Miles City Bucking Horse Sale: The Bulls

Friday was a day of heart pounding excitement!

People who know what happened can stop rolling their eyes now. For those who don't I'll fill you in and then you can go back and roll your eyes. For those of you who don't care just scroll down for the rodeo action shots ;-)

Friday morning, just after breakfast and for no particular reason, my heart started beating out of my chest. So I took a visit to the lovely Forsyth MT hospital where after a few (probably expensive) tests they informed me that, for no particular reason, my heart was beating out of my chest. Luckily it righted itself shortly and I got to leave with a "take it easy/stay hydrated/avoid caffeine/alcohol/doing anything fun at all". Al asked the nurse if it was a good time to mention that I was going to be in the arena with the bulls later. She laughed because she thought he was joking.

He wasn't, of course.

(this may be me taking the situation too lightly but I found that hilarious)

On to the photos!!

OK so I wasn't quite in the arena with the bulls. Anyone with a scrap of sanity was outside of the small arena that they had sectioned off for the bulls.

If you've been wanting to give bull riding a try I can tell you that this is NOT how you want to dismount a bull (hangups are scary, thankfully he was fine).

My favorite shot from the bull riding and one of my faves from the weekend.

If it looks like these bulls are staring at me its because THEY FLIPPING WERE!! A bunch of bulls who were hunting the fence, just looking for someone to hook, decided that to stop and stare and snort at me. Its amazing how a steel fence seems to disappear when you've locked eyes with a thousand pound animal who would like very much to crush you. Of course they might of just thought I was cute :-)

...and small and easy to trample.

Hey my heart is still working, what do you know.

I may have to devote an entire post (or two) to bullfighting photos I took! Those guys were having way too much fun and it made for some awesome shots! But that can come later, because the next day was the Bucking Horse Sale...

PS: There is a lot of missinformation, misunderstandings, and even outright lies out there regarding rodeo. If you have any questions just shoot me an email :-)

Miles City Bucking Horse Sale: The Bulls