So, I am into this Ranch roping, and my horse is pretty patient with me but he doesn't know as much as I want him to. I figure the only way he will learn is to do it enough and he will learn, so thursday I went to the auction and bought me a couple of 300lb calves, and tore into roping and tracking and cutting with my trusty steed....... he's a quick learner as long as I have my spurs on.
well, just having a couple calves and a horse that knew what he was doing wasn't good enough. I found me some 1/4" cold roll and tried to build me a Branaman honda...... she looks good but swings like a brick. well I am not too handy at braiding but figured I could fassion one out of rawhide......... here they are in all thier glory, a paperweight and one that is still drying so I cant tell you how it works........................................ Guess we will find out!
So, tuesday morning Chester called and said he was Branding in the morning and asked if a few of us wanted to come help. Well hell yes we did, I had to work the night before so I went in at 6pm and snuck out early at 3 the next morning. I went home saddled my mount and headed for Idaho. I met Shane, Tweety, and Chris where we all piled in the same pickup and headed for Chesters just outside of Twin falls ID. we drove a two track for an hour or so, unloaded the horses and trotted out the 3 miles to start gathering. when we had 300 head or so we started them for the trucks. I got a few pictures of the gathering but when we got the riatas out I forgot about pictures and started in with the rest of the crew. Good thing shane was there, I stole a few pics from him so you all could see the action.
