Oldtimer said:
Yeah- sale was March 1st but I read somewhere he was sold "private treaty" to a consortium quite some time prior to the sale (which caused some hard feelings with some interested in the bull)... They must have thrown the price into the sale prices to raise the sale average....
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I was at the sale on March first and Thuderstruck was not sold "private treaty" before the sale. I am a member of this "consortium" of breeders.
There are 12 of us that pooled our money together to buy the half semen interest in Thunderstruck. Each of us put in what we could afford and then we got a percentage of the half we bought based on how much money we put in. Lucky 7 Angus in Wyoming was the contending bidder. Jerry Gliko had money from Lucky 7 to $30,000. When it hit $30k Jerry got him on the phone and they ran us to $42,000. That's the real story.
The bulls sold like crazy at Mytty's sale. The IN Focus still have been the highest selling group for the past 3-4 years, are darn good, and they must be working for somebody. Several bulls sold into WY, ID, WA, &OR. There were several bulls that sold for $3,500 to $5,000 to commercial and registered cattlemen. I have been to the sale for the past three years and they were the stoutest set of bulls yet.
Kevin has worked at putting a good group of cattle together that will work in any program. If you don't like his program or the bulls he produces, that's fine, but make sure you have your story straight before you start blowing smoke on here.