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Location: Arizona | What would it be?? Looking to check out some new bits. Show me your "go to" bit for a horse that's light mouthed. I am currently running in a tender touch or a Cervi short shank dog bone. |
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| Either an O ring snaffle, or a draw gag with a snaffle mouth piece.
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| For slow work I like the Cervi square mouth snaffle. |
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Location: Texas | cervi dog bone or sweet six dog bone |
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| Jr cowhorse. Excellent for all stages of training and running |
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| For light mouthed, O ring snaffle =] But besides that...LOVE my jr cowhorse and my sweet six <3 |
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Location: Good ole SE Mo | 5 bit from L & W |
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Location: WI | If this demonic world exists, I shall never live there. |
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Location: Louisiana | streakysox - 2018-03-16 11:40 AM
Jr cowhorse. Excellent for all stages of training and running
If I had to pick just ONE, this would be my pick also, with a dogbone.
It's funny bc I don't even run anything in a Jr. Cowhorse at the moment, but I know I could get by on each of them with one lol. |
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| To tune: Loomis wire top with chain mouth
To run: Kathy James 3 piece mouth or the "craig brooks bit" lol might be winning out in a twisted snaffle |
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| dashnlotti - 2018-03-16 1:26 PM
streakysox - 2018-03-16 11:40 AM
Jr cowhorse. Excellent for all stages of training and running
If I had to pick just ONE, this would be my pick also, with a dogbone.
It's funny bc I don't even run anything in a Jr. Cowhorse at the moment, but I know I could get by on each of them with one lol.
me three. |
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Location: LouLouVille, OK | rpreast - 2018-03-16 11:05 AM Either an O ring snaffle, or a draw gag with a snaffle mouth piece. I like simple.
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Location: Under The Big Sky Of Texas | I cant only have one bit, but my most favorite's are the Molly Powell chain, my Clover with a chain mouth and my dog bone Clover from Shallow Creek.. But if Iwere to only have one bit it would be the Molly Powell chain.  |
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Location: Cocoa, Florida | L&w medium shank lifter with dog bone |
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Location: Texas | Jr. Cowhorse bit. |
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| I've used a jr cowhorse chain mouth with copper roller on my gelding who is extremely light mouthed, and he likes it. A lady at the barn the other day said she couldn't believe I would use something like that on a horse, that it's very harsh. I have light hands, and he seems to like it..but I didn't think it was a harsh bit?  |
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Location: Kansas | Ed Wright dogbone lifter.
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Location: At the race track with Ah Dee Ohs | Either a O Ring snaffle or a Junior Cow horse., |
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| Ed Wright short shank dogbone, or an o-ring snaffle, like others have said. As long as we still get more than one pair of reins! I like my split reins, barrel reins and German martingales, any of which could be used effectively and swapped around with one bit. |
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Location: Louisiana | emricmacy - 2018-03-17 10:06 AM
I've used a jr cowhorse chain mouth with copper roller on my gelding who is extremely light mouthed, and he likes it. A lady at the barn the other day said she couldn't believe I would use something like that on a horse, that it's very harsh. I have light hands, and he seems to like it..but I didn't think it was a harsh bit?
You're right, she's wrong. Chain mouthpieces are very gentle.
If you want to show her, lay a snaffle mouthpiece across her forearm and pull it back, then do the same with a chain and ask her which one felt more harsh. |
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Location: MN | I'd have to go with a sweet 6! |
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Location: Southern Indiana | linds - 2018-03-16 1:07 PM
If this demonic world exists, I shall never live there.
HAHA DITTO!!!! Bits have a life cycle...you need one to get to the next one! I couldn’t pick one...two possibly but not 1. I mean one horse could hate it and the other might run off....
My favorite light bits are draw gags or like a Molly Powell rookie. |
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Location: Tennessee | Dog bone snaffle with short shanks from Shallow Creek Bits! 
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Location: N Texas | Junior cowhorse with three-piece dogbone mouth. |
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Cute Little Imp
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Location: N Texas | Wanted to point out that there's no such thing a "snaffle mouth" with shanks. A snaffle bit by definition is a bit with NO shanks, the reins attach directly to the rings that are attached to the mouthpiece. ANY bit that has shanks is not a snaffle, and a snaffle bit can have many different mouthpieces--two piece, three piece, chain, etc. So if someone says they have a short shank snaffle, they probably mean they have a short shank bit with a two-piece mouth |
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| Handmade loose ring snaffle with 3/16" twisted wire two-piece mouth. |
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The best bad guy on the internet
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Location: Arizona | What would be your choice for a "lifter" bit? My mare tends to come in on me, would I go with a longer type shank?? |
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| LIVE2RUN - 2018-03-19 5:25 PM
What would be your choice for a "lifter" bit? My mare tends to come in on me, would I go with a longer type shank??
