Opinions ;following old-school maine bulls

1: Pistol Pete-Hiefer bull or?  2: DJ Bullseye;Rib?, def. not heifer material 3: Strictly Business- Any comments are cool with me: especially general looks of calves-thanks O0

Have had a couple good Pistol Pete cows really quiet good milkers good long spined cows. Had a bullseye steer as a 4h kid dog gentle reserve champion at local show back in 99.

Pistol Pete originated on my neighbors place,  rough country, not a lot of frills,  his mom was just a cow, not great but sure not sorry.  Milking ability on his ofspring seemed to come from their moms,  seems he didn't add or take away.
 

We used strictly business for 3 seasons,  kept every daughter and 2 sons,  they were easy keepers and were in a commercial operation,  the steers sold on superior every summer,  700 plus on no creep.  The cow herd had 17 cunia granddaughters and you could pick their calves from the rest easily. 
Also had good luck with kadabra,  not many heifers but the ones we had were dandy.

Strictly business really stamped his heifer calves with a look my eye liked.  I could sort pen after pen after pen of Dakota calves for replacement type heifers breeders had priced below their top tier calves and the trailer would end up half to 3/4 full of his calves.  Only kept a few of them myself, but the people I was pulling them for got along really well with them.  Made decent cows who were one straw away from cranking out a real good one.

If I'm remembering right we put Witchdoctor on a couple Pistol Pete cows for a few years and came away with some pretty nice heifer calves and a pretty strong steer or two.  Every one of them looked the same, might have had something to do with Pistol Pete's breeding.  They weren't the strongest milking cows, but got the job done.  A few of the following Witchdoctor x Pete cows didn't milk at all and got culled fast but the ones who milked alright hung around for quite a while.

Dad turned a white shorthorn bull out on that group of Black Maine cows when I left for college and those blue roan calves were pretty impressive.

diamonddls said:

Have had a couple good Pistol Pete cows really quiet good milkers good long spined cows. Had a bullseye steer as a 4h kid dog gentle reserve champion at local show back in 99.

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/// 99-Man I was already old then LOL-was the bullseye pretty complete and not Snakey looking? And thanks on the Pete and S-business comments-Im gonna try them on Shorthorn crosses or Shorts that milk well :would have liked to known the White Shorthorn bulls breeding that was used to produce the blue roans-they are what Im after-and it seems right now-that Simms seem to throw alot of them: more so than anything "New School" at the moment.O0

He was a bit course through his front but a very good steer overall . He was out of real deep sided Angus cow.