Seth Hall was 4 on both ends last weekend at the ProRodeos, and that’s not bad at all for a calf roper who wasn’t even entered.

Turquoise Circuit cowboy Seth Hall has been on the hunt for his first NFR appearance in the calf roping this season. But, when he gets a chance, he gladly steps in to head or heel one when a guy needs a spot filled.

That chance became a reality this summer when Hall, 35, received a call from two-time NFR header Jr. Dees needing a heeler for a few rodeos—starting at That Famous Preston Night Rodeo in Idaho—while Dees’ main run, Coleby Payne, was out on injury reserve. The call fired Hall up to be able to step away from the calf roping to heel one in Preston.

“When [Dees] called, I was excited,” said Albuquerque, New Mexico’s Hall. “The calf roping had been a little rough, and I always do better if I do two events. When he called, I thought, ‘Thank goodness, I’m going to get to throw and get a good partner.’ We knew the steer was good, I knew it was going to happen fast.”

The multiple-time Cinch Timed Event Championship contestant made that call count. Dees and Hall won Preston when they went 4.2 seconds to win $4,095 a man. From there, they made their way to Dodge City, Kansas, where they were 5.2 seconds to place in the second round and pocket $2,279 a man.

“It got my mind off the calf roping,” he said. “I hadn’t shook out my heel ropes since the Timed Event, but I still had two heel ropes in there; it worked out really well. We knew we had to go to Dodge after that. I was really excited to get to go to a three-header with him at that point. That was good to get to go across the country 13 hours knowing you were 4.2 and were going to get some money.”

From there, Hall called on heeler Pace Blanchard to hop in the rig to head to Castle Rock, Colorado. There, they went 4.6 seconds to win $1,824 apiece at the Douglas County Fair and Rodeo.

“Pace had come up a little early and we thought, ‘Well, we’re going by Castle Rock, and we could replace some teams—there were a couple turn outs,” Hall explained. “Castle Rock is a great rodeo, adds lots of money. In a fast-track team roping like that, it’s a lot for us guys that don’t do it all the time. But if you draw good, you’ve got good horses and a good partner, things come together, and we got a little money out of there as well.”

It’s somewhat easy for Hall to go up and back when needed, seeing that all of the horses on his trailer play double duty. Each one he has on the trailer can be utilized as a calf horse when needed but can also switch it up on either the head or heel side.

“Martha” is 14-year-old black mare Hall was riding to heel for Dees but is also who he was riding when he went 7.8 seconds in the tie-down roping at Logan, Utah, in the slack on Aug. 5. “Slick” is the 15-year-old that landed in Hall’s string as a calf horse, originally. But after receiving word that you could head on him, it was a once-in-a-lifetime opportunity for Hall. For him, it is pretty simple to switch them around from one event to another.

“They pick up the game when they are veterans of the sport,” Hall said. “The lead you lope them in, the way you tip their head around. So, doing those little things with those kinds of good veteran horses, they pick the play up a little bit.”

As the season creeps on, there is another event that stays at the forefront of Hall’s mind: the Cinch Timed Event Championship.

Hall has partaken in the marathon that is the Timed Event six times now, an event where his all-around skillset can turn loose. Throughout the year, the goal is to always get to do it again, and to stay sharp in all those events.

But for Hall, it isn’t the times he won money that stand out to him the most. Instead, it’s watching his fellow ropers step up to the plate in the other events.

“The highlight is just being amongst the guys that you really don’t know do all those events and seeing the talent and that we all measure up,” Hall said. “John Douch, how good he bulldogged, headed and heeled. You would never know if we didn’t put ourselves in those situations. Dylan Hancock, Ketch Kelton, John, Brushton (Minton). That’s more of the highlight—we all know our events, but to see them do all the events and how great they are. If a guy can win amongst those guys, you feel really good.”