I love my pozzi lifter bit! |
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Location: USA | Love the Kathy James bit |
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Location: my piece of paradise | Two piece twisted long shank lifter bit. Had the mouth piece bent so that it curved and sat on the tongue more comfortably. I have had this bit for 20 years and always seem to come back to it. I'm very light handed and this bit just seems to fit my hands and style well. Another I cant live without is my S hack. I think i have rode every horse i own in one of these two bits or both at some point and they have always worked for me. |
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| either a junior cowhorse twisted dogbone witha roller or a loose ring dogbone roller. |
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Location: North Dakota | I love cowhorse bits, so my choice would be a Jim Edwards flat correctional; medium shank. My horse is very soft and broke and this is what I ride him in/tune him in and then I run him in an Ed Wright, 3-piece (dogbone), long shank, gag or a Sherry Cervi Short Shank, two piece. |
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Location: Oklahoma | LIVE2RUN - 2018-03-16 11:02 AM
What would it be?? Looking to check out some new bits. Show me your "go to" bit for a horse that's light mouthed. I am currently running in a tender touch or a Cervi short shank dog bone.
I just bought a 4 yr old that is very light, and he didn't like my Weaver fast stop which is what I normally use on everything (but it also was too big for him, so that might have been the problem...he's very petite headed), and I'd tried several bits and he didn't like any of them. He's very sensitive and reactive, and he would waller and pull on about any bit I tried. He's by a son of Alive N Firen and I was talking to a gal that rides an own son of Alive N Firen and she said she found that they don't like any bit that's got a twist. She had one that she had used on hers that looked like a Connie Combs stabilizer with a dogbone. It was smooth mouthed. Everything I own had a twist and some gag because normally that's what fits my hands, but as soon as I put that bit on him, he dropped his head and made a big sigh, and he rode so relaxed!! Every run now, he's gotten better and better, and I typically don't even hardly touch him in that and he just works. Needless to say, I ended up buying it from her!! The point of this post is that I've been doing this well over 40 years, and I've never liked smooth mouth bits...they just didn't work for me....but they worked with this horse. Every horse is an individual and there's no way there's a one size fits all. Before I sold out last year, I probably had over 200 bits. I've bought a few back, probably have 10 now, and use one....but if I get a different horse, I may need a different bit. If your horse is working with what you're using, I wouldn't try anything else. But if you get another horse, you may need an entirely different kind of bit....that's why I could never have just one. lol |
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Location: Beggs, OK | Carolina Short Shank Mullen Lifter....its worked on every light mouthed horse we've ever tried it on. |
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Location: Lost in the swamps | Ed weight dog bone lifter |
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Location: Georgia | runfastturnsmooth - 2018-03-16 2:55 PM
To tune: Loomis wire top with chain mouth
To run: Kathy James 3 piece mouth or the "craig brooks bit" lol might be winning out in a twisted snaffle
What is the Craig brooks bit? |
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Duct Tape Bikini Girl
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| Ed Wright short shank dogbone is my can't live without bit. |
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Location: Tuttle Oklahoma | Mine has to be a Jim Warner Hackamore; I use it on 3 out of my 4 horses. It really just seems to fit my hands and riding style. I feel like they are a lot less abrasive in a hackamore compared to a bit during a competition run. Besides that I like to tune on them with a smooth dog bone D ring snaffle made by perfect bit. |
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Location: Dubach, LA | One bit? That’s deranged. I want them all! |
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| This is a great bit video
http://www.trainingbarrelhorses.com/video-vault/equipment-use/janna... |
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| mandita8907 - 2018-10-23 2:04 PM
runfastturnsmooth - 2018-03-16 2:55 PM
To tune: Loomis wire top with chain mouth
To run: Kathy James 3 piece mouth or the "craig brooks bit" lol might be winning out in a twisted snaffle
What is the Craig brooks bit?
https://www.shallowcreekbits.com/collections/combination-bits-1/prod...
I think they accidentally put a K? I dunno the lady for Shallow Creek is a regular poster tho. Or maybe they call it KB for a different reason? Everyone I know refers to it as the Craig bit because he rides most his in this bit and Margo still runs Mater in this bit. |
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If you were to have only one BIT....