Ropers Trust Perfect Calf

Just wanted to post a "few" words about how pleased we are with our purchase of the Perfect Calf. Prior to getting the Perfect Calf we had all the normal issues with teaching our boy to rope. We had trouble keeping calves he could handle. We didn't want him to run too many on his "good" horse and practice horses are almost as hard to find and keep tuned as rodeo horses.

When we saw the Perfect Calf at the Jr. High Finals in Gallup, my wife couldn't believe that I wanted to purchase one. I'm a little tight with my money, to say the least. We would have to buy a 4-wheeler and the expense was more than she could believe I would want to spend. Now that we have the Perfect Calf, she agrees it was money well spent.

Our boy had basically just breakaway roped until the fall of 2009. The idea of keeping him in practice horses and practice calves was a worry, but the Perfect Calf has saved us many of those worries. With the Perfect Calf, we can "run" more calves than we would ever have been able to with live calves, and now, almost any horse that we can ride makes a practice horse.

A byproduct has been a "useless" horse turning into a horse on which my son won second in the Tie Down Average and first in the Ribbon Roping Average at the Oklahoma Jr High Finals at the horse' SECOND trip to town as a calf horse.

Back then, he would rope the Perfect Calf and just jerk it over backwards off the stand since he didn't have the strength to flank it off the stand. Since then, he has added some size and now is learning to handle his slack to switch the Perfect Calf so he can flank it off the skid.

Now just about any horse we can ride can make a practice horse. I know we would have spent a lot more money on practice horses than we spent on the perfect calf and the 4 wheeler.

Thanks to Bill for making roping nights productive for me, my son, and our horses.