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Rad Dork
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Location: Oklahoma | Which do you prefer and why? |
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 Bulls Eye
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Location: Oklahoma | I prefer the bull snap. If a horse pulls back, it is much less likely to break |
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Extreme Veteran
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| I voted bull snap because they take just a little practice to learn how to use one handed, but hold up better than trigger snaps in my experience. |
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The Resident Destroyer of Liberal Logic
Location: PNW | Bull snaps, here in the PNW the trigger snaps rust quickly and sieze. |
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 Good Grief!
Posts: 6343
Location: Cap'n Joan Rotgut.....alberta | neither, our halters have no hardware, we use the rope halters and the shank is connected directly to the halter........
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Location: Do I hear Banjos? | Bull snap.
With the trigger snap they can more easily rub on a bucket and unsnap the lead and or get the snap hung on the bucket bale. |
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Elite Veteran
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Location: The barn...where else? SW Missouri | mruggles - 2015-08-10 10:55 AM
neither, our halters have no hardware, we use the rope halters and the shank is connected directly to the halter........
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Location: Willows, CA | mruggles - 2015-08-10 10:55 AM
neither, our halters have no hardware, we use the rope halters and the shank is connected directly to the halter........
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This. |
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Rad Dork
Posts: 5218
Location: Oklahoma | Thank you all! The unsnapping the triggers themselves never occured to me... I guess I'm just waiting for an accident, lol |
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| Bullsnap - I have a horse (and of course he's a stallion) that knows how to unhook a trigger snap. Last week I couldn't get my filly to stop unhooking herself either! |
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 Born not Made
Posts: 2937
Location: North Dakota | Neither. I custom make my own lead ropes to have panic snaps.
If my horse somehow gets into a bind, I want to get that lead rope unattached. Now.
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Elite Veteran
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| r_beau - 2015-08-10 3:11 PM
Neither. I custom make my own lead ropes to have panic snaps.
If my horse somehow gets into a bind, I want to get that lead rope unattached. Now.
I love those panic snaps on leads. VERY strong, yet easy to unhook in an emergency. |
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  The Color Specialist
Posts: 7530
Location: Washington. (The DRY side.) | I will NOT have a bull snap. Have had WAY too many problems with them coming off on their own! I either have a trigger snap or the lead rope is attached directly to the halter. The "panic" snaps are also good at coming off on their own. |
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 Northern Chocolate Queen
Posts: 16576
Location: ND | I prefer none, I like the lead attached directly to the halter. |
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| Spend the money on a Clinton Anderson 14ft lead rope with a trigger bullsnap ... you will never regret it ... the longer length enables you to use it for multiple training from halter training a youngster you have a butt rope right in your hands, teaching one to tie .. it is long enough to tie end away far enough to untie if horse sets back and there is never any pressure directly on the trigger release ... etc etc ... and as a short lounge line .. after using one ... you will wonder why you ever spent your money on those 8--9ft pieces of trash hanging all over your barn ... lol
A panic snap cannot be opened when horse is setting back on it due to the pressure on the sliding collar of the snap .. also puts you in great danger of horse flipping into you if you do get it to open ...
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Location: Texas | I prefer the Brass Trigger snaps. They are just easier for me to use & I haven't had any issues with them. |
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| shotsfly - 2015-08-11 4:44 PM
I prefer the Brass Trigger snaps. They are just easier for me to use & I haven't had any issues with them.
Due to the high cost of brass these days ... all you will find is brass coated pot metal snaps ... |
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 Keeper of the King Snake
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Location: Dubach, LA | RunNbarrels - 2015-08-10 11:52 AM mruggles - 2015-08-10 10:55 AM neither, our halters have no hardware, we use the rope halters and the shank is connected directly to the halter........
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And now that I think about it, I've never had a lead rope with a trigger snap.
Edited by CanCan 2015-08-11 4:55 PM
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| Drag your cursor across the picture to magnify the trigger on the bullsnap .... just
use your thumb to open it up when clipping it on or off the halter ...
The snap is made from stainless steel ...
It is worth the money to have at least one of these leads ..
https://www.downunderhorsemanship.com/Store/Product/TACK/G/549/LEAD_...
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