Reference Sires
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HRR RAYMOND 975
5L GRAND EXPRESS 453-5655
SODAK PAULA 6139
5L GRAND EXPRESS 453-5655 .............................. 1048095
5L GRAND SIGN 1327-409Z .................................. 1548866
RIDGE JULIAN S005-0099 .................................... 1379061
RIDGE EMPIRE 3442 ........................................... 1589212
RED RMJ REDMAN 1T ......................................... 1417390
HB GM CED BW WW YW MK ME HPG CEM ST MB
YG CW REA
Fat
39 48 8 -0.6 58 86 13 -5 11 1
2 0.12 -0.26 20 0.85 -0.01
HB GM CED BW WW YW MK ME HPG CEM ST MB
YG CW REA
Fat
129 49 3 0.6 60 91 20 4 13 3 14 0.59 -0.05 25 0.45 0.01
HB GM CED BW WW YW MK ME HPG CEM ST MB
YG CW REA
Fat
128 50 19 -7.2 51 68 18 -5 8 8 10 0.43 -0.04 -1 0.05 0.00
HB GM CED BW WW YW MK ME HPG CEM ST MB
YG CW REA
Fat
151 50 11 -4.1 43 61 25 -1 12 1 16 0.77 -0.11 0 0.07 -0.02
HB GM CED BW WW YW MK ME HPG CEM ST MB
YG CW REA
Fat
78 51 11 -5.2 40 75 22 -8 6 -4 8 0.28 -0.21 8 0.59 -0.01
ADDITIONAL RED ANGUS SIRES:
HRR Raymond 975 was a black red carrier bull we raised going back
to the cow, Sodak Paula 6139 that was flushed at Heart River Genetics
by Raymond and Kris Lee, Rhame ND. We fortunately had a chance to
flush Paula to Shoco Data 102.
Our friend, Gary Steen, purchased Raymond for $1,800 because he
needed an extra bull. Gary used him with other bulls and slowly whit-
tled his cow herd down to 50 or so head and decided that Raymond
would be the only bull to go forward with his herd.
Raymond was a stout, moderate-boned bull with great feet and
weighed about 2,200# at maturity. His disposition was like a lap cat
and you could walk up and scratch his back anytime, anywhere, much
like his sire, Data 102. Gary gave us the chance to lease his ranch and
at that time Gary had some mature cows and 22 heifers out of Ray-
mond. We had the opportunity to purchase those cows and have used
them as recipient cows since.
We used Raymond for two years as cleanup on the other recipient
cows and kept every one of his daughters. They really made good
cows. With Tellan and Kayla having a later calving season, we took
Raymond after our clean to their ranch to cleanup as they needed
another bull to cover the Badlands terrain of SW North Dakota.
One hot late-July day moving cows to the next pasture in the rotation, I
was amazed to see Raymond as a 6-year-old crest the ridge of a butte
and take notice of a cow in heat about ¼ mile ahead. Raymond broke
out in a trot and when he arrived, proceeded to clear out the competi-
tion to take over where the others left off.
He was as maintenance-free a bull as you could hope for. As it turned
out, he might have been too aggressive in that 10 bull clean up pasture
as he came home this fall with a hip down. We are glad to have his
daughters to carry his strength in our commercial herd and can only
hope that all Heart River Ranch bulls work as well as he did.
There is nothing noteworthy about Raymond’s EPDs; fact is they are
pretty average ... but sometimes numbers can’t define an animal.
TRIBUTE TO HRR RAYMOND 975
