The old timers built traps with limp ropes in small branding pens before the team ropers showed to take their place, as time overtook them and their steady horses. Almost anyone can catch two feet going slow and easy. Homer, Earl, Dave and E.J., I can picture them now roping just like me.
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You’ve got that right on, John. Thanks!
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John, I always enjoy your photos taken at branding time. It was one of our favorite times as well. I enjoyed heeling and became pretty good at it. I did not practice “trapping” but instead threw my loop over the flank area which carried underneath and in front of the heels. Worked for me!
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