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Location: Probably On the Road to the Next Barrel Race! | Looking for your favorite step up/transition bits once you think you're ready to leave the o ring... :) |
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Location: Texas | CrossCreek - 2016-06-05 11:42 PM
Looking for your favorite step up/transition bits once you think you're ready to leave the o ring... :)
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| Why do you feel you have leave the O ring? If your horse is working good in it just keep them in it. If you do change the choices will depend on the areas you think he needs help on-- control, lift, bend, etc. |
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Location: "...way down south in the Everglades..." | Sweet Six or Jr. Cowhorse for my crew.
If you still want to stay in a similar catagory I've used D rings or you can change up the mouthpiece if you feel you don't have enough "bite" for the horse. |
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Location: N Texas | mollibtexan - 2016-06-05 11:59 PM
CrossCreek - 2016-06-05 11:42 PM
Looking for your favorite step up/transition bits once you think you're ready to leave the o ring... :)
Jr cowhorse
Ditto. |
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Location: NE Texas | Short shank Ed Wright for me. Same theory as the Jr. Cowhorse, but the Ed has a bit more purchase and is a more balanced feeling bit to me. I also like a Loomis sometimes in between the o ring and the curb bit depending on the horse. If the horse is really loose and rubber bandy, I may move to something that doesn't have any gag and has a more solid mouth like a port bit with a short, swivel shank. |
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| Herbie - 2016-06-06 9:35 AM
Short shank Ed Wright for me. Same theory as the Jr. Cowhorse, but the Ed has a bit more purchase and is a more balanced feeling bit to me. I also like a Loomis sometimes in between the o ring and the curb bit depending on the horse. If the horse is really loose and rubber bandy, I may move to something that doesn't have any gag and has a more solid mouth like a port bit with a short, swivel shank.
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Location: Florida.. | mollibtexan - 2016-06-06 12:59 AM CrossCreek - 2016-06-05 11:42 PM Looking for your favorite step up/transition bits once you think you're ready to leave the o ring... :) Jr cowhorse
Thats what I did for my qh for a bit more....... but Id school in a 3 piece snaffle few times a week.. |
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Location: Washington | MO gal - 2016-06-06 4:54 AM
Why do you feel you have leave the O ring? If your horse is working good in it just keep them in it. If you do change the choices will depend on the areas you think he needs help on-- control, lift, bend, etc.
This! My 12 yr old has never been ran in more then a snaffle. My 7 yr old runs him now, still in a snaffle. Twisted so she has a little more control but I ran him in a smooth. He's no slow poke either, 1D/2D with both of us. |
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Location: Piedmont, OK | Junior cowhorse |
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| Speedy Buckeye Girl - 2016-06-06 8:02 AM
Sweet Six or Jr. Cowhorse for my crew.
If you still want to stay in a similar catagory I've used D rings or you can change up the mouthpiece if you feel you don't have enough "bite" for the horse.
^^^This. |
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