EAST TEXAS HOG DOGGERS FORUM

This was one wild day started out catching cows and ended catching cows but in between I got this call!!! I had just got in from catching a cow and unsaddled my horse when I got a call from the Sheriff Dept. Saying they had highway 59 shut down with a EMU in the Media for me to get there ASAP!! I looked at the horse I just unsaddled and said this is not your kinda trip ( He's already alittle broncy do not need no excuse to make him do it) So I pull my retirey out witch is now my little girls horse I try not to ride him any more because he is hers but a duty like this calls for him!!! He is 13 years old and one of the best 's I have ever rode the get it done kinda horse! The only time he almost through me was over an EMU I was penning cattle and the EMU'S were resting in sum smut grass I was in a lope and one jumped up and yes he sure enough spooked from it but when the other one jumped from the left he about lost me!!!! So I saddled up and called a friend of mine Wayne and he came to help!! We pulled up and the highway was backed up for aways so we had to go through the ditch to get up to the emu!!!When the EMU herd the trailers he took off down the media in a high run!! I unloaded and bailed to him!! My horse was not real sure the big bird got to a creek and turned back the cable gaurd was fenceing him off from the other side but when under pressure he jumped as soon as he jumped I through a hell mary loop ans caught him in mid air the loop went around his neck and just perfect over his BREAST!!! But when he hit the end of that rope he went to jumping about 8 to 10 feet in the air  and my horse went to jumping I am dallyed off and the horse jumped so hard that he pulled the bird into that cable witch sent the bird back in the air!! Waynes horse said not no but hell no to all this action!!!The bird finally jumped one last time and hit the ground my wife jumped on him and held him down while trying to kick her!!! Colman Waynes boy taped his feet!! but we still had to tie with the rope!!! I burt alot of feathers off him but he was fine!!Catching that thing on the first loop was a once in a live time expirence for me!!Oh and we had a big fan club rooting us on (traffic both sides of 59) The DPS Officers had his dash cam on so we might make it on wildest police videos!!!
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I took oh Ike just in case I need my bird dog!!!
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Haha NICE!  I have only been around those birds once and I was suprised at how stupid they were.  Run up and down the same section of fence looking for a hole when the gate as open 50 ft from them.  Good catch and nice pics.

Hahahahaahah.... Son why didnt you take some dogs, I bet money that emu wouldnt want no more of them and he'd either be on the ground or standing still and you could lay a rope on him .. lol  ???   Remind ya to tell you a story about some cur dogs and emu's some time.. lol

Now what do you do with the bird?

Nice catch, wishiwoulda been there to see the whole thing!

Cheers
M

haha that sounds like it was a fun experience, we use to have one and yeah they are stupid. Great pics thanks for sharing!!!

I've never seen one of those but it looks like a big drumstick to me!  :P

thats one ugly pig

That's some fine eating right there.

I will hold him for 18 days then either have him put down or try to take him to huntsville to the exotic auction!!

I was thinking about Emu steaks on the grill as I was reading your story!I ant to see Crystal castrate that thing  ;D

He's already half way plucked with the rope burn!!

Great catch Chance, I have only seen one other one roped. Buddy roped one on his calf horse and he jerked him down and rand down the rope. That bird got to his feet and met him and proceded to kick all his clothes off. Great to watch and I was not about to help.

Is there anything u tx boys dont catch over there, I aint never seen nuttn like that before. I dont know whether to tell u congratulations or not.. Ha

let me know i would like to have him on our place

you need to get ahold of the video and post it on here!

Jerryg

 I roped a doe once and thought I was sure nuff cowboy, My hats off to ya there and thats one fine looking yella dog in the trailer to

Paul I ordered  a few of them 8.0 and  8.5  poly ropes and you talk about a handy little rope for ropeing hogs or EMU'S they sure are nice to have on the saddle for when you need them!!!!

Well there's not much we don't catch!! But another good story is when a women open her door to her house and a BIG potbelly pig ran in (Not hers) I had to go in to her house catch and tie this dang thing and he was a boar!! He might of been someone's pet but after chaseing him around a couch he had his grump on!! Hard to tie his belly was in the way of pulling the feet together!!!

We have done some wild things in are life and my kids have seen some of the wildest!!! But we don't tell alot of them because people look at us like we are lieing!! The teachers at the school say oh your kids tell fiction storys all the time!! I say what did they tell you???? Oh Rowdy said that he went and roped a bull this weekend and why he was dallyed his horse went to bucking and he rode him all the way through it!!!  I said thats not fiction thats the TRUTH !!! She said but he's 9 years old !!! I said that kid learned how to count by counting Cows !!! I think I am going to have to brand words on the side of cows so he can learn to read!!!!

Nice.  Thank you for sharing.

Haha! Talk about a neat word puzzle. Brand the words for a sentence on calves and have rowdy rope the calves and tie them in order so that the sentence makes sense.

Cheers
M

ya , i will stick to hogs

Looks like easy work for some catchdogs.  ;D

cool story chance..   

 a guy gave us some emus about 15 yrs ago, dang things got out and all the cows ran thru the fence.   took a week to gather all the cattle and fix the fences.

i noticed that new poly, i ordered a 40'  poly last winter shure is nice for draging hogs and such ,  im going to try it out in a few weeks when we work all of our calves.

  i can pretty much garantee you it will never see an EMU.  cause it would take about 10' of tail to get my horses whooped to one   ;D 

 

Awesome! Good job man. You're right, roping it on the 1st loop probably saved the day. Your wife sounds like a top hand!  ;) Keep it up!

Ha Ha!!
 Great story and pics Chance! Only in Texas baby! That DPS video is bound to show up sooner or later!

Should have heeled him. ;D. 

Back when that Ostrich/EMU market went bust allot of people just turned them loose and we would come across them from time to time.

Waylon

    Now thats cool,  wish i could have seen that!!

lol that is awsome glad u got pics

heak of a story chance. Wish I could have been there to see that.

I used to trap deer & exotics for a guy full time and still do from time to time.  We've done some crazy stuff, but usually the animals had some sort of tranquilizer in them.  Ropin that emu horseback with one loop has to beat all.  Good thing your top hand was there to pounce on that sucker.  Some people might think that its "just a bird" but those things can undress you or even gut you in a heartbeat with those toenails.  Good job and COOL story!!