#hackamore

[tackdump]

Some old hackamore shots. Various types, times, and places. Been hard to find pics of them, I assume because most pictures taken in camera-scarcer days were of finished horses. It makes sense you would want to highlight your snazzy bridle horse, or if you’re a working cowboy having your picture taken, your working horse is probably already in a curb.

[j0them0971]

Bombproofing the bitch horse

Also she's calmed down a lot since I last worked with her. Needs more lunging tho

I think using a bit on her would make her worse and she's doing fine rn

Also she stopped kicking at Nacho, which is good, and apparently they're friends now. Mares, what can ya say? (She was kicking the bars between their stalls and scaring the shit out of him so I had to move her, but now she's fine. Idk)

[blackjackhorses]

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[sleepysorrel]

First ride of the year and first ride since October!! Just putzing around at a walk, getting a feel for her mental state and how she likes the new hackamore. She was much softer and steered easily so I'll consider that a win

1/100

[rabbitcruiser]

Clouds (No. 1244)

Demuth, CA

[cheekedupwhiteboy]

i hope cities on the plain has lots of john grady cole x billy parham yaoi

[stellarcoachman]

Organizing files on my computer and found this, which I have NO memory of sketching. Clearly I had a vision, but I have no idea what the fuck it was.

[fascinationex]

why do people who evidently disapprove of every possible interaction with an animal intentionally seek out animal videos to make insane statements in the comments? by definition, someone has to film them. isn't this just self harm...?

[track2hack]

21.09.2023

Real men wear pink 💪

And YES it’s that bright in real life too 🤩🤩🤩

[heartfledged]

If you get to av’s barn and put a flash on your horse av is throwing your entire bridle in the garbage

[blackjackhorses]

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[morningstarequestrian]

WIP Hackamore Bridle (kinda proud of this one) :D

[ponyartistbrainiac]

Lore dump about Thunder Punch I typed up for the people who asked

He was a hero of the wasteland

When he was a foal he had a brother named Flint Lock they had a dad who was a sunnova bitch and after years of hurting him and his brother Thunder killed him while defending said brother which gave him his cutiemark (which stands for making tough decisions).

After a while his brother, who was a talented unicorn, started making special magic guns and bullets. With Thunder as the face they started to do heroic deeds in the wasteland that gained them a high reputation and many allies and they became known as "The Thunder Runners". Flint also made a special gun and coat for Thunder with a note that said "please be careful I only have one brother." A mare named Casey a marksman joined their group. After a while Flint retired after having a foal, leaving Thunder on his own to handle this group and things started to get wild. He came back to talk to flint and to ask him to return but he said he wouldn't he had a child now and Casey deserted both of them. This eventually ended in an argument which lead to a wrestling match between him and Thunder which he wasnt fit for. Thunder was a strong and hardened wastelander but Flint had been retired for a while ans grew soft. Thunder accidently broke his neck.

Sick with himself and the wasteland he so desperately wanted to change over time he started to get ideas on how to fix it .

He took down the local raider king and took over and raider activity dropped immensly.

For a while things where fine until he was approached by a very strong and very terrifying cybernetic alicorn that gave him an offer he couldnt refuse. If he wanted to keep his life. He was approached also by the general and she offered him a way to fix the wasteland forever by forcing the other settlements to become settlements of Treasure a massive city located in the Equestrian treasury.

Reluctently he accepted and this is where we came in.

He was forced to send his raiders to try to take over settlements and alot of them started to question his choices while others started to see him as some sort of god.

He took whatever prisoners they took and kept them as safe as he could while he continued.

He had some of the smarter raiders build massive machines so that he could take over a town known as Old Fork.

Our adventuring team went to stop him in the heart of his base. A massive military base in the mountains surrounded by "the flencing woods" where magic sandy winds whip so hard your skin would be torn off without alot of preparation and some magic casters.

Pretending to be his hired body guards we (and by we i actually mean the other half of my group I was in hackamore but thats a different story) made it to his chambers and he put a hoof on our Gunslingers shoulder and said "excuse me lil lady but are you the "body guards" I hired.

An enclave vertibuck appeared and started to wreck havoc.

He took her out back and told her to shoot down the vertibuck which she failed to do. It was then taken down by the cybernetic alicorn.

She then learned that Thunder Punch the killer of her father and the raider king himself, was infact her uncle.

She then tried to fight her uncle and just as she was about to lose she was saved by an arrow from one of Older Caseys friends named Ztev. We had run into them on the way while they where hunting down our Casey thinking she was an impersonator but instead she was her daughter lol wow.

We found out about his plans and met back up with our full party in old fork to stop an all out war.

A massacre is what we expected.

We also got his builders to join our side instead and they asked us to stop the machines but not destroy them because they could be used to build. (A dozer and a tank)

While we tried to stop him but one of us was captured (doctor scorp) and I stayed behind to help him.

