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Mustang and; (pictures)-------

mustang

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We try not to discriminate when taking pictures. If we find anything interesting, we will take a picture. With these new digital cameras, quantity isn't the issue it was in the pasts.

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This old boy is a bachelor stud that has been kicked out of the club. He was so glad to see the horses we were riding, he about wore out his welcome.

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Earl was sneaking down the wash you can see in the background, which had the attention of the mustangs,, while I circled over the ridge above them in an effort to get closer for better pictures. Like most times, they smelled trouble and headed out of the country.

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My riding partner was Ray Park from Rush Valley. We couldn't believe how cooperative these three were. I took about fifty pictures, all of which were keepers. These mustangs were on the Cedar Mountain, where the
Wild Bunch hang out. Getting this close was a real novelty.
Ray has gone to the, Promised Land. He was my last riding partner, so I gave my horse away and resort to 4-wheelers and pickups now.

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I ask them to line up for a good shot. They were really cooperative! You've said it yourself,,,, "get a little closer together so I can fit you into the picture."
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"Ok,, we've had enough on this."
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"How do I look,,, is this my best side?
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mustang

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Soapweed said:
Great photos as always, Mustang. How long ago did Ray cross the Great Divide?


Hi Soap;

The last picture I have of him is September 28, 2008, on the black horse. Ray had just recently bought the horse. He was a big powerful animal. The other picture was after I gave mine away and was riding one of Ray's.

I miss those those days, out among the mustangs and antelope,,, until I have to cut the lawn and my knees start to ache. lol


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Faster horses

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If that is Ray, he has an old Kellymore on his sorrell horse.
You don't see them too often and most people don't like mechanical
hackamores, but the Kellymores actually worked pretty nice. We
have one, have had it since forever. I imagine if they are stamped,
they are a collectors item now.

Thanks for the pictures. Always have to take a look! Interesting how good
their feet are from running in the rocks like they do.
 

mustang

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Faster horses said:
If that is Ray, he has an old Kellymore on his sorrell horse.
You don't see them too often and most people don't like mechanical
hackamores, but the Kellymores actually worked pretty nice. We
have one, have had it since forever. I imagine if they are stamped,
they are a collectors item now.

Thanks for the pictures. Always have to take a look! Interesting how good
their feet are from running in the rocks like they do.

I appreciate your comments and interest.

The comment about the mechanical hack reminded me of an experience I had when using one. I was on a wagon train reenactment from Kanosh to Cedar City Utah. The night before we headed out, the wagon master warned us that first time horses would probably go nuts when the wagons started rolling. He was more correct than he knew. When my son's and my horse started dancing around we pulled out of line and took up riding rear guard. That worked really good until a late comer came up behind us on a high trot. Ol Blue, my "double bred Hancock, headed up the road past about 20 wagons and dozens of outrider, out of control and at high rate of speed. The hack bit was about as good as nothing. I was able to turn him enough to get on the blacktop instead of trying to jump a ten foot drainage ditch. I was thinking I was about to die when he fell on the oil road, but I knew I would die when he couldn't jump the ditch. We did get stopped in about a half mile. The same thing happened later in the afternoon, but fewer wagons were around. The bicycle chain in the nose piece broke this time, but he wasn't quite so wound-up and I was able to get off and hold him. I made myself a promise never to use one again.


I'm not trying to tell anyone else what they should do,, just telling why I don't use one any more.

My son, his wife and my grandkids.
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Faster horses

Well-known member
mustang said:
Faster horses said:
If that is Ray, he has an old Kellymore on his sorrell horse.
You don't see them too often and most people don't like mechanical
hackamores, but the Kellymores actually worked pretty nice. We
have one, have had it since forever. I imagine if they are stamped,
they are a collectors item now.

Thanks for the pictures. Always have to take a look! Interesting how good
their feet are from running in the rocks like they do.

I appreciate your comments and interest.

