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Bronco Art Christmas gift tags and giveaway :)

Ksm

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Happy Thanksgiving Bronco friends.

I painted a new Christmas tree and presents filled Bronco for you guys and gals. I'll attach a link to a document with the gift tags. Just print them up and cut them out. (Cardstock works best, any local printer can do it) I just ask respectfully that you do not sell them or use the artwork for any other purpose than your personal enjoyment.

AND I'm giving away the original painting! There's so much negative crap online right now I thought it'd be refreshing to hear some personal stories about something nice/selfless/helpful someone has done for you recently. We've all got stories of our awesome Bronco brothers and sister selflessly offering parts, advice and even elbow grease to get us through difficult projects (I'm pointing a finger at you Shamu and Yeller!). Or something not even bronco related...whatever floats your boat. I'll randomly pick a thread number and mail it to you. :D

https://drive.google.com/file/d/1hVhb3qXqaI9VqGs_vttKoNsofp_4zvIF/view?usp=sharing
 

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Very cool! The link worked fine. I already have a sheet printed on card stock and ready to adorn a few presents.

Thanks!
 

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Awesome, just want to give thanks to everyone on here who has helped me with my numerous questions through out the past 3 years! Def a good group of people on this forum!
 

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So awesome! I'm thankful you do these tags. The first time we found out about them was last year...my Wife liked them so much that every gift had your tag on it.
Thank you and Happy Thanksgiving,
Tyler
 
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So awesome! I'm thankful you do these tags. The first time we found out about them was last year...my Wife liked them so much that every gift had your tag on it.
Thank you and Happy Thanksgiving,
Tyler

That make me gleefully happy.
 

sanndmann3

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Thanks KSM and happy Thanksgiving to you.
Very nice art work, thanks for sharing! :)
 

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ok here's a good story... Bill Casey who founded the bronco take over in Michigan is a good bronco buddy of mine. He knew that I was on a tight deadline to get my truck ready for the event this year and helped me out big time. We we're able to get all of the electrical done, rebuild the column, secure the dash, get the hand controls in, seats mounted, powder coated numerous parts, etc... It was a mountain of work but we got it done in under 2 weeks which was super awesome because I finally had a bronco to show for at an event. I also want to thank dirt donk on helping out with advice on the column switches and wiring as well...Just super appreciative of all the help on here!
 

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No stories sorry. But Happy Thanksgiving to you and the family

Great art as always

Cheers!!!
 

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very cool ....

story lil boring but ...
we have just a few bronco friends ;D, started writing the annual custom xmas cards !
 

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Come on you guys! So only a couple people had someone do something cool for them this last year???

Alright, alright I'm not going to be the annoying aunt who asks everyone to go around the table at Thanksgiving and say what you're thankful for....but can you AT LEAST LIE? Make something up funny! This'll probably be one of the few times in your life that a woman is asking you to lie to her.

I'm only putting the post numbers in that have a story, truth or fiction. You know you want this original painting....
 

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Come on you guys! So only a couple people had someone do something cool for them this last year???

Alright, alright I'm not going to be the annoying aunt who asks everyone to go around the table at Thanksgiving and say what you're thankful for....but can you AT LEAST LIE? Make something up funny! This'll probably be one of the few times in your life that a woman is asking you to lie to her.

I'm only putting the post numbers in that have a story, truth or fiction. You know you want this original painting....

....no don't guys ...I want that painting and so far I think I'm winning ;)
 

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What a tease, we can't even see your drawing!

artwork is by my lil one ... and not going to unveil it otherwise its not going to be a surprise to you and everyone else that's in my EB rolodex %):cool:
 

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this one time at band camp:-X

ok since your from Texas and it's deer season;)

I had this idea that I was going to rope a deer, put it in a stall, Feed it up on corn for a couple of weeks, then kill it and eat it. The first step in this adventure was getting a deer. I figured that since they congregated at my cattle feeder and do not seem to have much fear of me when we are there (a bold one will sometimes come right up and sniff at the bags of feed while I am in the back of the truck not 4 feet away) that it should not be difficult to rope one, get up to it and toss a bag over its head (to calm it down) then hog tie it and transport it home.

I filled the cattle feeder then hid down at the end with my rope. The cattle, who had seen the roping thing before, stayed well back. They were not having any of it. After about 20 minutes my deer showed up - 3 of them. I picked out a likely looking one, stepped out from the end of the feeder, and threw my rope. The deer just stood there and stared at me. I wrapped the rope around my waist and twisted the end so I would have a good hold. The deer still just stood and stared at me, but you could tell it was mildly concerned about the whole rope situation. I took a step towards it...it took a step away. I put a little tension on the rope and received an education.

The first thing that I learned is that while a deer may just stand there looking at you funny while you rope it, they are spurred to action when you start pulling on that rope. That deer EXPLODED.

The second thing I learned is that pound for pound, a deer is a LOT stronger than a cow or a colt. A cow or a colt in that weight range I could fight down with a rope with some dignity. A deer, no chance.

