Carter Branding - Elkhorn Cowcamp - 500 Flat Branding Trap Galleries

Carter Branding - Elkhorn Cowcamp - 500 Flat branding trap A : ... First photos are at the home place of Carter's Crown Cattle Company in their beautiful valley west of Seneca, Oregon. Elkhorn Cowcamp up in the forest .. Merlin Rupp, Dick Read & Will Bentz. The first two are legends and the Will has another 40 years to become one... I got there in the afternoon ... pitched my "Yurt" .... the next morning was cold ... frost on the pumpkin if they could grow one there ... I could have edited out the blurred ones ... but some had a nice effect .... I blame the blurriness on the cold and dark ... the photos seem lighter than it was .... the sun had not popped up over the pines yet ... my hands were chilled and the lens was slow either from the lack of light or from the cold .... give me some time and I might come up with some more .... a great morning ... Mat Carter's coffee in the morning is the best...... Merlin giving "Rooster" his special "spit knot" ..... Jerry Carter wrangling in the remuda .... and the ponies who escaped work for the day were kicking up their heels ....

Carter Branding - Elkhorn Cowcamp - 500 Flat branding trap A

... First photos are at the home place of Carter's Crown Cattle Compan ...

Updated: Aug 15, 2009 10:01pm PST

Carter Branding - Elkhorn Cowcamp - 500 Flat branding trap B : Bringing the gather into 500 Flat branding trap ... Mat getting the irons ready ... through the gate into the trap ... MT Anderson & son Cinch coming in from the Inshalla Ranch ...

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Bringing the gather into 500 Flat branding trap ... Mat getting the ir ...

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Carter Branding - Elkhorn Cowcamp - 500 Flat branding trap K : End of the 500 Flat branding that day - had dinner there and went back to camp - Merlin & Dick taking the afternoon in - Mat, Jerry & Will bringing some into Elkhorn Cowcamp that afternoon - last photos are of Wed morning - before the sun came up - not as cold as the morning before. The last one was not adjusted for exposure.

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End of the 500 Flat branding that day - had dinner there and went back ...

Updated: Aug 22, 2009 7:37pm PST

Carter Branding - Elkhorn Cowcamp - 500 Flat branding trap L : Breakfast & Mat's good coffee - Will wrangling the remuda - Dutch oven for dinner stew - Crew trotting out for their circles - I take "Big Red" & horse trailer up to 500 Flat Branding Trap - where they will be bringing in s small herd to cull out the drys and ship back to the home place. Last photo - bridle hangers between seats in "Big Red"

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Breakfast & Mat's good coffee - Will wrangling the remuda - Dutch oven ...

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Updated: Aug 23, 2009 8:37am PST

Carter Branding - Elkhorn Cowcamp - 500 Flat branding trap O : Drys are loaded - Mat, Jerry & Merlin trot back to camp - Will, Dick & I head back in "Big Red" with drys and their ponies - unload ponies - pony Dick was riding for the day was a Kiger Mustang -have Dutch Oven stew for dinner and I head home.

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Drys are loaded - Mat, Jerry & Merlin trot back to camp - Will, Dick & ...

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