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Location: Somewhere around here | Quick update; the bit and bridle came in the mail today and I'm super excited to try it out (hopefully tomorrow). The bridle is super soft and buttery, great quality leather! And the bit itself feels nice, has some good weight on it, and the mouthpiece is made very well! No sharp or uneven points. So far I feel it's a great quality product. |
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Location: Oklahoma | I have long shank No Hit big link chain , he is a puller so too much bit makes him mad , not enough he forgets his whoa. , horse loves it but he gets too setty and slow in turns and sticks his tongue out. So I am using it to school now and running in Chain locked snaffle as in runs I just need to get his nose. I would get the new shorter version next as the long shanks are way too big on my finer headed horses. |
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Location: Southern Indiana | People are always asking what's the difference....it's how well made they are! They fit a horse very well and are impeccably made! It's nice that they include a headstall and chin strap so even that all fits properly. |
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Location: Somewhere around here | Well today I had my first ride in our new No Hit Bit...and I'm in love! It's so smooth acting and I could tell there was a difference in my horse at the end of the ride. In the beginning I could tell he was waiting for that "hit" part with your gag type of bits and some other bits but after 10 minutes of riding he started to realize that it wasn't going to happen and honestly he seemed happier.
Now I'm not gonna lie and say he was calmer and not a hot head, that's just him, but he was definitely calmer and thinking more as I was cooling him down from doing our one barrel drill. I'm going to keep riding him in this bit and will probably work the actual pattern after I've ridden him for another 3-6 times just so we both know what's going on and for us to develop more feel with this bit.
I'll post another update on the bit and how my horse is doing with it within this next week if anyone would like and I'd be fine to try and answer and questions about my first time use/impression. |
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Location: Somewhere around here | Update #2: I still love this bit! I can see why certain people love it now and it's quickly becoming my go-to bit for hard to please horses. I did a quick lope through the pattern for the first time and my horse, who is known to come off the barrel wide and getting too excited, blew me away with how well he did. Not only did he not step off the barrels but he even turned it too quickly on the first, causing me to lift my leg to save myself from the barrel! Now I know this isn't a thing for people to have as a goal with their horses but it was a complete 180 from how my horse used to turn and it certainly was a nice change. I was also able to keep my hands super light around the barrels and in general in the arena.
If anyone has any questions please feel free to ask! |
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Location: In The Snow, AZ | I'm excited to hear the updates. My mare works really well in the Connie combs Stabilizer bit, but has recently been a little stiff with bending around second. Up to date on chiro. Wondering how she would do in a similar mouthpiece in the no-hit-bit set up. Now to bite the bullet... |
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| Yea I'm just not ready to bite that bullet yet but you've convinced me to try one |
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Location: Somewhere around here | I highly recommend talking to the Original No Hit Bit creators on Facebook. They answered all of my questions quickly and we're very helpful finding the right bit and size for my horse. Very nice and cooperative people to work with! |
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Location: Somewhere around here | Update #3: I am seriously in love! I have been using this bit since it showed up on my doorstep and it's the only bit I will use on my hard to please horse. Today we did our first fast barrel run and it was like a night and day difference from the runs he has given me for the past few years! Of course I did a fair amount of drills and stayed off the actual pattern since I received the bit, around a month or so, but I can say I'm very excited to exhibition him next week. I made two runs on him today and both were reliable and consistent, which is a HUGE thing for me and my horse. |
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| Awesome! I should have mine by Friday! |
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Location: In The Snow, AZ | Really great news! I need to go read back, but did you get the same or similar mouthpiece as the bit you used prior? |
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Location: Somewhere around here | ~BINGO~ - 2017-05-24 5:36 PM
Really great news! I need to go read back, but did you get the same or similar mouthpiece as the bit you used prior?
Yep the exact same mouthpiece and I'm really glad I did. |
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| Glad you are loving it, the No Hit Bit was a game changer for my hard to please with any bit gelding, I now have a collection of No Hits and use them on any horse I ride in a bit, love them! |
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Location: In The Snow, AZ | Too bad they don't let you "try before you buy". Hubby is not on board with the cost and the unknown if it will help. |
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Location: Somewhere around here | ~BINGO~ - 2017-05-25 1:55 PM
Too bad they don't let you "try before you buy". Hubby is not on board with the cost and the unknown if it will help.
My husband was the same way but he knew I'd been interested in it since 2016 NFR and been talking about it since then. Guess hubby got tired of me talking about it lol. Plus I saved up some money on the side so that helped. |
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| Rode my mare with mine tonight, she absolutely loved it. Very soft and very relaxed in it.
She still was head shaking but that's a different problem all together |
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Location: Somewhere around here | Update #4 (the last update): So last night was the night I bit the bullet and exhibitioned at a jackpot. Now generally I like to treat my exhibition runs like an Open run, unless I'm on a colt, and that's exactly what I did last night. He was amazing! I was so proud of him and had no troubles turning every barrel and staying on track. I can honestly say that I'm confident in my horse now and there's no better feeling! Sorry, no recordings of our run. He went in there confidently to the first and it just built up from there. Now we had some alleyway issues but that's my fault for being nervous, will be working on that from now on.
Now, I'm not saying that everyone should go out and buy one of these bits, you definitely need to be light and let you and your horse take a while to work with it and understand it, but I will literally never put another bit in this particular horse. Like I said above, this will be my last update so if you have any questions please feel free to ask before this post fades into oblivion lol. |
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Location: Somewhere around here | So from May to July the no hit bit still was working well for me and my horse but by the end of July my horse was becoming a little stronger on the pattern and was not rating well for his barrels. I stayed with this bit for another week, just trying to work on slow work and tried picking up the pace on the barrels again. Unfortunately the rating problem was still there and he was pushing on the bit instead of giving in and tucking his butt under him. Now I still love this bit and I will never sell it, but this sadly won't be our barrel bit like I was hoping it would be. Now this is a problem that I've had with my horse multiple times so I'm not mad at the bit nor the people who make it, it's about finding the right bit for me and my horse.
A note I'd like to add is that after I stopped using the no hit I started going back to cutting foundation training with my horse and I may come back to this bit for slow work in the future but it will not be for my horse on the pattern who needs a fair amount of help rating and collecting for the barrels. If my horse was naturally more rate than free running than I don't think we'd have this issue.
Here is the post I had for my revaluation http://forums.barrelhorseworld.com/forum/forums/thread-view.asp?tid...
Edited by cecollins0811 2017-08-11 6:09 PM
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