Rodeo Knot

This is an effective knot. Cowboys who rope steers use it. This is a good loop knot. I recently used it to attach a nylon strap to a ring that was on a strap that had a snap. I made a tether to walk my dog. The sequence after slipping the strap/rope through the ring is under, over, under, under. Take your mind off the ring: you are making a knot that's going to slip down onto the ring. -- Pass the tag end of the rope/strap UNDER the standing line. -- Then back OVER that standing line. You're now looking at loop with a knot being tied before the loop. -- Now, pass the tag end UNDER the crisscross and continue back UNDER that segment of the standing line that passed over the standing line. That's it: UNDER, OVER, UNDER, UNDER. You just formed the Rodeo knot that can be tightened down on the ring of that dog strap or whatever. I believe Gregory Peck used this knot in the escape scene of the 1961 W.W. II movie The Guns of Naverone:)