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[–][deleted] 7 insightful - 1 fun7 insightful - 0 fun8 insightful - 1 fun -  (4 children)

Western mounted shooting. I’m not good enough to enter competitions, but I want to be.

[–]southpaw 3 insightful - 1 fun3 insightful - 0 fun4 insightful - 1 fun -  (3 children)

I youtubed this and it looks like so much fun. What type of gun do you use? How do you train your horse not to be terrified of a gun firing right next to their head? How did you get into this sport? I have soooo many questions lol

[–][deleted] 2 insightful - 1 fun2 insightful - 0 fun3 insightful - 1 fun -  (2 children)

My friend is a multi time world champion and so is his daughter, my vet, and a few friends all do it to. I bought a horse they trained for a back up that they ended up not using and that’s how this got started. I have 2 .45 single action ruger revolvers, an old repeating rife, we use blanks and have custom ear plug for the horses. Funny, in typing that out I just realized why I don’t think I’m good enough for competition I set the bar to high.

As far as training the horse goes everyone has their own way of doing it. I train all my horses to not be gun shy by starting off with a BB gun so the get used to the motion of what your doing with out the bang just a snap sound, and work my way up to a larger caliber round with their ear plugs in.

[–]southpaw 1 insightful - 1 fun1 insightful - 0 fun2 insightful - 1 fun -  (1 child)

Wow. This was very informative. Thank you for answering. That is badass that you use single action revolvers. I had to lookup horse earplugs and it wasn’t as weird as I thought it would be. Lol. I hope you compete one day. It looks like a blast.

[–][deleted] 1 insightful - 1 fun1 insightful - 0 fun2 insightful - 1 fun -  (0 children)

I’m sure the gelding thinks we should be competing too lol. It’s hard trying to figure out a good pace to hold for the horse that also works with having to use single action firearms. He wants to go faster then my hands can keep up with basically, so we end up on the backside of the balloon a few into the pattern. It’s hard to come back from.