Guess what we met out hacking..

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A Chieftain Tank! But it didn't have the cannon on the front. I think it was one of theses it looks the same.
Not sure why it was out our way, nearest Artillery base is about 25-30mins away. It also had L plates on.

Luckily we had crossed the cross roads in front of it (a fair way in front) and got far enough way that the horses didn't react to it but it was very noisy and wasn't hanging around.
 
I rode past a tank once when I went to try a horse at Warminster Saddle club which is on an army camp. He was so used to them he took absolutely no notice.

Jane
 
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I rode past a tank once when I went to try a horse at Warminster Saddle club which is on an army camp. He was so used to them he took absolutely no notice.

Jane

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My little mare came for WSC so I don't think she would of worried about it at all, but our hunters haven't seen anything like this before. I'm glad we didn't have to pass it.
 
I think Candyman would have turned on his heels and headed in the opposite direction pretty fast had we met that.We did meet a steam engine last year on a yard hack,but because we were in a large group the horses tolerated it really well.Also have had a helicopter out checking the pylons fly across the road about 300 ft in front of us at the height of the cables. Luckily we were with a mare who had been kept next to an army base and because she took no notice Candyman did no more than snort,grow a few feet and prance a couple of strides.Had we been alone I think he would have legged it.
 
Huge aren't they when you get close up?

I crashed into one during a driving lesson once! "Mind the tank" my Instructor said, "What tank?" (busy looking at some fit squaddies on the other side of the road wasn't I? Hmmm)

I used to live in Catterick and our horses were, literally, bombproof. The stables were pretty close to the ranges, we often rode up 'The Snake', and the horses never turned a hair at bangs, helicopters, squaddies dressed as bushes popping up here and there, tanks etc. I guess it is just what they are used to, like tractors at home.

Somerset isn't where you'd expect to meet them normally though perhaps.
I did actually use the words 'Tank proof' in an advert when I was selling a horse up there!
 
Ah I was actually in Wiltshire when we met the tank. I'm on the Somerset/Wiltshire border.
Hattie's ad said 100% in traffic, including tanks!
 
Come down Kent way during war and peace show, we also have a steam fair in the fields behind where the horses are. I was once hacking and had an American Convoy of USA trucks and guns on wheels go past hehehe
 
OHMiGawd! Having said that, I was out hacking back in the summer and encountered four noisy bikers on a narrow bridleway and my boy was fine, totally chilled, which was a surprise.

I know someone who encountered a tank riding on Woodbury Common in Devon; the marines train up there and she said that one minute everything was quiet, the next all hell let loose.

We often get the Red Arrows flying over my house as I'm near an airport - the horses here are used to it and don't seem to get anxious at all.

My boy was spooked by some kids playing football the other day; I think it was the unpredictability of where the ball was going to land that he couldn't deal with more than anything else.
 
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