Ryan, I am just stating my experience. I am not saying he is the best bull out there, but in my herd, my Salute calves have been born as easily as any other sire I have used, including Leroy. It is hard to generalize on only 7 calves being born here, but I would not consider them to be harder calving that some other sires. Everyone told me, I was nuts to even use Timeline because he was sired by the infamous "cow killer" Salute. I felt I had to try him in my herd when he produced so much performance compared to any other sire I had used. In our bull test he indexed 148 for ADG and also had an index of 142 for rib eye area. For those who may not understand, he gained 48% more than the average of the pen of 62 bulls and he had 42% more ribeye area than the average of the pen. He is passing this on to his offspring as well... and the best part of this, is we are close to being through our 4th calf crop from Timeline and we have yet to touch a calf at birth... none other than the one that was backwards. I weighed every calf at birth and at weaning and submitted the data to the ASA. His BW EPD and CE have not moved much. I am not sure how many hundreds of calves I will have to submit data on to see his EPDs adjust properly. I am constantly told to keep sending in my records and the numbers will adjust properly. I hate to be skeptical but....