Anyone else have horses?

Matt Shade

Matt Shade

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Just wondering how many other members have horses or ride, and what your favorite knife is for working around them ?

I ride reining horses and show in shows put on by the American Quarter Horse Association and the National Reining Horse Association.I also do a little bit training for other people ( mainly breaking young ones to saddle) and train all of my own horses.
I like to carry a gerber 600 multi lock and a tactical type folder (one hand opening and closing , locking blade), benchmade 750s right now.
So how many knife knuts have horses?
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My Sister has always had horses, and her and her husband are rodeo stock contractors. I guess I am the smart one of the family, since I DON'T have any horses!
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In a little seriousness, I will have to admit it is nice that when the urge to ride hits, I can go out and find something that probably won't buck me off. I don't have any feed or vet bills, and still get to ride. She does find ways to keep the score even though.

As far a knives go, when the Spyderco Mariner came out, everyone around the stock contracting business got one. The idea being that if anyone got hung up on a horse or other large hairy critter, the rescuer could slip the mariner blade under the rope or rigging or whatever, and not cut the person being rescued. In almost twenty years or so, I have never seen anyone save anyone with their Mariner.

A couple of years or so ago, I started carring an old fixed blade that belonged to my Dad. I decided that if I ever do get hung up on a horse that goes haywire, as clumsy as I am, I may not get the old Mariner open. I made a pouch style sheath for it so I have no snaps to mess with, and the blade has very little point, much like a drop point.

Happy trails!
 
Come on guys I know theres more than that.

knzn
Sounds like you have a pretty good deal worked out. Ride whenever you want. no stalls to clean or midnight trips to the barn checking on a foal or sick ohorse
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I'd miss it all though if I didn't have horses at my own place.
The mariner is a great knife. Serrations are a must if you want to cut rope quickly in one pass. Also good for halters and stuff like that which are pretty tough. I haven't seen them used to many times to save someone either, but I consider that a good thing .Had to cut horses out of their own mess a few times though.

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Matt:

Around here, (Kansas,) at about any type of horse, or livestock related event, their is a very large percentage of people, mostly guys, but some gals, that have some sort of clip knife clipped to their pocket.

I was just wondering, is it that way in Ohio too?

And you can count of seeing a fixed blade here and there too.

Practical working tools, for practical working people, I guess.
 
Matt, dont own any ponies at this timne but have had a passel in the past during my ranch working days, one time I had over 30 head, but found out very quickly that I wasnt a real good horse trader. I do still ride quite a bit, mostly in the spring during branding time and I do a lot of heeling. The knife I carry is whatever I have at the time, however, it DOES NOT have a high ride sheath! I once tried a high ride sheath and got bucked off and the knife handle broke my lower rear right rib during the impact. I am very touchy about my ribs from that day forward!
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knzn
Yep most of the shows I go to you can count on seeing quite a few guys carrying a clip knife of some sort. Once in awhile a fixed blade. Its kind of odd really. If I go to a big horseshow like the quarter horse congress I see a ton of people carrying knives, and a few of the 150 or so vendors that come in for the three weeks sell them too. I even saw a trailer for a custom knife maker this year, but couldn't find their booth. I'm going up again tonight to pick up some stuff and will keep an eye out. But at shows like the county fair, where the people aren't quite as heavily invovled with horses or serious about it, you find yourself loaning a knife out a lot more often.
Hey Rob
Ouch, I knew there was a reason I didn't like high ride sheaths.
Its not easy being a horse trader. I've helped my dad with buying and selling quite few now. He would buy a young horse for me to ride and I would work with it for a year or two then he would sell it and we'd start over. It really taught me alot working with so many different horses. Now I have a couple of my own I'm trying to work some deals out with and things aren't moving to quickly. I have a 3 yr old paint for sale right now. Everyone who looks at him says he's beautiful, thinks he does everything really well, thinks my asking price is fair,but they don't buy him
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Oh well, he's nice anough I don't mind having him around for now.

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Matt,

I have never owned any horses but I have always wanted to. When I was younger I used to work at a riding academy in Long Island. I was a tour guide for people who came to ride for the day. It was a lot of fun. Horses are beutiful, amazing animals. The bonds that can be formed between horse and rider are amazing.

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