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American made leather horse tack.......

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Bit and Bridle Magazine

Great read on the History of Spurs! Bit & Bridle magazine will be doing a full article. Spurs are not just a tool, but a form of art.

Spurs can be traced all the way back to the Roman Legions of Julius Caesar. The Romans developed the spurs in order to have a way to steer their horses with their legs while leaving their hands free to fight. ...

Bill Beavers You folks seriously have it goin' on-true definition of "experts". All the best.

Buckaroo Leather Products Thanks Bill. Much appreciated!

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the Western Horseman the safest most durable Quality
American made leather horse tack.......

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100% Alpaca Mecates-Hand made In the United States

Buckaroo Leather is proud to offer 100% Alpaca Mecates-hand made here in the United States.

Buckaroo Leather is proud to have found a family run Alpaca ranch in

South East Colorado. The Alpacas are shorn each year and the family has an integral part in the shearing process. This allows the family hands on experience with the Alpaca fiber. All the Alpaca fiber is spun in the United States under the direction of the family.

Each 100% Alpaca Mecate is hand woven and twisted by the family to ensure the quality and craftsmanship for that ultimate feel and communication of each piece...

What are the benefits of using an Alpaca Mecate?

As mentioned in our blog on 100% Alpaca Cinches,

Alpaca wool is considered as soft or softer than cashmere and lighter than sheep’s wool, and is fine and strong.

The qualities of Alpaca fiber make it a natural resource for a Mecate.

First, it is a natural organic fiber, not processed, which is better for the environment.

Second the strength and extreme durability of this fiber is a must for the mecate.

The 100% Alpaca Mecate reins are the natural choice! U.S. grown and manufactured Alpaca fiber with the hand made fine craftsmanship of traditional Vaquero of the Old West!

Ties beautiful on a bosal for a perfect hackamore rein...

100% Alpaca Mecate (pictured above)

Hand Woven 100% Alpaca Mecate Reins. The Alpaca fibers used in these Mecates in grown on a family ranch in South East Colorado. The Alpacas are shorn each year and the fibers are processed in the U.S. Each piece is hand made by these artists to ensure the quality and craftsmanship of each Mecate. These Mecates offer the Best Feel & Communication between you and your Horse....Bar None!

Available in 3 sizes-

3/8 inch x 22ft

1/2 inch x 22ft

5/8 inch x 22ft

Look for Alpaca Split reins and Alpaca roping (one piece rein) coming soon.....

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the Western Horseman the safest most durable Quality
American made leather horse tack.......

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Rawhide Horse Tack

Rawhide, a Brief History

Rawhide is the hide of an animal that has been kept it is natural state and not treated. Leather is the hide of an animal that been altered by a special "pickling" process called "tanning." After the tanning process is completed the hide is termed "tanned." The look and feel of leather is different than the look and feel of rawhide, and its strength and utility properties are different than those of rawhide.

Most rawhide originated from the skin of buffalo, deer, elk or cattle. It is prepared by removing all fur, meat and fat. The hide is then usually stretched over a frame before being dried. The resulting material is hard and translucent. It can be shaped by rewetting and forming before being allowed to thoroughly re-dry. It can be rendered more pliable by bending repeatedly in multiple directions. This happened by rubbing it over a post and even sometimes using a traditional method of chewing. It may also be oiled or greased for a degree of waterproofing.

Rawhide was one of the most useful products of the pioneer cattleman. From it he made ropes, hobbles, clotheslines, bedsprings, seats for chairs, overcoats, trousers, and shirts. It patched saddles and shoes, strips of it bound loose wagon tires or lashed together pieces of broken wagon tongue, as well as substituting for nails and many other things. Indians made drum heads, and shield covers. It was so tough it became known as Mexican iron. The Vaqueros used this "Mexican Iron" for their horse tack because of its durability.

The Vaqueros used many types of fancy braided rawhide horse equipment during their daily activities. It was common to see vaqueros using braided rawhide headstalls, bridle reins with , Romals, riatas, hobbles, Quirts, hackamores and bosals, and other types of horse gear. The vaquero took special pride in having good quality braided rawhide equipment and a well-trained horse.

