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| I currently ride a saddle with a 4" cantle, which is about 20 years old.
I am trying to decide between a 4" & 5" cantle.
What is your preference and why?
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 Pork Fat is my Favorite
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Location: The Oklahoma plains. | Neither- a 3"  |
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  Texas Lone Star
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Location: where ever my L/Q trl is parked | 5" I need all the help I can get... |
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Location: Somewhere around here | I custom ordered my saddle with a 5 inch because that's what my first barrel saddle had. I remembered how comfortable I felt in it can how I wasn't afraid of my butt popping over a small cantle. I love my saddle but I think I would've been just fine with a 4 inch lol.
Why do you feel like you would want a 5 inch? More security possibly? |
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 Miss Laundry Misshap
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| I had a 3.5 - 4 inch cantle. Now have Two 5 inch cantles. They hold me in better than the 4 inch, but there is a little trade off for ability to move. Not enough to be a huge deal, but enough to notice. |
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 More bootie than waist!
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Location: Riding Crackhead. | I don't like the 5" just for the sake I don't want to feel too locked in. I ride 2 CJ Cactus....I think they're 4" |
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 Uh....never mind
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Location: Midwest Farmer's Daughter: Central Illinois | Aqhaczy - 2014-01-31 11:31 AM 5" I need all the help I can get...
This. |
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Married to a Louie Lover
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| I ordered a 5" on my triple creek that is coming in next week. My reasoning was I wanted to be more secure than my 4" and I'm very tall through my torso, so I thought a 5" would give me more support...
Will report back. Very excited to get it and get back in the saddle |
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Veteran
Posts: 171
| A 3" barrel saddle?
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| More security, my new horse is extremely powerful going into the turns and leaving.
Concerned that a 5 inch will be restrictive, and hurt my back. I am 5'8 with a short torso. (Plus 20lbs overweight but working on it)
I rode a 14" seat with a 5" cantle a few weeks ago and my back hurt within 5 minutes of riding it, but keep in mind my saddle is 14 1/2" seat.
It seemed to throw me ride forward. Does that make sense? |
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 The One
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Location: South Georgia | If the cantle is measured properly (from the ground of the seat to the top of the cantle with a level), I like a 4". I say this because I have found many people that do not know that this is how the cantle's are measured. I have seen many people just hold a ruler up to the back of the cantle. This measurement would be incorrect. |
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Location: Central Florida | I am still waiting to here back if they got my tree yet
Crap was trying to reply to OhMax post on her triple creek..... I also went with a 5"... fingers crossed
Edited by FloridaPriss 2014-01-31 2:28 PM
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Elite Veteran
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| My new one is a 5", and I love it. I shaved a full second off the first time I ran in it. It makes a huge difference when I am actually in the saddle the whole ride, and I can also push my very push style horse a lot more because I'm not out of the saddle. It was very different from my 2-1/2" one, that I always seemed to end up behind the seat after the 3rd barrel, since my mare is rough to run, but the tall seat makes her ride like a Cadillac. haha |
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I'm a Cry Baby
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Location: n.c. | Used to ride a 5 but now in a 4 due to knocking a hip out of joint a few years back. A 5 now hurts the hip.
So, a 4 it is. |
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Member
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| Interesting info posts.
Glad to see your posts.
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What is your preference a 4" or 5" cantle