Won't be going to Midwestern. Now that I got my bull, I am done for the year. I don't want to be thinking of bull buying again for at least a couple of years. The fact that I finally got my first Horned Hereford bull makes me like a little kid again. I always favoured the horned over the polled, but when my next door neighbour purchased SNS 288D Alberta Eclipse 6F from Brad and Kathy Dallas of Bowden in 2000 as a 4 year old, I was sold. That bull is without a doubt one of my favourite bulls I have seen. They brought a load of 19-1000+lb. long yearling steers into the mart in '03 off of that bull and they went in as one lot. Looked like 19 clones. I haven't seen a Polled bull yet that brings that much consistency in his calves.
I think this is a 3 year old pic of him on Dallas' website
http://www.dallasfarms.com/herdbulls/6f.htm
and here he is at 7 years in Sept 2003: