1.55 Growlers or Mudslingers for Trailing ?

[chopfather]

I drive on trails with some rock crawling sections and logs, leaves, sandy creekbed, and some occasional packed dirt or mud hillclimb. I want to stay with 1.55 on my trail stomper so would you say mudslingers or pitbull growlers would work best ?
I also like the looks of the RC4WD rock stompers but I don't know how they compare to the other two. I want to get moving on this build and mount my bruiser body but I have to make a decision on tires first so help me out if you have some experience with these tires.

[GLwagon]

Personally I have been very impressed with the Pitbull tire line, very sticky rubber, grabs every thing well.

I have the 2.2 Mudslingers on one of my trucks & in the creek bottoms & the muddy hills they work great, I don't think they are as great on the rocks.

What about the RC4WD Rocky Country, or is there a specific look you are going for?
Rocky Country 1.55 Scale Tires

My concern is on muddy terrain a tight tire will tend to not clean out properly with out a lot of wheel speed.
Big gaps are what works on the loose stuff & mud.

[chopfather]

I'm really leaning toward the growlers but I'm not sure how they work on dirt, mud roots, and wet rocks. All of the videos that I've seen of the 1.55 growlers have been on dry rock and they work great for that but I need to be sure that they work on the terrain that I run on and that will be a little bit of everything that the Southern Missouri woods have to offer.

[GLwagon]

The Pitbull rubber I have seen is the 1.9 Rock Beast... They grab harder than anything so far on roots & wet rock, with Proline being a close second.
Sometimes it is the rubber.

[SubaruDriftBoy]

I rock the 1.55 growlers in dirt and rocks and mud. They do cake up a bit but even then they still pull. Even when caked on smother out roots they still work very well. I highly recommend them

[chopfather]

Thanks for the replies. I picked up a set of mudslingers with wheels form a forum member and I already have a set of 1.55 steelies without tires so I guess I'll buy a set of growlers with CI foams so I can try both.

[dezmoon]

Growlers Are My Personal Favs,,,Them Lil Meatballs Work Awesome!!!!

[chopfather]

I'm going to place my order this weekend and I'll update this thread when I get to try them on my trails.

[lonleycreeper]

I am running the 1.9 Growlers, seem to work really good in the snow, and pretty good at least compareable to iroks in sand and mud.
They work unbelievably well packed with mud on wet rock too.

Ford has the growlers, Dodge has iroks

[Jus]

In my experience, 1.55 growlers were completely useless on the rocks when things got wet. So bad that I never wanted to take the truck out again with them on it. They don't dig in the dirt well either. I'd take mudslingers over them for the varied terrain. That's what I have now btw and so far they are great.

[JatoTheRipper]

I have 1.9 Growlers and they work well. The 1.55's should also work great, but beware that they're huge.

[dezmoon]

Just an FYI,, the 1.55 Growlers Won 1st Place This Weekend At Motorama ,,

[SubaruDriftBoy]

This is what dez is referring to. These things were caked with mud to the point it looked like slicks, they were wet, sandy, dirty and on stacked wood and still ruled the roost in st class! I swear by these! growlers do work!