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foreign land. a place where the cattle raise and the sheep get sheered. >> nine miles north of bodega bay, it's a sheep ranch and it's all in the family. bob man who could get work at a ron howard look alike wrangles the sheep just by calling a few instructions to his collie. fetch them up. wait. stay there. bob's father oscar man says that sheep ranches is a good business. >> the situation was very serious. all you have to do is go to the russian river and they eat them up right there. >> reporter: most of the profit on the sheep rafrplg comes from selling the lams to market. only 1/7 of the profits come

from sheering the wool. the who process is a back breaking job. professionals say you have to sheer 10,000 sheep before you can really do it right. a beginning takes the risk of getting kicked in the head by 150-pound of irritated animal. bob man has been sheering sheep for one years his record 170 ewes in one day and that's a lot of wool. the wool is also sheered so it comes out in one piece. the idea is to make the sheep as comfortable as possible so that it won't struggle every action is automatic and precise coming from years of practice. the moves look almost

choreographed. >> some sheep don't mind the sheerless. others they probably had too much coffee at breakfast and they're uncomfortable. we try to get it over with as soon as we can. >> reporter: everyone is offered the use of the sling before they begin sheering as a way to protect your back. that was all well and good but what the ranchers forgot to mention was that the sling was set up for a 185-pound man. >> just relax into it. can you support all of that. >> i decided i didn't need this helpful apparatus. my back was strong enough. can you just imagine what my lamb was thinking at this point. something like, get this woman out of here before she kills me. as it turns out my lamb was very still. i think she was just petrified to move. i thought at the rate i was

going and at $1.70 a sheep i could not afford dinner. if i thought getting in was difficult, getting out was a real joy. it was sort of like smashing gaps once you were in. but in an age where man shuttles around space it's hard to believe that ranchers are bouncing in burlap i'm no expert here but you just know there has to be a better way. >> you can either pull yourself out by hanging on to the edge and pulling yourself out or i can give you a ladder. now count with me jump. >> ♪

♪ in 1995 vern hawkins found a school where people could learn how to sheer a sheep. >> reporter: some 15 miles from fairfield, sheep graze the landscape. about to endure their annual indignity. >> you need to run into it and then get rid of the sling and then she stands straight. get on top. >> reporter: this is one of five sheering schools in the u.s. where students learn one of the oldest skill ever. how to give a nervous sheep its yearly haircut. about 9 pounds come off, in as

close to one piece as possible. >> approximately 300. i'm very happy with that. >> sounds pretty good. >> that's fun for me but the younger fellows will be doing 400. >> reporter: prospects for professional sheep sheers are limited. migrates from texas, the real sheep country with other states with smaller herds. a good sheerer gets a couple of hundred bucks a week and a good work out. >> i could never see myself working on 1,000 head. >> you wouldn't be a full time. >> no. >> reporter: sheep sheering schools have been around the country for decades. >> for a lot of people wool is

considered a by-product. also a nuisance to get off the sheep. now we're acknowledging it's a valid commodity and there's opportunities here if we learn to get the wool off in better condition. >> reporter: solano county claims some 80,000 head second. the sheep surrendered their wool. bob mackenzie visits a dude ranch and finds out what he needs to know to be a cowboy. >> what do i need to know? >> much more than you do now, i can tell you that. ♪ [ male announcer ] a car that can actually see like a human using stereoscopic cameras

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tonight on a second look we're riding the range. perhaps the last people you would imagine herding cattle are prisoners but that's

exactly what we discovered in santa barbara county. >> reporter: the federal prison camp is full of contradictions. first of all it doesn't feel or look like a prison. and especially so on the range. that's right a range. the prison camp o rating a thriving cattle business raise -- operating a thriving cattle business enough to feed itself and 150 counties around the united states. this is an operation not a make work program for cowboys. with these wide open spaces it would be easy to ride off into the sunset. for a prison system like this to work there has to be a lot of mutual trust. >> i think we learn to trust each other and it takes a bit of time to do that. you don't trust them right off the bat.

>> how do you treat them? how do you get that trust? >> i feel if you treat them like he's a man he will act like a man. if you treat them like an inmate, they will act like an inmate. >> most no ranching experience. and we witnessed cattle ranching that had experience and ease. ♪ how do you take people off the streets and turn them into working cowhands. >> they come in here without experience that way we can teach them our way. i look for a guy that wants to

work with me. he has to have a desire. if he doesn't have a desire i can't use him. >> they drive cows over 50,000 acres of land they don't have to do their time this way so why do it? >> for me what makes a difference is there's no fence. there's just a lot more freedom. a lot more movement. i think one of the worse things that you go through as an inmate is when you have no movement at all. i've been in prisons where 17 hours a day you're locked up and the only time you move is when you go to t or you go to your work. then even at your work you can't move. >> because we get the breathe fresh air. we don't have guards standing over us telling us not to do this. not to do that. and our boss tells us what needs to be done. we do it and wouldn't you know we just work well as a team. >> i know a lot of people at

home would be saying if these people broke the law they should be punished and this doesn't look like punishment. just good air, beautiful country side and hard work. but there is something these men are losing, time. in the past several years there's been a push for grass fed beef free of hormones or antibiotics. in this 2008 report, it's created renewed demand for cowhands as well. >> is american cowboy is making a combat. >> when i purchased beef i'm looking for grass fed, no harmon free, no antibiotics in the beef. right now the demand is

