Message #5461

[c.miller]

Like said before hunting horse back is a blast. You can cover a lot more country, you can get to the bay a lot faster and see a lot more action whether its over the tall grass…palmettos or what ever type country you hunt. You can drag hogs out of the woods much easier…just tie hog off to horse’s tail and out you come. If you do have one bayed up in the open it is fun to rope one. Now comes the negative side of being horse back. If a person is an inexperienced rider and is not mounted well…meaning horse is not used to the situations you’ll have him….the rider is going to hate every minute of it…..you’ll be fighting the horse the whole time and something…being you or the horse will end up hurt. If hunting smaller places that have more cattle guards than gates or gaps then you’ll end up having to walk a lot or take down fences which is a pain. If someone other than you owns the property and stock…whatever it might be…horses or cattle may not want the excitement of you running around their place horse back and keeping the cattle all wound up. Easing around a set of cows on a 4 wheeler is a bit less stressful than them seeing you coming across the pasture at them horse back. To me the biggest two down falls to being horse back is ONE….im not a real big fan of running catch dogs (nor am I a fan of shooting over my dogs). If the four of five curs I have on the ground are bayed up…then it is a good chance it is a good size hog and I want my catch dogs fresh when I cut them loose….not wore out from running all morning (kinda like me jogging two miles then getting in the ring with a fresh boxer….I don’t stand a chance in hell). TWO is that at the end of the hunt I want to load my dogs up on that scooter and get back to the trailer….not ride for miles on a wore out horse and a set of dogs that are cut up and just want to lay down.