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If you can properly monitor your throddle they will mud very similar to my old MudBugs. Both thick mud and watery mud. For inexperienced riders I would recommend the bugs instead. They clean out better than the witches and aren't nearly as dependant on throddle control.

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They are superior to the MudBug's in Muskeg. This may be due to the wider tires up front, but they don't don't dig nearly as quickly and you can go through a lot of holes slower than you can with the bugs.

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They are equal to the bugs in creeks.

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They ride worse than the bugs. This once again may be due to the 12's up front or maybe even the lower air pressure, but I find they don't smooth out as well as the bugs do over 8mph. They really vibrate at around 60k's.

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They back out of holes better than the bugs did. I would put their backing abilities on par with a Mudlite.

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They are better in sand than the bugs.

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They climb out of a mud hole better than the bugs did. Not to sound like a broken record but once again the 12's up front I think are to credit for this. The skinny bugs couldn't climb a wet log or rock or the side of a mud put for the life of them. The Witch's side lug doesn't look like much but I have been very impressed with their climbing abilities out of the mud put or over a log that you can't hit square on.

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These tires are much more sensitive to air pressure than the bugs were. I could run 3.5 to 5 in the bugs and they really didn't seem to change too much, but for these a half a pound makes them a different tire altogether.

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no comment on snow because it isn't deep enough to do a test.

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The 12's up front really don't make a whole lot of difference on the steering. This may be a set up I stick with. I notice more and more people running 12's all around. They definately ride worse at higher speeds but for me that isn't much more than maybe 5% of the time so I really don't care.

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ORIGINAL: jd2210

Well I guess I'll address these one by one.

1)I'm not saying I recommend SW's for experienced riders, I'm saying I recommend the bugs for inexperienced riders. I thought that was clear.

2)The bugs were faster to dig down in muskeg. I have yet to see skinny's of any kind do well in muskeg and there are some days I'm in muskeg 8 hours at a time. Keep in mind that I would still rate the bugs at the top 3 or 4 tires for muskeg but there is no doubt that these are better. Really what I should be saying is that 28x12x12 Swampwitches are better than undersized 27x10's and 12'sx12 Mudbugs. It is also worth pointing out that you guys in BC have a much more Peat based sort of minerally and even sandy type of muskeg in some northern areas (my nerd of a roommate in collage was some sort of wierdo into soil sampling and so on for various agencies). Our muskeg here has a large component of floating bog, beaver runs, swamp willows and has a tremendous amount of changes in depth and thickness. Where I am, the narrowness of the bugs lug makes it sink into the soil easier and tear away the ever so little amount of solid ground that there is. There are times where if the machine spins once, you are dumping water out of your boots once you get to solid ground.

3)I basically agree with what you say. They are awfully close though.

4)We agree

5) I should have clarified. I was talking strickly muskeg and floating bog which I realize now that I didn't clarify. I hate Mudlites for almost anything, but they can REALLY back out of muskeg. The bugs were fine, but no Mudlite.

6)I won't agrue with you since it is a FACT, but here is how I determined it. In my north gravel pit which has a westerly sand wall, when I am relocating the welding rig, I used to have to go around the pit wall with the bugs because when I tried to climb the wall they went maybe 5 feet up and then completely dug me down to where I was stopped. I now can shoot right up the wall. I still need 4wd but I make it without any problems. I'm even going over the old ruts that it left from the bugs. It is from maybe 25 or so trips up the wall so I'm sure you have more experience with it than I do.

7) It's definately not the ground clearance issue for many reasons, but I do admit the 12's could for sure be the reason. As for the fallen logs I think the bugs inability to climb them was my biggest beef with them. If the tree was at any kind of an angle from the narrow trail the tires would just ride along the side of the tree instead of going over it. My theory is that if I had the 12's on the front that the bugs excellent side lug would have grabbed the bark and pulled me over, but the 10's were absolutely brutal. When we go from one of our blocks to another we have a rock that we need to climb over. I'm going to say it's approximately 1/4 mile long and 200 ish feet high. There are 2 places where it is difficult to get enought traction and still not have the machiine tip over. With the bugs they would sometime slide down the one section and I would have regroup and go at it again. On occasion it would need two maybe 3 tries. Now I can just worry about my leaning and the tires grab without slipping off the ridge.

8)I ran my bugs with 0 pounds of air and I couldn't climb over 10" poplars that were on any kind of angle (with my fronts).

9)I can hardly wait to see what these babies can do in the snow. You are correct that the bugs are a VERY good tire for snow, but I don't know how you can say in one sentence that you have no comment on the MST or Swampwitch and then in the next say that the bugs are best snow tire that anyone can buy. Isn't that like saying that you have never tried chocolate ice cream but you know for absolute fact that it can't possibly be better than vanilla?