Buckaroo Leather carries the traditional Vaquero Rawhide Romals,

Rawhide Romal Rein (pictured right)

These are the finest 12 plait Braiding we have found! Hand Braided in the Old Traditional California Style Buttons. Each Natural Rawhide strand is beveled on both sides for a smooth, comfortable feel on the reins and romal. The popper is hand basket stamped and braided. The rein portion is the traditional full 52" long.

Rawhide Romel Rein w/rein chains  (pictured right)

These are the finest 12 plait Braiding we have found! Hand Braided in the Old Traditional California Style Buttons. Each Natural Rawhide strand is beveled on both sides for a smooth, comfortable feel on the reins and romal. The popper is hand basket stamped and braided. The rein portion is 42" long with rein chain making them the traditional 52" long. The Traditional rein chains are so slobber and water will not ruin the bit ends.

Our family has been dedicated for 30 years in serving
the Western Horseman the safest most durable Quality
American made leather horse tack.......

Buckaroo John Brand

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Nicker Bait Cookies are at Buckaroo Leather

Your Horses Will Thank You!

Buckaroo Leather is proud to be offering Nicker Bait horse cookies!

Buckaroo Leather has been offering these cookies as a gift for your horse with each purchase-and the response has been overwhelming!

These Nicker Bait cookies are a hit- pick up a few for your horse today at Buckaroo Leather!

During my travels on the horse trail, the best horse treat I have found is Nicker Bait. Nicker Bait is a nutritious cookie for your horse. Melinda Abplanalp, the creator of Nicker Bait horse cookies, is a horse owner herself. Her cookies are tested on horse ranging from the pickiest to the horse that will eat anything.


The Nicker Bait horse cookies are made from organic fruits and vegetables and have no preservatives. Depending on which flavor you choose, carrot, banana chip, or sweet potato (pictured to the right), you will find only that fruit or vegetable ingredient plus whole grain oats, flax, barley and molasses. They also have seasonal fruits available including cherry, apple, fig and pear. These cookies are filled with more vegetables than other brands ensuring a nutritious snack for your horse. Plus they have a great flavor and your horse will love them!

Our family has been dedicated for 30 years in serving
the Western Horseman the safest most durable Quality
American made leather horse tack.......

Buckaroo John Brand

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Great AMERICAN Made Tack Savings Event....

We want to Thank you for your interest in Buckaroo Leather with a Sizzlin Summer Great AMERICAN Made Tack Savings Event of 25% discount off on our website....



Use discount code- buck25 - in shopping cart at checkout.



This starts June 19 and ends June 28 so take advantage now.

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This is on our entire website, from Indian Hackamores to spur straps, pulling and martingale breast collars, leather headstalls, natural horseman reins, mecate reins, rope halters, heavy harness reins, weighted training reins, trail riding reins, tiedown nosebands, silver conchas, snaffle bits and saddle pads....

Also included horse training books, first horse books, horseback smart riding tips and ranch horsemanship.

Also we offer many different sizes of western bridles and western breast collars because of all your requests, from small horse tack, cob and pony tack to mule tack to large horse tack and draft horse tack sizes....

And on our newest addition Alpaca cinchas- Alpaca is one of the rarest natural fibers that is strong, soft, comfortable and extremely durable.. It is softer than cashmere, yet extremely strong and resilient. Elasticity of alpaca is comfortable to your horse and has a natural give as it moves.....

And this special is on all our new western bits and western spurs from Partrade...

"No Hour of life is ever wasted spent in the Saddle" W. Churchill



Our family has been dedicated for 30 years in serving
the Western Horseman the safest most durable Quality
American made leather horse tack.......

Buckaroo John Brand

Buckaroo Leather, The Brand to Demand
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Buckaroo Leather Shopping Site

All About T.H.I.S. Cares A Charity for Sick Children and Horse Lovers

I have been manufacturing quality leather horse tack for over 30 years and have always enjoyed being able to give back to others.

