The summer of 2007 I bought an Arctic Cat Bearcat 4 stroke. It was stored in my cold storage shop and went to get ready to do a check on it for trapping and battery was dead. I looked all over for a way to use the pull start and. There wasn’t one, what the heck. Back to dealer and found out there wasn’t one, I know didn’t do my research. I just rode it in the spring and liked the quiet and ride!
I have a problem with walking out over 10 miles so I fixed the problem. I put a gel battery in my trapping box on extended cables and had a command start installed. That way if I spent the night it would start on a temperature drop in the engine temperature and 20 minutes from the trail head on the trailer I could start it while still driving. Even with the 2 strokes I would stop and start them 1/2 way to trail head when it was colder than -20. Nothing worse getting to trail head and the sleds won’t start!
I preferred the 2 strokes and the simplicity of them up until I quit trapping. My last sled is a 2015 570 Bearcat. I have a friend that has several and all of them have over 20,000 miles and have never seen a wrench. He makes trips from Fairbanks to Prudhoe Bay visiting Villages all the way as well as Fairbanks to Whitehorse and back.



The 2005 Bearcat

If you are going to drive off trail in snow deeper than a foot, I'd not operate with those huge boxes in the backracks in the Tundra and Bravo. There are multiple reasons. Personally I prefer the jack shaft set up of Bravo. For two reasons.