Caribou/Chilotin Tourist Guide

[Northern Rancher]

Was killing some time in the hotel leafing through it when I saw the funniest/worst picture to promote a working ranch holiday. It's a two page full colour scene of a bunch of people working calves through a tipping table-which is a perfectly acceptable way to work calves if that's your thing. But I don't think your authentic western adventure would include some gunsel in a ball cap pulling for all he's worth on a calves ears to get him out of the table. It's about the least ranchy scene I've ever seen-Panhandle Phillips must be turning over in his grave....

 

[per]

I'm with you NR, no one is really interested in the work part of a working ranch, just the romantic stuff.

 

[Faster horses]

What they like is the ROMANCE of the West. 8)
What NR described would not fit the bill.
Talk about a visual; I could see the picture clearly...
YUK!!! :x

 

[leanin' H]

No, you're all wrong! :wink: People from town like the ROMANTIC MYTH of the west! None of them would like the 2:00 a.m. calf pulls, the dust in your eyes and nose after movin' cows on a late July day and 17 hours in the saddle, the sunburn from riding a tractor for 12 hours laying down hay, the thirst of riding up to a trough to find it dry just like the last 6 were, the pain of fire and hail and wind and drought and putting down your best gelding! They seem to think the rancher should wear a spotless white hat, creased jeans, smoke cancer-free cigs and look like Cary Grant. Cattle never bloat or get footrot or break legs in cattlegaurds or stomp the puddin' out of ya! Salebarns call up begging for your buisness and buyers pay in gold bars! Diesel isnt high and the grain in the bins is! The day starts at the crack of ten in the morning and ends around 4 in the afternoon and the 2 hour siesta ya take keeps ya fresh for the dance in town at 8! Folks in town want the version only someone on a movie set lives! What really happens is way too much work! :wink: 8)

 

[Northern Rancher]

Well to tell you the truth I'm not much interested in tipping tables or gunsels in ball caps-somebody handy in a ball cap maybe lol. All that pic needed was two fat guys in sweatpants!!!

 

[Big Muddy rancher]

Well to tell you the truth I'm not much interested in tipping tables or gunsels in ball caps-somebody handy in a ball cap maybe lol. All that pic needed was two fat guys in sweatpants!!!

That's no way to talk about Dave. :wink: :lol: :lol:

 

[gcreekrch]

Well to tell you the truth I'm not much interested in tipping tables or gunsels in ball caps-somebody handy in a ball cap maybe lol. All that pic needed was two fat guys in sweatpants!!!

That's no way to talk about Dave. :wink: :lol: :lol:

Geez Corey, ya want me to dress up in a pink mini-skirt for next year or what? :???:
While that picture has no place in that magazine the important part is that cattle get processed properly. These ol' cows couldn't care less if I'm dressed like a cowboy.

 

[per]

Well to tell you the truth I'm not much interested in tipping tables or gunsels in ball caps-somebody handy in a ball cap maybe lol. All that pic needed was two fat guys in sweatpants!!!

That's no way to talk about Dave. :wink: :lol: :lol:

Geez Corey, ya want me to dress up in a pink mini-skirt for next year or what? :???:
While that picture has no place in that magazine the important part is that cattle get processed properly. These ol' cows couldn't care less if I'm dressed like a cowboy.

They might balk if you had a pink mini skirt on. :shock:

 

[Northern Rancher]

That's the whole point they weren't-if some yingyang got yanking on a calves ears like that at our place he'd get run off. I'm pretty spoiled my branding crew hasn't changed much in years-just my wrestlers(Ty and his buddies) got a bit bigger. We heel and front foot every calf so it's not a big jang,clang shish bing bang-well maybe when Dale A. goes to load his horse after refreshments-ask him about that Dave lol. If they wanted to put a calf table branding in there at least they could of put a picture of somebody who knows what they're doing.