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  Northern Chocolate Queen
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Location: ND | Just got my photo's back from CMSA Worlds yesterday so figured I'd better share!
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 Do You Feel Lucky Punk?
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Location: NM...the Land of Manana | That last pic is just.......WOW!!!!! |
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Location: Colorado plains standing on a goat head! | Great shots! Hopefully will see you there next year! |
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Northern Chocolate Queen
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Location: ND | Lightfoot - 2014-11-07 3:18 PM That last pic is just.......WOW!!!!!
Isn't that one fun!!!! |
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Northern Chocolate Queen
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Location: ND | paysonw - 2014-11-07 3:25 PM Great shots! Hopefully will see you there next year!
We're already planning to be there again next year. Was a bit of a long drive but more than worth the trip. |
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 Dancing in my Mind
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Location: Eastern OH but my heart is in WV |   |
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 Ms. Marine
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Location: Texas | Awesome photos! |
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 A Somebody to Everybody
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Location: Under The Big Sky Of Texas | I love them all and you look awesome girl and I really like that last one too, its really got some pop to it, I think you need to make that one into a drawing |
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| Those are awesome! |
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 Firecracker Dog Lover
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| Love them all Sara!! |
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Northern Chocolate Queen
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Location: ND | Southtxponygirl - 2014-11-07 4:02 PM I love them all and you look awesome girl and I really like that last one too, its really got some pop to it, I think you need to make that one into a drawing
Ya know....you're not the first one to tell me that. I may have to listen & work on that after Christmas! |
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Expert
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Location: North Central Iowa Land of white frozen grass | I bet your husband doesn't give you much back talk with you knowing how to handle a gun like that.
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They Don't Know Me
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Location: Bastrop, TX | Awesome. Your horse is so pretty. Yall look great. |
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 Texas Tenderheart
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Location: Red Raiderland | What cool pics!!! The last one is magnificent!  |
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Texas Tenderheart
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Location: Red Raiderland | SJ, approx how long does it take for a horse to get use to the gunfire sound? I would guess they have to slowly work their way up to having a rider in the saddle, huh? I need to pack some heat for my trail rides for the coyotes. They are thick, thick, THICK this year. I saw 5 together last week.  |
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Northern Chocolate Queen
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Location: ND |
They're all individuals & take to it different. Ollie, the one in these pictures was a bit of a project & took several months to get to where he was consitent about me shooting off him & even longer to get him working the courses nicely while shooting.....He's FINALLY after a year & a half of work getting where I want him & is ready to start adding speed. My buckskin on the other hand, never so much as flinched when I started shooting off him.
Everyone has their own techneque for introducing the shooting. What I've found works best for me is to just take the horse to practice with me & let them get used to the noise. When they're good with it I'll ride them along beside a solid horse & the person on that horse shoots back behind us. Keep doing that until they're totally relaxed then hand the gun over to me & I just stay beside the other horse & shoot behind. From there I build up to trotting & loping circles while shooting behind. Once they're good with loping circles we start loping courses while shooting. Then gradually over the course of weeks/months depending on the horse I work up to shooting by their heads. I always use earplugs on them. |
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Location: Gainesville, TX | So very cool! |
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Texas Tenderheart
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Location: Red Raiderland | SaraJean - 2014-11-07 8:24 PM They're all individuals & take to it different. Ollie, the one in these pictures was a bit of a project & took several months to get to where he was consitent about me shooting off him & even longer to get him working the courses nicely while shooting.....He's FINALLY after a year & a half of work getting where I want him & is ready to start adding speed. My buckskin on the other hand, never so much as flinched when I started shooting off him.
Everyone has their own techneque for introducing the shooting. What I've found works best for me is to just take the horse to practice with me & let them get used to the noise. When they're good with it I'll ride them along beside a solid horse & the person on that horse shoots back behind us. Keep doing that until they're totally relaxed then hand the gun over to me & I just stay beside the other horse & shoot behind. From there I build up to trotting & loping circles while shooting behind. Once they're good with loping circles we start loping courses while shooting. Then gradually over the course of weeks/months depending on the horse I work up to shooting by their heads. I always use earplugs on them.
Thanks for that info. It's very intersting. Do you use horse earplugs or just tampons in the ears?
Our horses are used to us shooting in the vacinity and don't really care too much but it is nice to know how mounted shooters go about it.
Again, your pictures are beautiful. |
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Northern Chocolate Queen
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Location: ND | Kaycee - 2014-11-07 8:35 PM SaraJean - 2014-11-07 8:24 PM They're all individuals & take to it different. Ollie, the one in these pictures was a bit of a project & took several months to get to where he was consitent about me shooting off him & even longer to get him working the courses nicely while shooting.....He's FINALLY after a year & a half of work getting where I want him & is ready to start adding speed. My buckskin on the other hand, never so much as flinched when I started shooting off him.
Everyone has their own techneque for introducing the shooting. What I've found works best for me is to just take the horse to practice with me & let them get used to the noise. When they're good with it I'll ride them along beside a solid horse & the person on that horse shoots back behind us. Keep doing that until they're totally relaxed then hand the gun over to me & I just stay beside the other horse & shoot behind. From there I build up to trotting & loping circles while shooting behind. Once they're good with loping circles we start loping courses while shooting. Then gradually over the course of weeks/months depending on the horse I work up to shooting by their heads. I always use earplugs on them.
Our horses are used to us shooting in the vacinity and don't really care too much but it is nice to know how mounted shooters go about it.
Again, your pictures are beautiful.
I use these http://www.kvsupply.com/horse-ear-plugs-size-large-black
There is also a lot of people that use the foam cat toys that look like socker balls & just put them on a string. |
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 Angel in a Sorrel Coat
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Location: In a happy place | Those are awesome pictures and I too really like the last one. I just love your yellow horse. |
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Hungarian Midget Woman
Location: Midwest | Lovely! |
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Red Bull Agressive
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Location: North Dakota | Kaycee - 2014-11-07 9:35 PM SaraJean - 2014-11-07 8:24 PM They're all individuals & take to it different. Ollie, the one in these pictures was a bit of a project & took several months to get to where he was consitent about me shooting off him & even longer to get him working the courses nicely while shooting.....He's FINALLY after a year & a half of work getting where I want him & is ready to start adding speed. My buckskin on the other hand, never so much as flinched when I started shooting off him.
Everyone has their own techneque for introducing the shooting. What I've found works best for me is to just take the horse to practice with me & let them get used to the noise. When they're good with it I'll ride them along beside a solid horse & the person on that horse shoots back behind us. Keep doing that until they're totally relaxed then hand the gun over to me & I just stay beside the other horse & shoot behind. From there I build up to trotting & loping circles while shooting behind. Once they're good with loping circles we start loping courses while shooting. Then gradually over the course of weeks/months depending on the horse I work up to shooting by their heads. I always use earplugs on them.
Our horses are used to us shooting in the vacinity and don't really care too much but it is nice to know how mounted shooters go about it.
Again, your pictures are beautiful.
Same here. My horse has only had never been around gunfire until I bought him. I only shot off him once before he got sick, but he didn't even flinch. In fact the ear plugs bother him but guns don't.
Also, awesome pics! Can't wait till I can get back into it. |
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| Great pics!!! It was neat to finally be able to put a face to a name on here too!
ps ... I CAN'T WAIT FOR NEXT YEAR!! |
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