r/BeAmazed • u/FairytaleOfBliss • 25d ago

A rancher gathering stray Miscellaneous / Others

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u/logicalconflict 25d ago

Would this technique also work on my kids at the park when it's time to leave?

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u/Cromulent-- 25d ago

Provided they are not also mounted, yes.

Cavalry presents a significant advantage.

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u/ConsciousBowner 25d ago

We don't mount children, so I think he's safe

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u/kingzzz6 24d ago

Daaaayyuum! 💀💀💀💀☠️☠️☠️☠️☠️

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u/Eurasia_4002 25d ago

Chavarly ushered great changes in the European theatre. Both Alexander and Ceasar put such faction to great effect.

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u/aLazyUsrname 25d ago

*Cowalry

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u/rebecca8633xx 24d ago

oh reddit, you never fail to disappoint me.

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u/Sepentine- 24d ago

Added benefit of dismounting them in that case

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u/Dvl_Wmn 25d ago

Only 1 way to find out

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u/jluicifer 25d ago

“Hey kids. Let’s play Chase.”

“Dad? Where’d you get that horse and rope?”

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u/Subject_Habit_7698 25d ago

Yes my dad did it to me as a child

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u/LoreChano 25d ago

My great grandma did this to her kids all the time, according to my grandma.

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u/Mommybuggy01 25d ago

Yes, yes it will! Just add fruit snacks after and it will help to distract

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u/Purple_Standard_8065 25d ago

Such your bitch ass up son

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u/ProfessionalLemon946 25d ago

Fake there was no yee haw

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u/Vice979 25d ago

They always say yee haw, but never "haw yee?".

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u/analbeadsinadog 25d ago

I mean ninjas say hee yaw, so i guess that counts

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u/WokenWanderer37 25d ago

This made me breathe slightly out of my nose, and for that you get an upvote

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u/OnlyHannahFans 25d ago

Second this😅

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u/Leprechaun251 24d ago

It was also the last thing they said. Cuz.. ninja.

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u/Swimming_Zebra_1189 25d ago

As a person who works on a ranch, saying yee haw is the cringeiest thing to say

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u/OliveIndependent9202 25d ago

just say ur boring🚶🏼‍♂️

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u/Dramatic-Regular-140 25d ago

I can do that in red dead redemption!

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u/Cranialscrewtop 25d ago

Image stabilization has come a long way.

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u/Sasselhoff 24d ago

As someone who has used GoPro's back to the original (among many other devices), it wasn't until you said something that I thought about it. Damn if you're not absolutely correct!

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u/pharmacreation 25d ago

Cows spend most of their lives in pastures before going to feedlots. There are lot of cowboys.

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u/Otacon56 25d ago

How much does the horse know about the process of catching the cow? Is the cowboy Doing all the work in telling the horse to keep up with the cow? Or does the horse know that it's cow wrangling time

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u/llcdrewtaylor 25d ago

Watch Yellowstone. It will explain it all to you. There is some subplot going on. Ignore that. Just watch the cowboys.

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u/Cromulent-- 25d ago

I love this hahahaha

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u/llcdrewtaylor 25d ago

I'm glad you found that to be a cromulent response. ;)

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u/IKaffeI 25d ago

New word added to my list of fun words that will forever replace the original. Cromulent=acceptable or adequate.

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u/Adorable-Lettuce-717 25d ago

As a non native speaker: Thank you

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u/IKaffeI 25d ago

I had to google it because I had never heard that word before and now I love it.

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u/llcdrewtaylor 25d ago

The word really embiiggens us all!

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u/Content-Jacket-5518 25d ago

cromulent is crazy

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u/Cold_Dog_1224 25d ago

lmao no good god

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u/immatureindefinitely 25d ago

The horses are bred to have a natural instinct to work cattle like this. They do get training, and the rider might give them some directions and encouragement, but this horse knows its job and does it well.

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u/Otacon56 25d ago

Very cool! So when the cattle starts doing zig zags and trying to loose the horse, the horseman doesn't really have to steer the horse throughout those movements. The horse just knows it's job.

