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I have never been a peace officer but the
ones I do know who got to retirement unscathed never let a suspect get closer
than about 20 feet. This area has a very high fatality rate
for police officers and an even higher one for crooks. All our trails are narrow and heavily
forested, often with a creek on one side as well to limit escape routes. One
has a cliff on both sides, it is on a shelf. In one case I am personally aware of a 20
something lady exercising a lame horse was approached by a group of late teens
on bicycles. She ran straight through them and outran
them back to our barn where we called the night shift ranger. The horse
suffered no injury but we believe a few of teens might have been bruised a
little. If you can’t see what is going on the side
of the trail, trust your horse’s senses. Even when not working a task a good
search horse is always alert and talking to you. If he tenses up or starts
paying attention to the woods, get ready to run away. Irv Lichtenstein From:
msar-riders-bounces@lists.ibiblio.org [mailto:msar-riders-bounces@lists.ibiblio.org]
On Behalf Of pennbo@verizon.net Yes, Irv- but if you are just trail riding, on a narrow and very well
treed trail- you might need to know this stuff. Not all of us are, or were,
cops! :-) |
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