I tried to do a search on the archives and kept getting an error.
Archives
must be down.
I'm not sure if I saw this on Ridecamp or not,
but maybe one of you have
seen it and could help me. I used to have a
really good article about the
harshness of bits. This article asked
questions about each bit and assigned
it a number and after you answered all
the questions, you were to add up the
numbers that went with the questions
and would get a final rating number
which would then correspond to how harsh
your bit was. For instance, if it
had shanks, it was harsher. If
the shanks curved back, it wasn't as harsh
as a bit whose shanks were
straight or (heaven forbid) curved forward.
That's the gist of it.
I found it on the internet about 2 years ago. Just
wanting to look it
up again. A friend and I were debating some merits of
bits and now
we're both really curious.
If you know what I'm talking about, please
point me in the right direction.
Also, one of the things we were talking
about was that the more breaks in
the mouth piece, the easier the bit
is. True? Like a broken snaffle is
better than a solid
mouthpiece? And that a snaffle broken in 3 pieces (like
a french
snaffle or a Dr. Bristol Full Cheek Egg Butt snaffle) is even
better than a
snaffle broken in only 2 pieces? Again, true? So my friend
said,
why not just get a chain mouth piece? But then I thought that might
be
going too far and would end up being harsher than the french snaffle?
Can
somebody help straighten me out?
Btw, this is endurance related, cause
I'm trying to figure out what bit to
get my new endurance horse.
:) He'll go in a Little S Hackamore just fine,
but I want to do some
schooling in a bit to work on his collection and
rounding of his
back.
Thanks for any help you can give.
April
april.johnson@bigfoot.comPS.
I DID get the job in Nashville, so I decided to buy that Arabian. :)
:---)