stripping supply. that has put pat browning and his cowboy back in the saddle. >> i'm proud to be a cattleman. and i remember the time when you could say a cattleman with pride and now they say it like a four letter word, we have to change that. >> more and more customers want to know where their product is coming from and they want to know that it is raised the way an animal has to be raised. >> because the cow gains weight naturally it requires no antibiotics or hormones and can grow as nature intended. >> i know the cows are healthier and they should be eating as cows. i know the meat is healthier for my family. >> while the market is still small for natural meat, these

cowboys hope that more ranchers will step in to save this great american tradition. but right now it is the u.s. consumer that is driving cows out of the stockyards and cowboys back on the range. in congress arizona, william margenete, fox news. >> bob mackenzie goes to a dude ranch and find out what cowboys think about folks who want to be cowboys. >> none of them could write a stick horse if they starved to death. >> going back to a simpler era where a man who ride and shoot.

if you've ever seen the billy crystal movie city slickers you know it's about four men who go to a dude ranch to drive cattle. well bob mackenzie visited a dude ranch and found out what it takes. >> reporter: i suppose someone would tell you they're going to

get you up at 6:30 in the morning, would throw you on a horse and they twisted your knees and made you eat dust and best of all it's only going to cost you $600 a week, what would you think of that? well it happened to me. knowing full well i could not tell one end of the horse from the other, my producer with what i would call malicious intend assigned me to find out what dude ranch is all about. inspite of embarrassing situation which i will describe, i got to meet the acquaintance of the ranchers. and with a little coaxing you could get one of them to teach you how to roll a cigar.

>> you tuck it right up and you have to leave a little bit out there for licking. and you have to lick it good or it won't stick. >> lick it good. right. >> hold it up there like that and you got yourself a smoke. >> looks about right. >> mine iskind of fat isn't it. >> but pretty darn good for the first time i would say. >> most people have to give up playing cowboy after they're 12 years old or so. you feel as though you get to keep on playing? >> you bet. as long as you can stand the pace. as long as you can go 18, 20 hours a day, seven days a week you can go at it. >> not a lot of money in it. >> not a lot of money but when you live in this kind of country, you can't spend money and buy this. >> suppose i wanted to be a cowboy, a wrangler, what would i need to know? >> a loot -- lot more than you do now i can guarantee you that.

>> you think i got the basic equipment for it. >> no, there ain't no such a thing. you have to like the people that come up here. every one of them is a cowboy. you have to treat them like cowboys. they all think they are. until they get to doing it. none of them could ride a stick horse to breakfast, they would starve to death. >> if they're game for it they can show off their skills in the creek rodeo. >> i tried one of the events too but for some reason my horse didn't want to go. everyone was very polite about it. it was about this time that i had a little fantasy or a dream you might call it and it went something like this.

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if you grew up as a kid watching those cowboy movies you probably noticed how often they shoot their pistols while riding their horses. bob mackenzie found where people were still doing that just for fun. >> reporter: if a smell of a cup of coffee gets you up in the morning, if you feel more at home on a horse than behind a desk then you're in the right

place. >> once a year the single action shooting society sass for short puts together an event that brings together cowboys and would be cowboys. the idea is to the idea of the american frontier. nobody wants to look like roy roger here, the idea is to dress and talk and looked like the way westerners dressed and talked and looks in the pioneer times. who's the baddest in this group? >> well he smells the baddest. >> i'm the craziest. >> reporter: shooting from the back of a horse probably wasn't a widespread skill even in the old west. but presumably a real cowboy could do it if he wanted to. this event is called mounted shooting and it's done with blanks. >> you can dress old fashion cowboy, shoot your guns and ride your horse fast. what makes some people better

at it than others. >> the horse. >> the horse. >> the horse is 95% of the support. >> put that away partner. set up on the barrel nice lean turn into it. a little right leg, a little left leg. a little right leg. a little left leg. nice. all right. >> great ride. >> the revolvers are similar to the revolvers used. on each round the hammer has to be thumbed back. fired, thumbed back and fired. >> the support is not just for men. this is the women's world champion kimberly harmon from

listeria, california. >> it gives us something different to do with our horses. women like to shoot. it's a misconception but the women love the sport just as much as the men. >> of course not all of the women in the old west were colsasyou can tell by looking over the ladies. there were dance hall performers of course. and upscale town ladies who dressed in high fashion at least now and then. >> it's so much fun. it was such an elegant era and to imitate that and to be able to dress like that it's a lot of fun. >> some participants go all the way. sleeping on the ground and cooking their meals on the camp site. most compromise booking a stay at a motel. using real bullets, and picks up a rifle for seven more shots followed by four rounds with a

shotgun. the winners are fast and don't miss. the society for single action shooting requires all the contestants to have training in single hand action. >> it's an interesting phenomenon that no sooner do you dress like a cowboy, you start walking like a cowboy. >> ♪ when we asked people why they do this they all answer in roughly the same way because they want to live for a little while in a simpler time. when men were men, a handshake was a contract and a woman would wait for their loved one

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