Wanting to get a good utv for my girls to use around our land andndeer camp. Don't know much olabout them but like the idea of being quit bc the girls like to ride around and spot light. Any suggestions

Kawasaki Mule 610

I have electric golf cart, Honda Rancher and older Kawasaki Mule.

If they don't wander far, electric is quiet but be prepared to pay $600-$1000 battery tax every 2 years or so.

If they like to hunt away from the house or hunt for hours and hours, gas golf cart or SxS UTV.

My electric golf cart is so quiet, you can hear seat cushions and spring/suspension squeaks while riding around.
With whistle-stick after-muffler, you can talk over the Honda and it's pretty stealthy but not good for spotlighting and only thrown in for comparison.
The Mule is an older 2001 550 and pretty noisy but it's still box stock - I'll be working on it in next few months.
Neighbor has a newer 16 or 17 Mule and it's just a little louder than my golf cart.

Use a battery tender when not in use and at least double that. I can get 5 years out of a set if cared for properly.

Agreed. Battery water levels and state of charge are critical to life span. Good idea to never run a set of flooded lead acid batts below 50% if you can avoid, really reduces life.

The set in my personal hunting buggy is coming into Season 5.

Use the electric cart every day and your battery life will go way down.
I do care for them very carefully because they are so expensive.
Check battery water every two weeks and only use distilled water.
Use EZGO charger that came with cart.
Have oversized welding cable for all the battery to controller to motor connections.
Tires are stock size so I'm not overworking the drive train.
Spray the battery terminals every two weeks during water check.

They are only rated for so many charge cycles.
If you charge the up and don't use it until weekend, then charge it that's a cycle.
I use it every day like a utility vehicle and usually have to charge it every night.
7 discharge/charge cycles a week and 2 years service life.

It's just at this point, I can buy a lot of gas and stabil 360 and get more utility out of the Mule for less cost.

I hunt big ranches. If I run out of gas, I can haul a can of fuel back to the machine and get back to camp. I have not figured out how to haul electricity to a dead battery powered vehicle. But I have heard better reviews on the hybrid electric SxS.

Vern that makes sense. If you are using it everyday your charge cycles will definitely be much more than the weekend warriors.

I love the stealth of the electric for hunting, but for a daily workhorse I too would go gas or even better, diesel.

Regular golf cart type batteries are rated for around 500 charge/discharge cycles at 50%. If you regularly drain them down to 10%-20% remaining power, that drops to about 200 cycles. A couple of years of years is logical based on daily usage.

Some high end batteries will go 1200+ cycles at 50%, and 500 cycles at 20% - but they also cost 2-3 times more.

Marc