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 I Want a "MAN"
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Location: MD | I bought a Jeff Smith new to me saddle. It's just a tad bit tight on her shoulders. I can not afford another saddle right now so I'm looking into saddle pads that may help take some pressure off of her shoulder blades. I don't know if anyone else thinks this but the correcTOR website is so confusing its soo hard for me to read. Way too much going on! I have a 3/4 5 star, a cutter collection pad, CE countourpedic. |
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Elite Veteran
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Location: Southern Indiana | I have no experience with either of those pads but I would think if your saddle is tight you would want to try a thinner 1/2" pad, if anything. There's not much you can do when a saddle is to tight but deal with it. It's like having shoes that are too small, your not going to put on thicker socks with more cushion, your going to put on thinner ones.
A corrector is made to fill in gaps where the saddle isn't fitting and from what I understand with CSI's they are kinda bulky. I've had issues with saddles popping up worse with thicker pads. This is why I sold my wade a few years back, it just didn't fit with anything. |
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 Accident Prone
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Location: 100 miles from Nowhere, AR | If it's just a little too tight, a Corrector will help. It's quite a bit thinner than a CSI, and just a bit thicker than a Saddleright. The way the shield things are made, they flare out a little bit and keep your saddle from digging in. |
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  Friendly horse swapper
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Location: Buffalo, TX | Three 4 Luck - 2015-11-18 12:12 PM If it's just a little too tight, a Corrector will help. It's quite a bit thinner than a CSI, and just a bit thicker than a Saddleright. The way the shield things are made, they flare out a little bit and keep your saddle from digging in.
I agree...I own a CorrecTOR pad and 2 CSI pads and I use the CSI's on the horses I have now, but I felt like the CorrecTOR shims worked better to keep the saddle off the shoulders of a previous horse I rode....I sold my CorrecTOR pad with the envelope pockets for the shims because I had better luck placing the shims where I wanted them on a thinner pad like my Saddleright...they worked beautifully on that pad. |
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 Damn Yankee
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Location: Somewhere between raising hell and Amazing Grace | I have never used a CSI, but of all the people I have talked to that do use them, I can't name a single one that wasn't happy with them. So I don't think you can go wrong with them.
I have used the corrector? pads and LOVE them. You can use them all the time for any horse if you want by simply removing the shim. |
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I Want a "MAN"
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Location: MD | My goal was initally with the CSI wasto distribute the pressure so its not digging into her shoulder and soring her up. What I got from looking both up the CSI was better for distributing pressure while the correcTOR was used for shiming if a saddle is too big. Then I saw on the website the CSI was similar to the corrector. I just want to spread the area of pressure |
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boon
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| Seems like I have seen a pad that had less pad at the shoulders for free shoulder movement once, but I cant remember what kind it was. Maybe something like that would help? |
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 A Gopher's Worst Nightmare
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Location: Southern Oregon | I own both and neither work the way I need them too. The corrector causes ALOT of rolling with my horse and saddle. My csi, made me feel perched up above my horse. I have decided to order some of the Team equine pads and try those.
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I Want a "MAN"
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Location: MD | cowgirl_3207 - 2015-11-19 12:19 PM I own both and neither work the way I need them too. The corrector causes ALOT of rolling with my horse and saddle. My csi, made me feel perched up above my horse. I have decided to order some of the Team equine pads and try those.
Aw shucks sorry to hear that! I also see they have a ProtecTOR that looks thinner |
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 A Somebody to Everybody
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Location: Under The Big Sky Of Texas | If your saddle is to tight I would be using a 1/2 5 Star  |
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 Experienced Mouse Trapper
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Location: North Dakota | cowgirl_3207 - 2015-11-19 12:19 PM I own both and neither work the way I need them too. The corrector causes ALOT of rolling with my horse and saddle. My csi, made me feel perched up above my horse. I have decided to order some of the Team equine pads and try those.
If your CSI is new-give it awhile-it will-break in-and the "perched" feeling will go away-in my experience-especially if you have their thin liner. |
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Red Bull Agressive
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Location: North Dakota | A CSI will not help a saddle that's too tight. They distribute pressure very well but are very thick so will just take up more space and make the issue worse. Use the thinnest pad possible if you have to stick with that saddle, but I'd start shopping ASAP. |
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The Advice Guru
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| If if is too tight, the only pad I think could help you is a Clinton anderson pressure relief pad, it has holes cuts out for saddles that are a tad too tight |
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Veteran
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| I had a saddle that was too tight on my horse's shoulders, and there is nothing that can help.
I tried the CSI and the ProTector, and they both added to the pressure. Shims and built up areas in pads are made to fill in an area - not take pressure off.
I also tried the Clinton Anderson pad that has the cuts outs over the shoulders as I thought it was a great concept but unfortunately the cut outs were in the wrong position for my horse and you cannot move them. So I sent it back.
I spent a year trying to modify things, and finally sold the narrow saddle and got a wider one. Actually, I was able to find someone to trade with me so it worked out for both of us.
Please don't continue to ride your horse in a too narrow saddle. At the very least it will make him really sore, and at the worst he'll start bucking you off and getting ugly.
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I Want a "MAN"
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Location: MD | In my new saddle my horse has started bucking the only 2 times I ran her. I thought she was being fresh but she was sore, clearly. I ran in a friends saddle this weekend and no buck :) Time to buy an ad!  |
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