Thanks for that comment, Shortgrass! You reinforced my intuitive thought that would be the case. But I'm not certain why, except that we have used both Longhorn and Salers.
Longhorn bulls on hiefers back when we were transitioning from Limousin when ours got too big, and not sure how long we tried the Salers. First one was not very expensive because he got pretty excited in the sale ring. When auctioneer questioned why we would want him, and pointing out that we didn't have to take him, as the 'performance' came after the bid was taken, my spouse stated: "he isn't the first guy that lost control when he came to town the first time!" I believe they got a little too tall for us, and maybe didn't mix as well as we had hoped with our other breeds at the time. We like a smaller, thrifty cow that can wean a pretty heavy stretchy calf with good rib eye area, without being pampered, and feel like we are getting there.
mrj