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Mounted Shooting

11/28/2012

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So, when I was much, much younger and thought I was invincible I chased down some men on a four-wheeler.

It all started when I was living at this place with my horses that backed up against Bowater property and allowed for horseback riders and four-wheelers to freely use the old logging roads. Well, there were always those that thought they would target practice as well. The only problem was that their "target" was aimed at my horse field through about 50-75 feet of woods. I love my horses, when I say that I mean I really LOVE my horses and you just don't mess with them. I did try to catch them when I heard them to explain they were going to shoot my horses but every time I tried to get out there they would hear me and take off on their four-wheeler. 

After a few times of this I got pretty angry and the next time I heard the gunshot I ran out and grabbed Ghost Wind with nothing but a halter on him and my Henry lever-action .22 in tow and took off at a dead run after them. I actually did literally chase them down on their four-wheeler and when I caught up to them and cut them off they had to stop and talk to me. Holding my rifle in a very visible position I explained to them why it was in their best interest to NOT target practice in that area anymore because if I heard it again I would "target practice" in their direction as well. Needless to say, they completely understood how much my horses meant to me.

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The Hardee's drive-thru

11/22/2012

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Well, every year we would participate with the horses in the Christmas Parade in the great town of Tellico Plains, TN. That place was so awesome the only fast food restaurant they had was Hardee's. We thought it would be fun to take our horses through the drive-thru..... so of course we did. 

We even waited in line and did it all sophisticated like. You should have seen the lady's face when she saw we were on horses.

It went so well with us that all of the other riders decided it would be fun. So Hardee's was overrun by horses going through the drive-thru, and as all good things must come to an end, so did this when one of the horses spooked and made a big mess of everything. 

And so was the end of the "horse-thru"
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Putting out hay...

11/22/2012

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There are many chores to do on a farm including putting out hay to the cows. This has to be done every day and I soon came to hate square bales. My little sister and I came up with the bright idea to make it a little more fun by involving horses (which we were trying to do in every aspect of our lives at that time). 


So we took a surcingle, a girth strap and some ropes and made us a little "hay pulling rig". Much like the one I made for my daughter to use with her pony, you can see the pictures of it on the Ponies page. 


Anyway, so we would put the rope through maybe six square bales and pull them out into the field. When we got to a place that one of the bales should go we would just cut the twines and let it loose. After doing this a few times we decided that my little sister should not have to walk and she rode on the bales from then on. I got more and more brave with it as my horse (Ghost Wind) was more comfortable with it and picked up the pace until we were running the bales out there and cutting them loose on the fly, lol. 


Of course being a teenager that was just not dangerous or funny enough and I started making sharp unexpected turns, which would incidentally make those bales flip over and over - WITH MY SISTER ON THEM. 


We did know how to have fun back then :) 
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    Carrie W.

    I grew up on a farm and loved the life. I want my children to have the opportunity to grow as a person like I did.

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