Buckaroo Leather is proud to be a sponsor of T.H.I.S. Cares. It is a non-profit charitable organization helping equine families in times of need. T.H.I.S Cares stands for "This Horse Is Silent Cares" (T.H.I.S. Cares). They lend a helping hand to the family and address their specific needs and then they silently leave.

While most families medical bills are paid for the families suffer financially because of the time taken from work. Unfortunately, this is not an uncommon situation for parents to find themselves in when their child is ill. T.H.I.S. Cares helps equestrian families with catastrophically ill children by using the donation money to make house payments, pay utility bills, buy groceries, and make vehicle notes. 100% of the money raised is used to help the families!

They raise money by putting together trail rides for the equine community! What an amazing way to help a catastrophically ill child. Enjoy a beautiful trail ride and give peace of mind to a family struggling with so much.

Please visit T.H.I.S. Cares website for more of their truly inspirational story and find out how you can participate in this amazing charity.

T.H.I.S. Cares Website

Our family has been dedicated for 30 years in serving
the Western Horseman the safest most durable Quality
American made leather horse tack.......

Buckaroo John Brand

Buckaroo Leather, The Brand to Demand
Visit Our Unique Store Today
Buckaroo Leather Shopping Site

Buckaroo Leather Manufactures Quality Leather Award Trophies

Buckaroo Leather is proud to be able to manufacture the custom award trophies for the Intermountain Reined Cow Horse Circuit (IMRCH). The custom made horse tack awards are quality leather hand crafted Headstalls. (pictured here)

The custom made 5/8" Browband Headstalls are hand crafted from quality leather and they feature a straight brow and a shaped cheek. A 1 3/4" Antique Berry Concha Buckles and a 1 1/2" conchas at the brow and 1" conchas at the bit end make this headstall a real show. (pictured to the right)

The Hand Tooled Oak pattern Half Slide Ear Headstall is double & stitched. It is dark oiled and has dyed edges. This headstall is finished with the recreated adjustable Antique Concha Buckles and 1" conchas at the bit end. (pictured to the right)

Congratulations to all the IMRCH 2008 Winners!
see Blog Post Below

If you are interested in having Buckaroo Leather manufacture your custom award trophies for your event or organization please feel free to call John Brand, the owner at 530-545-0139 or email buckaroojohn@sbcglobal.net

Our family has been dedicated for 30 years in serving
the Western Horseman the safest most durable Quality
American made leather horse tack.......

Buckaroo John Brand

Buckaroo Leather, The Brand to Demand
Visit Our Unique Store Today
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Buckaroo Leather Company a Proud Sponsor!

Buckaroo Leather Company would like to congratulate all the 2008 Intermountain Reined Cow Horse Circuit Winners! (Pictured below)

Buckaroo Leather Company is a proud corporate and Championship Award Incentive Fund Sponsor. For the first time Champions in 10 classes were awarded a cash prize, an incentive check targeted to exceed $225 each. This check will compensate the winner for their travel expenses. The incentive check will be in addition to their outstanding Circuit awards.

Buckaroo Leather is proud to be able to manufacture the custom award trophies as well. The custom made horse tack awards are quality leather hand crafted Headstalls. (pictured above)

The Buckaroo Leather Family is honored to be a continuing major sponsor of this fine organization and looks forward to 2009 and the future!

For more information on the Intermountain Reined Cow Horse Circuit (IMRCH) please click here for their website.

And if you are interested in having Buckaroo Leather be a sponsor for your organization or manufacture custom award trophies for your event please feel free to call John Brand, the owner at 530-545-0139 or email buckaroojohn@sbcglobal.net

Our family has been dedicated for 30 years in serving
the Western Horseman the safest most durable Quality
American made leather horse tack.......

Buckaroo John Brand

Buckaroo Leather, The Brand to Demand
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Your Horse Tack Lover will Love you for Valentine's Day.....

We are offering the best gift for your Horse Loving
VALENTINE at a 15% discount!!

