KT Bolt Action Colt Sire: KT Gunpowder N Lead Dam: KT Gunz N Roses , “Ro” Date Born: 3/5/25 Click here for more pictures Color: Buckskin Roan Price: 6,000 Here is a tremendous colt with a sensational pedigree. His dam, KT Gunz N Roses, “Ro”, is a daughter of the great Silver Gun. Silver Gun is a phenomenal stallion by Playgun and out of Miss Freckles Reed. Silver Gun has 100+ AQHA Points in Heeling, Heading, Working Cow Horse, Reining, and he was an AQHA Reserve Champion Superhorse, AQHA Champion, Sr. Heeling, AQHA Top Ten Finalist, Sr. Heading (7th), PCQHA Champion, Heeling, PCQHA Champion, Working Cow Horse, PCQHA Reserve Champion, Heeding, AQHA Performance Register of Merit is many divisions. Ro’s dam, KT Major Shasta Dais, is out of Totchie (Colors of Infinity), a big grey mare, and Zinks Major Kid. She goes back to Sonnys OO Buck, Docs Superstar Bar, Major Bonanza, Skipper W, and many more. Bolt’s sire, KT Gunpowder N Lead, “Gunner,” is a fantastic dun roan son of Cue Bars Laddie. Cue Bars Lassie is a roan stallion that has been shown as a reiner, cowhorse and rope horse. He was the recipient of the Open AQHA All Around Trophy and is a CCHA Hall of Fame Horse. Gunner’s dam, Pistol, has been shown NFQHA, has been featured on the NFQHA rule book and in the NFQHA magazine. She is a great working ranch horse, rope horse, and the kids can ride her as well.
Back to the grind after Jr Show on Monday. Kaine and Kade only had a couple days of school and then they were headed to FFA State convention, Jaxsen is home one day longer before he went up. Kaine and Kade are on the Ag Sales Team and Jaxsen is in Food Products (jr high competition). Toni was taking 3 old mares to Sheena on Tuesday to get their teeth floated, so we gathered them up Monday night. Copper was going as well, because as many of you may remember, she somehow got her leg caught in the gate chain last summer as a foal still on her dam, well it is infected again and mom wants Sheena to have a look at it. And Heidi, our mare from TX is going in to get a blood panel, she was exposed to their stud before we got her, so we just want to see what is going on. We caught Heidi as well just because she wasn’t worked with much before we got her. She is just a clean slate.
Tuesday morning dad and Toni took the horses in dropped them off with Sheena. Heidi is open. Sheena says Copper legs looks pretty good, we just need to give her exceed. And Blue was terrible to do floating her teeth, we were all surprised by that (that is my sarcastic voice since you cannot heat my tone). Mr Pickles the donkey went in with Copper since he has been locked in with her while we were gone. He is a great companion animal. Everything got done pretty timely so Toni went and loaded up and came home with them. We are really thankful for Sheena. We moved Absolute to the dog pen in the back yard since she is waxed for the 2nd day.
I guess Absolute just wanted to foal in mom’s dog pen, she had a bay roan filly by Gunner Wednesday morning. Queenie had a fancy palomino colt by Tank. Full brother to Cowy. Juan called and had time to come out and weld the circle Wednesday. He did a great job, and now we have water back on. Circle 6 was trying to crash on us. Toni showed Juan where the sleeve was needed then went back to work. Kaine and Kade headed to Pullman with the Connell FFA chapter to participate in Ag Sales. They were not leaving until evening, so go to do chores before they left.
The Jr High, so Jaxsen, headed up to FFA State on Thursday morning. I do not recall what he said his competition is called. But they are evaluating different goods, like meats, cheese, chocolate chips? My info is from Jaxsen, he says he is really good at it, he was 5th at state, so he must be pretty good. He thought he would be in the top three and wasn’t super happy about being 5th. His team was 2nd in the state. He says that is why he is so good at making sandwiches. He knows what to put on it. So just us adults doing all the chores for a few days.
On Friday dad and Steve delivered a bull to Oregon. The dogs and I fixed the fence between 5 and 6, the calves were crawling out into the wheat field. We, the dogs and I, took a bunch of pics of Gunners foals, and then we went out and checked Sagebug foals. Toni, Marlo and I did the horse chores. Ben did the cow chores. Jaxsen was home late Friday (12:03 Saturday morning). We had a gal come out to look at Blonde. No, Toni doesn’t want to sell her. The gal really liked Blonde and all the other foals too of course. All of the fillies are obnoxiously tame. And July was out there, so it was a fun tour.
Anna came home from college on Saturday. Butte Red pickup had been up at Chipman and Taylor, so as part of my mothers day present she went and had it cleaned on Friday. It looks really good. Kade and Kaine’s Ag Sales Team was 5th at State, good job boys! Kade scores a perfect score on the written test and Kaine was 8th overall individual. Toni showed horses Saturday morning. We have a deposit on BB’s filly. Anna and I got the cows in and sorted the bulls off of the heifers. When Ben got home from work he helped and Toni and Jaxsen came down after lunch. We banded the later bull calves and the black ballie and clubbies. Kade and Kaine got home late Saturday night.
Happy Mothers Day. Freida had a big palomino colt on Mothers Day that looked like he had been in the oven too long. Toni and Mom gave him Nursemate ASAP, which we do with all of Freida’s foals. Ben made us all lunch, bacon wrapped shrimp, brisket, dutch oven potatoes, and he baked two of mom’s peach pies. Lunch was great. Then the boys worked on their steers to get them ready to go to Wheatland this weekend. Toni and I went out and moved Gracie and Queenie in with Tank. Kade and Jaxsen got Opal, Lightening and Mocha in while we were getting the other two in, and moved them out into the pasture. Kaine hauled Venus back to her house, Venus is an outside mare getting bred to MC, and Kaine is dating the daughter of Venus’ owner. So it worked out for her to go home. Lots of work done this weekend.