The comment about the mechanical hack reminded me of an experience I had when using one. I was on a wagon train reenactment from Kanosh to Cedar City Utah. The night before we headed out, the wagon master warned us that first time horses would probably go nuts when the wagons started rolling. He was more correct than he knew. When my son's and my horse started dancing around we pulled out of line and took up riding rear guard. That worked really good until a late comer came up behind us on a high trot. Ol Blue, my "double bred Hancock, headed up the road past about 20 wagons and dozens of outrider, out of control and at high rate of speed. The hack bit was about as good as nothing. I was able to turn him enough to get on the blacktop instead of trying to jump a ten foot drainage ditch. I was thinking I was about to die when he fell on the oil road, but I knew I would die when he couldn't jump the ditch. We did get stopped in about a half mile. The same thing happened later in the afternoon, but fewer wagons were around. The bicycle chain in the nose piece broke this time, but he wasn't quite so wound-up and I was able to get off and hold him. I made myself a promise never to use one again.


I'm not trying to tell anyone else what they should do,, just telling why I don't use one any more.

My son, his wife and my grandkids.
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It's the ones patterned after the Roy's that have the bicycle chain. The
Kellymores are a flat piece of leather across the nose. Most mechanical
hackamores pinch, unless they are put on a certain way and high enough
up on the nose. The Kellymore's are totally different in how they work.
Sorry you had a wreck, but you might have had one regardless of what was used. :D Sounds like the horse was scared to death.
Kinda reminds me of Pat Parelli talking about how much weight a 1400 lb.
horse could pull, and then he said, "Now a SCARED 1400 lb. horse--that's
a different story." :p :wink:

Those are pretty good looking 'pioneers'. Thanks for sharing.
 

mustang

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pups and bucks said:
please keep em coming Mustang...............I look at them all..........thanks

Hey,,, pups and bucks,,,, I appreciate you interest. Horses have been really important to me in my life and when I finally found these mustangs in about 2004,, I really got excited. I have two friends that like to go out there about as much as I do. I figure we've been out to check in them around 100 times sense 2004. I've got probably 9000 pictures of mustangs and horses. They are not all keepers or wall hanger,, but once in a while I get a good one. None of my kids 4 boys and 17 grand kids take any interest in the mustangs or the pictures.

I'd go out there if we didn't even take pictures. It's a lot of fun to just watch the pecking order and the fights. Those baby colts really get me going. The only thing close is a newborn bolley calf. There ain't a greater, prettier picture than seeing 120 head of mustangs kicking up the dust on a high lope across the desert with mains and tails whipping in the wind.

Tell me about you setup and about where you live, what your hobbies are,, except work and worry. Do you ride and rope or use a Japanese qtr. horse. Run cows of do crops.

If you don't want to post it here, send me a Private Message.

mustang
 

pups and bucks

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mustang said:
pups and bucks said:
please keep em coming Mustang...............I look at them all..........thanks

Hey,,, pups and bucks,,,, I appreciate you interest. Horses have been really important to me in my life and when I finally found these mustangs in about 2004,, I really got excited. I have two friends that like to go out there about as much as I do. I figure we've been out to check in them around 100 times sense 2004. I've got probably 9000 pictures of mustangs and horses. They are not all keepers or wall hanger,, but once in a while I get a good one. None of my kids 4 boys and 17 grand kids take any interest in the mustangs or the pictures.

I'd go out there if we didn't even take pictures. It's a lot of fun to just watch the pecking order and the fights. Those baby colts really get me going. The only thing close is a newborn bolley calf. There ain't a greater, prettier picture than seeing 120 head of mustangs kicking up the dust on a high lope across the desert with mains and tails whipping in the wind.

Tell me about you setup and about where you live, what your hobbies are,, except work and worry. Do you ride and rope or use a Japanese qtr. horse. Run cows of do crops.

