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| yes it does!! I've got one that is about to find himself kicking rocks if he doesn't knock it off! |
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| This one isn't a chronic bucker. Very random and normally has some small reason. They problem is he's one rank son of a gun. I mean RANK! Today it was because I picked a barrel up on him then sat it up where it preceded to fall..underneath him. I have the imprint of my saddle stamp pattern on my elbow...knocked the breath out of me and now I'm sore. needless to say I did not get back on when i fell off was doing good not to puke. |
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Location: Bandera, TX | I've gotten very proud of my bronc riding skills over the last couple of years. However I recently learned, that when they rear up first and you lean forward to counter balance that and then they come out bucking like an NFR bronc right after, you do not stand a chance. That was in January - I still hurt from that adventure. I also learned that after you reach a certain age you do not bounce anymore - it is more like a thud.
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| GoMistyGo - 2014-06-02 10:40 AM
I've gotten very proud of my bronc riding skills over the last couple of years. However I recently learned, that when they rear up first and you lean forward to counter balance that and then they come out bucking like an NFR bronc right after, you do not stand a chance. That was in January - I still hurt from that adventure. I also learned that after you reach a certain age you do not bounce anymore - it is more like a thud.
YES!!! oh my gosh ... that happened to me on a super athletic filly here about a month ago. WOW it hurts to be turned into a lawn dart. That rear and then the NFR front end drop and kick out ... we got it on video and I sure as heck didn't stand a chance! |
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| This one puts his head down and you're not getting it back till he's done. At least not me. I thought I could ride it out. I lasted 3 hops. And then he turned and I thought I was going to get plowed. He turned away from me though and went the other direction hopping across. Got reins wrapped around his legs and stopped and stood there looking all sad and guilty.
I really like him but he's my moms horse and she wants a buckskin. Hard to sell a random bucker.
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Location: Bandera, TX | shubug007 - 2014-06-02 10:49 AM This one puts his head down and you're not getting it back till he's done. At least not me. I thought I could ride it out. I lasted 3 hops. And then he turned and I thought I was going to get plowed. He turned away from me though and went the other direction hopping across. Got reins wrapped around his legs and stopped and stood there looking all sad and guilty. I really like him but he's my moms horse and she wants a buckskin. Hard to sell a random bucker.
At least yours stood there with a guily look - mine high tailed out of the arena and back to the trailer.... |
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Location: Canada | The random hard buckers are the worst and rarely do they give it up. Glad you weren't seriously hurt .... bad pony NO CARROTS  |
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| That's mine, he's 16.1 and every bit of 1200lbs, and a very skilled bucker! I posted a while back that I finally rode him out! I thought maybe that would be enough for him but yesterday he tried again, however it wasn't his normal way and it only lasted a couple seconds. I keep hoping that he is going to give it up but I know realistically that isn't going to happen, he's 10 and set in his ways! |
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Location: MD | Yes it does. I refuse to buy anything that has a bucking issue anymore. Enough ambulance rides as a kid because of it and I like my safe boys that have bucked maybe 5 times total in years that I have owned them! |
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Location: Lost in the corn of Iowa. | Can totally relate! I'm still recovering from being a yard dart 3 weeks ago when she piled drived me in between 1st and 2nd. Ended up popping a rib out and got it set back in. Laying in bed this weekend and stretching I felt it pop out again. And I still had to make a run yet that day!! I feel your pain. |
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Location: Magnolia, Texas | I had one like that several years ago. I advertised her for sale on this site and put in BIG BOLD letters is was a bucker, actually had a few people contact me. The girl that ended up getting her came out to try her but I wouldn't let her get on at my house (liability reasons), we ended up trading for a really nice gray gelding. Had her sign a waiver stating she knew the mare bucked and clearing me of any liability. I got the better end of the deal by far.
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Location: Texas | Yep I don't do buckers and I don't do horses that rear either. |
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Location: "Si Fi" Ville | My papa said you know a horse can really buck when he throws you so high a bird can build a nest in your butt before you hit the ground. So..... how high was it? |
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Location: Gainesville, TX | Yeah, I had an accident about three weeks ago where my boy, who is generally as solid as they come, reared with me and then hopped out from underneath me on the way down. It wasn't hard but just surprised me. He got back from the vet today. He's sore on his suspensory ligament in the right front. I also forgot to lunge him. Hopefully with the pain issue resolved and me remembering to lunge him first we shouldn't have that issue again. I ended up having to get staples in my head when his hoof caught me on the way down. Very not fun. |
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Location: Under The Big Sky Of Texas | casualdust07 - 2014-06-02 3:21 PM Yep I don't do buckers and I don't do horses that rear either.
