Some horses are just born more alert and therefore more likely to be spooky, especially when taken out alone. If you want a bombproof horse, start with the right horse. Don't pick the high headed horse that notices everything, pick the one who doesn't even look up when a big truck goes by with a rattling load and no muffler. I have a lifetime of horse experience, almost all of it solo riding and some horses will forever be on red alert. Choose the one who ignores gunfire, traffic, deer, whatever. Happy and safe riding to all.

And the greatest of those is trust. If your horse trusts you they will do anything for you.

Probably the best explanation of what a broke horse is I ever heard

Years back I attended a clinic being given by a famous trainer who asked the audience what they'd do if while out riding alone they came out of the woods into a small clearing by a road & saw a rattling dump truck with its load covering tarp flapping in the wind coming towards them. He got the usual sort of answers about dismounting, circling the horse, etc. & then he called on me. I said I'd stop facing the road, pitch the horse slack & light a cigarette. The audience laughed. He didn't, he asked me why I'd do that & I explained that assuming this wasn't my first ride on this horse it would know that a stop, totally slack reins & a cigarette signaled a nice long air break for him & he'd best take full advantage of it because we'd go right back to work as soon as I was done with my smoke. I'm sure it wasn't exactly the answer he was looking for, but he liked it well enough because, as you say, consistency cures a whole lot of ails. Consistency in any form builds walls around a horse that make it feel safe & confident in any situation. Bombproof.

Raised one between a daycare center and a rifle range, only thing he was ever scared of was an ostrich!!! Hahaha

Excellent explanation. Would it be a fair assessment in a way to say that to make a bomb proof horse you have to be a bombproof rider? He knows and he has learned that he can trust you, and as you said, he knows you’re not going to get him in a wreck.

Good morning everybody thanks for coming over to the channel today... All A- I comment punch and go.. working.. great video

Watched this explanation again has I do several of your excellent talks…. Such great common sense, paints a cool horse…. .. Good luck with move….

Came here to comment that even me not having the experience, i have noticed that in 4 years of consistent handling, my horse is less bothered by XYZ. As I fine tune my leadership, that is what is helping my once reactive, high whorled (just watched that vid) horse. Thank u for another great vid!

Great explanation. Trust on both sides ive always thought.

Excellent explanation….. I’m crazy for Paint….. please keep me posted if u ever want to sell paint….. Consistency!!!! Yes sir!!! Love 3 yr old kids and horses… Paint is a unique horse👌 Thomas is great too:) ha

Brett, I think you have a pretty good handle on it. After chasing this issue for many years I have pretty much come to the same conclusion. I have even rode a couple of horses through a few civillian mounted patrol clinics, and I really think it just comes down to how much you trust each other.

Excellent teaching, it’s exactly how it works with following the Lord, do ya trust Him during maneuvers. Thanks for the lesson, I learn a lot about life by watching animals.

Very good. I was starting a colt one fall and he was doing so well. I could do anything with him and had even ridden him to the sawmill with all that equipment working up there. But he began to get nervous and one afternoon when the spreader body truck rattled down the driveway and a helicopter flew over, it really got to him. He didn't blow then but waited until 10 minutes later when I was at the mailbox. I opened the box, got the mail out and let him walk off while I zipped a letter open. When I went to turn that letter over, he went into a dead run and bucked at the same time. Turning the page was the proverbial “straw that broke the “camel’'s back”. It took me more than a quarter mile to get him turned with one rein and there was the real possibility he was going to fall with me. But I got him turned. There was a trail of mail for 400 yards and I had to start over with the colt. It had all been too much, too soon. Slow down! But he made a great horse. I rode him on a 100 mile circle in the Teton Wilderness.

This is my horse. He’s unrefined but he’s never scared of anything. He doesn’t care about anything but doing the job in front of him.

Beautifully explained; appreciate ya!

One of your best videos Brett!

Good stuff as always...

Thanks, this is great advice!

I want to know more about roping the pig???

Once and done, does not exist with horses ... Well said Sir

Well, aren't you just gorgeous.

You are a great horseman, therefore A horse will eventually get bomb proof just by being around you. Exposure surely helps. Around here there is absolutely nothing to do with a horse. But, roping PIGS , ....hhmmmm

I guess I will have to throw away my blue tarp, flag and loud radio now. Had a horse once that was deathly afraid of pigs, never did get over it. Then again he wasn't any good outside of a fence either. Lions, tigers and bears.

My favorite topic! Might be that unrelenting exposure can get you brain dead horses?. I Don't know of anywhere you can order up a string of lesson horses if there were I'd get one in every color. We expose our lesson horses as they're ridden we have many different exercises the horses know forwards and backwards that's why we can switch up riders from adults to itty-bitty kids and get consistency and predictably. Showing your horse new stuff is way fun and when done during their job can 'buy' you a bit more time before they tend to get bothered. That's how you make lesson horses.

I would say but Him to work

damn, i didn't think of a marching band..good call

How do you find this patreon thing?

Switching cars..

Not a bombproof horse in 6 minutes, 6 hours, 6 days, .......ever.