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Eclipse how long has it been since you owned that bullet? And did you fish out of it on the Upper Bear river😁?

Ranger 361v. The only problem with older boats is they aren't fitted for today's rods and electronics. I would be all over an updated version from Ranger. Longer rod boxes, extended deck from the factory, console that handle a 16" graph.

Mid to late 90’s 21XD Bullets are hard to beat. IMO

Nice! I had a 99 the same color. It had a Yamaha built by hydrotec marine.

I have a 1992 Stratos 201 pro XL one owner me, iam on my third engine but the boat is solid as a rock and I fish out of it at least one time a week. That’s a lot of fishing over 30 years so I would personally say stratos but whatever you get take good care of it and it will last a lot longer. Good luck and good fishing.

I would love to find a nice Shadow. I saw one on 280 last year.

I had a 96 Javelin 379 with a 150 Johnson on it, and I didn't get passed by any other boats running 150's, but I spent a lot of time getting it dialed in and propped right. I blew the powerhead and bought a 91 block and had Paul Nichols do the short block for me, had Monty Racing weld up the hole in the exhaust tuner and had a set of baker hot heads on it, with Ficht reed cages and boyesen reeds. Running the magnum OMC gear case, it would run 68.5 with just me and all my junk in it, with a stock 24p Raker 2 prop. I think if I would have had the narrower stock gear case it was an easy 70mph boat. But those stock cases just didn't last like the magnum ones did.

I would love to find an older Basscat Pantera, and stick a newer 200 SHO on it, and have it flashed and see what I could get out of it. There is a guy with a flashed 200 Sho on an xpress x-19 thats running upper 80's. That might be a fun option too.

Probably 10 yrs on that one. I didn't fish Bear back then. Guntersville and Warrior River were most frequent.

Must have been someone else. Several bullets been around that place in the last 20yr

I'm sure it wasn't one of those limited models, but my uncle had a Hurst around 1980 or maybe just after. I fished with him on Okeechobee and Toho several times with him and he scared me to death several times in that thing. When the wind got up, Okeechobee wasn't much different than being on the gulf, but he still thought he had to run it wide open.

But that was a fine boat and I think he still regrets trading it.

That was probably a Hurst B175. I think that model had a couple of die cast metal pieces fastened on each side of the deck at the widest point of the transom. Marvin did that because that made it measure just wide enough so the boat could be rated for a 175 instead of a 150. Marvin was always looking for anything to give him an edge.

We did that to Skeeters, added the corners and it changed the dims where you could run a 175. Squirrly is an understatement.