Mounted Shooting Pics

Kaycee - 2014-11-07 9:35 PM

SaraJean - 2014-11-07 8:24 PM

Kaycee - 2014-11-07 6:37 PM SJ, approx how long does it take for a horse to get use to the gunfire sound? I would guess they have to slowly work their way up to having a rider in the saddle, huh? I need to pack some heat for my trail rides for the coyotes. They are thick, thick, THICK this year. I saw 5 together last week.

They're all individuals & take to it different. Ollie, the one in these pictures was a bit of a project & took several months to get to where he was consitent about me shooting off him & even longer to get him working the courses nicely while shooting.....He's FINALLY after a year & a half of work getting where I want him & is ready to start adding speed. My buckskin on the other hand, never so much as flinched when I started shooting off him.

Everyone has their own techneque for introducing the shooting. What I've found works best for me is to just take the horse to practice with me & let them get used to the noise. When they're good with it I'll ride them along beside a solid horse & the person on that horse shoots back behind us. Keep doing that until they're totally relaxed then hand the gun over to me & I just stay beside the other horse & shoot behind. From there I build up to trotting & loping circles while shooting behind. Once they're good with loping circles we start loping courses while shooting. Then gradually over the course of weeks/months depending on the horse I work up to shooting by their heads. I always use earplugs on them.

Thanks for that info. It's very intersting. Do you use horse earplugs or just tampons in the ears?

Our horses are used to us shooting in the vacinity and don't really care too much but it is nice to know how mounted shooters go about it.

Again, your pictures are beautiful.

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