There are some real questions as to whether Pinhooking was is an art or a science. Maybe a little of both or were they practicing their craft? At any rate, they had to be one step ahead of the farmer concerning price and I've heard it said that a good pinhooker could weigh a heifer in the time it would take to turn a pickup truck off the highway onto the stockyard parking lot.

I do believe pinhooking is still being practiced but on a larger, less intimate scale. Certainly it is not on a grander scale for how could one ever out grand a grown man hanging on to pickup truck cattle racks while being dragged across a gravel parking lot in order to make an offer that the farmer just could not refuse. -Billy Joe Fudge