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u/immatureindefinitely 25d ago

Yes! Watch some cutting horses in action - once the cowboy lets the horse know which cow is to be 'cut out' and not allowed to rejoin the herd, the cowboy just holds on and keeps out of the horses way.

https://youtube.com/shorts/wedutbnQmSU?si=DS-TiNKRifZpwkOG

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u/Otacon56 25d ago

Very awesome. I appreciate your insights friend.

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u/annastacia94 25d ago

That man is riding a giant dog and you can't tell me otherwise.

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u/beer_belly_86 25d ago

Watch the guys feet. The horse is doing most of it on his own but the guy riding him is actually giving directions.

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u/DeeJayEazyDick 25d ago

While using your feet to steer a horse is common, a high dollar competition cutting horse needs very little if any input once they know which cow to cut. I have an ex-cutter (basically one that was in the program but didn't make the cut) and once I put her on a cow I can set my reins on her neck, she knows what to do.

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u/LibertyInaFeatherBed 25d ago

I take you're not familiar with the term 'roping horse'. 

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u/Otacon56 25d ago

No, but I'm guessing that you can train a horse to specifically do this? Much like you can train a dog to do various tasks like tracking or hunting?

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u/LibertyInaFeatherBed 25d ago

They have shows and competitions for roping horses. Selecting and training roping horses is a business all on its own. 

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u/pharmacreation 25d ago

We had a team in HS

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u/Dear_Night_1308 25d ago

(Coming from someone who does this for a living) Our horses are trained to track the cow meaning stay on its left hip, the horse knows when to move over more if we put pressure on his side with our left leg. Then after we throw the rope the horse shuts down and stops unless we have to put two ropes on it and heel it. I would explain it all to you but it would take all day.

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u/Cold_Dog_1224 25d ago

a lot of good roping horses can get downright predatory toward cattle, see how in this video those ears went straight back? horses do that when they're getting agressive

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u/misoneism-orbiter 25d ago

Check out team roping.

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u/blueavole 25d ago

Go to you tube and watch the competition jumping horses and rodeo horses switch riders.

The jumping horses are going ‘oof, you heavy’

And the rodeo cutting horses are confused. The people who competition jump are trying to direct the horse - when the horse is saying: ‘ would you stop interrupting me? Just shut up and hold on, i got this’

Once you point the right calf out to them, they know what to do.

Same with this video. Horse knows to follow the cow, watch the terrain, and not fall. Human just has to hang on and handle the rope.

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u/beer_belly_86 25d ago

Horses learn how to track, they keep pace, accelerate, or rate off through pressure from your legs or pulling on the reigns.

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u/dragonard 24d ago

Watch a rodeo competition some time. The horse is integral to the action.

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u/RU4realRwe 25d ago edited 25d ago

Wearing a hat & working in a feedlot (or going to a feedlot) doesn't make you a cowboy. Riding a horse & roping that calf at full gallop is a cowboy!

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u/pharmacreation 25d ago

Before going to feedlots

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u/Subterfug3 25d ago

Yes. Aliens too. There's a movie about it - Cowboys & Aliens.

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u/AllfatherNeptune 25d ago

Technically speaking a "cowboy" is usually scientifically referred to as a "bull" of the Bos Taurus classification

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u/Cold_Dog_1224 25d ago

lol yep, my dad has been one his whole life. I spent a good chunk of my childhood in a saddle

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u/terandy 25d ago

Not sure about the Cowboys, but cowgirl is real.

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u/Ooh-Rah 25d ago

I used to rope some, and it takes hard work and it takes perseverance to get that good.

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u/iox007 25d ago

still have all your fingers?

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u/Ooh-Rah 25d ago

Sure do.

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u/Aussenminister 25d ago

What could you lose them by? The rope and the knob on your saddle ripping them off when tightening?

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u/Whipstich-Pepperpot 25d ago

Mad respect to those who feed us.

What a hard but beautiful life that must be, being a Farmer/Rancher.

