Today, Todd lives in Crossville, TN where he enjoys the challenges of raising, training and showing their Futurity and Derby Reining horses. The International Guild of Bit and Spur Makers membership elected Todd to the Board of Directors in March 2012.

All of his work is stamped with the approved Guild Stamp.

In the fall of 2010 Todd's work as a Bit and Spur Maker was juried into the prestigious International Guild of Bit and Spur Makers. As makers, we have his tools, hardware and instructional materials equestrians of all kinds have access to his saddles, bits and spurs. Every horse rider can go from the practice pen to the show ring or knowing they are using the highest. Todd’s spurs are influenced by the advice and knowledge of reining, cutting, pleasure, and rope horse trainers from across the United States. Metalab makes high quality bits, spurs and stirrups. Tune in to hear how he got started building custom bits. The need for better tools led to the founding of Bowman Custom Spurs. Kerry Kelley is one of the most well-known bit/spur makers in the Performance Horse Industry today. we use them every day here on the ranch Cowpuncher saddles are built right here in. Soon after, 'non-pro reiners' requested him to create spurs that allowed them to better communicate with their own horses. By the way, we dont just design and build bits, spurs and saddles. To compensate for one leg being shorter than the other, he started tinkering and building different kinds of spurs, simply because the tools he needed were not available on the shelf at the local western stores. Featured, Best Selling, Alphabetically, A-Z, Alphabetically, Z-A, Price, low to high, Price, high to low, Date, new to old, Date. Showing and training his own horses was a challenge, especially considering his physical limits from the skydiving accident. Todd’s college interest in reining horses resurfaced and by 2000, he was showing at a competitive level. He retired from the rodeo business in 2003. His “no excuses” philosophy, coupled with being able to get back to riding horses as part of his rehabilitation, allowed him to return to saving cowboys from bulls and skydiving. Todd’s rodeo career slowed in 1998, when a near death skydiving accident crushed his legs, pelvis, arm and face. Produced by: Plugged-In Creative: pluggedincreative.During his rodeo career, Todd Bowman was able to observe horsemen across the country communicate with their horses while they competed in a variety of equine disciplines.

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