Studio 2000 begins its third year of bringing you the very best in gay adult entertainment with what we feel is our most exciting and successful video to date - matching and perhaps surpassing the phenomenal success of shows like TakeDown and Grease Guns. The new release is a Western, but it's not about horses and cattle. It's about people and sex - about randy ranch-hands out on the lonely range, about hard riding cowpokes looking for a little action, about hard and ready men rising to meet the occasion.

Surpassing even our normally high production standards, the Studio pulled up stakes and headed out into the high desert to a ranch filled with authentic character and awesome natural beauty. The results certainly justified the hard work and great expense - the settings and atmosphere of this production are not only beautiful in their own right but add immensely to the erotic sexuality of the entire show. Whether it's Dave Logan and Bo Summers waking up under a spreading oak tree in the early morning sunlight or Kevin Dean riding up range to meet Mike Lamas around a campfire, the freshness and reality of the settings have heightened the performers' senses and increased their sexual thrust.

Whether it's Chad Donovan discovering J. T. Sloan cleaning up in an abandoned horse trough or Kevin Dean and Chip Daniels making love in front of a huge Ponderosa-style fireplace, the settings give the viewer a special sense of people and place that enhances erotic response. The results are hot, real sexual encounters that you don't often see in video.

Rawhide opens as Uncle Jack, the owner of the ranch (in what could very well by an award winning performance by Dave Logan) and his foreman, super-cocked Chad Donovan, sit on the front porch of the ranch house and discuss the past, the present and the future. Dave reminisces about how he bought the ranch and built it up from nothing into the big spread it is now ... and how he persuaded his buddy to stay and be his partner.

The two men talk about Jack's nephew (newcomer Kevin Dean whose incredibly large cock brings John Holmes to mind) who is visiting the ranch and who has gone up range to try to persuade ranch hand Mike Lamas not to quit. Uncle Jack is certain that Kevin will succeed because Kevin has the same kind of determination to win that Jack possesses.

Chad informs Jack that there might be a little trouble with the new neighbors as a result of Chad encountering their son taking a bath out in their old horse trough and finding the sight of T. J. Sloan's luscious body and superb ass irresistible. Jack asks if the kid enjoyed himself. Chad responds that he certainly seemed to. Then Jack doesn't foresee any trouble.

Kevin returns from up range tired from all the heavy riding but satisfied with a job well done. Jack tells Kevin that his good friend Chip Daniels has arrived to take him back to the city. Kevin is surprised and a little dismayed to realize that his time at the ranch is over. Jack invites Kevin for a private talk.

Later Kevin breaks the news to Chip that he is not going back to the city. Uncle Jack has offered to make him a partner and to arrange that the ranch will be his when Jack retires and while it isn't an easy decision, Kevin feels he must stay. Chip takes the news pretty hard but realizes that a part-time Kevin is a lot better than no Kevin at all. As they make love we realize that they will, indeed, miss each other.

In the meantime, the sound coming from Uncle Jack's room tells us that Jack may have added a few years but that he's certainly lost none of the energy, talent and drive to live life.

When we get down to basics, XXX-rated videos aren't really about beautiful backgrounds or interesting stories. Raw Hide has plenty of both, but what this video is really about is hot men with hard, cut bodies; huge, rigid cocks; and tight, juicy asses having the hottest sex west of the Continental Divide.

Horace Greeley once stimulated a migration when he counseled: "Go west, young man". After seeing Studio 2000's Rawhide - and the hot, hard, huge studs wandering this sexually rampant range - you may want to be a part of the new wave of "the men who make the West"!