That thing ran and bucked and twisted and pulled. There was no controlling it and certainly no getting close to it. As it jerked me off my feet and started dragging me across the ground, it occurred to me that having a deer on a rope was not nearly as good an idea as I originally imagined. The only up side is that they do not have as much stamina as many animals. A brief 10 minutes later, it was tired and not nearly as quick to jerk me off my feet and drag me when I managed to get up. It took me a few minutes to realize this, since I was mostly blinded by the blood flowing out of the big gash in my head.


At that point I had lost my taste for corn fed venison. I just wanted to get that devil creature off the end of that rope. I figured if I just let it go with the rope hanging around its neck, it would likely die slow and painfully somewhere. At the time, there was no love at all between me and that deer. At that moment, I hated the thing and I would venture a guess that the feeling was mutual. Despite the gash in my head and the several large knots where I had cleverly arrested the deer's momentum by bracing my head against various large rocks as it dragged me across the ground, I could still think clearly enough to recognize that there was a small chance that I shared some tiny amount of responsibility for the situation we were in, so I didn't want the deer to have it suffer a slow death so I managed to get it lined back up in between my truck and the feeder - a little trap I had set before hand. Kind of like a squeeze chute. I got it to back in there and started moving up so I could get my rope back.


Did you know that deer bite? They do! I never in a million years would have thought that a deer would bite somebody so I was very surprised when I reached up there to grab that rope and the deer grabbed hold of my wrist. Now, when a deer bites you, it is not like being bit by a horse where they just bite you and then let go. A deer bites you and shakes its head - almost like a pit bull.

They bite HARD and it hurts.


The proper thing to do when a deer bites you is probably to freeze and draw back slowly. I tried screaming and shaking instead. My method was ineffective. It seems like the deer was biting and shaking for several minutes, but it was likely only several seconds. I, being smarter than a deer (though you may be questioning that claim by now) tricked it. While I kept it busy tearing up my right arm, I reached up with my left hand and pulled that rope loose.

That was when I got my final lesson in deer behavior for the day. Deer will strike at you with their front feet. They rear right up on their back feet and strike right about head and shoulder level, and their hooves are surprisingly sharp. I learned a long time ago that when an animal like a horse strikes at you with their hooves and you can't get away easily, the best thing to do is try to make a loud noise and make an aggressive move towards the animal. This will usually cause them to back down a bit so you can escape. This was not a horse. This was a deer, so obviously such trickery would not work. In the course of a millisecond I devised a different strategy. I screamed like woman and tried to turn and run.


The reason I had always been told NOT to try to turn and run from a horse that paws at you is that there is a good chance that it will hit you in the back of the head. Deer may not be so different from horses after all, besides being twice as strong and three times as evil, because the second I turned to run, it hit me right in the back of the head and knocked me down. Now when a deer paws at you and knocks you down it does not immediately leave. I suspect it does not recognize that the danger has passed. What they do instead is paw your back and jump up and down on you while you are laying there crying like a little girl and covering your head.

I finally managed to crawl under the truck and the deer went away.


Now for the local legend. I was pretty beat up. My scalp was split open, I had several large goose eggs, my wrist was bleeding pretty good and felt broken (it turned out to be just badly bruised) and my back was bleeding in a few places, though my insulated canvas jacket had protected me from most of the worst of it. I drove to the nearest place, which was the co-op. I got out of the truck, covered in blood and dust. The guy who ran the place saw me through the window and came running out yelling "what happened"?


I have never seen any law in the state of Kansas that would prohibit an individual from roping a deer. I suspect that this is an area that they have overlooked entirely. Knowing, as I do, the lengths to which law enforcement personnel will go to exercise their power, I was concerned that they may find a way to twist the existing laws to paint my actions as criminal. I swear...not wanting to admit that I had done something monumentally stupid played no part in my response. I told him "I was attacked by a deer". I did not mention that at the time I had a rope on it. The evidence was all over my body. Deer prints on the back of my jacket where it had stomped all over me and a large deer print on my face where it had struck me there. I asked him to call somebody to come get me. I didn't think I could make it home on my own. He did. Later that afternoon, a game warden showed up at my house and wanted to know about the deer attack. Surprisingly, deer attacks are a rare thing and wildlife and parks was interested in the event. I tried to describe the attack as completely and accurately as I could. I was filling the grain hopper and this deer came out of nowhere and just started kicking the hell out of me and BIT me. It was obviously rabid or insane or something.


EVERYBODY for miles around knows about the deer attack (the guy at the co-op has a big mouth). For several weeks people dragged their kids in the house when they saw deer around and the local ranchers carried rifles when they filled their feeders. I have told several people the story, but NEVER anybody around here. I have to see these people every day and as an outsider - a "city folk" I have enough trouble fitting in without them snickering behind my back and whispering "there is the idiot that tried to rope the deer."
 
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That was hilarious. I'm still laughing. Poor deer, everyone thought he was crazy.
 
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