Buck Lunak was shot off his horse yesterday, but tonight he looks just fine.
“The big thing when you get shot off a horse is you have to look hit,” he says. “You have to react and lurch back.”
The falling off the horse is the easy part for Lunak.
“Well, we all know how to do that,” he says. “When you get shot off, you lurch back and when the horse’s head goes down, you bounce yourself off the horse’s hip, hopefully far off to the side. You want to land flat on your stomach, arms out, like a belly flop,” he says. “You get the wind knocked out of you but then you’re good.”
Lunak is a stuntman, and he’s back home in Montana, on a quick break from shooting a number of projects, including Horizon, Kevin Costner’s three-film Western Epic currently filming in Utah. But his experience falling from horses is much deeper than that.
Buck Lunak, member of the Blackfeet tribe, is a three-time Indian Rodeo Association Bareback Riding world champion. He grew up on the reservation in Browning, Montana, working on the ranch, riding and roping. He started breaking colts at age 10. When he turned 15, he learned to ride bucking horses
