Last year after seeing the success of +TJF Mr. Smokin Gun we invested in a straw of his semen. As you know it was not cheap but we felt that if we were to be a player the investment had to be made. Without question Smokin Gun is the MOST influential sire today recently siring the 2023 International Champion Red Female and BOTH the International Champion and Reserve International Champion Red Females in 2022 in addition to countless other winners which ranks him as the #1 sire for progeny with show points over the past 5 years.
In August of 2021, the same trip when we bought Rafiki, we saw JDH Lady Manso 705/6 in the herd of J.D. Hudgins-J. Forgason Division. After some arm twisting and him wanting to stay with more white colored cattle Mark agreed to let us have her. We have only aspirated 705/6 twice when she produced extremely well and is now pregnant which all prove her fertility. As might be expected with her coloring she is sired by the National Champion and global icon +JDH Mr. Elmo Manso and out of a daughter of the Vanguard Sire (+)JDH Atlas Manso and a J.D. Hudgins donor who has produced a Maternal Merit daughter.
We like this mating from what the phenotype of the offspring should be as well as the genetic diversity that it offers. Give this pregnant recipient that is due around August 16, 2024 serious consideration as we think it could be LEGENDARY!
