The Team Roping Journal

A CRAFTSMAN’S CALLING

As an 8-year-old, Texas ranch kid, Monty Reedy was sent to a church camp where the kids crafted leather crosses with their names stamped on them.

“That was it. I was done,” recalled Reedy, a high school State Finals bull rider and longtime team roper. “I came home and told my mom, ‘For Christmas, I

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