All the mud racers around here run buckshots or skinny boggers. Alot more buckshots then boggers. I really dont understand why? The competitive guys in my class (street stock) run buckshots along with twice the horse of of my stock efi 302. I dont do it to be competitive or anything, just to get my truck out and help the Central Mud Racing Association with numbers. Buckshots are a pretty cheap tire. Non of them run bigger then a 38.5, but I just dont see how they could be better than my TSL's in that size in most pits in my area. This class can run any dot tire, has to be in stock in stock form, axle swaps are ok and has to pull 15'' of vacume. What do you guys think about this?

 

I ran 36" buckshots on my old rig and 40" gumbo monster mudders on my new one which are really close on my new rig and they seem to do just fine in mud. For a while i had 35" tsls on my old rig and it seemed like i got bogged down easier but if it was solid underneath the mud they would dig, grab and go.

 

The wider the tire, the more horse power you need to spin it to clean the tread. I could run 33 x 14.50 x 15 s on my B2. But, as soon as I got stuck in the mud, besides breaking the axle, the tire would just become a slow moving sinking donut no matter what the tread. When there is no traction, it is the mud coming off the tire that is motivating you as your tire paddles water and mud.

 

I hated Buckshots. Ill never run them again. They are the ONLY M/T I have ever had actually 'throw a lug'....actually, more than a few.
Swampers for me, no exceptions...