Here is for the horse guys....check this ride out

[powderburn]

Just about a year ago I got whupped pretty darn good by a pair of my horses and couldn't ride for 4 months. Last fall I was up on the mountian twiced with my standby ride and packed out a cow elk that I was drawn for. It's been over 10 months and I'm nearly all back in order except some minor memory loss and starting to put some miles on my number 1. This is the guy that wreck me good but not on purpose, he spooked and I was to complacent in the saddle. I've had him at a horse whispering Hutterite's for a couple months. Here area couple pics and a link to a short video of him. What do you think is he a keeper?
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JtOtlX5WOkY

 

[DRAFTSTUD]

Pretty Nice Marshall Dillon! John

 

[idnative1948]

He's a sturdy one, that's for sure.

 

[Dinkshooter]

Why the log trick? So he doens't drag you a mile with a foot in the stirup?

 

[kansasdad]

powederburn........trying to think what my (late) equine veterinarian father would say......"That's a horse that can do some work!'

Is it my imagination, or does his right front leg cast laterally more than his left?

 

[Much2hunt]

Only one person that can answer that question,and I think you already have..

 

[BirdDogWebb]

What do you think is he a keeper?
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He is a nice looking horse, but looks don't keep you alive. If he was my horse and nearly cost me my life, I would have to find him a new home.

A few years back I was on a buckskin that belong to my psycho girlfriend. We were riding....whoops did I say that, I ment to say a psycho buckskin...after four hours in, he nearly cost my life. Nearly broke femur, fractured pelvic and nocked unconscious.

A horse is a prey animal. They will always have the survival mode, thinking something is going to get them. A horse is a creature of habit. Most peaple will have their horse to the trainers and then take them back home to turn out to pasture, doing nothing with them, then expect to have an excellent horse six months down the road.

If you continue to work with him and expose him to any and everything, and condition, possible, he might do okay for you.

I'm not sure what happened to cause your accident. If it was from the "fear factor" I would over expose him to what spooked him. Remember your dealing with two horses. The right side brain and the left side brain, train both sides equally.

Just to for the record, the psycho horse and psycoooo..... girlfriend (whoops) have found them a new home. I even give her my horse when I said goodbye.

Goodluck.

 

[huntRme]

Pretty Nice Marshall Dillon! John

That what I was thinkin'. Matt would be proud.

 

[174in]

Very nice looking horse. You would not catch me on him,horses seem to have a mind of there own and I havnt had good luck with them. Im more of a mule man myself.Just keep working him and I am sure he will be fine I dont have the patients.

 

[putm2sleep]

Thought you were going to post a bag of dogfood? I am glad to hear you are back getting healthy.

 

[dmserpa]

First response is to get a Mule, but they can spook too. Don't know if we can ever get all the spooks out? but you try to introduce as many as you can think of! How did 2 horses get to you?

 

[powderburn]

Yeah I'll bet Matt would like to ride him but chances are he'd have to draw down and ventilate Ben Cartright for him.
A quick recap from last year. My #1 mountian horse coliced up on me and out of respect
for him I wouldn't let him suffer so I put him down after a gallant fight. That was the type pf horse you could ride right down the main highway to he!! with and he'd bring you back every time. Now I have a couple more really reliable mountuian horses but they are exactly that nice slow easy riding horses that will ride you in and pack out animals with out a fuss but not go getters that you put to the haed of the pack and set a pace with. I figured to try and turn a solid packhorse mare into the next steady ride. However she had different idea's. She gives her best all day, never strays always, comes with a call and is just a plain sweet heart. She as it turns out will not tollerate men on her back. The girls can ride her all day but when a guy gets on her she will bixde her time until she figures it's time to ditch the rider. She a quarter horse pasifino cross that is supper smooth to ride but in a wink of an eye she's full blown saddle bronc. If you are fortunate to ride her out and when she's about played out herself she will go straight over backwards in an atemptto crush you. JUst a plain old man killer who is going to Fort Mcloed next week. [the packers were I saved her from 2 years ago.]
I aquired Barlow from a trainer who had done some geat things with him. At 4 he had never had a bridle on and worked off voice, gentle directional tugs on his main and leg pressure. He was one of their personal horses and had lots of extra training. He was also the top dog on his 80 acres of turf that he grew up on. I purchsed him and he became the underdog with his 15 new roommates. Kind of like taking an honour student in grade 2/3 from the best preppy school and putting him in a slum getto school and him being bullied everyu day all day by everybody. It blew his confidence out the window. He became a little skitish and the first time I tryed to ride him he started great and after a short ride through some taller grass we came on a 3" black pipe for water dranage that was laid in the grass to drain a slough. A horse about 8 ft to the right kicked the pipe just as we got to it, neither the horse or myself new it was there. Barlow ducked and went about 8 ft lateraly with me hanging off the saddle with my leg wrapped and my arm while i held on to the pomel. As I pulled back up he came to get back under me like he was trained to do. I over corrected as he came back and I was half of the other side. Once again he dropped came back under me and as we came together my head snapped back so hard I was out cold in the saddle and fell straight out onto my head. I came to after a bit and had to stay off the horses for quite a while until the whiplash, concusion and little bit of bleeding on the brain were under control. Good to go now with some short term memory loss and funny thing is I can't put names to faces of some of my customers if I have not seen them for a while. Know everything about them and all the dealings we've had just can't put a name to the face without a little hint.This guy needs a few good miles on him which he's getting now and once we gel which I figure will be about another 5-600 miles he will be absoulty stellar.

 

[powderburn]

powederburn........trying to think what my (late) equine veterinarian father would say......"That's a horse that can do some work!'

Is it my imagination, or does his right front leg cast laterally more than his left?

Thanks kansasdad I took note of your observasion and call in my chiropractor. After an adjustment he's back in place and now a couple weeks rest and a reajustment he should be good to go. Thanks again.

 

[idnative1948]

I know about the #1s. Dad bought a horse when we were ranching in Montana from a guy who rode posse.
A real big bally faced guy. After we moved to Idaho he gave him to his brother to use on the ranch they grew up here in Idaho. My little sis wanted to have a horse for 4H so dad borrowed a stock rack and picked him up and rented pasture. Long story short she would have won champion with him, but the judges deemed him to be too old. We had him for six years (including dad riding him on the *firing line* on MT/ID border elk hunting back in the day before dad took him back to his brother.
Finally received a call that Bally wasn't doing too good. Dad drove over to do the job himself and said it was one of the few times he cried and it took a lot to make that man cry.

 

[MTbowhunter84]

Be nuts to get rid of him!!! Great Looking Horse!!!

 

[chasendeer]

His ears are too short to be any good. If it aint half ass ,it's just a horse!!

 

[Brandenbowhunter]

Like the color..had a buckskinned horse growing up...she was great, but that don't mean chit. All horses and mules and spook...and most mishaps on horses are riders fault, not the animals. I had to sit through Buck Brenneman's classes as a kid. You should find the videos on line...they are good and even the most seasoned horseman can gain insight from them. Watched a kid about get thrown this weekend, and it was definetly rider error...retard didn't even know how to mount his horse...let alone how to keep it from throwing its head.