Recent content by JWGrant

I agree. Actually if the shot is fired with some distance the crack isn't as pronounced as most think. Its actually lagging considerably and is quite muted down range and if you are down range you will just see holes miraculously appear in leaves and things around you seconds before you hear...

Thanks for input. Still trying to get things in order before I buy some cattle. Not in any hurry due to the price.

That's what I feel too.

ditto

Have some fencing to do and was talking to a guy who suggested I wait till it warms up some to do it. He said it would be easy to get the fence tighter if its stretched in warmer weather. I get what he is saying on the expansion and contraction of metal due to temperature but do you think this...

Ditto.

I have to say this is one screwed up topic. If I aired my dirty laundry to a bunch of strangers my wife would castrate me and I'm sure my daughters would never speak to me again but that's me and I don't need attention or confirmation or whatever from a bunch of strangers on the net. But I do...

That's some high dollar animals but about the same in my market. Have just changed jobs and have bought some land and looking to raise cattle but I'm not sure which way to go. Was wanting to go with stockers so I can turn more but the idea of losing one at these prices has me concerned and I...

Just took a nickle hit on milk prices here. This is going to be tough on producers.

You can take some needle nose pliars and stick in the hole and grasp the metal rod and bend it just a bit to shorten the rod. Do this on both sides and it will fix it.

Sure will miss him. Wish I knew how to do that claw thing he did. Would have been handy a time or two.

I read somewhere they lose most of it in the first few hours of handling and hauling and the handling and weaning had a lot to do with it along with weather.