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Originally Posted by Mr Spyutastic
If I had to pick one I would probably get the one in the bottom left corner w/ the longhorn on it. Or the one above it.
Do they attach to most any belt? Or do you have to get a special kind?
I think people would be quite confused seeing me wearing around the stars and bars lol.
Most belts, dress belts etc... have rivets that permanently attach the buckle to the belt. Western belts use snaps instead of rivets so that belt buckles become interchangeable. So in that sense you need a special kind of belt.
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Originally Posted by Mr Spyutastic
What makes someone a cowboy? The red handkerchief around their neck? How do you spot a fake one?
A real cowboy doesn't give a **** what he looks like. Most likely wearing faded wrangler jeans, long sleeve shirt, tore up boots and a cowboy hat with years if sweat stains showing. Much like other professions, it is a uniform that protects them when they are on the job. Mostly for protection from the sun and that calf you are trying to wrangle which will occasionally get the best of you and stomp you down.
I wouldn't consider myself a real cowboy. I, like many other professions where your work day is mostly outside, simply wear one for protection from the sun. I still work cattle when I'm down south, but that consists of driving a truck into the pen you want the cattle in and honking the horn. They will come running in because you have done this hundreds of times before because you always feed them cattle cake (cubes).
Close the gate behind them and then 2 to 3 people can cut out the calves that need attention and run them into a squeeze chute. At that point they are immobilized and you can vaccinate, brand or cut their balls off without the risk of hurting yourself.
As a kid we did the whole ride a horse, rope the calf, throw it on the ground, tie up the legs and then do the above, but it was just for fun to see if we could do it. When it was really "nut cuttin' time" we used the squeeze chute.
A fake cowboy likely has a perfectly shaped new hat, starched shirt, starched jeans with bling on the back pockets and some exotic skinned boots without a scratch on them that likely costs over a thousand bucks. A sure fire way to tell for sure is to walk up to them and ask how many head of cattle they are running. Guessing 90% would say zero or lie.
Like with anything else, you get better at it with experience.
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Originally Posted by Mr Spyutastic
Oh from your post it seemed like you might know. Anyways what's a roper?
As DC pointed out, they are a type of boot. They are called ropers because they have a very short heel that are designed to easily come out if a stirrup so that when you rope a calf from a horse you don't get hung up trying to get off of your horse to go tie it down.
Boots with tall heels are typically called riding boots as they are designed to keep your boot securely in the stirrup for activities that don't require a quick dismount.
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Originally Posted by rickroll
CG, nice TR, was surprised to see the hands free sinks and hand sanitzer stations - were those brought in due to covid or are they standard?
those smokers, wow... i think that's the reason why that culture doesn't branch off up north, it requires such dedication and expertise that you really need a community force driving it - otherwise you get guys like me just buying george foreman grills and figuring that'll do
rest of the pics were exactly how i'd imagine texas
can you explain the belt buckle can't be bought but needs to be earned, i had no idea about that sort of stuff
In the last few years that I can recall, they have had them at all of the port-a-potty stations. I would say that there were more hand san stations randomly placed throughout. The one I took a pic of was about 40 feet from our camp site.
I would recommend that if you ever get a chance to go to a large BBQ cook off in the south you should stop in. Can kill a day just walking around and checking out all of the different designs. And most always have something cooking that they are happy to share.
Was speaking mainly to the huge buckles that actually look rather ridiculous. Typically those are given out as trophies at rodeo events, so in essence, it is a wearable trophy. Guess it would be like you getting a replica superbowl ring made and wearing it around. The smaller one's with cool engraved animals and such are fine to buy and wear.
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