As our team was leaving in old Caseys car they where chased by raiders on scrap motorcycles. As I was one that was left behind Silent Spring was panicking and Old Casey told her that Thunder was a reasonable man he wasn't a monster and her friends will be fine.

After waking Scorp Thunder tried talking to him about what was going on and I made my presence known.

I talked with Thunder and asked him why he wanted to kill so many people. He was confused and asked why we thought he would do that. Eventually he said he was going to use us as leverage to talk to his neice. Our gunslinger also known as Casey.

After I annoyed all the raiders he had guarding us so much they left I set myself and Scorp loose.

When we escaped the machine and got back to town. there where many fires but a magic flare shot to the sky ans a thunder storm started.

I "Shotglass the spy breezie" told Casey to just talk to her uncle.

Before leaving I told Thunder he was just a coward watching from his chair while his minions did all the work. He said "its a very comfy chair". An enclave vertibuck flew over and he landed on the wall and broke one of the guards necks with his bare hooves. We then realized the gravity of the situation.

Casey really wanted to kill him because he killed her dad.

She was so angry she sort of mislead some of us on his misdeeds even making some of us believe he took slaves which wasnt true. And he was forcing ponies to do evil things which was sort of true but they where gonna do evil things anyways just different more dangerous evil things.

He kept taking people alive because he wanted to talk to her but she wasnt having it. Including our witch abyssinian named Maneki which he knocked unconcious and carried around the battlefield to try to talk go his niece. Despite everything the machines never did much destruction to the town and minimal casualties happened to innocents thanks mostly to our party rallying the town to help us and providing alot of aid. And partially because Thunder didnt want a massacre but we didnt know that at the time.

We ended up having a showdown on the top of the church he was so fast that most of us couldnt touch him but he was holding back alot. Our sorcerer kirin Silent Spring started spamming magic missle until he was wittled down and the final blow to end the attack was done by Casey and Minty working together

After we finally defeated him she asked him why he killed her dad

Turns out it was an accident and he sort of fell into a path of self destruction because of it

He was helpless and cooperative and he seemed to be at peace with his impending doom. Pulling out a photo of Flint and Casey (our casey) to look at as Casey put her gun to his noodle after stripping him of everything.

The party questioned the morality of killing a helpless and cooperative stallion.

She put a bullet in his head despite the parties pleas

In the days after his death everyone who knew him which are pretty much all old hardened wasteland heros where extremely sad to hear it and his niece started to regret killing him. Her mothrr giving us an old lighter that simply read "Thunder Runners" etched into the silver. It was the name of his team of heros and his band of adopted misfits.

Old Casey didn't stay for the cremation she was incredibly sad.

We cremated him and she put his remains into whats basically a giant bullet

We where granted access to a massive high tech city called treasure afterwards for doing their dirty work and the raiders he kept at bay where now running wild and killing innocent people everywhere

We still wonder if killing him was the best decision

[warsofasoiaf]

Do you have a good chart or know of the words for the gear a horse would wear. I know the reins and stirrups but that’s it, I need to know what a king would have on his horse when riding to castle to castle but wants to make a show of how rich he is with his horse as well

Most folks are familiar with the saddle, but there's plenty of equipment that the saddle needs in order to make sure it doesn't slip or move like the breastcollar (also called the breastplate, but given how often I talk about armor, I'll use the more distinctive term) and crupper. Pay special attention to the saddle blanket, which help provide padding and support, and can be richly decorated - a king's saddle blanket is likely of high quality, bearing the symbol of his house. Your stirrups would be on the bottom of the saddle, for the feet.

There's the bridle, which is an essential part of the reins which helps guide and direct the horse. There's the bit, which is the part that's by the horse's mouth, whereas the noseband is, like the name suggests around the nose, and the martingale, which goes around the girth and between the legs. The reins, bit, and bridle form what is essentially the "steering wheel" of the horse, while the martingale keeps the horse's head from rearing back and striking the rider. Some tack doesn't have a bit, instead pushing on the horse's nose and chin, this is called a hackamore in today's parlance. Don't confuse the bridle with a halter, which is used on the ground to lead and hitch the horse (if you secure the bridle to a hitchpost, the horse might hurt itself or rip the bridle).

Then, of course, a wealthy king would probably bard his horse. Barding is horse armor, which depending on the technology of the people in question, might be metal plate, strap and lamellar, or hardened and boiled leather. Well-crafted and embellished armor is a great way to showcase your wealth. Bling can be shown directly, of course, but having a truly impressively crafted set of barding means that the king employs the most skilled armorsmiths. Good armor doesn't just keep your horse alive, but it allows the owner to flex on everyone.

Thanks for the question, Anon.

SomethingLikeALawyer, Hand of the King

[whywishesarehorses]

We got in a final bareback ride in the early morning before the heat wave hit! We wrapped up in the outdoor arena, and got a prefect series of figure eights with flying changes in the center (okay, it was lopsided and she fell through a bit, but we Did It, bare back and in a loping hackamore)