Ballistic Props

  • sandbar
    Woodbury, MN
    Posts: 1027
    May 30, 2003 at 3:28 pm #1232155

    Anyone have experience with Ballistic performance props?
    Looking at rigging a Suzuki 140 4 stroke with one. Thanks in advance for any info.

    Dean

    Snagger
    Owatonna, MN
    Posts: 184
    June 2, 2003 at 10:57 am #267690

    I just added a Ballitic prop to my 115 Yamaha and I would do it again. I increased my top speed by 4-5 MPH and my hole shot has improved.

    big-northern
    Plymouth MN
    Posts: 100
    June 5, 2003 at 1:35 am #267894

    Snagger-
    i have a F115 too with the stock prop- did you stay with a 17 or go to a 19?

    tom_gursky
    Michigan's Upper Peninsula(Iron Mountain)
    Posts: 4751
    June 5, 2003 at 4:10 am #267904

    I have a 115 on a new 1750 C-liner. The right prop for me was 12 5/8X 21″. The 13X19 gave me too many RPM(6200). You shouldn’t go over 5900-6000 RPM. The new prop gives me 46mph @ 5800 RPMs with a full tank, gear, and 2 big guys in the boat.

    Snagger
    Owatonna, MN
    Posts: 184
    June 5, 2003 at 11:15 am #267912

    I went with a 13.25 X 19 Ballistic. Top rpm are 5800 to 5900.

    KirtH
    Lakeville
    Posts: 4063
    June 5, 2003 at 9:14 pm #267950

    Snagger, how does your boat stack up against your freinds 140 Suzuki?

    KLH

    Snagger
    Owatonna, MN
    Posts: 184
    June 6, 2003 at 11:14 am #267986

    Kurt, I can now go as fast if not faster than his 140 Susuki. He is not to happy with the speed of his 140 vs my 115 Yamaha.

    dhnitro
    Markesan, WI
    Posts: 289
    June 6, 2003 at 1:22 pm #267994

    Hey guys, looking at another prop for my boat…or a 150hp…what does the ballistic props run in $$. Are there any local shop around LaCrosse that carry them?????

    GITBITLURES
    GA
    Posts: 1
    November 6, 2003 at 3:02 am #280973

    [LOOKING FOR HELP WITH A BALLISTIC PROP FOR MY 150 YAMAHA ON MY STRATOS JAVELIN SERIES 185. JUST HAD A GUY TELL ME HE GOT A BALLISTIC WHEN HE BOUGHT HIS BOAT(EXACTLY LIKE MINE) AND HE’S GETTING A TOP SPEED ON 72MPH—SMOKES MY 63MPH

    wade_kuehl
    Northwest Iowa
    Posts: 6167
    November 6, 2003 at 3:17 am #280974

    GitBit,

    Welcome to the site! I personally can’t help you with the prop inquiry but there will be someone on here who can I’m sure. Hold tight. Can I ask what type of lures you build?

    Thanks,

    Wade

    Tom P.
    Whitehall Wi.
    Posts: 3526
    November 7, 2003 at 5:57 am #281142

    Gitbit lures
    Fist off is your buddy using a speedometer or GPS. Speedometers are notorious for being off traveling up stream or down stream how much current, makes difference what the speedometer reads. How is his motor set up on the transom, how is he loaded, no. off people how much equipment, what type of water conditons. I hate to say anything bad about any product. But if you really talk to serious bass (Tournament) fishermen, they will tell you they don`t think much of the ballistic props. In fact walk through a landing at a bass tournament and see if you even find one boat running the ballistic prop. ( To me that pretty much tells the story )They don`t get the performance or lift out of Ballistics that they get out of rakers, four bladers and five blades. In my experience running bass boats. The Ballistic props will cavitate and you don`t get as much bow lift when you really try and trim them up versus a raker. Rakers are designed to run shallower, closer to the surface of the water.

    That is just my opinion, from my expereince.
    My two cents worth
    Tom P.

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