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Re: [RC] gun training your horse - Don HustonHello Abigail,Thanks for the very good advise on gun training your horse. I have done a similar method and a friend of mine that cracks a bullwhip from horseback (belongs to "The Hole-In-The-Wall Gang" and rides parades) uses your exact method on all the horses in the "gang". Don Huston Abigail wrote: First start off the horse. Start out with a .22 blank, starters pistol, or even a cap gun. With you standing next to the horse at one end of the arena, have a second person at the other end of the arena fire the gun (if live rounds, down range, into the dirt). If the horse does nothing more than an ear flick, or the "stand up tall, what was that" praise him up, and do it again. Do this distance approximately 5-6 times and then move closer. Once you can fire within 10 feet of the horse with no reaction, mount up and start again from the other end of the arena. Once the horse can tolerate the gun fire from about 10 feet away while mounted, then try shooting from the saddle. USE BLANKS. One shot, praise. Wait. Another shot, praise. Gradually increase your caliber, starting over dis-mounted in the arena. As with anything else, some horses take to it like its no big deal. Others need lots of work.
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