Learn How To Properly Fit Your Mule, Large Horse and Draft Horses

Mules look’n good outfitted personally at the Buckaroo Leather booth at the Bishop Mule Days in Bishop Ca. These sheekaroo mule ladies smilin’ from here to tomorrow.

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Larger horses, mules and draft horses are becoming more popular with every day!!!! Thus, making a large demand now for quality American leather horse tack and equipment that fits properly.

Large Horses:
 
Large horses all have heads longer and broader across the brow with larger throats. So, Buckaroo Leather offers large horse headstalls. 

Large Horse Leather Horse Tack

Mules: 
(information from Horse and Mule Trainer Jerry Tindell)

“Mules are built differently than horses due to the influence of the donkey. The donkey gives the mule a broader forehead, larger eyes and a wider base at the ears. The average sized horse brow band is typically too short at the base of the ears for the mile, often resulting in pinching. A brow band that isn’t long enough can rub or cut back of crown (behind the ears) causing soreness and discomfort for the mule. The throat latch also needs to often be a bit longer too.

While working with Buckaroo Leather, John with Buckaroo Leather has perfected an accurate fit for the mule and always uses the finest harness leather in the finished products.
 
Sizing information for the mule. For the brow band length measure from 2” behind ears around brow. Average mule will take a 19-20” brow. (brow bands are measured at the longest point) Some
large ones will take a 22”. Better to have a bigger brow band than too small.”……Jerry Tindell

Buckaroo Leather is proud to work with Horse and Mule trainer Jerry Tindell. Jerry has been working with Buckaroo Leather to design many of the mule styles we have to offer. You can visit his website at  www.jerrytindell.com

Mules also have a narrower chest and need the type of breast collar that fits up above their shoulders and they usually need an over the neck strap to hold the breast collar up in the best pulling position.

Buckaroo Leather proudly manufacturers all your western horse tack pieces for your mule.

Mule Western Leather Tack

Drafts and Draft Crosses:

And of course Drafts and Draft crosses are larger all over. So Buckaroo Leather has manufactured a line of quality horse tack specifically designed for Draft horses.


When ordering, for a custom fit, include with your order the complete crown/poll measurement- from the corner of the mouth along the head up over the poll down to the other corner of the mouth.

 Qauality Leather Horse Tack made for Large Horse, Mule or 

Draft Horses made right here in America!!

Buckaroo Leather Horse Tack for the Large Horse, 

Mule and Draft Horses

A Black Beauty Concha Hackamore

 A Initial Custom Headstall

A Vintage Pulling Breast Collar

 Basic Old Martingale Style Breast Collar

Our family has been dedicated for 30 years in serving the 
Western Horseman the safest most durable Quality 
American made leather horse tack....... Buckaroo John Brand Buckaroo Leather, The Brand to Demand 
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Watch Mounted Shooting Champ Denny Chapman in Action Using Buckaroo Leather Horse Tack

Watch Mounted Shooting Champion Denny Chapman in action winning High Overall and best rifle American in his Buckaroo Leather Horse Tack.....Amazing shooting Denny!!!!!

At Buckaroo Leather we are very proud to have Mounted Shooting Champion DENNY CHAPMAN using and endorsing our quality Western Leather Horse Tack........

Denny is a Wild West entertainer and stuntman, horse trainer, professional mounted shooting competitor and clinician. Denny also does TV/video hosting, commercial work, event announcing, and he is the host of the Mounted Shooting Talk Radio

Go to Denny Chapman facebook fan page to check out his newest endeavors and events......

New Denny Chapman Signature
Horse Tack from Buckaroo Leather

Buckaroo Leather is proud to have Denny Chapman endorse our western tack and work with us to develop the new Denny Chapman Signature Leather Horse Tack Line.

This new line includes a Breast Collar, Headstall, and a Martingale Style Breast Collar. These pieces of horse tack were made to match Denny's signature horse saddle (see pic here).

Denny Chapman Signature Breast Collar

This Denny Chapman Signature Breast Collar is Hand crafted from the finest quality Hermann Oak Leather. The quality leather is a Hand Basket Tooled design. The width is 2 1/2" with a shaped body and 1" saddle tugs. This Western Breast Collar has a soft chap lining with Stainless steel Hardware and is double and stitched. Properly cared for and maintained this Breast Collar will have many years of superior performance. This Leather Roper Breast Collar is for the Mounted Shooting competitor who wants a quality performing leather but does not want to sacrifice beauty.

Click here to also watch a tack tip from Denny Chapman "How to Bridle your Horse"

Denny Chapman Signature Headstall

This is Spanky, Denny's trusted mount, sporting Buckaroo's headstall. This Denny Chapman Signature Headstall is Hand basket stamped and crafted from the finest Hermann Oak Golden Bridle leather. This 3/4" Buckaroo Old West Style Headstall features scalloped cheeks with easy change buckles at bit connection with decorative stitching and all stainless buckles and conchas. Available in regular horse size and Large Horse/Mule.

