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Anybody use there mules or horses to do draft work ? Post some picture's.
 
Posts: 1194 | Location: Billings,MT | Registered: 24 July 2004Reply With Quote
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Mine are saddle or pack animals.
But I do get them out all year round to keep them exercised


 
Posts: 232 | Location: Utah | Registered: 09 February 2003Reply With Quote
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Nice!
 
Posts: 274 | Location: Wa. | Registered: 04 February 2009Reply With Quote
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I use my high dollar team roping horses like any ranch horse..I work cattle, hunt of them, do whatever needs to be done and more..Most of our family horses are required to multi task. rope calves, team rope head or heel, maybe run barrels, drag calves to the branding crew, in other words do whatever needs to be done..Its never hurt them as far as I know, and it makes them worth more money, and makes them a better horse...I learned this long ago in my misspent youth when I worked for EP Eppenauer, a cutting horse man who had 4 world champion cutting horses, Ceasers Pistol, Pistol Hancock, George Hancock and Bar Hug. In the summer months I worked on his big ranch in the Davis Mountains of Texas..He would bring those $100,000 dollar horses to the ranch and tell me to ride the crap out of them, use them like any other ranch horse..I remember being scared to death that I would cripple one, he said if you do, you do, don't worry about it...those were not spoiled horses and they could all do a hard days work in the mountains and in Texas there are few trails to ride in the Big Bend country.


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Atkinson Hunting Adventures
10 Ward Lane,
Filer, Idaho, 83328
208-731-4120

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Posts: 41758 | Location: Twin Falls, Idaho | Registered: 04 June 2000Reply With Quote
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Beautiful time of the year for sure. Nice string of critters.
 
Posts: 1194 | Location: Billings,MT | Registered: 24 July 2004Reply With Quote
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Mine just do sanity maintenance. They keep me from going crazy.


LORD, let my bullets go where my crosshairs show.
Not all who wander are lost.
NEVER TRUST A FART!!!
Cecil Leonard
 
Posts: 2786 | Location: Northeast Louisianna | Registered: 06 October 2009Reply With Quote
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I adhere to the Buster Welch method; use them for whatever needs to be done. Like Mr. Atkinson said above, makes them a better horse.
 
Posts: 316 | Location: USA | Registered: 08 August 2011Reply With Quote
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Does packing out elk count?





Or dragging calves? This was a few years ago at her first branding. She's drug many more since.
 
Posts: 210 | Location: NW Wyoming | Registered: 20 February 2003Reply With Quote
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I would require my best rope horse to pack out an elk if the occasion occurred, and I didn't have a pack horse..I have packe out a whole deer in my lap on him several times.


Ray Atkinson
Atkinson Hunting Adventures
10 Ward Lane,
Filer, Idaho, 83328
208-731-4120

rayatkinsonhunting@gmail.com
 
Posts: 41758 | Location: Twin Falls, Idaho | Registered: 04 June 2000Reply With Quote
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I adhere to the Buster Welch method; use them for whatever needs to be done. Like Mr. Atkinson said above, makes them a better horse.


I watched Buster put Little Peppy in a gooseneck trailer loose with a bunch of cows. Somebody asked him if that didn't worry him. He responded: "I use him just like any other horse I ride...that's what made him great."


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Posts: 36416 | Location: Gainesville, TX | Registered: 24 December 2006Reply With Quote
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Yep, any horses around our place get used for everything and have to be "well rounded". Even back when my wife was doing a lot of showing and we were hauling to both open and breed shows, those horses got rode out plenty and used for ranch work and hunting. It was a sanity break for them.

Nothing more useless than an 'arena horse' that loses its marbles when taken away from the security.


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Posts: 1806 | Location: Northern Rockies, BC | Registered: 21 July 2006Reply With Quote
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Posts: 274 | Location: Wa. | Registered: 04 February 2009Reply With Quote
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Bottom line is wet saddle blankets rule. Abuse does not. Use them hard, but don't hurt them, make the roping box and the mountains a fun place to be for you and your horse.


Ray Atkinson
Atkinson Hunting Adventures
10 Ward Lane,
Filer, Idaho, 83328
208-731-4120

rayatkinsonhunting@gmail.com
 
Posts: 41758 | Location: Twin Falls, Idaho | Registered: 04 June 2000Reply With Quote
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Bottom line is wet saddle blankets rule. Abuse does not. Use them hard, but don't hurt them, make the roping box and the mountains a fun place to be for you and your horse.

I like the way you put that.
I don't want my horses to fear my hands.


LORD, let my bullets go where my crosshairs show.
Not all who wander are lost.
NEVER TRUST A FART!!!
Cecil Leonard
 
Posts: 2786 | Location: Northeast Louisianna | Registered: 06 October 2009Reply With Quote
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Originally posted by RichardAustin:
I adhere to the Buster Welch method; use them for whatever needs to be done. Like Mr. Atkinson said above, makes them a better horse.


I watched Buster put Little Peppy in a gooseneck trailer loose with a bunch of cows. Somebody asked him if that didn't worry him. He responded: "I use him just like any other horse I ride...that's what made him great."


Typical Buster. Thanks for sharing that, don't know how I missed it before. If that man had gone past the 6th grade he'd of been President and we'd be better for it.
 
Posts: 316 | Location: USA | Registered: 08 August 2011Reply With Quote
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Correction Richard, if he never did a day in school we'd been better off for it! What we have had for the last two terms is a idiot that ate all his books.


Ray Atkinson
Atkinson Hunting Adventures
10 Ward Lane,
Filer, Idaho, 83328
208-731-4120

rayatkinsonhunting@gmail.com
 
Posts: 41758 | Location: Twin Falls, Idaho | Registered: 04 June 2000Reply With Quote
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