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Location: Dubach, LA | Really? Who does that? I look at all the pretty $400 breastcollar/headstall sets and wonder about them. Today I saw one for over $700. Is there really a market for those and am I the only cheap barrel racer in the world? |
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Location: ohio-in my own little world with pretty ponies :) | CanCan - 2014-02-11 7:41 PM
Really? Who does that? I look at all the pretty $400 breastcollar/headstall sets and wonder about them. Today I saw one for over $700. Is there really a market for those and am I the only cheap barrel racer in the world?
I would never spend that much! I would be too scared to put it on my horse! I've inly ever spent a couple hundred bucks per set I've owned. I like to know my tack is going to hold up but I don't go for the "high end" stuff |
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Location: Qld Australia | I wish I could AFFORD a $700 tack set lol. |
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 Damn Yankee
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Location: Somewhere between raising hell and Amazing Grace | I personally know people who have paid that much for sets....but I can't answer your question as to why....... |
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 I'm Here!!
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Location: Is it Summer Yet? | I have spent 200 on a headstall but that's where my obsession with fancy tack starts and ends. I like blinky headstalls and plain breastcollars. So I would never spend 700 on a set. |
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Elite Veteran
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| I spent $20 on a Billy Cook breast collar once. It has lasted me 5 years so far and my horse runs just like everyone else's horse. On all four legs around three then home. With the grace of God. |
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The Advice Guru
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| I have and I do believe you get what you pay for, heritage brand, and Luann's warranty their craftsmanship for life, I have one set from heritage brand that has been well used for 10 years, I sent it back last year for a free cleaning and a couple crystals reattached it now looks brand new.
Edited by cheryl makofka 2014-02-11 6:54 PM
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I Am a Snake Killer
Posts: 1927
Location: Golden Gulf Coast of Texas | Someone that has the money! To each his own!  |
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 You get what you give
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Location: Texas | I've been lucky that i've won most of my Luann's leathers sets. I did get a set once but it was no $700 one. I love Heritage Brand and Luann's Leathers. you get what you pay for! |
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Pig-Bear Dog Lover
| only two kinds of people... lucky or hard working. I cant say I NEVER would.. I probably could..don't feel the need. I just bought a couple $25 plain head stalls.. work just fine. bling wont make you ride better, or your horse run faster. |
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Miracle in the Making
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| i can/t ride now but i promise you no way would i spend 700 on a set i work to hard to for my money to each their own |
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Posts: 7545
| Why does anyone do anything? Mostly because they have the money and want to. Just as you can spend your hard earned money on simple tack the fits the bill, another can spend their hard earned money on a fancy tack set.
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 Famous for Not Complaining
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Location: Broxton, Ga | No.......does not make my horse run faster......... |
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Married to a Louie Lover
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| I splurged on a custom headstall when I got an unexpected reimbursement check in the mail from escrow on my old house... but still no where near $700. Nor would I go that high. I could have gotten the headstall and a PHT blanket for that and still had enough left for entry fees the next weekend! |
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Extreme Veteran
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| I know little girls who haul(with a handful of horses) with one 400+ set on each horse. Personally I would LOVE to buy one that could be used on both of my horses but for some reason all those pennies I keep saving for it keep running away!  |
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| Know people have spent that much and upward! Wouldn't spend more than like 300/400 just would be terrified of it being hurt when I put it on a horse! I would never want it to get dirty! Haha But hey if you got the money, go for it I guess! |
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Addicted to Baseball
Location: Where the stars at night are big and bright, TX | People who are apparently immune to the economy - wish I was one of those. lol |
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Common Sense and then some
Location: So. California | I can't bring myself to spend that $$ on a tack set. I do know quite a few ladies that have and they usually own more than one set. You get what you pay for. It's like buying saddles, some have a $500 saddle some want the $3,000 one. It's a personal choice. |
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 Money Eating Baggage Owner
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Location: Phoenix | I would probably draw my set limit at like $450. |
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Elite Veteran
Posts: 788
| Anniemae - 2014-02-11 7:48 PM
I can't bring myself to spend that $$ on a tack set. I do know quite a few ladies that have and they usually own more than one set. You get what you pay for. It's like buying saddles, some have a $500 saddle some want the $3,000 one. It's a personal choice.
I agree. I by no means have the money to spend that much but if I felt like the quality was worth the money and would last me. . um the rest of my life, I would save for a while and have a set like that. I always try not to buy the cheapest because it never lasts. I would personally only spend about 3-400 and it would be custom, hand painted, and probly a present lol but Im cheap too so idk |
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