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My experiences with horses were all with someone elses animal. I took care of a doctor's horses for 2 weeks when I was 15, and my experience began at 5:00 in the morning, the time the good doc insisted I should have the hay burners out of their stalls, with the Stallion refusing to budge, and when I walked around back, barefoot and in a pair of boxers, and gave him a smack on his ass, his tail went up and he let a fart that blew my hair back-I ran out of the barn screaming, and showered for 20 minutes, brushing my teeth for the same time while showering.
Another horse got me between a Lester building and itself (I wasn't on the nag) and decided to play a game best called "squish". Been bit twice, had a friends 40 year old sway backed nag knock me on my ass when I opened the electric fence to pheasant hunt on the pasture on the other side of it ("why didn't you shoot the SOB", he tells me, "I hate that horse") and had a horse I was riding fall several times on a western hunting trip on flat ground-my guide says "Don't worry, he's much better in the mountains". I said, "You ride him, then". He didn't fall when the guide was on his back.
Where others see romantic sunset rides on calm, beautiful animals, I see hooved, 1200 pound devils, that I always encounter when I've mis-placed my .375 H & H flanged magnum bolt rifle.
Jeeps are wonderful things.
Best,
Ted

Isn't it amazing how animals are such a good judge of character...

My better half has a Tennessee Walker and he is a gorgeous thing and I enjoy riding him on occasion. With the cost of maintaining a horse she never hassles me if I want to bring another gun into my stable.

I once bumped into a fellow in the U.P. of Michigan who used to take his setter along and ride his horse down two tracks until the dog was on point. He then dismounted, shot the grouse (maybe) and mounted back up. The horse was drop rein trained and it worked really slick. If I lived up there and had the property in the right location I would try it out. One of the coolest things I ever saw.

Mike

I spend a week or more a year hunting Prairie Grouse, near Thedford Nebraska. There is a guide up there that runs trips ahorseback, using setters. Neat to watch, and a lot easier than walking those sandhills. Prairie Grouse tend to hold pretty well for a dog...

LD. Beautiful little Appy. How old is the foal in the Pic? Ours is 2 days old in the photo. Funny all the bad experiences related here. We've all had them. I don't even want to repeat the rodeos Patty has had on her horses. Or the midnight ride trying to find the runaway mare or when Ole "Glory" took Patty's Meadowbrook cart for a ride down a two track without Patty. Finally a UPS driver blocked the road with his truck. Go Brown...On the midnight search, I walked my Racking horse under a flock of roosting turkeys as they took off. I think there still is a stain on my saddle. LD?? How far are you from the little town of Curtis Nebraska? It's in S.W. Nebraska, a click off the Kansas line. Randy