SplitHoof On Mojave Patrol!

[LindenBruce]

My first thought was literal. As in their equine HAD split their hoof. Which is never good. I was relieved to see it was an add for AR with a dude on a bike. B.

[splithoof]

My first thought was literal. As in their equine HAD split their hoof. Which is never good. I was relieved to see it was an add for AR with a dude on a bike. B.

[SanDiego619]

Those things are completely unreliable, they fall down all the time, they are stinky, loud and have no soul. Can't make friends with one like a good cowpony:

Hate being a pedestrian:

You have the best job ever, I always enjoy seeing your photos!

[pennstater]

I know, right.

Hee!







You had me at Penton.

Penton were neat, just didn't know enough about them. I'd like to think the best dirt bike I rode was a 400 CZ. Now, that was a dirt bike. Belonged to a riding/racing buddy.

MLC

[Horsewright]

Two things come to mind reading this thread.

1. I was expecting some yoga pant clad hottie given the "split hoof" thread title.

2. Is that cow in the last pic named George?


Too soon?

Nope thats not George. This is George:





George was a leppy (orphaned/abandoned) calf we found out in the sage. His tendons on his front legs were constricted and he didn't move around good at first. He was one of a set of twins and twins almost always works out bad one way or another. His mom abandoned him to save the other which could move well. He was so hidden in the sage Nichole almost stepped on him with her horse and the poor little guy couldn't even run away. So Tyler came and picked the calf up and put him in the saddle with me like this so I could give him a ride to camp. This isn't George in the saddle with me here but it gives ya the idea. This little guy was up on top of that mountain in the back ground and had run out of gas heading in:



Interestingly that horse is named George, go figure. @SanDiego619 here's the glamorous part of being a rancher, yeah there's gucamole running down my right leg in that last pic. Sh.. happens! So took George home and raised him as a leppy. Two bottles a day and kept him in a little pen. Some leppys do well and others die on ya or do poorly. George did really well. Pretty soon he's a pretty healthy little bull calf, running around and playing. Just gradual movement helped the tendons stretch out and he was pretty normal in a week or two. After several months we turned him back out and eventually George went to the sale with the rest of the calves. George the horse is a pretty big stout ol guy and is a good rope horse:



@DeuceMcGurk Thanks. Normally this time of year I carry my Smith Mod 36.



But that day was just so darn hot I was holding the 36 and thinking dang this is heavy. So went with the Glock 43 to save a couple of ounces. I must be getting old. Nah she's waffling. She wants one with out sights which aren't available, whereas there are 7 with the supplier with sights. Go figure.

[200Apples]

Oh, man, punched in the feels with the lil' leppy story.


Tell Nichole! that she should always have irons on the riffle for backup in case her glass breaks.


And, I will never tire of saying how much we appreciate your photos, HW. They add an almost-indescribable element to our forum threads here.

[LindenBruce]

Oh, I'm with you there, the Cloven hoof. There is a LOT more to the hoof tale, but, like you said, that is another chapter. B.

[DueceMcGurk]

HW

Nothing cuter than a bottle fed baby -- calf, rhino, grandson. Heart warming story.

I always keep the irons on. Not as sleek, but that one time your optic fails, it pays off. The 6.5 will be a great caliber choice.

[splithoof]

All practical field rifles, IMO, need backup iron sights. Best I can suggest to Mrs. Horse is that it would be akin to going out on a long day on horseback without packing a good hoof pick. Because sometimes things happen that we don’t plan for. Optics do break, rain/water/mud cloud them, or they may zero shift.

Ever catch a rock on the trail, and it needs to be removed?....pocket knives, keys, bullet tips, etc., certainly aren’t the best tools. A hoof pick is what is needed. Iron sights are the same in that regard.

[nickel plate]

Pursang with lights? Wow!

I miss those old dirt bikes.

Maico
Penton
Montesa
Ossa
Hodaka
CZ
CanAm
Ducati

I had a Greeves Anglian trials bike for a few years, The only modification I did was installing a compression release. Villiers lower end and a Greeves 250 c.c. square barrel on top. The big in joke was that the piston was also square. There was a Greeves dealer in Redwood City that actually had a square piston on the front counter, looked quite real but also quite fake.

[Horsewright]

Oh, man, punched in the feels with the lil' leppy story.


Tell Nichole! that she should always have irons on the riffle for backup in case her glass breaks.


And, I will never tire of saying how much we appreciate your photos, HW. They add an almost-indescribable element to our forum threads here.

Thanks Chris.

Yeah preaching to the choir on that one for the iron sights guys. However. And there is no however. Still waffling. I have even pointed out that her favorite rifle of mine that she hunts with is my BLR and it has SIGHTS. To no avail:





Looky real close. There are two coyotes staking the 6 pigs we were watching. Pigs are heading under that tree on the left:



Here's the coydogs can ya spot em?



Now there was some old rancher sitting on the slope watching the pigs:



Those two coyotes came out of that draw about 25 yards to the right of me. They had no clue we were even there. The Mod 70 XTR Featherweight in 7x57mm I'm cradling was itching to blast the two dogs but that would of been the end of the pigs of course for that evening. So we didn't. But do you know how hard it is for a rancher NOT to shoot a coyote? We watched them cross this area we call The Bowl and start low crawling up on the pigs. A friend that was with us moved a little bit and the dogs even at that distance made us out, Turned, faced us and trotted off. The pigs never knew we were there but never got closer either. Like my friend JP said in his book "Accidental Cowboy": when the bones of the last man on earth, lay bleaching in the sun, there will be a coyote to come lift his leg on them.

[pennstater]

I had a Greeves Anglian trials bike for a few years, The only modification I did was installing a compression release. Villiers lower end and a Greeves 250 c.c. square barrel on top. The big in joke was that the piston was also square. There was a Greeves dealer in Redwood City that actually had a square piston on the front counter, looked quite real but also quite fake.

nickel plate, that old Greeves; that the one with the big springer front end?
Those things were a trip.

MLC

[DueceMcGurk]

HW,
In that terrain, are most of your pig shots greater that 150 yards? Tough not to get spotted.

Do you use feeders?

[200Apples]

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[Spaffo]

We had a Matador Mark II and an Ossa Pioneer. Both were fast and street legal.