Full Or Semi Quarter Horse Bars

Semi quarter horse bars have the narrowest saddle tree and the steepest bar angles.

Full or semi quarter horse bars.

This is for horses with a broad shoulder. 5 3 4 semi quarter horse bars gullet width. Semi quarter horse bars usually have a 6 1 4 gullet and quarter horse bars usually have a 6 1 2 to 6 3 4 gullet. This is very confusing to someone buying their first saddle.

T he difference in width at the bottom of the bars between the historical full quarter horse bars and the historical semi quarter horse bars is just over 3 8 of an inch overall or 3 16 of an inch on each side. The width of your horse s shoulder determines the type of tree and gullet width you will need. 6 full quarter horse bars gullet width. They are terms that were originally meant to describe a fit the way these bars were set and shaped to fit a certain style of horse.

Full quarter horse or fqhb can be referred to as wide usually 7 gullet. 6 1 4 6 1 2 extra wide quarter horse bars gullet width. Western saddles are typically offered with either full quarter horse bars or semi quarter horse. Regular quarter horse bars gullet width.

Gullet width of 6 3 4 7. How to tell if a saddle has full bars or quarter bars the bars of a saddle. They re considered mutton withered or a less pronounced wither. Full quarter horse bars sometimes abbreviated as fqh or fqhb have the widest tree.

Full quarter horse bars have even wider angles to accommodate wider bodied horses and horses with flatter or mutton withers. The three terms along with a brief description of each are. When you are talking about the bars on a western saddle you are referring to the two internal. Semi quarter horse bars are often referred to as quarter horse bars but others use the term quarter horse bars to describe wide bars so the same saddle can be given different terms.

Designed to fit the average horse one of these two widths will fit approximately 80 of horses comfortably. The angle is flatter compared to the semi qh tree. Semi quarter horse bars horses got bigger and wider from the 1970 s on requiring a wider angle in the bars. Semi quarter horse bars fit most of today s western horses.

We ve tried to wrestle this myth to the ground in our shop by standardizing our terms. Gullet width of 6 6 1 2. They are designed for mutton withered horses with broader backs.