two_bit_score
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Great Pics!
Any roughstock riders here?
Birdhunter1
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Not a roughstock rider but November 2021 I adopted a Mustang off the wild horse corral, gentled her down, took her to a trainer to be started riding (I had her well used to wearing a saddle), brought her home two months later (May 2022) as a green broke started horse. I can document since Labor Day Weekend that I have rode that horse 350 miles so probably somewhere above 500+ total miles on her since May. One ride alone on Nov 6, 2022 (the 1 year date I brought her off the corral) 5 of us (including my 11 year old daughter) started at a local landmark and rode to my farm, 24 miles, 7 on rock/paved road, the rest was timber, creeks and ridgetops.
The photo at a lake was at a state park we ride at once or twice a year last summer, the one of just her was showing off the brand, the one with the large cross is a local landmark in Southern Illinois and it is where we started on the 24 mile ride.
Sometimes she is roughstock enough for me, but give her a few minutes and she settles out. Once pointed down a trail in the woods she is just about the trailhorse one can only dream of.
The photo at a lake was at a state park we ride at once or twice a year last summer, the one of just her was showing off the brand, the one with the large cross is a local landmark in Southern Illinois and it is where we started on the 24 mile ride.
Sometimes she is roughstock enough for me, but give her a few minutes and she settles out. Once pointed down a trail in the woods she is just about the trailhorse one can only dream of.
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Nice outfit, I like the slick seat and buckin rolls.
ROUSTABOUT
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I bought a few horses young out of a herd. Made good riders out of all of them. Never had them buck the first time. One of them has never had a bit in his mouth to this day.
dodge man
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I recognize the Bald Knob cross. I went to school in Carbondale and my daughter did also. Nice horse and beautiful area.
Waynebob126
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Not doing it anymore but rode bareback horses and heeled back in the 80’s. After being entered in a rodeo with poor trained pickup men and seeing a BB rider ahead of me get hung up pretty bad, I went strictly to team ropin. Figured I’d rather lose a thumb than an entire wrist.
dodge man
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Yes, this is me at a rodeo in Steamboat Springs. I took the picture of course, I’m not the guy eating dirt. There weren’t a lot of bull riders, maybe 6 and only one made eight seconds, the others made about 2.
Im not really up on the rodeo terms, but they rode broncs, one group with a saddle, one without, bareback, I don’t know if the bareback riders were better or if it’s easier but they did a lot better.
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Rough stock riding is just plain foolish iffin you ask me. I had some ranch broke horses bust me up a time or 2. A few broken ribs were just something to brag about.
Snobdds
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The real tough guys are the rodeo clowns. I work with a guy that was a rodeo clown for years at Cheyenne Frontier Days. His last rodeo he got trampled by a rowdy bull. His wife made him quit or she was going to divorce him. Good thing he had the best health care there is...
Cowboys are tough, the clowns are tougher.
Cowboys are tough, the clowns are tougher.
Snobdds
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I actually kind of like to go to the steamboat rodeo at least once a summer. The old lady and I go to our favorite restaurant by the river then walk across and watch for awhile. Every year I tell her about the story of a young me spending a summer up there with friends and we lived right above the rodeo grounds on the hill. We have a "California Slinger" that launched water balloons. We couldn't get them to the rodeo grounds, but we did get the parking lot. Lots of pissed off cowboys, but it was fun. She humors me on the story, but I know she is tuned out and annoyed. So I might tell it to her twice in an evening. Then I get punched.
Oh yeah, the restaurant is called Carl's Tavern. Fantastic food if you're ever there again.
