to run good numbers.



What about groupies???

The .204 dry weight is 1500 pounds. A Nitro Z20 is 2000 pounds...

^^^^ This and Steve Glenn at SCP has shown videos of the one he was testing while he was a dealer, hitting 100mph and Ballistic themselves showed one with a flashed 200 hitting over 100 too!
Might have been the boat Steve was working on, but no matter, they are fast.

Re: Ballistic boats? [Re: Huckleberry] #13635376 07/18/20 08:32 PM
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Rod box doors look so small! Looks like it would be a tangled mess removing/storing rods.

Maybe the boat is so big that it makes the door openings look small?


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Re: Ballistic boats? [Re: i-Fish] #13635402 07/18/20 09:17 PM
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No front or rear pedestal or even butt seats seats? Got to be pretty bad a@@ to fish out of one in rough water!

Re: Ballistic boats? [Re: i-Fish] #13635415 07/18/20 09:33 PM
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Man I love the way those boats look.


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Re: Ballistic boats? [Re: Huckleberry] #13635423 07/18/20 09:48 PM
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Beautiful! If I couls talk my wife into upgrading this would be the color I would get! cheers

She wouldn't want to get it past 1/3 throttle though. thumb


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Re: Ballistic boats? [Re: i-Fish] #13635480 07/18/20 11:06 PM
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Originally Posted by i-Fish
Anybody own one? Fished on one? Priced one? They look well built and finished.



I’ve had mine for a year now and it’s one heck of a boat. At over 22’ long the ride is great and you can store plenty of gear inside of the compartments. I think the doors might look small because the deck is so big because it’s really simple getting rods in and out. There are plenty of ways to set it up and since I do some tournament fishing I like the low and mid range torque that the Bravo 1 four blade provides and sacrifice the top end. I still hit 88.8 in the heat of the summer so I don’t doubt people are hitting higher with the Max 5 on it. The custom cover is very.... custom. It fits perfectly. The most important thing to me is that it fishes great. The dash isn’t cluttered with gauges but you can click over to them at a press of a button. I keep it loaded with tackle and fuel but this boat doesn’t mind it. Here are some random photos. The finish out is superb. These guys put a lot of pride into their product.

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Re: Ballistic boats? [Re: i-Fish] #13635511 07/18/20 11:40 PM
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Nice sled

Re: Ballistic boats? [Re: i-Fish] #13635572 07/19/20 01:00 AM
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Out of curiosity, what is the price range of these?

Re: Ballistic boats? [Re: mudd] #13635630 07/19/20 02:30 AM
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Originally Posted by mudd
There pretty good for an aircraft carrier. There groupies has been bad taste in a lot of people’s mouths so it’s hurt there business. Kinda a copy between several boats and weigh a good bit. Have to run big motors to run good numbers.

Could we please see some pics of these groupies ?

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Originally Posted by mudd
There pretty good for an aircraft carrier. There groupies has been bad taste in a lot of people’s mouths so it’s hurt there business. Kinda a copy between several boats and weigh a good bit. Have to run big motors to run good numbers.

Sounds like you wanted a pro staff deal and got turned down

Re: Ballistic boats? [Re: Minner Bucket] #13635890 07/19/20 01:34 PM
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Originally Posted by Minner Bucket
Out of curiosity, what is the price range of these?


They are priced similar to all the other premium boats.

Ballistic is very much customizable so the guys that buy them typically trick them out pretty well. When you start adding things like lithium batts & charger, 16" graphs, twin poles, 300-400 hp racing motors the price gets up there pretty quickly. These are not your garden variety mass produced bass boats.

As a matter of fact I have never seen one with a 250 on back except for Lee Livesay's rig and he fishes the BASS Elites which limits you to 250 hp.

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Re: Ballistic boats? [Re: i-Fish] #13635896 07/19/20 01:39 PM
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Here's a nice Ranger Z521 ICON from two years ago with a Merc 250 I looked at at Cabelas for comparison. The salesman told me to make an offer because he felt they would "Come down to $100,000 for a serious buyer" LOL

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