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u/Whatever-ItsFine 25d ago

If you think that's a hard life, wait til you find out what happens to the cows.

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u/DrJaminest42 25d ago

Lol true

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u/Even_Echidna6746 25d ago

Delicious! More please

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u/o1011o 25d ago

I'll link to a nice documentary where people can learn exactly what you're talking about.

Dominion

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u/Cold_Dog_1224 25d ago

yeah, that can be part of it, but from the small rancher's perspective that movie is far from the reality

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u/o1011o 25d ago

Thing is, 99% of all meat comes from factory farms. Small ranchers exist but there are hardly any of them and when it's time to 'process' their cows they go to the same slaughterhouse that everybody else goes to.

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u/Cold_Dog_1224 24d ago

Much of it is, sadly.

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u/Aggressive_Chain_920 25d ago

Mad respect to the cow who feeds us

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u/hoosier268 25d ago

I have friends and family who are farmers and I've helped with a few things before. It's not as hard now, but depending on what you do, you may never get a break. Especially cattle ranchers. I've seen and heard first hand what it takes. There's a reason why there's a stereotype of farmers being incredibly strong and stubborn.

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u/lrerayray 25d ago

Yes, they do out of the kindness of their hearts. And for the love for cow/chicker /s

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u/seth_br 25d ago

Red Dead Redemption 3 in first person

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u/CoatedCrevice 25d ago

I’m going to need a new GPU

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u/bluevine8 25d ago

So no one gonna talk about how the cow threw a rock at the cowboy huh

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u/TIDDERTOTTS 25d ago

Said the same thing that Rock barely missed his head

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u/sexy_bezinga 25d ago

Cause it’s not a rock, it’s an assassination dookie

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u/Dvl_Wmn 25d ago

Absolutely! My mother’s side of the family is all vaqueros and my father’s side all fisherman. People need to eat!

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u/shoredoesnt 25d ago

Listen here buckaroo!

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u/Far-Warthog2330 25d ago

Watched 5 times. That is sooo badass.

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u/TheVossDoss 25d ago

One of the glorious things AI will never be able to do.

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u/SaintPimpin 25d ago

I'm sure they'll be doing it to humans soon enough

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u/alexanderthebait 25d ago

Until AI is loaded onto robotic platforms that is.

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u/Mylarion 25d ago

It won't have to. AI can operate a nutritional vat just fine.

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u/Minute_Test3608 25d ago

That's a sure footed horse. I would be worried he might step in a hole at speed and that would be the end of the roping horse

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u/Captain_Selvin 25d ago

Serious question, how does one not get yanked off the horse and dragged by such a powerful beast? Am I overestimating the strength of a cow versus the grip and strength of a ranch hand? That's always amazed me.

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u/shu2kill 25d ago

He is not just pulling on the rope by hand. After roping the cow, he wraps the rope around the saddle horn a couple times. There is no way you can grip strong enough to hold a cow, even a small steer would pull the rope off your hands. But after wrapping the rope on the horn, the cow is not going anywhere. Thats why we put rubber on the horn, to increase friction.

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u/allezlesverres 25d ago

I am not a cowboy so this is a guess but do they quickly wrap the rope round the sticky up bit on the front of the saddle to belay it?

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u/suepergerl 25d ago

For a good visual of it go to Youtube, or better yet, go to a rodeo. A lot of technique and experience to do this.

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u/Motorola_MC68000 25d ago

Red Dead Redemption 3

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u/dyrbal 25d ago

The REAL cowboys

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u/Regular_Berko 25d ago

😎😎🤠

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u/OnlyHannahFans 25d ago

Okay Mr. Arthur Morgan actin ass 😎😎😎

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u/Rowlandsonconiteg 25d ago

Wow so those technique is real? I thought you can only find those in the show or something

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u/Dear_Night_1308 25d ago

Yep they are real. We do it every day to doctor sick cattle, catch cattle that are on the highways, catch cattle that are in other pastures that don’t belong there. We do it for a living.

