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After reading that book last night-the oldest sister of my first ranch boss had a chapter in there-I got thinking about my three biggest influences have been-I'll skip Mom and Dad because I'll take parents as a given-not diminishing them in anyway. My first is the late Bill Hunt of Endiang, alberta-after college my quest in life was to be a purebred Charolais breeder-I put an add in the Western Producer for a job on an outfit and Bill hired me from it. He took a green ass kid who'd never rode a horse with a saddle,run a baler etc and made me into some resemblance of a hand. we picked up 400 cows A'I'ing on horseback I spent alot of mornings sitting with Bill watching cows from a hilltop. He was a stockman-taught me that real cowboys can ride a mare lol.The Charolais association adds from the 80's were mostly taken from the ranch. his most profound quote to me was 'there's smething about putting hairspray on a bull turns my stomach.
The next was Wayne Stevenson-H
obson, Montana.I only got to spend 5 or 6 days with wayne before he got shot but I learned alot. I'm pretty sure he knew I didn't have a pot topiss in or a window to throw it out of-but he would spend all the time I wanted showing me cows and telling me the good and bad of all of them-one of the few purebred men I'd ever met yhat was that fiorthright about his cattle. I remember looking at 150- half sisters in a bunch all with calves at side-quite a sight. My favorite quote from Wayne was in regard to AAR Maverick-a popular bull of theirs whose milk epd had plummetted-there was no bashing the formula etc-he just told me-'the good ones are good but on most he'd dry up a holstein'