Having endurance tack is particularly handy during winter. If it gets covered in mud I can just dunk it in a bucket. I always say to people that aren’t endurance riders that the main reason for having our biothane tack is ease of rapid removal and the safety of never having to have that moment when you switch between bridle to headcollar, which makes vet gates faster and safer. Also that you can clean it with water during an event so you go out on every loop with clean tack. My tack is all made bespoke by Pioneer Endurance.
But I have never actually put my endurance tack up against leather tack to see the difference in time for tacking up and un-tacking so I thought I’d give it a go. Now I don’t use leather tack often so it’s probably not a fair trial as I’m not as used to the process but still it’s pretty interesting to see how much quicker endurance tack really is. I can’t imagine trying to undo buckles and thread the girth through a loop with leather tack being particularly efficient or easy on the move so I didn’t try it (Azid gets himself into enough trouble without my giving him any excuses).
Beth Endurance 