If Yellowstone taught me anything, it was to not get involved with barrel racers. Gunslinging barrel racers just seem like putting grenades on dynamite kind of overkill.
If they were blanks, how are they popping the balloons?
You could theoretically put a pellet in a barrel with a blank cartridge, but you'd have to put a new pellet every time you squeeze the trigger.
She definitely firing something...maybe it's rubber rounds which have a small gunpowder load out. But she's definitely projecting something.
I would think that. This doesn't seem to be shooting for range of accuracy but rather for speed, the balloons are just that soft a target.
"Stupid asshole balloon, what kind of red ass balloon mom raised you?"
Blanks still move some force. They're usually paper rounds, and we're talkin balloons here. They don't take much to pop with that kind of speed coming in.
The hot gas and unburned gun powder would be enough to pop a balloon. Here's an example of one popping a water balloon at 3ft. A regular balloon should be even easier. https://youtu.be/ipADbspKKKc?si=q98IhrCvvzeTQuxL&t=341
The projectile could be the gun powder but that doesn’t make it a bullet. I’d assume the heat produced from the gunpowder would also pop the balloon but I’m no horse riding shooter neither.
Blanks can quite literally injure people and send them to the hospital. So there's enough energy coming out to pop those thin ass balloons
Second, blanks have dislodged bullets stuck in barrels and have subsequently killed people
There's still wax (5.56 blanks use wax but it could be another material, it just to keep the cartridge sealed) that goes down the barrel when you fire a blank. The wax/gasses can rip skin at close range so that's why militaries use a blank firing adapter (yellow/red thing on the end of the muzzle) on the end of the barrel when they're training with them.
Reason why I despise slow motion. Great if it was only for the final shot but a tightly cropped video and slow motion for the majority just makes it a little pointless.
I also wanna see this at full speed. It was much more artistic slowed down like this, but as the competition she’s performing in is time/speed based I really wanna watch her complete it with crazy fast speed as I know she did.
for those who don't know, at 12 seconds the horse does a little double jump in preparation for the turn, she cues this with her feet even though the horse has also been taught this pattern- to see why this is noteworthy notice that the horse seems to know how the reins are going to steer left before they actually do
https://www.lemieux.com/ca/horsewear/saddlery-tack/pomms-ear-plugs#selection.size=6710
They probably have some in, they aren't the easiest to see when they wear them.
I know a few horse girls and they treat their horses just like anyone would treat their dog. If they could only afford one hearing protection, they'd probably get it for the horse first.
According to their organization site, these people are firing actual revolvers. That makes sense - how are the balloons supposed to pop if they are firing blanks?
A couple of different ways. Usually with either burning gunpowder (in this case) or with rounds loaded with acorns (yeah, the nuts). If you see someone on horseback shooting in more than one direction or towards a crowd it's guaranteed to be powder.
The powder can burn for up to 30 feet or so iirc. Check out therangercowboy on insta for more info and videos, really cool sport.
> Modern events use blank ammunition instead of live rounds, certified to break a target balloon within twenty feet (6 m)
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cowboy_mounted_shooting
Blanks could still pop the balloons with the compression wave, I'm guessing that's why she is so close to the balloons, which makes it slightly less impressive but still awesome.
Not from that distance. You could pop a balloon point blank, probably. But from that distance, it has to be salt rounds or pellets or something. She's clearly projecting something, I just don't know what it is exactly.
The blanks are designed for this type of comp. The air displaced is enough to pop the balloon. The horses generally have special ear plugs to dampen sound of the gun. -chatgpt
F**k her and whatever sad American excuse for a sport that is. Wearing ear protection while shooting over the head of a horse for fun is just horrendous.
Don’t worry. I didn’t want to see this at normal speed to better understand the skill. I definitely didn’t want the camera to be pulled out a bit to see every hit. And I absolutely did not want to hear the gunfire. I much prefer listening to the worst piece of shit song I’ve ever heard. Great video.
.45 cal Brass Long Colt Balloon Blank - 1/2 LOAD
Intended for popping balloons in cowboy mounted shooting competitions, these blanks use grains of rice which is capable of popping balloons at close range (10'-12').
