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 Country Fried Chicken Gal
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I have watched sooo many for sale videos lately and there have been sooo many horses not being ridden with a back cinch. I prefer to ride with a back cinch (especially running barrels). What about you? On your mark. Get set. Go! |
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Extreme Veteran
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Location: Lost in the corn of Iowa. | Back cinch..all the time. Just don't forget that darn connector strap or else it could turn into a fun little ride. :) |
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Posts: 1857
| back cinch, used right! must be snug or you might as well take it off. |
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 Good Grief!
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Location: Cap'n Joan Rotgut.....alberta | ALWAYS a back cinch and snug..not hanging down a foot..........
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Rad Dork
Posts: 5218
Location: Oklahoma | When I was younger I didn't ride with one (my saddle didn't come with one & and I never thought twice about it), but when I started riding again I started using them. I went out a bought one for every saddle I have. |
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Elite Veteran
Posts: 667
| back cinch fan! pretty snug. |
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 You get what you give
Posts: 13030
Location: Texas | One of my saddles didnt come with one so I don't have one on it. but all my other ones that have them, I use them. |
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 I'm not opinionated
Posts: 4597
Location: Online | Biggest pet peeve is no back cinch. If I get a saddle that doesn't have one, I get one. And it has to be snug. A loose back cinch is the same as no back cinch. I hate watching a horse getting pounded by the back of the saddle. |
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 Miss Laundry Misshap
Posts: 5271
| Back cinch all the way for competition!!! Snugged up and not loose too!
I had a saddle when I was a kid that didn't have a back cinch and at a hard stop at the gate, it flipped up in the back and threw me off. Landed on the steel rail right across the middle of my back. Needless to say, it's been snugged up back cinch ever since! |
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 Money Eating Baggage Owner
Posts: 9586
Location: Phoenix | FlyingJT - 2014-06-20 7:30 AM back cinch, used right! must be snug or you might as well take it off.
Yup. Saw a bigger lady loping her horse without one....felt sorry for the horse. |
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 Elite Veteran
Posts: 742
| Always a back cinch and snug not just when running barrels either. I have noticed a lot of runs lately that do not have back cinches and I believe they do it to have full contact with the belly when kicking. I'm not a a fan of it, but if this is what someone chooses to do so be it. |
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Elite Veteran
Posts: 742
| BTW, I notice the farther East of the country you go the more you will see no back cinch but I think the trend is starting to even pick up around Texas where I live. I won't partake in this trend. Nope. |
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Location: Displaced Iowegian | rodeomom13 - 2014-06-20 9:53 AM Biggest pet peeve is no back cinch. If I get a saddle that doesn't have one, I get one. And it has to be snug. A loose back cinch is the same as no back cinch. I hate watching a horse getting pounded by the back of the saddle.
Agreed.....AND if it is loose......every time the saddle comes up it slaps them in the belly |
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 Star Padded Honey
Posts: 8890
Location: NW MT | back cinch & snugged up, otherwise it really does no good. |
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 Firecracker Dog Lover
Posts: 3175
| Snug back cinch. And when it's snug it helps with those round back horses that makes you feel like your saddle is rolling. |
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 Ms. Marine
Posts: 4627
Location: Texas | Nice snug back cinch for me, always. |
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 Keep those crap slapping tails away!
Posts: 8871
Location: Around here somewhere... | I haven't used a back cinch in about 6 years. |
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 Did I miss the party?
Posts: 3864
| Depends on how the saddle's rigged. If it's a 7/8 or 3/4 rigging (like a Caldwell or Lynn McKenzie), I don't panic if I don't use a back cinch unless the horse may be a little downhill. But, If it's a full rigging, definitely a back cinch. If I do use a back cinch, it is SNUG, not a hanging waste of leather.
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Posts: 1035
Location: TN | Always a snug back cinch! Helps keep the saddle in place. |
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Blessed 
Location: Here | Aways back cinch
To me it is like a bra with only top straps but no back strap
Edited by SG. 2014-06-22 12:55 PM
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 Elite Veteran
Posts: 678
Location: Canada | I personally don't use a back cinch unless I need it. If my saddle ever does start popping up I won't hesitate to put one on, just currently I don't need one.
My biggest pet peeve is those that put on a back cinch and it's so loose it is useless and more of a danger then not putting one on at all. Same goes with people who don't clip it to their front cinch.
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Posts: 153
Location: Oklahoma | I never use a back cince , my saddles fits my horse right I keep my but in my saddle no need for a back cinch. |
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Mrs. Troy
Location: western Nebraska | On my little speedball-no back cinch and no breastcollar either-I guess I am living on the edge!! haha |
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Posts: 268
| I started using them because my treeless saddles would pop up in the back - I keep them SNUG! I don't like seeing loose back cinches, they are serving no purpose. |
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Extreme Veteran
Posts: 399
| Most of them have a back cinch now my good gelding that I run is a down right BRONC with one. I have lunged him for dang near an hour and as soon as you get to a lope he comes unglued. I just got sick of eating dirt over and over again so I took it off of his saddle. But everyone else yes has one and they are snugged up and fitted not hanging down a foot like some people have. |
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 A very grounded girl
Posts: 5052
Location: Moving soon..... | Due to health reasons, I would prefer to not try to ride my "bronc of the year" with a back cinch. He never did get used to it so I do not use one. |
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Extreme Veteran
Posts: 342
Location: Alabama | I use one on my mare because she stops so hard on her front end it pops my saddle up and forward, but I don't on any of my other horses, simply because I haven't needed one |
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Industrial Srength Barrel Racer
Posts: 7264
| I watched a video once - I think it may have been Martha Josey's and it showed a run in very slow motion and how much the saddle popped up and down - could have been the result of an ill-fitting saddle - I don't know, but after that, I've always used a back cinch. |
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Posts: 3782
Location: Gainesville, TX | Back cinch user and snug. |
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Back cinch or no back cinch....