WHAT CAUSES HEADERS TO SPLIT HORNS AND HOW TO PREVENT IT.
Splitting the horns makes me the most mad out of any miss. If I split the horns, that means I’m not even close. If I wave it off, at least I had it on them. I’ve missed every way possible, and I’ve gone in funks where I split the horns, wave it off, all of it. And sometimes, I’ll miss different ways on certain horses. But figuring out how to make adjustments when this starts to happen is part of stepping up your roping.
1 From teaching schools and watching ropings all these years, I could watch someone rope the dummy and I could guess how he’s going to miss. Or even if I watch a roper catch a…