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| In my younger days it didn't bother me a bit to ride the buckers. Now, I have no desire to ride them. Funny how things once I turned the big 40. |
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| lindseylou2290 - 2014-06-02 10:49 AM
GoMistyGo - 2014-06-02 10:40 AM
I've gotten very proud of my bronc riding skills over the last couple of years. However I recently learned, that when they rear up first and you lean forward to counter balance that and then they come out bucking like an NFR bronc right after, you do not stand a chance. That was in January - I still hurt from that adventure. I also learned that after you reach a certain age you do not bounce anymore - it is more like a thud.
YES!!! oh my gosh ... that happened to me on a super athletic filly here about a month ago. WOW it hurts to be turned into a lawn dart. That rear and then the NFR front end drop and kick out ... we got it on video and I sure as heck didn't stand a chance!
Patiently waiting... |
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| 3TurnsonSpud - 2014-06-02 11:33 PM In my younger days it didn't bother me a bit to ride the buckers. Now, I have no desire to ride them. Funny how things once I turned the big 40.
Me too. Thank goodness my last bucker has aged with me. She's 20 now and hasn't bucked in a year or 2. (Knock on wood).
She was always honest about it. It would come out first thing, then she was done. That I can handle. I don't like the ones you ride all day and then they blow. Never would tolerate that. |
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| We have had this guy for 4 yrs. This is the third time it has happened. I had leaned over to set up a barrel(which was fine) but it didnt stand up and fell down under him in between his legs under his belly. I made it 3 licks and was done. I do believe I was high enough to touch the sky. I came down and my biggest fear was him getting on top of me. I have a bruise on my inner thigh where it sits in the saddle. My elbow had the pattern off my saddle imprinted on it and I have a bruise under my boob where I'm assuming the horn got me. Oh and I think I sprained my ankle a little. Hurt like hades yesterday but today it's wrapped and much better.
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Location: Idaho | Ive got a 5 year old that is over reactive and he bucks daily on me. He has yet to get me off... he is usually pretty good about coming back to me fast, but it is a pain... He had a bad 30 days as a 3 yr old and he is sstill working to get over it... he is a nice colt, but has some issues, so as long as I am still in the saddle, I won't give up yet LOL |
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| We had a mare who didn't buck until she was 17 or 18. She only did it on the first or second ride of the spring going to the left at a lope in 1 spot in our arena. She would leap straight up about 3 feet off the ground (yes, her feet were barrel high) and when she'd hit she'd fly into a left bucking spin. Not hard bucks, felt more like the dime store rocking horse. It actually got to the point where I could read her ears and know when she was going to do it. So I rode them out and that was the end of it for another year! She did it until she was 27 and we retired her. |
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Location: 100 miles from Nowhere, AR | bennie1 - 2014-06-03 7:15 AM 3TurnsonSpud - 2014-06-02 11:33 PM In my younger days it didn't bother me a bit to ride the buckers. Now, I have no desire to ride them. Funny how things once I turned the big 40. Me too. Thank goodness my last bucker has aged with me. She's 20 now and hasn't bucked in a year or 2. (Knock on wood).
She was always honest about it. It would come out first thing, then she was done. That I can handle. I don't like the ones you ride all day and then they blow. Never would tolerate that.
I can do fresh and playing. I can even do bratty half-hearted. My 4 year old will hump up sometimes when I first get on, but I've been able to kick her out of it. If my gelding stumbles, he will get up bucking, but will let me get his head up. Bucking with intent to throw me will get you a one way ticket off my place. |
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Location: Cap'n Joan Rotgut.....alberta | my one mare is 13(i think.lol) and i saddle her in the barn and once she is saddled and cinched up snug(so the saddle wont come off) i back out slowly because there have been a few occasion where she has broke literally in 2 in the tie stall........and you have to watch when you un tie her and turn her around because she may light in to it.......and when i get on its low and fast...lol................at least i have no worries about anybody stealing her...............the so keeps blabbing that hes going to take her roping....but seein as how she piled him up in the rose briar patch a couple years back............. i cant see it..lol
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Location: Iowa, LA | My crackhead cinchy bronc mare has PSSM. Once I addressed her diet and exercise, she's a joy to work and saddle. Night and day difference. |
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| My gelding that did not vuck until 4 started buck was ulcers. Try that first. |
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| My farrier thinks he needs to be desensitized. I think he needs a darn job. He's not one to sit out in the pasture and ride whenever. I think he needs to be ridden more often then he is lol. HE's a really sweet horse but his bucking is like a tic. Some people twitch he bucks. Not often but when he does he makes up for it.
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