![]() Warns 2010 PBR Stock Contractor of the Year Jeff Robinson, "A bull only has so many trips in them. To some owners, dummies are valid for providing experience before adding human riders, so long as they're deployed judiciously. ![]() The animal's owner-or stock contractor, as they're called in the game-stands to the side with a remote that releases the box, simulating the act of ejecting a rider. It’s a 10-to-35-pound box that gets harnessed to a bull's back. Since there's a far more significant foreign object in competitive situations-namely, the rider-the strap is intended to enhance the bucking effect.Ī more divisive method, used for training and in competitions featuring two-year-old bulls, is the remote-controlled dummy. That’s the desired endgame, so the process repeats once the bull’s midriff recoils and the tightness returns. ![]() When the bull bucks, the elongation-and subsequent narrowing-of its torso removes the tension of the strap, leading the bucker to believe it has shed the foreign object. The strap is tightened to a point of providing pressure without pain. The standard tool is the flank strap, a rope that is tied around a bull's torso just in front of its hind legs. (Animal rights activists can get their stationery out now.) But the evaluation and harnessing of that trait is accomplished with basic manipulation of the bulls’ cognitive circuitry. Tom Teague, owner of Bones, the now-retired 20 Bucking Bull of the Year, believes the drive to competitively buck is a "freak" development more luck than genetics. What distinguishes PBR-caliber bulls is an inexhaustible will to shed riders. The kicking reflex is instinctive as PBR livestock director Cody Lambert notes, bucking and spinning-the movements bulls use to throw riders-is how calves play. ![]() Dating back to October 2009, Bushwackerhasn’t let a single cowboy succeed.īy all accounts, there's no way to build, or even breed, the better bucking bull. ![]() During the Wednesday-through-Sunday affair, each rider will get at least five chances to prove his worth by attempting to stay on an elite bucking bull for a full "ride" of at least eight seconds. Bushwacker is the most unaccommodating of the 165 bulls awaiting Pro Bull Riding's 43 top cowboys at the sport’s World Finals in Las Vegas. At some point in the next week, two men will climb onto Bushwacker. ![]()
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