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Location: Texas | I am looking for feedback on Stoney, Shiloh or wider tree gullets. I have always ridden Coats saddles but would like to have another option in the tack room. I have two mares that are very wide backed and need a larger gullet. Any help or opinions are aprreciated. |
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 Pork Fat is my Favorite
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Location: The Oklahoma plains. | All of the ones you mentioned use different trees. Im sure some have their wide tree- but overall, I think most use a spec tree unless ordered otherwise. So hopefully someone will answer that has one of these in wide.
I highly recommend Caldwell- I tried 20 trees that people claimed were wide when I had a huge mare- and by far it was the best overall fit I had ever seen. |
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Location: CA | I had a custom ordered wide shiloh and I sold it to buy a Crown C to fit my wide horses. The Shiloh just wasnt working. |
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| Love, Love, Love my Shiloh!! The tree is no more it was put out by Sharin Hall. |
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Location: TX | Larry has a new tree that fit a wider and flat backed horse, I was using a Caldwell Maxxed out on him and had also had a Stoney made for him. The saddle Larry made for him fits great..no sliding back. |
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 Banjo and Baby
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Location: South of Canada and North of Mexico | I don't believe a shiloh would work if you're looking for a wide gullet/bars. I ordered a 7" gullet and made my horse a bucker. He wears a 7 or 7.5 in a crown c so not overly huge. The saddle seemed to narrow over his back. I do love the Jerri Mann tree Shiloh has. |
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Location: Desert Land | I have no had luck with ANY of the Shiloh trees fitting ANY horse, LOL.
I did have a custom made Stoney with his widest tree - was the equivalent to a Caldwell Ultra Rocket. It fit for the horse I had it made for. When I sold him, I sold the saddle.
I would also recomend trying a Caldwell. |
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Location: 100 miles from Nowhere, AR | watchpeppydoc - 2014-07-16 12:08 PM I don't believe a shiloh would work if you're looking for a wide gullet/bars. I ordered a 7" gullet and made my horse a bucker. He wears a 7 or 7.5 in a crown c so not overly huge. The saddle seemed to narrow over his back. I do love the Jerri Mann tree Shiloh has.
I bought a Shiloh Jerri Mann tree for my daughter and tried it on my wide big shouldered gelding for the fun of it. Aside from laughing at stuffing my butt in a 12" saddle, it was too tight on him. It fits our other horses nicely tho. |
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Banjo and Baby
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Location: South of Canada and North of Mexico | Three 4 Luck - 2014-07-16 4:26 PM watchpeppydoc - 2014-07-16 12:08 PM I don't believe a shiloh would work if you're looking for a wide gullet/bars. I ordered a 7" gullet and made my horse a bucker. He wears a 7 or 7.5 in a crown c so not overly huge. The saddle seemed to narrow over his back. I do love the Jerri Mann tree Shiloh has. I bought a Shiloh Jerri Mann tree for my daughter and tried it on my wide big shouldered gelding for the fun of it. Aside from laughing at stuffing my butt in a 12" saddle, it was too tight on him. It fits our other horses nicely tho.
Edited by watchpeppydoc 2014-07-17 8:57 AM
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