BuckSmasher
Lil-Rokslider
He took the shortcut through the air! LOL. Nuts.
Horse wrecks
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rayporter
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a young gelding would throw a real fit on occasion. he threw me several times. i took him to a small rodeo stock contractor
who gave me a few bucks for him. he bucked him a couple times and bucked well. a month later they went to feed and he was laying in the pen dead. glad he did not drop on me out in the sticks. had a free race horse colic and die at home 4 years ago. he was packing real good too.
who gave me a few bucks for him. he bucked him a couple times and bucked well. a month later they went to feed and he was laying in the pen dead. glad he did not drop on me out in the sticks. had a free race horse colic and die at home 4 years ago. he was packing real good too.
My last horse developed like panic attack seizures or something. He would be fine then some small thing would cause him to lock up and pass out. Last trip in to the local wilderness, he put his head down to take a bite of grass and got my reins slack for a second and stepped on one when he pulled up it tightened and he passed out. He fell over a long steep embankment and down we went. We tumbled cartwheeling and rolling for about 50 yards as I tried to stay out of under him. My saddle was tore up and the contents of my saddlebags was mashed but somehow I didn’t get too hurt and we climbed back up. After that he would get nervous and pass out falling over. I was trapped with a leg under him and fortunately it was soft ground. After I got out , I walked out to the truck and ended up putting him down as we could find no way to get him better and I didn’t want anyone else to get hurt.
BluMtn
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About 15 years ago my son and I had been hunting deer in the mountains and we had called it early one day and we did a little road hunting. I drove to an area that a packer uses. When I got there the packer and a friend of his was just finishing loading the mules to take into the wilderness for elk season. Both of these guys were at the time in the early 70's. When they were finished we said or goodbyes and the friend stepped up into his stirrup and swung his leg over and as he was putting his boot in the other stirrup that horse came unglued.
Now they were on a FS graveled parking lot when this all happened. He stayed with that horse for about 10 seconds and I thought he was going to get him settled, but that horse went straight up and twisted in mid air and unloaded that guy at the apex of the jump. I was already reaching for my phone to call the sheriffs office and have them get the helicopter coming before the separation because I knew what was going to happen.
We watched that guy take what seemed like forever to hit the ground. I took off running toward him and the outfitter was gathering up the horse, I got to the rider piled up in the parking lot and started checking him as he kind of started straightening out. I started looking him over and asking questions about his condition. He layed there for a couple minutes and I tested all his joints and checked his limbs and he was still in one piece.
We helped him up and I checked him over again and he said he was alright, but the outfitter and I convinced him that he needed to be checked over by a Dr. So we helped them unpack 10 mules and unsaddled the two riding horses. I sent them out first and we followed them to town before we turned our own way.
I saw that outfitter a couple years later during elk season and ask about his friend and he said that he broke his collar bone, but other than that he came out lucky. The outfitter said he couldn't figure out what caused the horse to act like that because that is the horse he uses when he has a novice rider going with him.
Now they were on a FS graveled parking lot when this all happened. He stayed with that horse for about 10 seconds and I thought he was going to get him settled, but that horse went straight up and twisted in mid air and unloaded that guy at the apex of the jump. I was already reaching for my phone to call the sheriffs office and have them get the helicopter coming before the separation because I knew what was going to happen.
We watched that guy take what seemed like forever to hit the ground. I took off running toward him and the outfitter was gathering up the horse, I got to the rider piled up in the parking lot and started checking him as he kind of started straightening out. I started looking him over and asking questions about his condition. He layed there for a couple minutes and I tested all his joints and checked his limbs and he was still in one piece.
We helped him up and I checked him over again and he said he was alright, but the outfitter and I convinced him that he needed to be checked over by a Dr. So we helped them unpack 10 mules and unsaddled the two riding horses. I sent them out first and we followed them to town before we turned our own way.
I saw that outfitter a couple years later during elk season and ask about his friend and he said that he broke his collar bone, but other than that he came out lucky. The outfitter said he couldn't figure out what caused the horse to act like that because that is the horse he uses when he has a novice rider going with him.
TxxAgg
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This thread makes me glad I’ve never been on a horse 
RockAndSage
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That's pretty rough, all the way around.
Tobe_B
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This thread makes me glad I’ve never been on a horse
You’re missing out.
It was. He was a sweetheart and bomb proof before it started. Could ride him with just a halter and lead rope. Shoot off him, whatever.
