Well the spring is off with a bang! After a bit of a slow winter I picked up in mid-march and headed for Texas for two PBR’s. First I worked Palestine Texas for the Boston Porter Memorial PBR with the Jerry Nelson crew. We had a good time and it was nice to get out of the Montana weather for some gorgeous spring temperatures in Texas! As I often do I managed to slip in a little hunting while I was in Texas between events. I met up with Keith Rand and the Pigman for a couple days of chasing pigs with dogs at their place near Groesbeck, TX. You can read about and see more pics from that wild adventure at www.outbackoutdoors.net Next I was in Stephenville, TX for the Spring Fling PBR classic Touring Pro. I love Stephenville, you never know who is going to be hanging around since it is the rodeo capital of the world! We had fun there and on Saturday morning in between events I got to join my good friends Nathan Clay and Mark Worthington for the opener of the Texas turkey season! I’m home now and head off to Yakima, WA this weekend for a PBR and Cleburne, TX the following Saturday for another one. Looking forward to a super busy year and all of your comments!

Sorry it has taken so long to update my website. I have finished porting my site over to WordPress so that I can update my blog more frequently and hopefully keep folks up to speed with what Im doing out there on the road! Thanks to my good friend Chad Bradt for all the help with that! Well 2010 has already started with a bang. I did a PBR in Saginaw Michigan for Jerry Nelson and the Bad Boys crew in February. We nearly sold out the place on Saturday night and Terry Starnes, Richard Jones and I put on a hell of a show if I do say so myself. I was also able to visit my friend Jason Brown owner of Rack Focus Outdoor Multimedia while in Michigan. Jason and his crew produce some of the Outdoor TV shows on the Sportsman Channel and are some of the most creative guys in our industry. It was great to spend some time with him, talk about some future projects…hint hint…and really see his guys in action! One of the shows Jason produces is a hit new series called Pigman, The Series. Brian “Pigman” Quaca and his director of marketing, Keith Rand, invited myself and Kyle Wieter, host of Lone Wolf’s Adrenaline Junkies (and my good friend) down to Old Mexico to chase Javelinas and Deer at the end of February. Since this hunt will appear on Kyle’s and Pigman’s shows as well as on our Outback Outdoors webisodes, I wont spoil it for you….but I will say we had a blast!!! Well Im off to Texas for another Jerry Nelson PBR in a couple weeks. I have some business to take care of at home but drop me a line….I’ll try to keep blogging as often as I can.

Well, as I sit here typing this update, I am thinking about what I need to pack for Vegas. We leave in the morning for the NFR and Convention and as always it will be good to see everyone, make new contacts and hopefully sign a bunch of contracts for 2010! My fall, as usual, was crazy busy. On the Rodeo front I traveled to Casper, WY and worked the Tribute to Chris LeDoux PRCA Rodeo for Donna Vold Larsen and the Triple V Rodeo Company. What a great rodeo this was. Steve Kenyon announced and Scot Allerdings and NFR Bullfighter Dusty Tuckness worked protection. With an art show the night before and a concert after the performance a good time was had by all. The next weekend I flew to New Orleans to work a PBR for James Pierce and the Bad Boys crew. Chris Rankin announcing, Richard Jones mixing sound and Blue Jeanes and Thomas Alleman fighting bulls-it doesn’t get too much better! I had fun, ate some Jambalaya and saw a neat part of our country. Now fall for me is always busy guiding, hunting and running camera. This one was no different. I actually had to overnight from these rodeos to get back to hunting camp and it about wore me out. In short I missed a bull with my bow on video for our current webisode at www.outbackoutdoors.net, guided three weeks of archery elk hunters, videoed an elk hunt in Idaho with UFC Superstar Dan Henderson, got skunked in South Dakota bowhunting whitetails, missed another bull in Montana with my rifle on public land, guided three weeks of rifle mule deer hunters, and hunted with my Dad in Montana and South Dakota. If you want details check out the webisodes! I’m off to Vegas then it’s on to North Dakota for a late season archery hunt. I hope everyone had a great Thanksgiving and has a nice Christmas. Look for my 2010 schedule soon and some exciting new things for Rocket Ryan as well as Outback Outdoors in 2010!

Well I’ve finished my summer run with a couple weeks in the Badlands Circuit. I left Oklahoma and Matt West and I caravanned up to Ashley, ND for a PRCA Rodeo. It rained like crazy the night we pulled in to town and it left the arena under water for the duration of the rodeo, but we had a great time as Matt and I always do! What a good rodeo with an outstanding committee.  Special thanks to Miles Miller for all the help. From Ashley I left my trailer and ran home to Montana for about five days to take care of some business, as I hadn’t been home in over a month! I left home and headed for Aberdeen, SD for the first of two rodeos with the Korkow crew. My good friend Hodge was fighting bulls and Kyle Shobe was announcing. I had a good time in Aberdeen and met a new friend Todd Overfield from Dodge. Todd, Hodge and I left Aberdeen the night after the final perf in a thunderstorm and ran down to Mitchell for their annual bull bash.

We pulled into the rodeo grounds at 2 in the morning and had to wake my good friend Davie Kimm up to unlock the gate!  The Bull Bash is a fun event and I’d like to thank Lance Carson for having me back. Hodge and Jerry Norton fought bulls while Davie announced and his wife Nikki ran sound, we had a good time and after we all had breakfast the next morning and went and spent some money at Cabelas, Hodge and I were off to Yankton, SD. Yankton is a very nice community and the committee there is one of the best I worked with all year. It was a nice rodeo for my final summer event and as it was Shane Anderson’s final perf as a bullfighter we ended the weekend worth a fighting bull. I got knocked every which way but loose in the barrel and really took a beating but it worth it for Shane to end his career by jumping one in front of a crowd! Thanks to the Korkow crew, Kyle Shobe and Hodge for a fun week. It’s archery season at home now and I will be busy guiding and doing some hunts for Outback Outdoors. I do fly to Texas this weekend for a PBR but for the most part my fall will be spent in the backcountry! Take care everyone…

Well I am sitting at the home of my announcer friend Matt West in Oklahoma as I write this, and its 100 degrees! Im glad to be headed north this week. I came down here to the world famous Mesquite Championship Rodeo in Texas three weeks ago. Stace Smith nows owns and operates Mesquite and let me tell you it is a great rodeo! A true production, which Smith Pro Rodeos are known for… Rorey Lemell runs a great rodeo. I had a good time while I was there except for a little hiccup when my truck got broken into at lunch and alot of stuff was stolen! From Mesquite I had some down time and I went to Weatherford and spent the week with an old friend and her family. Bree Worthington, now Clay, is a trick rider I met almost ten years ago and we have remained friends ever since. I spent the week out at her parents ranch and had a great time. I also got to meet her husband Nathan and Son Dillon! I left Weatherford and headed to Guthrie, OK for a Lazy E PBR. I’ve said it before and I’ll say it again, Robert Simpson and Lazy E produce the best PBR events in the country and I love being a part of them. Matt Baldwin, Jesse Byrne and Steve Wangler fought bulls, Richard Jones ran sound and Charlie Throckmorton and Brandon Bates did the announcing. It was great to see all those guys and I actually played golf for two days with Brandon, Richard and Robert. I left Guthrie and headed back to Weatherford for a couple days to get the trailer and then I returned to Mesquite for two more performances. They went smooth, Randy Schmutz did the announcing chores and I had some more fun. I am now headed north for the last leg of my summer road trip in the Dakota’s. I hope everyone is having a great summer!