A Gift Certificate for them to purchase anything they
want on our beautiful Buckaroo Tack shopping site and
save 15% on our Top Quality horse tack.....

On our shopping site we are now offering a wide
variety of tack in every size imaginable....
From pony tack, to cob size tack, and small horse tack..
And all the way up to large horse, mule tack and draft horse tack..
We can make any size western horse tack!! Just ask....

We make just about every style also..
From buckaroo gear, to old vaquero tack, mounted shooting tack,
trail riding tack, barrel racing tack, roping, cutting and reining tack ...
And rodeo to pleasure horseback riding tack..

It is all there for your Valentine.....

Just click here to purchase....



Our family has been dedicated for 30 years in serving
the Western Horseman the safest most durable Quality
American made leather horse tack.......

Buckaroo John Brand

Buckaroo Leather, The Brand to Demand
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Proud of my kids on Fathers Day.....

I have been working to hard lately, so we took
last week off and spent family time up at
Redfish Lake in Stanly, Idaho....

Beautiful time!!!!

My lovely wife has been very patient with all
of my traveling to market our quality
American made horse tack.....

My oldest son Jason will graduate from
Sacramento state this December with
a degree in business and marketing!

My middle son Bryan just graduated from
Wagner College in Staten Island, NY
with a degree in business and marketing...
He moved to Santa Barbara to start a
online food and beverage advertising and
delivery Business....

My Daughter is nineteen and starting
beautician school...

They all learned about how to make
leather horse tack during the summers at
our Buckaroo Leather shop...


Our family has been dedicated for 28 years in serving the western horseman the safest most durable Quality American made leather horse tack.......Please take a moment to leave a comment(just click on the word comments below each post)with any questions or suggestions on future posts you would like to see talked about.

BuckarooJohn
Buckaroo Leather The Brand to Demand

Buckaroo Leather's New Quality Leather Tack Store, Best in the West.....

..We thank you for visiting us and hope you are enjoying our posts..

We are just busting out at the gates!!!!

After months of work, Buckaroo Leather and our Webmaster
John Stacy of http://www.jnsdesignz.com/ are almost ready to Launch our

NEW Retail Shopping center and Authorized Dealer locator

just in time for Spring Outfitting.....

It will be like no other Quality Leather Tack Store anywhere on the Net.
User friendly, loaded with specials, in fact get to the "Grand Opening " soon.

Check back and I will let you know when to take advantage of some real specials...

BE LOOKING FOR THIS LOGO EVERYWHERE!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Our family has been dedicated for 28 years in serving the western horseman

the safest most durable Quality American made leather horse tack.......

Please take a moment to leave a comment (just click on the word comments below each post) with any questions or suggestions on future posts you would like to see talked about.

BuckarooJohn

Buckaroo Leather The Brand to Demand

Why Nosebands & Tiedown straps........

What are They and How do We use Tie-downs and Nosebands

Nosebands and Tiedown straps are used in combination

to help teach your Horse to keep their head

and nose down and in a tucked position

and not to throw their head around......

It is important when you are in performance

events that your horse keeps their head down

in a balanced position for better performance

and also so their head doesn’t obstruct your view...

Some horses have a real problem and bad habit with this

and require professional advice and or training to correct.....

There are training methods with Martingales, etc.

to help with these problems....

You will want to have your Tiedown adjusted
so your horse can move their head up to a

natural position and not overly restricted.

It is important to be careful not to have the
Tiedown adjusted to short and tight.

The Caveson style noseband also has an
important use to teach your horse from
gaping and opening their mouth to far.

The bit will not work as designed and does
not look good if your horses mouth is gaping open.

The caveson is used without a tiedown strap.

The Brand family at Buckaroo Leather has manufactured the highest
Quality safe and durable Horse Tack for 27 years and
wants to THANK YOU for taking your time to stop by
and be more informed.
We look forward to learning and answering your
questions and comments.

BuckarooJohn
Buckaroo Leather The Brand to Demand