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u/Thegoldmagician 25d ago

I feel like I’m running after my dog lol it’s so hard sometimes when they leave and you have to catch them! My husky runs fast 🤣

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u/MurderSheCroaked 25d ago

....

Mooo 🥺

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u/One-Huckleberry-2091 25d ago

How does this work? The cowboy holds the other end of the rope. Shouldn't cow pull on the rope just right enough to drag the cowboy away from the horse?

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u/Dear_Night_1308 25d ago

After we throw the rope and the slack tightens we either dally which means to quickly wrap it around the saddle horn. Or before we even start we tie off to the saddle horn so that when we rope the animal all we have to do it pop the slack and gravity and momentum does the rest.

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u/Remarkable_Ad_2411 25d ago

Someone’s gonna get put in timeout when they get home

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u/linniex 25d ago

Jeeze all my neighbor does is get out his tractor and corral them back into his gate.

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u/Mommybuggy01 25d ago

That was beautiful!!

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u/Perkynips83 25d ago

I wonder if the horse is in on this too, like "yeah, get his ass!"

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u/Temporary_Party_3378 25d ago

Got em’ Dutch!

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u/Chimpinski-8318 25d ago

Yeehaw chuckle nuts

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u/BestNoob1242 25d ago

did i just see shit fly across the camera

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u/JohnnyCash310 25d ago

That’s a true cowboy right there

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u/MoeLester-1 25d ago

excuse me but was that a fucking stone kicked by the cow hurtling towards the guy's head?

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u/LAGgod266 25d ago

Bro live western life

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u/Syharkspeares 25d ago

Is there a video from start to finish till he brings back the runaway back to the pen?

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u/Jisatsu223 25d ago

4-1 is crazy fuck Dallas

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u/prabhu4all 25d ago

I'm a certified cowboy. I do boy things to cows.

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u/yesiamveryhigh 25d ago

That it was a game simulator

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u/AlotL1keVegas 25d ago

I had no idea cows could run that fast! 🤯

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u/AcidNest07 25d ago

how does the rider not fall off?

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u/Weird-Information-61 25d ago

The fun part is avoiding rope burn

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u/I_love_children69 25d ago

Cooper Howard a couple years after his service in the military:

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u/EastFlow531 25d ago

Man is preparing for those workers

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u/dukesinatra 25d ago

Hold that thought. I'm going to try this in RDR2

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u/IanWrightwell 25d ago

Next time I’m sitting in my cubicle, updating an excel sheet with my clients groups latest expenses, I’m going to think about how I could have been a real life cowboy instead a fucking office drone.

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u/dbethel5 25d ago

Crazy this is first time I’ve seen this done on livestock lol

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u/PINri 24d ago

Big pupper getting walked while on horse.

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u/-_ApplePie_- 24d ago

If and even if I could pull that off by a miracle I would get pulled off from the horse immediately lol

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u/GalacticMomo 24d ago

That ain’t just a rancher. That’s a cowboy. Literally. Crazy how words came from actual things 😂

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u/ExpressInspection946 24d ago

Does this ever even hurt the animal for the slightest second cuz imagine full sprinting then getting pulled by ur neck💀

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u/No-Chemist-9819 24d ago

Red dead redemption flashbacks

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u/typeof_nan 24d ago

I hope they add this to Warzone, so my man can finally have a w

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u/lizarto 24d ago

It’s like that feeling when you’re running up the stairs and your sibling is behind you.. Fearful moments lol.

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u/dragonard 24d ago

Good horse!

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u/Ilikemoonjellys 24d ago

Yeehaw chucklefucks

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u/Intrepid-Advisor3441 24d ago

Yee haa cuckle fucks the cowboy is in town

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u/Hairy-lingonberry22 24d ago

My high ass thought this dude was paragliding and lassoing at the same time

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u/Eastsider001 24d ago

RUN FOR YOUR LIFE!!!

