Not this time.
Did everybody have a good Labor Day?
I managed to limit on dove and redfish. Caught a black drum, a few trout and a couple snook too.
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I spent that weekend at a rodeo. Pretty good time.
What’s black drum like? Anything to distinguish it from other fish?
Do you participate in rodeos?
Black drum is the biggest fish in the drum family, taste a lot like snapper and put up a good fight. They stay on the bottom and like structure so catching them can be a challenge. I lost a few fish and I’m pretty sure they were drum dragging my line over oyster beds.
No, I don’t participate. I didn’t grow up with horses and if I tried bronc riding, I’d probably die. I do enjoy riding though and am slowly learning how.
At that particular rodeo, the first bronco that went out bucked its rider, went bucking around the arena, then ran toward the gate. His head hit a metal fence post, he stopped, then slowly fell over with his legs momentarily in the air. Everyone assumed he’d knocked himself out. Eventually people went to check on it and realized it had died. After a while they rolled him onto a fence panel and dragged him out. People were pretty stunned. I’ve never seen anything like that happen before.
Rodeos can be brutal. I haven’t seen an animal get seriously injured but I have seen a cowboy gored completely through the gut and another thrown on his head and then stomped. He survived but was paralyzed. Lots of broken bones, concussions, tears et cetera are regular occurrences.
Fun fact, rodeo participation is an immediate disqualification for life insurance. So are cases of active cancer, heart disease and active duty, combat military roles for reference.
There was a bar in a town where I lived when much younger who offered bull rides for $20 in a pen outside. The experience included a rodeo clown jumping out of a barrel and the whole gig, even an impromptu audience. Like a drunk dumbass I did it one night and will never ever ride a bull again.
Horses are fun, when they’re trained and calm, lol. Are you riding quarters?
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Wow, I didn’t know that.
I heard stories about bars in my neck of the woods where they’d let you pay to try to ride a buffalo, or have a baby black bear and bull dog fight each other. This was probably in the 50s-60s. Different era for sure, haha.
I have no idea what I’m usually riding. I don’t know much about horses. I know one guy I’ve gone with had Nokota horses.
Well I’m not that old but caught the tail end of that era before modern technology reorganized society 
Nakotas look like interesting horses. They seem regional and I would imagine have some tribal significance so that’s pretty cool.
I rode quarter horses which are very common given athletic and durable traits, palo pintos which are known for being very sure footed on unstable ground and do well in the central Texas hills & interchanging rocks/sand/clay & would likely be good in your foothills, and occasionally an Arabian.
The experience is all more or less the same but gaits and temperament can make notable differences.
Not exactly true as you can get life insurance or it’s equivalent through the military.
Right.
To be specific, on the open market, it’s virtually impossible. This is due to the inherent risk of death being so far off of the actuarial charts and underwriting criteria that it’s considered an uninsurable risk, and rodeoing is in the same category, which is what I was illustrating for emphasis in my reply.
If a 3rd party offsets or assumes cost, then sure.
I don’t have military contracts but am certain the military is off-setting cost to balance underwriting risk.
As an aside, if you can introduce me to the Pentagon or DoD or whomever pays for insurance and provides for financial benefits for the military and I win the contract, I’ll give you a referral fee so fucking big neither one of us will believe it.