Any roughstock riders here?

[jakenh]

I've had 5 total rides on bareback broncs and let's just say.. good thing I'm not a rodeo cowboy for a living, because I'd be BROKE

Share photos and videos of your rides!

 

[oosik]

My BIL was a professional cowboy. At least he rode the bulls. He lasted about 18 years - until he was 42. By then he was so busted up - he could barely walk and had to take pain meds 24/7/365.

But he looked good in the cowboy garb and could drink like a fish. Either drinking or smoking or both took him at 56.

 

[scootr]

I've rode some but I preferred to saddle 'em first. The result was the same as your picture sometimes. lol.
I was a team roping addict for 20 yrs in my youth. Recovered now. It was great fun. I can offer one bit of advice. You need to get a smaller hat and pull it down tight!

 

[tallyho8]

Never in a rodeo but I looked like that a couple times while I was breaking horses. I broke a few of them and some of them broke me.

 

[scootr]

Never in a rodeo but I looked like that a couple times while I was breaking horses. I broke a few of them and some of them broke me.

Amen to that.

 

[oosik]

One time - I rode a horse. We were going back to a remote lake in the Northern Cascade Mts - north central WA state. I lasted about three hours in the saddle. Then - I walked and led the horse. I thought it would be more like riding a motorcycle - NOT!!! I had pain where I didn't even know I had parts.

 

[RobA]

I was somehow convinced to ride a mechanical bull a few years ago at a birthday party. I was off in less than 1 second. I don't know how you guys do it!

 

[scootr]

One time - I rode a horse. We were going back to a remote lake in the Northern Cascade Mts - north central WA state. I lasted about three hours in the saddle. Then - I walked and led the horse. I thought it would be more like riding a motorcycle - NOT!!! I had pain where I didn't even know I had parts.

I rode about everyday for 20 yrs, sometimes for hours. Sometimes standing a trot for miles. You have to be conditioned for that. I lived adjacent to a million acre national park. I carried a canteen, water, and topo maps in my saddle bags. No cell phones or video games to waste your time in those days. A good rope horse needed a day of outside riding in between ropings to keep his stress level down. I often took 2 horses. Riding one out and the other one back. I got caught in a snow storm high upon a mountain once. But that's another story

 

[tallyho8]

I'm 77 now so I don't break horses anymore, but I still ride a couple of green-broke horses in a pleasure saddle, but it is like my first time on a roller coaster, expecting the worst if an armadillo jumps out the brush right in front of us, knowing that I won't bounce like I used to. I have been thinking about switching to an old bomb proof coon hunting mule because I know that the next time I get throwed, will be the last time.

 

[Boss 302]

Bringing back ole memories "Coon hunting on an ole mule". Ain't much better than that.