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Location: Florida | Preferences everyone?
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"Heck's Coming With Me"
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Location: Kansas | Browbands are ugly......the less "stuff" on a horses head, the better in my opinion. I think the same thing about the bronc halters with the big leather nosepieces. Dirt and sweat collecting under them has to be uncomfortable.
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Posts: 3782
 
Location: Gainesville, TX | Browband |
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 Underestimated Underdog
Posts: 3971
Location: Minnesota | Browband. Call me paranoid but my horse has little nub ears from them getting frost bitten when he was born and rides in a hackamore....a one eared headstall just doesn't seem like a good idea for him. |
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 Owner of a ratting catting machine
Posts: 2258
| Browband for snaffles is safer and more stable. I like one ears on everything else. |
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 Coyote Country Queen
Posts: 5666
| We have some of each, I guess we just ride in whatever we have available! I have had a couple of horses that do not like a one ear so I make sure to keep them in a browband. One of them would constantly twitch her ear, and the other would shake his head. |
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 A Somebody to Everybody
Posts: 41354
Location: Under The Big Sky Of Texas | I have both |
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Expert
Posts: 1694
Location: Willows, CA | Browband for me most of the time. |
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Rad Dork
Posts: 5218
Location: Oklahoma | Out of the 6 headstalls I have only one is a browband... But it's also my nicest one. Go figure |
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Cold hands and Warm Heart
Location: oklahoma | I like the look of the one ear better but if you have one that gets sweaty and wants to rub, they'll pop them right off if given a chance, lol |
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 Reaching for the stars....
Posts: 12704
| Browband certainly works better with hacks, at least for my stallion. He always lowers his head and rubs on my leg after a run, which means he rubs it right off almost every time. But I prefer a one ear on a pretty headed horse. Less distraction or distortion of features. |
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I just read the headlines
Posts: 4483
| One ear with a throat latch for my opinionated gelding:) |
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 Money Eating Baggage Owner
Posts: 9586
Location: Phoenix | One ear unless using a hackamore. I need to find a fancy brownband headstall for my hackamore,... |
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Posts: 187
| ALL my headstalls are browbands with throat latches except one. It has a browband but no throatlatch, as it was to small for my mare and I haven't replaced it yet. I've had/seen to many horses shake off one or two eared headstalls. I don't like the looks of a one/two eared headstall with a throatlatch... |
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 A Bit of a Grammar Nut
Posts: 1788
Location: floating down a river | I will choose a one ear or a two ear, my husband will choose a browband.... I have better taste then him though. :) |
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Extreme Veteran
Posts: 464
| No contest, one ear. Looks 1000 times better. |
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 Tried and True
Posts: 21185
Location: Where I am happiest | 99% of one ear headstalls do not have a throat latch. For that reason alone I have all brow band headstalls. A one ear with no throatlatch can and has on many occasions come off a horse and there is nothing worse then free wheeling it like that. |
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Gettin Jiggy Wit It
Posts: 2734
| I like brow bands... you should not use a snaffle with a one ear because there's to much of a chance for it to slip off. |
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 Ms. Marine
Posts: 4627
Location: Texas | I use both. All of my one ears have a throat latch on them though. |
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 Playing the Waiting Game
Posts: 2304
| Browbands for me... FLoyd has fat ears and the one eared makes him uncomfortable. I like the looks of a browband also. |
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 Winner winner chicken dinner
Posts: 2047
Location: California | I had to make a quick purchase on a Loomis gag after my horse decided she loved it. The first one I found was the one ear style. One night I was looking at the tack sites on the FB pages and saw a browband style, so I bid on it. The next day at a race, coming out of the arena, my horse shook her head and off that bridle fell! Luckily my horse is not crazy and it didn't turn into a wreck. I put a browband and throatlatch on the headstall for now, not going to take that chance again! |
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 Accident Prone
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Location: 100 miles from Nowhere, AR | I like browbands better, but have trouble finding them big enough not to pinch ears. |
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 I Chore in Chucks
Posts: 2882
Location: MD | One Ear WITH a throat latch, no exceptions. I don't mind thin brow bands as long as they aren't to snug
ETA: and by thin I mean leather width, like not to large or distracting to take away from the horse. I have become boring in my "old" age and am liking outrageous things less and less.
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Red Bull Agressive
Posts: 5981
Location: North Dakota | I have both and prefer the look of a double ear but like the stability of a browband. My dream bridle would be this but in black.http://www.hobbyhorseinc.com/shopping/show_tack/5142_pendleton_headstall.shtml
ETA- Where the heck does everyone get these one ear headstalls w/ throatlatches? In all my time spent in tack stores and shopping online, I have never seen one.
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Elite Veteran
Posts: 747
| I have a mixture of both browbands and single ears. I prefer the one ears when I'm riding at home, and browbands when I am running. I feel like running in a browband gives me peace of mind because it has less of a chance of slipping off. I also have a one ear with a throat latch that I use on my hackamore |
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Location: Texas | We only use a browband with throat latch for snaffles. Everything else is one ear or split ear with no throat latch. |
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Posts: 292
Location: Northeast Nebraska | Browband with throatlatch. Don't like one ears. Or two ears. Don't like bronc noseband halters or rope halters either. |
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I Chore in Chucks
Posts: 2882
Location: MD | cavyrunsbarrels - 2015-03-28 3:13 PM
I have both and prefer the look of a double ear but like the stability of a browband. My dream bridle would be this but in black.http://www.hobbyhorseinc.com/shopping/show_tack/5142_pendleton_headstall.shtml
ETA- Where the heck does everyone get these one ear headstalls w/ throatlatches? In all my time spent in tack stores and shopping online, I have never seen one.
I get a good tack maker to put one on if it doesn't come with one. You can also buy the throat latch as a single piece. Or just buy more boring headstalls, those seem to be the only ones that come with one on already. |
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 Extreme Veteran
Posts: 383
Location: Sweet Home Alabama | classicpotatochip - 2015-03-27 9:20 PM
Browband for snaffles is safer and more stable. I like one ears on everything else.
I agree with tater chip. In fact, my snaffles are the only bits I have with a browband. Every thing else is a single ear. |
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