Denny Chapman Signature

Martingale Style Breast Collar

This Denny Chapman Signature Breast Collar is Hand crafted from the finest Hermann Oak Golden Bridle leather, this Old Martingale style shaped breast collar features an over the shoulder fit for a better pulling position. Also featured is the adjustable OVER Neck strap and billets. The breast collar is hand basket stamped, edged, rubbed and finished with soft chap lining and top quality STAINLESS hardware. For mounted shooting, the hand craftsmanship and attention to detail will make you proud to use this breast collar on your favorite horse.




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Western Horseman the safest most durable
Quality.American made leather horse tack.......Buckaroo John Brand
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The Circus- Equestrian Entertainment in the Old West

The Circus- we all have been to one, kids love them, they are an iconic part of our culture. As in modern times, Circuses were an important part of the old west culture in the 1800s.

Cowboys coming from the dusty cow trails, frontier men after a long work week and miners who were looking to forget there long hard day in the mine came to town looking for excitement and entertainment.

Circuses provided much needed entertainment for all. The had any manner of acts, including wild animal menageries, clowns, acrobats, trapeze artists, tightrope walkers, brass bands, performing elephants and equestrians who could stand on horseback as they galloped around a center ring.
The circuses date back to Mexican times when shows based on European models came up from the South into California and the southwest around the middle of the 19th century. Circus troupes from the East began to reach settlements in the more accessible regions of Kansas and Nebraska. They traveled in horse drawn wagons over atrocious roads.

By 1880s when railroads had eased the difficulties of transportation, the circus came into its own as the greatest show in the West.

One of those shows was the John Rowe & Co. Pioneer Circus. Here is an excerpt from an article written about the show-


(From the book-“Men of the West-Life on the American Frontier” by Cathy Luchetti)

“ by far the most extensive and elegant organized equestrienne establishment that ever appeared in CA…Traveling through the state at an expense of fifteen thousand dollars a month as an added incentive, the seats are carpeted, and attentive and gentlemanly ushers to wait on ladies and family."


The John Rowe & Co. Pioneer Circus was based in San Francisco, Ca and traveled extensively throughout California. As mentioned before, one of the circus acts was the equestrians who could do acrobatics on horseback.

Below is a glimpse into a typical equestrian performance at the Pioneer Circus.


The main acts of the Pioneer Circus were the equestrian events. At show time the audience was treated to all the spectacle and finery the troupe could provide. One of these spectacles was Miss Mary Ann Whittaker, the first female equestrian artist in America. She was ranked among the best in ballet and pantomime. She would ride out into the sawdust-covered ring standing on her milk white horse in pink tights and ruffles with stars and spangles. Then to the amazement of the crowd as she neared a ribbon held in her path 12 feet high by two colorful clowns, she would leap up off the horse and over the ribbon and then land gracefully onto the horses back all while it was speeding around the circus ring. The applause was thunderous and it continued through the evening. Other riders rode in pyramids on two horses with three riders stacked neatly on top of one another while still others did forward and backward flips through rings of fire.

For these amazing acts to work the horses and riders went through hours of rigorous training some of which is not what you would expect. While the horses went through their paces the grooms would carelessly kick cans about the ring, fire guns, and even tie five-gallon cans to the horse's tail! This was all done in training to teach the horse not to sway from its paces for anyone but its trainer. Timing was everything in the ring. An acrobatic rider doing a back somersault would not like it much if he came down from his leap only to find the horse spooked by a child with a firecracker and not be in his appointed spot.

The Circuses not only used their horses for entertainment, but for hauling all the equipment, animals, and performers in wagons. The travel was hard and taxing on all. Between the roads, or lack of, and the weather it made getting from one town to the next very eventful.

Usually the circus would only be able to cover two or three miles in an hour. Many of the stops were 10 to 15 miles apart and a rider would go ahead and mark the forks in the road with a rail so the caravan would go the right way.

Perhaps the worst occurrence would be after getting little or no sleep,

fighting their way through a drenching rainstorm, pulling out and repairing wagons, and then hearing the word "lost." This of course meant retracing steps and going through all the problems again.

Rowe's Pioneer Circus played the mountain camps and towns until August when due to expenses they were forced to return to San Francisco. Before leaving they had played Yankee Jim, Iowa Hill, Illinois Town, Dutch Flats, Red Dog, Grass Valley, Rough and Ready, Nevada, Orleans Flat, Oroville, Horsetown, Marysville, Monk Hill, Railroad Flat, West Point, Chinese cap and Columbia.

I can just imagine the excitement of the circus coming to these prairie towns and watching the thrilling acts of the equestrian acrobatics.

During these acts I am sure you would see such leather horse tack as the Martingale breast collars, headstalls, and lariat ropes. And of course, I am sure there saddles and horse tack were adorned with silver.

Not unlike the equestrian performers of the old west circuses, many riders today adorn there saddles and leather horse tack with "bling" and silver. Riders today, also like the look of the old west cowboy horse tack, such as the Cowboy Harness Leather Headstall, Old West Bridle, or the Western Roper Breast Collar.

Our family has been dedicated for 30 years in serving
the Western Horseman the safest most durable Quality
American made leather horse tack.......

Buckaroo John Brand

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