Can we talk about bits?

[WyomingRancher]

Interesting, thanks for the explanation . This horse has just about driven me nuts with saddle fit. Actually, after I took him to different saddle makers to see what they thought... and they all thought custom, I sent a tracing into McCall's to see which saddle would fit him best. I needed a better fitting saddle ASAP, so having one made wasn't going to work (my previous saddle was even a worse fit!), and I sure as heck wasn't going to have one made for ONE horse. That's how I settled on the saddle I got. It really looks like a decent fit.

One thing, this horse is soooo sensitive. No kidding, when his fall hair comes in, he sometimes has white hairs where the headstall sat near his ears, and where the cinch goes... I mean you can see where each thread went . I switched to a padded cinch, so it's not as prominent this fall.

Maybe I'll just dye him gray, and call it good. He doesn't seem sore, but it still drives me CRAZY!!! That's why I'm curious as to other possibilities .

[Faster horses]

What kind of back does this horse have? Good withers, wide withers?
Golly, he roaned out where the headstall goes?

When we were in W. Montana and had a lot of pink-eye in our
Hereford cattle, the guys roped and doctored a lot of calves.
Mr. FH was real careful about letting the horses backs dry off.
He would take the saddle off so they could cool off before he
loaded them in the trailer. His good horse had roan hairs coming
in all along his back, but he shed them out and never had a
white hair on his back when he died at 29 years of age.

[Big Muddy rancher]

I spent the whole day in the barn and forgot to take the camera out to get bit pictures. Guess i wasn't on the bit today.

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[Soapweed]