German cavalryman shooting

[Kentucky Horseman]

http://dailylifestyle.com/rare-never-se ... hotos/29/I have never seen anyone shoot like this but is showing me that the horse is very well trained and the rider has great balance, but It makes me wonder how else was a cavalry trooper from that era trained.

[Steve Haupt]

The link did not work for me. I have seen other photos of Germans standing on their horses and shooting.
It also sounds like the story described in the book Horse Soldiers by Doug Stanton. The story is of the first US Special Forces and CIA in Afghanistan.
It is described as the Northern Alliance troops hundreds at a time charging into battle, against tanks and artillery stopping, standing on the backs of their horses shooting then charging forward.
So what is old is new again.
Cheers,
Steve Haupt

[Tom Muller]

Shooting while standing on the horses back was no standard training feature. It was done by a few troopers to show the high training level the remounts had reached. Standard training was firing a pistol mounted, but no rifle or smg shooting from horseback. This was done dismounted, as the German Cavalry was seen as mounted infantry, rather than classic cavalry by that time.

Regards

Tom

[selewis]

Shooting while standing on the horses back was no standard training feature. It was done by a few troopers to show the high training level the remounts had reached. Standard training was firing a pistol mounted, but no rifle or smg shooting from horseback.
Regards

Tom

Yes, of a kind with jumping jeeps and sabers stuck in the ground: impressive horsemanship and horse training, especially the latter in my estimation, but not useful practices in themselves.

Sandy