Mothers Day is celebrated everyday here! Our Mothers make our ranch and our program what it is. We are pretty proud of what our breeding program has done on the dam side for both the cattle and the horses. We are down to just the last few mares to foal and couldn’t be happier with this year’s foal and calf crop.
Monday was drive your tractor to school day. Kaine hauled the skidsteer in, Kade was supposed to ride in the golf cart with the other FFA Officers, but him and Jaxsen drove Maxx’s pickup in the beginning of the parade. Which in the video he zipped by so fast you could not really see him. Kaine and Cyson brought up the rear in Big Red. Anna is home on spring break, so she picked Jaxsen up after school to wash and blow his steer. Mom had Toni moved Opal into the back yard so she could watch her better at night, she will show up on the camera better due to the yard light. Tank had a couple of poles down in his pen, but they were easy fixes. Fixing fence never ends. Toni stayed with Grandma on Monday night.
Kade started tying up the Reno heifers in the morning on Tuesday. Kaine goes to weight lifting in the morning, so does not help Kade with the heifers in the morning. Luckily Kaine’s is Baby Jewel and really tame, or Kade would probably not help him out. Anna put 6 hours on the skidsteer Tuesday, hauling cobs to the alley and cleaning up around the barn. Jaxsen worked on his Angus steer to get ready for Field Day. It is definitely spring.
We had rain Wednesday night, we really needed some out on the desert, it is starting to dry up. Dad went to Palouse on Wednesday to get more pellets. It was pouring rain, so Anna unloaded them when he got back. Toni and I fed horses, kids did chores, etc. We had some interest in one of the coming two year old fillies, so got some video of her in the rain. She didn’t look her best but she still looked good enough. Normal day.
Thursday was a bid day. Opal foaled Thursday night, Toni and Anna had to pull him, and yes there was only one. It is common in horses for one twin to absorb the other twin. The placenta was very interesting, but also gross. We had moved Opal to the backyard on Monday but she wasn’t really doing anything. On Thursday when Toni went to feed Opal she called Mom to come out because Opal had significant wax. Mom and Dad really were watching Opal like a hawk after that. They called Toni about the time she started dinner. I had gone to Grandma’s to stay with her. They also called Anna. Toni and Anna watched and timed Opal and realized that the process was not progressing. Anna went and grabbed some baling twine (easier on the foal than chains). Because Opal is a range mare, she then had to stand up, but they commenced to pull and finally got the colt out. Luckily his nose came out easily so they were able to get him air during the process. He was not an easy pull. Ben also came down to help, but luckily they had him out by the time Ben got there. Ben did pick him up and move him to the straw. The first night he didn’t nurse, but Toni and Mom were able to milk Opal and get colostrum into him, so they felt ok about things. He is a big Red Dun colt, he is our first foal by Midnight Kat Dr. There was also an eclipse Thursday night, so he is named Eclipse. It was a long night for everyone.
On Friday I stopped to see Eclipse on my way home from grandmas. I grabbed Skip, dad was going to Cottonwood, so Skip went with Anna and I to check cows, horses, put out mineral etc. Toni’s extra kid Evy came out Friday. Lots of checking and petting of animals with a four year old around. We sold Radiant Rifle, but she is the only one that let Evy hang off of her neck, so we might have to get her back. Just Joking if you are reading this. LOL. Kade rode Roany around, he had someone coming out to look at him on Sunday. Kade had been riding Roany all week and getting the kinks out. Toni jumped on him Friday as well just to take him for a little spin. Marlo came out to see Eclipse and the puppies. We are still waiting on the DNA test for the puppies. Kaine and Kade went to an FFA welding competition with two of their good friends. We haven’t heard how they did but their prompt was equestrian so they welded together a guy on horseback. Those boys have some talent.
On Saturday we tried to tag the 4 calves left to tag, but the two Angus cows had their calves “hidden” so would not come over to them, so we only got the two commercial calves tagged. We rolled up the electric fence and let the cows down below, so the famers could come in on Wednesday. The cows were happy to be out on grass. Traci brought Savannah and Kayla out to see the puppies, so they got to pet Eclipse, and Savannah needed to go and see her birthday colt. Savannah has Kade’s old gelding Slick, so her favorite of the broodmares was Pinky, one of Slick’s sisters, and she is going to take her from Toni. She also informed us (me) not to call Bolt, Bolt Action, Bolter, or any version of his name that is not Bolt. We think both girls had fun riding around with us. We also had some of the 509 Show Circuit come out with Alyx and take a tour around the house, getting some knowledge on horses that they probably don’t need. Alyx is a good friend and shirttail relative so always a pleasure to see her. We also got our Hereford heifer that we bought from CX Herefords delivered on Saturday and we are very happy with her. Thanks Kayla! Kade was trapshooting in Garfield and his team won the trap shoot.
Sunday we got the fence up on the bottom of circle 5, it is not hot yet, but just getting ready. Barb was out with her friend Autumn to look at Roany, he is a little too big. So if anyone is looking for a big older red roan gelding, Kade has one for sale. He really wants to ride him through Moses Lake, but if someone really wanted him you could probably talk him out of it. Sally had a fancy palomino roan filly, our first foal by Cappy. Cappy had one foal last year, but she is not ours, Terry and Erina have her. Sunday was a bit windy but a nice day to fix fence and check livestock. We still have Opal in and on meds due to the pull, colt size, laminitis, and just an abundance of caution. She is doing great, the colt, Eclipse, is doing great. They seem to be bonding, but it took a bit. Overall we couldn’t be happier with the way things turned out with Opal.
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