they seem to work ok I've had a set on my sammy and my buddy swears by them on his EB he just put a new set on it!!! I think the trick is low air pressure (3-5psi) I didnt have beadlocks and never pushed one off the rim.Now on the idea of running them backwards, another guy I ride with used to run his backwards and they seemed to work but every idiot in the URE national forest will walk up and say "Hey did you know your tires are on backwards?" and it would just piss me off so i never turned mine around!!! went to an LTB when they were worn out and like them muchacho bettero tho.......
Boggers have always been lacking horribly in the lateral traction aspect. Good Lord, don't even think about trying to back up on a slick road...there's no telling where you'll end up once you quit sliding! From what I've always seen though, they do pretty good on rocks. I think they'd benefit from some grooving through the tread blocks so they can flex.
I agree 100%. I did this to a set of 44's and could go anywhere I pointed that CJ in Harlan. I even made trails other guys couldn't, especially if muddy.