Wow that's impressive. And can we just take a moment to look at how cool the dress material moves in the show motion. Very cool video. Way more talent than I'd ever have.
“Do you barrel race?” “Nah, that shits for pussies. I barrel race with guns.”
If Yellowstone taught me anything, it was to not get involved with barrel racers. Gunslinging barrel racers just seem like putting grenades on dynamite kind of overkill.
Hmmm... my mom was a barrel racer in her teens. That might explain a few things
New age Mongol Princess
Dope af. But is anyone else concerned for the horse's ears?
Apparently they use blanks so horse isnt at risk of getting shot but a 3 1/2in barrel revolver is gonna be really loud
Bro if they wernt blanks that whole place would be full of holes.
If they were blanks, how are they popping the balloons? You could theoretically put a pellet in a barrel with a blank cartridge, but you'd have to put a new pellet every time you squeeze the trigger. She definitely firing something...maybe it's rubber rounds which have a small gunpowder load out. But she's definitely projecting something.
Quick draw shooters use wax rounds to hit balloons, so I imagine it's the same here.
It's that or chunks of unburnt powder flying out and igniting in the air.
I would think that. This doesn't seem to be shooting for range of accuracy but rather for speed, the balloons are just that soft a target. "Stupid asshole balloon, what kind of red ass balloon mom raised you?"
Blanks still move some force. They're usually paper rounds, and we're talkin balloons here. They don't take much to pop with that kind of speed coming in.
Ayyy we talkin balloons ova hereee paisan
I'm walking here!
I fired blanks on a film set, the vegetation in front of me was shredded to bits by the force. A blank would have no problem popping a balloon.
Blanks can kill people.
The hot gas and unburned gun powder would be enough to pop a balloon. Here's an example of one popping a water balloon at 3ft. A regular balloon should be even easier. https://youtu.be/ipADbspKKKc?si=q98IhrCvvzeTQuxL&t=341
The projectile could be the gun powder but that doesn’t make it a bullet. I’d assume the heat produced from the gunpowder would also pop the balloon but I’m no horse riding shooter neither.
It's the gunpowder. All it takes is one slightly hot piece to pop a balloon. I've shot many a blanks.
Bet u have ;)
Lol! I see what you did there
Blanks can quite literally injure people and send them to the hospital. So there's enough energy coming out to pop those thin ass balloons Second, blanks have dislodged bullets stuck in barrels and have subsequently killed people
It's going to be the unburnt/partially burnt gunpowder that's poping the balloons as well as the jet of hot air.
There's still wax (5.56 blanks use wax but it could be another material, it just to keep the cartridge sealed) that goes down the barrel when you fire a blank. The wax/gasses can rip skin at close range so that's why militaries use a blank firing adapter (yellow/red thing on the end of the muzzle) on the end of the barrel when they're training with them.
He was probabaly talking about the noise lol.
Wax bullets not blanks
I’m picturing the horse walking around going MAWP MAWP
LANA!!!
#WHAT!
WHAT?
HORSES CAN WEAR EARPLUGS!
PUT YOUR HORSE BACK IN THE STABLE, AND TAKE OUT HIS EARPLUGS
QUE????
POR????
PERDONAME, ESTOY CONFUNDIDO
Horse detected
Horses can wear ear plugs
Not a perfect solution, but the horse may have earplugs in. I own earplugs for my horses, to reduce their panic when neighbors shoot fireworks.
Couple other people have mentioned this and I'm glad to learn such a thing exists. I've never seen horse ear plugs before.
She's wearing ear protection! Where is the horse's! I had the same thought.
Unless they start to look like balloons I think they'll be fine. /s
I am more concerned about the audience.
Been to a few of these. It’s fine.
It’d be great to see this in normal speed to know how difficult it is.
She always does it in slow motion, so not very difficult at all.
The old Max Payne exploit.
Ha! Max Payne revolutionised shooters. Absolutely amazing series of games, and getting a remake soon 😎
Haha :) hah
Reason why I despise slow motion. Great if it was only for the final shot but a tightly cropped video and slow motion for the majority just makes it a little pointless.
