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					Originally Posted by  Sightseek
					 
				 
				There isn't enough orange in the world for me to risk my horse.   
 
They also run deer in VA with dogs which bothers a lot of horses even more than the occasional gun fire. 
			
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 Is that both weekend days, or is there a safe day for riding?
My elderly gelding is a former Queens trail horse; he crossed a busy parkway every day without turning a hair and dealt in the park with loose dogs, joggers, people running those stupid motorized toy cars that are louder than real ones, etc..  But when I took him to my uncle's after I bought him when the stable closed, he absolutely freaked at the first gunshots.  And they were some distance away.  Fortunately, he was in an enclosed paddock and I was not on his back at the time.
There's a reason police horses have to be desensitized to gunshots before they can work for the force.  It's not the horse's safety; it's the safety of the officer on his back.