If you don't want to post it here, send me a Private Message.

mustang
Well..........I can give you the short version.........1975 me and another guy left home to make a living riding bucking stock :cboy: ,it was a good plan but I couldn't ride saddle broncs worth a damn.........a month later we found ourselves working for the Matador Land and Cattle Co. in Matador Tx......worked there for a year then back to ND.Then worked in town at times and back to cowboying in Mt.and Sd.....rode for a short time with Benny Binion in Jordon MT..Worked for Barnes Rodeo and Korkow Rodeo,started driving truck.....hauling cattle then later on coast to coast with a van or flatbed.Trapping coyotes in ND Az and Tx for a few winters
Really had a bright idea one time and learned how to shear sheep,may sound crazy but I liked doing that :???: .........went out west to shear on a crew in Id. one spring,made it to Mt.Nv. and Id..........got a lesson in humillity.......them boys can shear tough ones out there!!
Right now I run 100 ewes and finnish out the lambs,raise pyrenees and corgis..........load up and ride horse whenever I can..........and just so I can do all this fun stuff I work in town for jd building green stuff :D
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my ride
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my partner's ride[/img]
 

mustang

Well-known member
pups and bucks said:
mustang said:
pups and bucks said:
please keep em coming Mustang...............I look at them all..........thanks

Hey,,, pups and bucks,,,, I appreciate you interest. Horses have been really important to me in my life and when I finally found these mustangs in about 2004,, I really got excited. I have two friends that like to go out there about as much as I do. I figure we've been out to check in them around 100 times sense 2004. I've got probably 9000 pictures of mustangs and horses. They are not all keepers or wall hanger,, but once in a while I get a good one. None of my kids 4 boys and 17 grand kids take any interest in the mustangs or the pictures.

I'd go out there if we didn't even take pictures. It's a lot of fun to just watch the pecking order and the fights. Those baby colts really get me going. The only thing close is a newborn bolley calf. There ain't a greater, prettier picture than seeing 120 head of mustangs kicking up the dust on a high lope across the desert with mains and tails whipping in the wind.

Tell me about you setup and about where you live, what your hobbies are,, except work and worry. Do you ride and rope or use a Japanese qtr. horse. Run cows of do crops.

If you don't want to post it here, send me a Private Message.

mustang
Well..........I can give you the short version.........1975 me and another guy left home to make a living riding bucking stock :cboy: ,it was a good plan but I couldn't ride saddle broncs worth a damn.........a month later we found ourselves working for the Matador Land and Cattle Co. in Matador Tx......worked there for a year then back to ND.Then worked in town at times and back to cowboying in Mt.and Sd.....rode for a short time with Benny Binion in Jordon MT..Worked for Barnes Rodeo and Korkow Rodeo,started driving truck.....hauling cattle then later on coast to coast with a van or flatbed.Trapping coyotes in ND Az and Tx for a few winters
Really had a bright idea one time and learned how to shear sheep,may sound crazy but I liked doing that :???: .........went out west to shear on a crew in Id. one spring,made it to Mt.Nv. and Id..........got a lesson in humillity.......them boys can shear tough ones out there!!
Right now I run 100 ewes and finnish out the lambs,raise pyrenees and corgis..........load up and ride horse whenever I can..........and just so I can do all this fun stuff I work in town for jd building green stuff :D
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my ride
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my partner's ride[/img]


Hi pups & bucks
I've been out of town, sorry for the late replay. It sounds like you have it figured out. Some advise from an old man. Take advantage any time you can get out. I waited too long and my knees started to bother me, It got so I couldn't ride over five miles at a time. Then my riding partners started dieing off. It was fun for me to ride alone and I went chasing mustangs out on The Cedar Mountain seven Saturdays in a row the last year I had my horse. So Like Larry the Cable guy says,,, "Get er done".

Your horses look good and I noticed some body knows the art of finer horse shoeing. I never did learn how to keep a shoe on in this rock country we ride in,,, so I started welding cleats on the outer edge of the horse shoes, taper them on top and then hammer them in against the hoof after the nails were in. It works to darn well it really was hard to get the shoe off when you want it off.
 

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