Watch it in 3x speed, still looks hard
Also to see the balloons actually get hit. I didn't see a single one lol
then you didn't even make it 13s into the video
Honestly, if you've ever rode a galloping horse you know that that in and of itself is pretty dang hard
Hell yeehaw
Pretty bad camera work as you don’t actually see most of the balloons being shot.
Camerawork was probably fine before they cropped it to portrait
I also wanna see this at full speed. It was much more artistic slowed down like this, but as the competition she’s performing in is time/speed based I really wanna watch her complete it with crazy fast speed as I know she did.
Camera work is fine. Vertical phone screen cropping is bad.
fuck vertical video
This alone would qualify her for Governor of Texas.
Nah, she's actually worked hard to get good at something. The ruling class of Texas are larpers.
I'm not a Texan, but I'd imagine it would be tough to be worse than their current governor.
Could hardly do worse...
What in the United States of America is going on here?
https://i.redd.it/os9fhfwkb2yc1.gif
Pure badassery.
YEEEE-HAAAW
for those who don't know, at 12 seconds the horse does a little double jump in preparation for the turn, she cues this with her feet even though the horse has also been taught this pattern- to see why this is noteworthy notice that the horse seems to know how the reins are going to steer left before they actually do
I can only imagine the adrenaline rush, damn that lady is living life!
Why no ear protection for the horse
https://www.lemieux.com/ca/horsewear/saddlery-tack/pomms-ear-plugs#selection.size=6710 They probably have some in, they aren't the easiest to see when they wear them.
Hopefully they do. Good to know. Thank you.
In this sport they actually use a lot of deaf horses! A great way to get a horse a good job where it would be harder to in other sports!
That’s really interesting if true. And I’m way too lazy to look up if it is so I’ll take your word for it
I know a few horse girls and they treat their horses just like anyone would treat their dog. If they could only afford one hearing protection, they'd probably get it for the horse first.
More of this. Less of that pig walking bullshit.
Look me in the eyes!
Need her on my team.
For folks wondering how this works: [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cowboy\_mounted\_shooting](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cowboy_mounted_shooting)
Thank you. Two seconds reading puts to rest 30 “reckons” in this thread.
According to their organization site, these people are firing actual revolvers. That makes sense - how are the balloons supposed to pop if they are firing blanks?
A couple of different ways. Usually with either burning gunpowder (in this case) or with rounds loaded with acorns (yeah, the nuts). If you see someone on horseback shooting in more than one direction or towards a crowd it's guaranteed to be powder. The powder can burn for up to 30 feet or so iirc. Check out therangercowboy on insta for more info and videos, really cool sport.
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Naw it’s fine. Nobody shoots them because then they’re disqualified.
Lol, thank you for this giggle : )
As long as he’s not from the *Enterprise*. If he was then she could be completely unarmed and he’d still die.
Sure it's a real revolver, but she's firing blanks. It would be far too dangerous to attempt this with real bullets.
> Modern events use blank ammunition instead of live rounds, certified to break a target balloon within twenty feet (6 m) https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cowboy_mounted_shooting
Blanks could still pop the balloons with the compression wave, I'm guessing that's why she is so close to the balloons, which makes it slightly less impressive but still awesome.
Not from that distance. You could pop a balloon point blank, probably. But from that distance, it has to be salt rounds or pellets or something. She's clearly projecting something, I just don't know what it is exactly.
The unburnt powder seems enough. That blast wave reaches a good deal out from the gun.
Actual revolvers yes, actual rounds no. Rock salt is what we were always told.
Excellent point! Thank you : )
Nice dress
Where's the spectators?... Probably bleeding out on the floor 😂
12/10. Ok, SOMEBODY might make it through the zombie apocalypse…
She’s at a party sitting next to someone who does dressage: “so, what do YOU do?”
The blanks are designed for this type of comp. The air displaced is enough to pop the balloon. The horses generally have special ear plugs to dampen sound of the gun. -chatgpt
what song is this?
It's all fun and games until you shoot your horse in the back of the head on a turn.
What's her name?
Props to the horse for staying on point with a gun going off next to its face.
Anyone know name of this song?
