The Chronicle Wants Your Hunt Reports

[Sara_Lieser]

Hello!

The Chronicle is getting ready to do a website overhaul, and one of the new features on our site will be hunt reports. I know you guys do an amazing job writing about some of the great days you have out hunting, so if you’re interested in sharing your experiences, we’d love to publish your reports. I know we publish some hunt reports in the magazine, but with the new website, I’ll be able to publish all that are sent to me.

Send reports to sara@chronofhorse.com. Feel free to send photos as well, although if they were taken by a professional, please let me know. When the new site goes live (in the next month or two), I’ll publish your report and photos.

[system]

You jumped in a sidesaddle that didn’t have a reinforced tree? I realize that it would likely break the tree but would you hear a big “crack” over a fence? Or do the horns break off? Have you ever seen a saddle that’s been broken from improper use? Just a curiousity type question.

[sadlmakr]

Yes to your question about have horns broken off from improper use. I get them in my shop all the time. Often they saddle up in the stall and when they walk the horse out the leaping horn is broken off when it hits the stall door or door post. That is the number one cause of damage. The other is letting the saddle fall off the rack or off the fence and it hits upside down on the top horn and often bends or breaks it.
I have had to get threaded stock made up in the antique patterns to repair these damaged horns. Some of the pre WW-I are old timey thread patterns. Old English Sterling threads and then reversed left hand threads to boot. It costs a lot to get these things custom made from a machinist.
So use care when handling an Old Name sidesaddle.
But I get quite a few of the Mail Order Catalog Western sidesaddles also with the leaping horns broken off. It is usually the same reason as the first mentioned ones, dropping them or letting them fall off the horse or the fence.
KR’s Sadlmakr

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You jumped in a sidesaddle that didn’t have a reinforced tree? I realize that it would likely break the tree but would you hear a big “crack” over a fence? Or do the horns break off? Have you ever seen a saddle that’s been broken from improper use? Just a curiousity type question.[/QUOTE]