Teaching Horses to Accept Gun Fire -Shooting Guns (Lecture) -Sacking Out...

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How do you teach a horse to accept gunfire? The slow way is the fast way. Like most things with horses, it is a process and NOT an event. All training is connected to many variables, like your experience, your confidence, your timing, feel, release, understanding of horses, time spent with horses and how YOU react and you respond to what happens. Then there are the horse factors such has prior training, prior learning, prior experiences, what lessons have been taught to the horse like does the horse respect or fear people, does the horse know how to give to pressure, does the horse know how to look for a right answer, does the think or react with fear, all kind of things in play, so when someone asks, how do I teach a horse to do ? whatever, there is no way to give a good answer and the fact that a person is asking and expecting an answer tells me they don't understand all the variables when it comes to horses.

Sacking out or teaching a horse to accept new or scary things are about the same process. It can be easy and smooth or it can be a disaster where the horse learns dangerous lessons or gets hurt. It is up to YOU. When a horse fails it is YOU. When they learn and succeed then you did it right. A horse tells you when you did it right or wrong. Listen to the horse. Horse training is about the Horse teaching you what you do not know.

Not having knowledge about something is not as dangerous as knowing the wrong information and believing what you know is right. If people stop thinking they know so much and just started listening to the horse, they would learn more.

Small steps, make the right answer easy, prevent the wrong answer, do not teach the end results, teach small steps to build the horse's confidence so he can accept the final result.

My videos and web site are tied together to help you learn about the horse, if you just look for a simple answer from one video or one article on my site, you are missing the big picture. The more you question what you know, the more you will be willing to learn better ways for the Horse.

Buddy and Mr. T you are good boys.

Why I was asked about this:
This person rides in isolated areas & has ran into mountain lions & or bears so to protect or scare off a gun is handy. In some areas you may cross on someone's land & they get upset & people tend to treat people better if they have guns to defend themselves, some time if you ride long ways you may run into a illegal crop of Marijuana grow or drug lab, so they will shoot at you and try to kill you so you don't tell cops where they are located. Someone may try steal your horse or rob you. Having a gun and not needing it is better than needing a gun and not having it