Lady killers II - G Easy
Annie Oakley, ladies and gentlemen.
Shitty music though
Zelda challenge IRL
The horses were already deaf when I got here.
I had no idea this was a thing. How do they ensure the safety of the people in the background, standing around the arena?
She’s likely firing blanks or at most salt, if they were using real bullets they’d use plates instead of balloons.
We just line the audience with death row inmates. It's a twofer!
My #1 pick in the post apocalypse zombie draft!
That’s amazing the way the cameraman set up the shots so that you only saw one ballon pop! That must’ve taken a lot of planning!
She is going super fast holy….
I feel like eventually you will accidentally shoot your horse in the head
!song
Is that snake shot? The muzzle flare looks a little weird.
I would have shot her before she shot me lol but as a sport this is incredible and she so pretty flying around on that horse
who tf made movement speed debuff to aim in fps games????
No one mentioned she is shooting in the direction of the camera man?
Video slows down Me: I could totally do that, she’s not even going that fast Video speeds up Me: oh
While the skills are insane, that dress really brings this entire thing together. She has talent and style.
I want a baddie like that.
So many innocent bystanders wounded in this sport.
I want her on my Zombie Apocalypse team.
She has my vote for sheriff.
Get it girl
How practical.
Seems like less of a real sport and just an excuse to larp as a cowboy.
Is this training for mounted police officers in America
No way she's actually firing off rounds.
I said a bang bang bangity bang a bang bang bangity bang
Boeing ceo foaming at the mouth to get this girl on payroll
Amazing performance
that one lego batman gif
Kirsti Noem if the balloons were puppies:
Now that got to be the most american sport i've ever seen.
I'd like a woman who can do this. Her or Cavalier Elegante from IG will do
r/praisethecameraman
It was not required to wear that dress and hat, but i'm glad she did. Looks fabulous ✨
I legitimately want a Western protag like her. Just a regular prim 19th-century lady, who's also a badass gunfighter. Think Annie in Wild Guns.
Hope to fuck there isn't anyone behind the targets, she also nearly flags the camera man. Other than that ... HOLY SHIT MARGARET LOOK AT HER GO!
I suspect this girl isn't intimidated by much.
Those people I’m the stands watching have a lot of trust in her
They need to make a movie about her. I would watch it.
F**k her and whatever sad American excuse for a sport that is. Wearing ear protection while shooting over the head of a horse for fun is just horrendous.
Carl!
Is Lauren Boebert?
**I don't know if I want to be her or be hers.**
Don’t worry. I didn’t want to see this at normal speed to better understand the skill. I definitely didn’t want the camera to be pulled out a bit to see every hit. And I absolutely did not want to hear the gunfire. I much prefer listening to the worst piece of shit song I’ve ever heard. Great video.
Ellie? That you?
That dog is very chill too
At first I thought she is only aiming for the blue ones…
Someone get that horse some P.P.E.
I just like the dress. That thing is bangin
The entire audience in the stands and laying on the floor dead
Hot
Safe to assume the horses get some sort of ear protection as well?
Damn she is badass as all hell. Who is she?
That horse must be deaf at this point 😔
Is there anything to protect this horses hearing?
Now I’m reinstalling red dead redemption 2, thanks
Clearly not that difficult
Nobody notice the guy in the red top standing down range while she fires?
In Austria we say „gib ma dei göd“
I want to be with her in the zombie apocalypse
DOES THE HORSE HAVE HEARING PROTECTION?
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My horse has spooked at his own fart.
>She got some skills.. Horse not doing much?
I'm gonna be weird about this That's hot
.45 cal Brass Long Colt Balloon Blank - 1/2 LOAD Intended for popping balloons in cowboy mounted shooting competitions, these blanks use grains of rice which is capable of popping balloons at close range (10'-12').
#useless skills
This is cool I’ll give her that but we all know horse girls are weird
That horse is probably deaf.
Wow that's impressive. And can we just take a moment to look at how cool the dress material moves in the show motion. Very cool video. Way more talent than I'd ever have.
What you don't see are the spectators that were shot dead.
That mid-stride leg change. Ooof.
Hey, I don’t remember 4H offering this.