punch cattle

Like all healthy young Montanans of the time, he learned to shoot, fish, ride horses and punch cattle for fun, but his ambition was cartooning, and during high school he took drawing lessons four hours a day.

Don't punch cattle, punch a few women instead.

Son of a small-town Michigan newspaper publisher, he was shipped off to a Wyoming ranch as a boy to punch cattle and fight Indians.

He would go on as he was; he would “punch” cattle so long as he could find employment.

"This is the place where I used to punch cattle."