After not getting the call in 2021 and 2022, Wyoming bullfighter Nate Jestes has felt rejuvenated in Las Vegas the last two years as he recieved the call last week that he was selected once again to be a part of the cowboy protection team at hte National Finals.
He will be returning to the Thomas and Mack for what will be his sixth year as an NFR bullfighter.
“I honestly don’t have the words for the last two NFRs. In ’21 and ’22, I missed out on the NFR and to make a long story short my family has been traveling with me the last two years, my two little girls and my wife, and it just put some new life in my career and I was able to refocus and put some more energy into it that it needed. So to see everything come full circle the last two years and get to go back to the NFR, it’s pretty special to me,” he said.
Jestes is one of three bullfighers, his good friends Dusty Tuckness and Cody Webster will be joining him in the arena.
“If there’s to guys I want to work it with, it’s those two,” he said. We just work so well together and we’ve got good chemistry, we just know what each other is going to do and it just makes our job that much easier.”
