Rambo the old Maine bull

I am looking for information on and old maine bull from the 80's?? that was called Rambo.  I am not sure of much else about him.  He was supposedly quite popular at that time.  My son has a calf out of Jimmy the Greek that is out of a cow that ties to Rambo-Meyer-Cunia.  This calf is a big bugger almost framey and the is the anti JtG.  I like the calf and would like to find more information on the Rambo Bull.  Thanks LF

That could certainly account for where the extra frame is coming from - he was big, even in his day.  I imagine you could search on the Maine associations website and find his pedigree information.  The thing I remember most is that he did sire some good ones in his day, but was very inconsistent, and sired his share of bad ones too.

The mother of this cow is out of a bull that was Whiplash on a sister to the Rambo bull.  She is a big cow and pretty nice just a bit to big for todays world.  The breeder thought that JtG would add thickness and cut some frame.  The plan was good but this one popped up an outlier.  He is an April calf and nearly 700 lbs.  I will look on the Maine page.  Does anyone know who bred Rambo?

he was a 3/4 maine bred by Bremmer's in Iowa -

http://www.maine-anjou.org/pagedisplay.php?id=186750

#98384    full name K&A RAMBO T505 

Thank You all.  I figured someone on here would be wise to the old guy. 

Besides being big and a little erratic in what he threw what can you tell me about him?  Any pictures?

I sent them an email.  Supposedly they spent some pretty good money in the late 80's for that full sister to him.  I wonder what he would have done on some right good OCC type angus cows? 

Here ya go Courtesy of DL.

notice the front feet.

notice the long leg and lack of middle.  Bet he was a little hard feeding. 

He is really tall!

knabe said:

notice the front feet.

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Nope i was too busy scrolling to make it go away as fast as possible...but not fast enough.

LostFarmer said:

I sent them an email.  Supposedly they spent some pretty good money in the late 80's for that full sister to him.  I wonder what he would have done on some right good OCC type angus cows? 

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I can see why they said to use him on some OCC type cows. Lot of those gals are ground sows. That's about what you need for that guy.

OH Breeder said:

Here ya go Courtesy of DL.

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WOW how times have changed!

knabe said:

notice the front feet.

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thought the same think knabe, that front left looks like it isnt that far from facing backwards

I wonder in 20-30 years what we will say about the bulls of today.  I love watching the cycles over time.  From the belt buckle cattle to these long legged not gut cattle to the cattle of today.  I keep hearing these Rambo's were good cows. 

LostFarmer said:

I wonder in 20-30 years what we will say about the bulls of today.  I love watching the cycles over time.  From the belt buckle cattle to these long legged not gut cattle to the cattle of today.  I keep hearing these Rambo's were good cows. 

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his semen is available.  make some and let us know how it goes.

back then we bred him quite a bit - he could cripple them off both ends - he was thick for the day and would size them up but not as thick as today and surely no body - but in those days we had lots of these little 1100 pound ground sows to breed bulls like that to - that is just what the cows were then and you needed a "changer" - birth weights ranged from moderate to ridiculous - on the daughters don't believe everything that you hear - it was hard to find a bull to breed even the sound appearing ones to that would not result in a cripple - they milked OK but not exceptional, no body and hard doing -  the current popular bulls don't have a thing on some of the older sires on birth weights and cripples - his calves were pretty gentle compared to others but that was just maybe because they could not run away from you like the Sugar Rays and other bulls of the era -  just my opinion, but often we think back on the old bulls as being better than they were - kind of like old athletes, "the older we get, the better we were" - surely we are making progress on breeding cattle and making them better - truth is that you probably should throw away semen older than 10 years old - maybe some people want to play with the old genetics but I don't get it - I threw my old semen on him away along with the Black Power Play, and other 6' tall bulls -

OH Breeder said:

Here ya go Courtesy of DL.

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I can't wait until this style comes back into fashion!