My wife's horse keeps ruining my coyote hunt.

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My wife's horse did the same thing, a 3-5 year gelding 1/4. I wanted to train him into a mountain horse, but that plan got vetoed. Watched him run several coyotes through the hot wire. He also ran down raccoons and skunks, this was not so fun as they weren't as quick as the coyotes and he'd successfully catch them requiring skunk bath protocol. The coyotes learned this trick quickly, and would detour quite closely around the fenced pasture. Try setting up your bait just outside the hotwire, they'll probably sit there and taunt the horse.

He was a very gentle horse outside of his predator control activities. I'd often ride him bareback as I didn't want to mess with tacking up. He was very tolerant of gunfire, even excited by it. Started just like training a dog, with .22 subsonic and worked my way up to full power rifle rounds before the wife got wind that I was spoiling her show horse by running an unsanctioned mounted shooting course in the pasture.
 
Bfh_auto said:
She is a 15 year old buggy/riding horse that isn't afraid of gunshots. I'm not brave enough to try shooting off her back though.
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I helped train horses for mounted cavalry injury stopped me. Spent a couple battles walking horses past active artillery pieces.

Officers'Wife said:
The answer is simple, train the horse to run the coyotes to you.
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That's brilliant would likely work well.
It would be entertaining watching that horse work.
 
Random 8 said:
My wife's horse did the same thing, a 3-5 year gelding 1/4. I wanted to train him into a mountain horse, but that plan got vetoed. Watched him run several coyotes through the hot wire. He also ran down raccoons and skunks, this was not so fun as they weren't as quick as the coyotes and he'd successfully catch them requiring skunk bath protocol. The coyotes learned this trick quickly, and would detour quite closely around the fenced pasture. Try setting up your bait just outside the hotwire, they'll probably sit there and taunt the horse.

He was a very gentle horse outside of his predator control activities. I'd often ride him bareback as I didn't want to mess with tacking up. He was very tolerant of gunfire, even excited by it. Started just like training a dog, with .22 subsonic and worked my way up to full power rifle rounds before the wife got wind that I was spoiling her show horse by running an unsanctioned mounted shooting course in the pasture.
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You sound like my younger brother. He loves training horses for mounted shooting.
I prefer motorcycles. They only get crazy when I do something.
 
Actually I kind of despise the critters. Lots of work and money to get any use out of them, and sometimes they just go mental when you're riding, stalling, holding for the farrier, etc. A sandhill crane bugling across the pasture almost sent me to the hospital and the horse to the rendering plant one day. That was my sole motivation for gun training ours, just to get a little return of fun on the massive investment of money and time. He had a penchant for wintergreen Copenhagen (Grandpa's old trick) so he was easy to catch and work with. Fortunately, my wife gave up the horse "business" after her mom retired and moved out of state.

I do still enjoy working with other peoples horses, so long as they get the shovel time and feed bills.
 
Patocazador said:
IMO, a horse is an expensive animal that your wife and daughter love and it does its best to maim or kill you. They are mentally unstable.
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Yeah, I stick to snowmobiles, firearms, and cocaine (kidding on the last one, although if you took it literally the following statement would still be accurate). They're cheaper and less hazardous to my health.
 
My oldest son used to have horses for his daughters on his land. With a great amount of equine trails close by and plenty of his own property, he figured the girls would use 'em. Not so much. Dang things were always getting thru the fence(seemed everytime the wind blew it would take out part of it) and would get into the food plots we had planted for deer and chew them down to the roots. On top of gorging on food intended for deer, they would also actively run them off when they saw them. Was frustrating as heck after sitting in the tree for an hour and having one of them chase off any deer you saw. Tried as he could, after they decided to get rid of them, for two years he couldn't give them away, and had to buy hay throughout the winter/pay to have the hooves trimmed. What a waste of good money. Bigger money pit than owning a boat. Finally got rid of them. Only downside is now we have to mow the old pasture to keep the weeds down. The new brush hog was still cheaper than the dang horses.
 
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My oldest son used to have horses for his daughters on his land. With a great amount of equine trails close by and plenty of his own property, he figured the girls would use 'em. Not so much. Dang things were always getting thru the fence(seemed everytime the wind blew it would take out part of it) and would get into the food plots we had planted for deer and chew them down to the roots. On top of gorging on food intended for deer, they would also actively run them off when they saw them. Was frustrating as heck after sitting in the tree for an hour and having one of them chase off any deer you saw. Tried as he could, after they decided to get rid of them, for two years he couldn't give them away, and had to buy hay throughout the winter/pay to have the hooves trimmed. What a waste of good money. Bigger money pit than owning a boat. Finally got rid of them. Only downside is now we have to mow the old pasture to keep the weeds down. The new brush hog was still cheaper than the dang horses.
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This one costs me about 50 pounds of grain per year. I trim her hooves and the hay field stays green if I take the last cutting a couple weeks early. I would give her away, but my wife uses her as an escape from the daily grind.
She does chase the deer, but I don't deer hunt it anyway.
 
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