re: Can am defender

This was our third hunting season on our HD10. We put a wild boar bumper and a 5000 pound winch on the front, a 2" lift and some 26" mud lites the first season we had it and have done nothing but straight punish it ever since. Probably gonna have to change the front axles out this spring because they're starting to pop when turning sharp.

Our land is all sharkey clay, aka gumbo. The two mile ride down gumbo turnrows to and from our woods gets extremely bad every year once it starts raining all the time like it did this season. Before we had this bike we had a ranger 700 and a ranger 800. A guy who hunts with us has a ranger 900, the same age as our defender, that sat up on blocks half the season with a blown up rear end. Another guy with a pioneer 500 sxs gets balled up everytime it rains. Out of all those bikes the Defender is the strongest and the toughest. I personally wont be going back to Polaris as long as they keep making the defenders as tough as they are now.

My only gripe is that they have way less ground clearance from the factory than a ranger does. But you can put a small lift like I did for under $300 if you need to.

TL;DR
Had rangers, other people have rangers and pioneers, Defender is the best all around out right now.