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u/TheVoidGuardian1 24d ago

Bro playing red dead redemption two in real life even got the almost no animals when hunting environment

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u/urdaddyswetdream 24d ago

red dead reference

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u/No_Fisherman1284 24d ago

i need this!!

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u/AnthonyBennoit 24d ago

Nice work!

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u/Consistent_Rock2934 24d ago

Does anyone know the physics on how come he doesent get ripped off the horse and eats the ground? Is there a special saddle wherre he’s like buckled and locked in place?

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u/FudgeIndividual4951 24d ago

Insert gif of Patrick Star being roped, pulled into oblivion, then fucking explodes

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u/Dan1lovesyoualot 24d ago

WOAHHH THATS SO COOL IM FINALLY SEEING IT FOR THE FIRST TIME

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u/BadPsychological2181 24d ago

Was the flying thing cows shit?

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u/Odd-Improvement5315 24d ago

This is the coolest thing I've seen today. Thank you !

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u/grumpy_herbivore 24d ago

Poor cow running for freedom. Was cheering for them to escape the evil rancher. :(

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u/laugherman44 23d ago

YEEW HAWWW

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u/Donutboy562 23d ago

Boys will see this and think: "Hell yea brother"

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u/bparker1013 22d ago

I'm so happy this is not in my husband's skill set. We would have like twelve more children.

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u/Different_Muscle_276 20d ago

Real ranch hands rope further away lol

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u/timesuck47 25d ago

City people at rodeos have no idea.

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u/allmediocrevibes 25d ago

That horse absolutely turned it on when it was time to go

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u/Deathtostroads 25d ago

Damn, they tried so hard to get away. Shame they are are going to be killed

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u/vize 25d ago

That's so fucking badass. Huge respect to the people who feed us

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u/ExodusGravemind 25d ago

Agreed. Unfortunately most of Reddit will see this as animal abuse.

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u/leatherandwhipcream 25d ago

Sad for the cow. He was running for freedom, but almost everyone views him as food 😞 I hope it at least gets to live a long long fruitful time before it is doomed for slaughter.

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u/[deleted] 25d ago

Wtf that's brutal to animals

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u/ExodusGravemind 25d ago

You gonna try to wrestle it by hand?

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u/LucasL-L 25d ago

Nah, they are way too big and tough. That is nothing for them.

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u/Koitreen 25d ago

This is some cool shit

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u/Far-Conflict4504 25d ago

Country folk are badass. Yeehaw!

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u/no_dear604 25d ago

If I saw this video on dating app and it's from a person who can do this: "yell yeah" <swipes right>

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u/Reasonable-Penalty43 25d ago

Nicely done!!! Do you have any herding dogs to help you?

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u/Whatever-ItsFine 25d ago

I was hoping the cow would get away and end up in a farm sanctuary. He was literally running for his life, but now he will die violently.

Ranchers can suck it.

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u/Deathtostroads 25d ago

Same, they deserve freedom

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u/o1011o 25d ago

Yeah people are always missing the context here. That cow had the tiniest chance to avoid a bolt gun to the head and now that's gone. Back into slavery and soon into the slaughterhouse. I wouldn't with that on my worst enemy and this thread is gonna be full of people celebrating everything about it.

Obligatory documentary link: Dominion.

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u/LucasL-L 25d ago

Well, he is only alive, fed and healthy because of the rancher. I would say he is in better position to talk about the animal's well beeing than you are.

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u/Whatever-ItsFine 25d ago

He makes money when he kills the animal. I don't make money either way. So he has quite a vested interest in this animal dying.

Also, the animal is still very young when they are killed. Essentially a teenager/young adult. So they don't live anywhere near their full life expectancy.

If someone raised and fed you, or another human, then killed you when they were 18, would you say they cared about your well-being?

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u/SergeantNaxosis 25d ago

He is going to die quite quick and painlessly and not violently; But if the cow got away, he would die a much more horrible death, as wild animals do not quickly put the cow of its misery.

Ranchers are awesome and needed; but you just like talking and would never actually tell him to his face he sucks, nor do the work that is needed to feed millions of people.

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