My old 2000 SE 4X4 Xterra had BFG Long Trail tires on it and I hated them. They still had 1/4" of tread at 50,000 miles but that tread was so hard, I was always spinning out with no traction.
Although I don't like Firestone tires, Bridgestone tires are made differently and to a higher caliber. I asked several people I know who had the Bridgestone Dueler AT Revos because this was the highest rated Off Road tire everywhere. It even beat most all weather tires in normal traction on dry and wet pavements. Really loved them, it was like I had spikes on the tires regardless if it was dry pavement in the summer or snow covered pavement in the winter.
Was happy the Titan's Off Road tires were Rugged Trail instead of Long trail after my experience but those Rugged trails weren't impressive as I did seem to lose traction quite a bit even in 4WD. Nothing compared to the traction I had with the Xterra and the AT Revos. The Rugged Trails were lasting good as I had 22,000 miles on them and they still had a good amount of tread to get at least 35,000 miles out of them.
Now I have the Pathy and it comes with the same Long Trails I had on the Xterra.
Hek, they're almost identical except the Pathy's are a bit bigger. The Xterra had 265/70R15 while the Pathy has 265/70R16. The biggest difference is there's no squeal going around corners. The previous longtrails squealed terribly. With the Xterra, the tires did good until you got past the intial tread layer, the following layer wasn't worth crap.
Now here's the thing, I went to tire rack because they're the best store for tire prices and information. What I found was that the Rugged Trail rated worse by consumers in every catagory than the Long Trails! The Long Trails actually rated quite high. I'm thinking they changed the making of the Long Trails as the 2000 edition was terrible and Tire Rack had them rated by consumers to be the worst available.
Since I don't feel like dropping another $800 on tires when I have perfectly good tires, although far from the best IMO, I'll just wait until they die. I won't wait 50,000 miles on these like I did on the others. As I said, the tread wear means nothing if the most inner tread layer is stiff and hard, and can't get good traction.
BTW, on my Xterra I rotated the tires every oil change where I rotated the tires every other oil change with the Titan. I think I'll go back to every oil change as the Xterra's Long trails were wearing very well even if they didn't have any traction.
Have a good one.