Spurs, Bits, Snaffle Bits Made in USA by Sliester of California

Buckaroo Leather is honored to offer USA Made Spurs, Bits and Snaffle Bits from Sliester of California.

Their Spurs and Bits are Cowboy made since 1954. Sliester is proud to have over 50 years of continuous USA production in the Equine Industry. Their spurs and bits are hand crafted in the old California tradition.

Sliester is a progressive company that maintains quality as a tradition, and improvement as a continuing goal. Their contact with leading trainers and horsemen has given them a chance to provide what the professionals want -- quality, serviceability and dependability. Being a family owned and operated corporation like Buckaroo Leather, insures that each Sliester product is free of defects and comes with a 100% guarantee.

AAA Grade USA Made Spurs

Spurs are available in Stainless Steel or Iron (iron will turn rich red/rust color).

Options are 3/4" band width with 2" shank, SL12 shank is with chap guard and SL13 is without chap guard (plain shank).

Available in Mens or Ladies sizes.

Rowels available as pictured- top spur Blunt 5 point rowel or bottom spur 9 point rowel.

Sliester Bits

These bits are hand crafted by the best in the industry bar None! Each Sliester Bit is custom made, never mass produced, offering a fine feeling of balance. All the bits are hand made for beautiful balance and weight.

Sliester Bits feature the "SQUARE PIN." This keeps the cheek pieces from turning and pinching the horse's mouth, yet allows all the action required in a loose jawed bit.

The special alloyed metal from which the mouthpieces are made is the result of extensive metallurgical research. This special alloy creates a reaction within the horse's mouth that helps prevent dry mouth, thus reducing fatigue.

AAA Grade USA Made Ring Snaffles

Snaffle Rings are 3" stainless steel plain #53 or engraved #50 (bottom picture), Standard mouth width is 5". The snaffle rings are available in Large horse or Mule 5 1/2" or 6" and Small Horse 4 3/4"

Snaffle Mouth piece metal options are Smooth mouth #08 in Copper or Sweet Iron and Twisted wire #00 in Copper or Sweet Iron.

AAA Grade USA Made (Mechanical) Hackamore

This mechanical hackamore is standard with quality double sewn oiled leather noseband.

Cheek options are standard length 9" aluminum or stainless steel. Or 7" (Shorty) stainless steel.

This mechanical hackamore is available in regular horse size, Large Horse size, Mule size, small horse sizes, cob and Arabian horse sizes.

AAA Grade USA Made Bits

Sliester Bits are 8 1/2" Stainless Steel Cheeks- Plain #22 (top picture), Engraved #28 (bottom picture).

Standard Regular Horse mouth width is 5". Large Horse, Mule, and small Draft horse sizes 5 1/2" or 6". Available in larger Draft sizes, please call 530-545-0139. Click here to see all 13 mouth pieces to select from.

AAA Grade USA Made Shank Snaffle Bits

The shank snaffle bits have 5 1/2" Stainless Steel Cheeks. The mouth is a Standard width of 5". Available in Large horse and Mule sizes 5 1/2" or 6". Click here to see all 5 mouth piece options.

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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Roy Rogers Riding "The Happy Trails"

Great Video of Roy Rogers riding Trigger singing Happy Trails- watch for the traditional western leather horse tack-

Great to see the old fashioned western riding gear-

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

Old West Mail Order Catalogs for American Made Horse Tack

A true conversation between myself and a customer, a true western cowboy-

Customer- "Hello this is Dennis from billings Montana do you have a catalog ?"

John Brand- "Why yes I do sir. Appreciate your interest and I will send right up. But it's only about 1/3 of what we sell. Most is on our website."

Customer- "Well I'm just a cowboy with no access to a computer. Don't know how to turn it on anyway."

John Brand- "I understand. How did you find out about us?"

Customer- "I am sitting here in the bunkhouse reading Cascade Horseman and saw your article."

John Brand- "I thanked him."

With all our computers, laptops, and blackberry's we forget about the real life and the true cowboys who still work the range today!

Which made me start to think about all the old west cowboys, miners, and frontiersmen that purchased their goods and western gear via a catalog....

In 1896 the United States Congress authorized Rural Free Delivery and by 1911 there was a local U.S. Post Office at nearly every crossroads in America... almost seventy-seven thousand of them!
(pictured here-Terry, Montana Post Mistress Susie Snow and her husband in front of their combination log house and post office in the summer of 1899.)

Cowboys, ranchers and farmers no longer traveled to the general store or the livery for their goods and horse tack, they could just order through a catalog and get it by mail.

There was the Sears, Roebuck and Co., the Montgomery Ward & Co. and other catalogs that specialized in just American made horse tack, saddles and cowboy gear.

The Sears Catalog was referred to as the Farmer’s Bible or The Wish Book. The 1897 catalog, available in reprint, shows what new and established residents of rural America needed to live and prosper, and it lives up to its Wish Book nickname. There were groceries, including long lists of flavoring extracts. Drugs follow, offering a wide range of homeopathic as well as conventional patent medicines; those living in rural isolation often coped with illness and injury alone and a full cupboard of remedies increased the chances of survival. Rural doctors also surely ordered from the catalog.


Tools of all kinds comprised a large share of catalog pages, including well, wagon and domestic hardware as well as tools needed for home-building and farming. Both stoves, wood- and coal-fired, required serious consideration and expense; before a customer laid out $10 to 15 for a stove, he wanted to know about it in detail!


In the 1900’s along with the Sears catalog, there was the Hamley & Co, the Fred Mueller Catalog, and the N. Porter Catalog. They offered the old time cowboy saddles, boots, western cowboy gear, and American made horse tack.

The mail order catalogs allowed the frontiersmen and cowboys to live their life on there own land away from the big city and have access to all their goods and western tack.


To receive a copy of the Buckaroo Leather catalog with our American made western horse tack you can email me at buckaroojohn@sbcglobal.net or call (800) 873 0781.





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