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When I drive over to the neighbors to help, I'll take my spurs and then just leave them on my boots on the way home. Mine aren't tied down, so they just ride up on my heels and they sure have never caused a problem with my driving.

Maybe some people leave their spurs on, cuz they belong on boots and they don't want to lose them, such as Az said. Why does it matter so much what another person wears? Why are we humans that way? You'd think we could just sort of admire the diversity. :???:
 
The wearing spurs in town keeps your Levis from draging on the cement.When I was in highschool cowboys always wore Levi's and drove a Ford.The one thing I can see about chinks is to protect your leg while dragging cattle.
 
Jinglebob said:
Maybe some people leave their spurs on, cuz they belong on boots and they don't want to lose them, such as Az said. Why does it matter so much what another person wears? Why are we humans that way? You'd think we could just sort of admire the diversity. :???:
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Seems to me some folks just like to think they are more "cowboy" than others; you gotta "do this" or "wear that". The western way is fading out in many parts of the country so some folks (many on this forum) try to act up the part so they come across as the real thing. The way some try to sell themselves as real is by knocking others horsemanship skills or dress style. Another way people try to sell what they are saying is to say they heard it from "an old cowboy" or something to that effect.

By the way, Chinks seem more comfortable to me, and I have a pair of boots that I just leave my spurs on, I don't care if I'm stopping in town or not. I don't got nothing to prove to anybody. At least that's what an old rancher told me once. :wink:
 
Curly said:
Seems to me some folks just like to think they are more "cowboy" than others; you gotta "do this" or "wear that". The western way is fading out in many parts of the country so some folks (many on this forum) try to act up the part so they come across as the real thing. The way some try to sell themselves as real is by knocking others horsemanship skills or dress style. Another way people try to sell what they are saying is to say they heard it from "an old cowboy" or something to that effect.

By the way, Chinks seem more comfortable to me, and I have a pair of boots that I just leave my spurs on, I don't care if I'm stopping in town or not. I don't got nothing to prove to anybody. At least that's what an old rancher told me once. :wink:
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Amen! There is only one feller I have to impress or have the approval of and thats the feller who watches me shave in the mirror! :wink:
 
smalltime said:
The wearing spurs in town keeps your Levis from draging on the cement.When I was in highschool cowboys always wore Levi's and drove a Ford.The one thing I can see about chinks is to protect your leg while dragging cattle.
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Yeah right, like you ever even SEEN a cowboy in your whole life! :lol: :wink:

I remember getting to work with a "winterized cowboy" one time, do you remember that? :lol:
 
Along the lines of this thread, could someone PM me with the name of a place to buy good chaps? Preferably in Saskatchewan, but I'm not afraid to shop outside the border either. My old shotguns have been shrinking every year <ahem> and the wife is threatening to divorce me if she has to mend another pair of jeans. Every place that I've stopped to look only had those flashy rodeo chaps in stock, and when I announced that all I wanted was a couple heavy chunks of dead cow to strap to my legs, I was informed that no-one in Saskatchewan carries such a thing anymore.

Rod
 
For Christmas a few years ago, I got the lesser half a custom pair from Neuens in Mandan ND. All he'd ever had were a pair of hand-me-downs from his dad (who is about 6" shorter)

They asked for his measurements.

30x40

"That's his jeans though so he can have a bit of a stack on his boots, right?"
"No, that's his jeans so they don't look like high-waders... 42's are too hard to find"



"Boy... We don't stock giraffe hide. We'll have to order that." :wink:

http://www.neuenstackandleather.com/
 
DiamondSCattleCo said:
Along the lines of this thread, could someone PM me with the name of a place to buy good chaps? Preferably in Saskatchewan, but I'm not afraid to shop outside the border either. My old shotguns have been shrinking every year <ahem> and the wife is threatening to divorce me if she has to mend another pair of jeans. Every place that I've stopped to look only had those flashy rodeo chaps in stock, and when I announced that all I wanted was a couple heavy chunks of dead cow to strap to my legs, I was informed that no-one in Saskatchewan carries such a thing anymore.

Rod
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Big bend saddlery in Alpine Texas sells good working gear, you can see thier stuff at big bend saddlery.com , I know the guys who work this shop and they dont sell junk.
 
Paul Van Dyke in Sheridan, Wyo. does nice leather work. He made my last sadddle, I've used it for about a year now with no problems.

Pauls # is 307-673-5783
 
If you would like to see some unique chaps try Treveno's Leathers in Deadwood South Dakota. There phone number is 1605 578-1271.
 

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