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A couple of pictures I found on the wife's computer that she'd scanned before my scanner went kaput...



One of the reasons my arthritis is hurting so bad today predicting the upcoming weather change...
This was a really good saddle bronc- if you got him flanked right... I drew him 3 times that summer- throwed me first time- thru himself the second time- and I rode him the last time... I had one of the higher marked rides of the year on him that time..

 

Brad S

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Ol bull is giving you the roll using that loose hide. You rode with a bent knee about 15 or 20 years ahead of your time.looks like a handy ride he's rolling you out but you beat him in - like Donnie gay sez makin it look easy.

Have a bronc waller on you then you're suppose to ask for another one? Were you able to ride another one? I'm sure the contractor said you rigged him wrong and caused the wreck
 
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I don't even remember what I got for a reride horse after this wreck - but know it wasn't Red Light again as it was a few weeks later that I drew him again and got him rode that time... He bucked great if flanked right-just straight jump and kick--- but if flanked too tight he would spin and throw a wallowing fit right outside the chute- which is what he did before he thru himself... And you are right- you had to be touchy with the cinches as too tight he wouldn't give you a good go either....

Looking at those pictures reminded me of a couple of changes in rodeo... I scored a 69 the next time when I rode him- which doesn't sound like much in todays day and age... But back in the mid-60's early 70's- with the old scoring system a 70 point score in the broncs was high even at the NFR... I was reading an article of Mahans the other day where he mentioned that... The highest Score of the 1964 NFR was 70 - Winston Bruce on #302, Tradewinds owned by Big Bend Rodeo Company. And Tradewinds was also voted top Saddle Bronc of the NFR.

And the other thing I noticed that is different - I wasn't wearing my chaps on the bull, because I, like many, felt the chaps hindered your get away/escape... And back then most rodeos had 1 clown/bullfighter not pairs or three like now....I do have memories of this bull tho... I rode the bull but when I got off he kept hitting me in the butt-knocking me back on my hands and knees... I'd start to get up and he'd nail me again... He wanted nothing to do with the clown- and my good buddy Donny Jones (now D&L Angus) was laughing so hard it took him what seemed like forever to help get him off me...
And as you can see in the picture I was wearing my new Tony Lama featherweight wingtip boots- which I tore later in the rodeo when a bull put me up the fence and I caught them on a bolt sticking out...

Also - the fellow in the middle with the white hat on was from Florida- and we travelled together to several rodeos that year- then over the years I lost touch with him... The next place I ran into him was in the Montana State Prison Hobby Shop- as he was serving a life sentence for his involvement in a murder that took place years later in the southern part of the state...
 
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P.S.---Today while Donny Jones and I were both waiting for the Homecoming parade we got to talking about those good old days and I brought up that bull riding picture and that college rodeo in Bozeman -- and he reminded me of why I tore those brand new boots...

He had drawn a big long horned ornery headflinging bull of Keslers -that like Donny said he spent more time trying to keep from getting whacked by the horns then he did trying to ride him- and when the bull threw him I was trying to get the bull off him when I tore the boots !

I thought that's who I was in the arena helping- but wasn't sure because of my Oldtimers disease....
 
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ranch hand said:
People who brag are usually not good with what they brag on. People who are good see no reason to brag. :lol:

:roll: It wasn't me that brought the subject up- as I was asked about it by Brad...But now that I looked the material up- it is bringing up a bunch of good old memories, some I had long forgotten..... :)

And if there is a couple of things this site has taught me:





Especially when it was some anonymous pizzants that were too scare of their shadows to even put their identiy behind their beech's...
 

Larrry

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I always told my kids that I better not hear them bragging on themselves
If they wanted to brag they were to do it actions not words
 

Larrry

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My dad always told the story of the guy with two mules
He always bragged on the sorry one. Someone asked him why. He said the good one was good enough that he didn't need bragged on
 

Brad S

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I really like those old rodeo pics, OT needn't brag cause by the pics he's shown he was all of handy. I just wish he'd have quit before he got brain damage and turned into an Obama voter (sorry OT). I've heard of widow maker bulls, but I'd really fear democrat maker bulls.

There is so much in those old pics - look at how skinny everyone was. I love that bronc pic he won that buckle on - that raw boned drafty cross looked like he'd back up to kick you and run across the pasture to bite you. Both that bronc ride and that bull ride, OT was ahead getting all the draw would give him. Perhaps those are the only critters OT ever rode, but those rides look better than my best bronc and bull ride. Shocking how fast 50 years goes.

I hated the story about your traveling partner killing somebody, but I understand rodeo cowboys way back were not civilized men.
 
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