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.

 

[two_bit_score]

Great Pics!

 

[Birdhunter1]

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.

 

[scootr]

Nice outfit, I like the slick seat and buckin rolls.

 

[ROUSTABOUT]

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.

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]

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.

I recognize the Bald Knob cross. I went to school in Carbondale and my daughter did also. Nice horse and beautiful area.

 

[Waynebob126]

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]

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.

 

[scootr]

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]

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.

 

[Snobdds]

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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.

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.