Do any of you haul a 2 horse goodneck with a half ton pick up?? Anyone recommend or not? 

Would not recommend it..

A friend of mine hauls an aluminum 2 horse bumper pull with one. I hate it! Scares the be jeebers out of me. Pushes her truck around and it moves around, too. Loaded you can feel the truck struggle some. She is a careful and slower driver, too. So no matter what the dealership says, I also don't think it's a good idea. 

I have a 2014 F150 4x4 and I haul a 2 horse slant BP, and believe it or not it has a new V6 in it.  It can tow up to 11,000 lbs and it works great for what I need. Better gas mileage with the extra power. I dont know if I would haul a gooseneck with it though.. especially because with the ball and the material to go with it.  I know it is heavy and adds to the weight, I would be unsure about that.

I did for a long time - 2h gooseneck with the world's smallest dressing room. It was literally a one-foot shortwall.

I had zero problems when I lived in Central Florida and there are literally no hills. One horse, two horses, whatever. I could still stop it if my brake controller failed but it was a little butt puckery. I moved to North Florida where hills exist and I hauled it maybe twice with one horse and went home and told my now-husband that it was time to buy a bigger truck.

Though trucks and trailer construction have come a long way since the early 90s Ford and the later 90s Hart that I had so your mileage may vary. 

My daughter pulls a 16 foot gooseneck stock trailer with her 1/2 ton Chevy and it does great with 1 or 2 horses on. If you are wanting to run down the highway or haul more than 2 you would want a 3/4 ton or bigger. 

I've pulled a 2 horse w/front tack bumper pull with a heavy rated half ton and was fine. I actually really liked that pickup to pull with, was rated at like 7300lbs GVW. But over all, with same trailer, I feel better with a 3/4 ton. The pickup had plenty of power and stopping ability, IMHO, but if you were to ever get a bigger trailer, you'd also have to get a bigger pickup up so it may be more cost effective in the long run to just go with a 3/4 ton now. 

First truck i ever had was a 1500 chevy. Was told by the at the time, local dealership that it didnt need to be 4x4 and a 1500 could pull anything. It was fine local, small hauls (no hills) with 1 maybe 2 horses pulling an aluminum bumper pull. As soon as i could though i upgraded to a 2500 then a 3500 and then upgraded the trailer to a 4 horse gn. I would never go back to something so small. Personally i would rather be over trucked then under and since i ask my horses to trust me getting on a trailer i want it to be safe as possible. I read somewhere once that in the event of an accident if your truck isnt rated for what its pulling, even if its not your fault, insurance will still go after you.

I pull a two horse bumper pull with a Tahoe, and have had no issues at all with it. Most of the time I only have one horse in the trailer, and if I go out of town (down the freeway), I use the diesel 3/4 ton. 

I definitely wouldn't want to pull anything more than a 2 horse with a 1/2 ton. 

I did for a long time, since that's all I could afford. I ended up going through 2 transmissions. For long term use, I would not reccommend it. Just too hard on those trucks, unfprtunately ;/ But for something temoprary, it'll work!

I hauled a two horse gooseneck (steel trailer) with a half ton Chevy.  Never had any issues, always had two horses in it.

I rodeoed for a full summer with a 2001 Dodge 1500 (which I believe is a pretty heavy half ton) that had the bigger V8 motor and a 2-horse straight load bumper pull. It did fine and man it was nice to just whip into gas stations and parking lots without any trouble. 

Then I got a gooseneck 3 horse stock combo with a small dressing room but kept the same truck for a number of years. It pulled the trailer just fine (lightweight trailer since it had nothing in it but a saddle rack and 2 dividers), especially since I rarely had 3 horses in it. Most rodeo trips I took one horse. I don't drive very fast so I hardly ever had trouble stopping and I honestly didn't feel like it swayed going down the highway. We kept using it for shorter trips and anytime we needed to go in super cold weather since it would always start no matter how cold it was. I think that went on for probably 4 years. We kept its miles down by hooking my husband's F250 up to my trailer for longer road trips and we made darn sure to keep up on maintenance on my truck.

Then in 2017, Matt bought another 3/4 ton truck and passed his F250 down to me. It does haul my trailer easier, gets way better fuel mileage since it's a diesel and my Dodge was a gas, and we no longer feel guilty about putting 3 or even 4 horses in my trailer (take out 1 divider and BAM it's a stock trailer that hauls 4!).

Like someone else said, the half ton to pull a trailer isn't ideal but it will do in a pinch. My pinch just lasted a lot longer than most people's. We did have to buy a second truck to pull the trailer when the motor (and a week after we finished rebuilding it, the transmission) went out but my dad didn't believe in truck payments so we only bought what we could pay cash for....aka $4000 and under.