New Image

At the Top Thirty Auction I saw this one bucks antlers, and they call him New Image. There is know way I am passing on this buck next AI season. Sam James has the semen rights on this buck.I might got ahead of Sam telling people about this deer, but he has the look & pedgree.

Hey Steve,



Thanks for the positive comments on New Image. You did jump the gun just a little so I guess I’ll go ahead and announce what just happened.



I just got back from the top 30 and want to congratulate all the sellers. It was quite an auction. Prices seemed very strong to me! I enjoyed visiting with everyone and wish I could have got to visit with everyone else! I always make it a point to go and see the bucks that have the industry buzzing. In person, some look bigger, some look smaller, and of course they are always a few big ones you didn’t even know existed!



Last year at the top 30, I really liked 3 bucks. Cardiac Kid, Grand Canyon, and a buck named Buster that scored 444. Nobody said much about Buster but I made it a point to cruise by him and look at him about a dozen times. I just couldn't get over it. Here was a 444 inch buck that was even, wide, had long tines all coming up from the beams, had round LONG LONG beams that wrap around, and all his points came to a point at the end. He had super mass and just looked like the buck most hunters would dream about. ONLY SUPERSIZED! I didn't say much about him but kept telling myself that I REALLY need to find out more about this buck.



Over the next couple months I talked to the owner and watched the sales. During one sale a son from the buck was sold and I was the high bidder. Mr. Reddinger the owner of Buster had decided to no sale him (I don’t blame him a bit). So I picked up the phone and called him right them. We talked about Buster for a while and after listening to some of the descriptions of the sons he was producing I was convinced that I needed to keep this buck in my radar. Of course, like most deer farmers I got busy and sidetracked and before long it was Summer.



I’ll never forget when I read the announcement about a buck the Walks had purchased named “New Image”. It didn’t take me long to click on the video and recognize it was “Buster” Only now he was even bigger! He was wider, had more mass, the gorgeous open look, and carried it all like it was nothing. I knew after seeing his video from last year and then his antlers at the top 30 that he was big, REAL big!



Over the next few months I started talking to both Bill Reddinger and the Walks and let them know that I was REALLY interested in this buck and really wanted to use him in our program. The Walks have been so kind and easy to work with. I just want to say “thank you” to them for the opportunity!



I am pleased to announce that I am the new owner of the semen rights to New Image outside of Texas. This buck is REALLY Special and will help anyone’s program. And I mean anyone’s! His antlers speak for themselves. When I saw them at the sale Thursday I thought he was the biggest and best looking buck there. There were some great deer there. But his combination of overall size and width along with his open typical look is simply amazing! Add that to the fact that he carried his antlers all the way through the velvet rubbing process and beyond clinches it for me.



We often throw out large numbers like they are easy to obtain. It still takes a heck of a buck to score 400 much less 500. I bought almost 10 shooters that the owners thought might make 400 only to have them come up way short. It’s a tough hill to climb! And 500 takes some serious bone!. There are a few bucks out there that will make it. They are some massive beasts and I really like them. I would love to use any of them in my program and plan on doing so. But New Image is different. Here is a buck with a typical frame, easy to see main beams, and can be scored as a typical buck. And he gross scores 528+ and has around 80 sharp points!



As Russ told me “Breed him for typical score he’ll probably produce the biggest bucks, breed him as a non-typical and he’ll produce the biggest bucks. Either way, your hunters will love them all”.



E-mail me if you are interested in semen. I am just now finalizing the price structure!



Thanks again to the Walks!



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Congrats sam!!! I saw him at the top 30 also but i missed you!!!! He is a brute and will be a plus on anyone's lineup. You have such a deep lineup of does in your program it will be interesting to see what comes out of your farm in the next couple years!!!

Check this video out on New Image http://www.dabuckchannel.com/video/706/Newlmage Sam the more I watch this video the more I like this buck.Put me on the list for next year old buddy.

Sam, U got mail!

We have been a fan of Buster also. This fall we used a straw of Buster, now New Image, in a Rancher/Bucky-pebbles doe . I hope Russ is right about him broducing big typ ! We are looking foward to spring to see what she births

I hope you bred more than one doe with that straw if it said Buster on it. The straws labeled Buster you could split like a loaf of bread. They were packed at like 80 million.

Congratulations Sam! He is an awesome, awesome buck! We have four girls bred to New Image this year...



King Kong/Maxin/Eclipse/Walker/BJ/Tami

(2) Lakota/Buckster jr./Flees Butkus

Buckster jr./Flees Butkus



Very excited to see what fawns we get.



Jarrid Barry

Powder Ridge Whitetails717-821-0669

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We got our deal done quickly enough to put a straw in the internet select sale.

Here is the link:



http://www.whitetailexchange.net/auction/Internet-Select-Sale--1-Straw-of-New-Image-528--28-inch-inside-spread--THE-PERFECT-MONSTER-WHITETAIL-,name,148135,auction_id,auction_details



Thanks for looking!

For those of you who didn't get to see this buck in person, I thought I'd share a picture that Heath sent me. This animal has to be seen and held to be fully appreciated. 28 Inch inside spread. 33 and 32 inch ROUND beams. 250 inch typical frame. Over 80 points. 525 gross inches. Huge Huge Body. Mass. Shock Value. Typical and Non-Typical in the perfect mix! Shed all his velvet. No antler infection. No antlers on the ground. Flees on top.



WHAT MORE COULD YOU ASK FOR!



And Heath says he looks bigger in 2012!

Great looking deer if thats the kind of deer you are trying to grow. I'm going for a little cleaner look and a couple hundred less inches. But hey..To each their own.

I love the big monster typicals also! I am breeding for some monster typicals with new image. Good news is New Image produces huge framed typicals also. We shot some of his 3yr olds last yr and several of them are now in the top 10 biggest typicals ever killed. One thing that New Image has proved he can throw is monster frames. He is my dream buck and and my image of what I want my future to look like. Ill try to get some pics of him soon from this year. I hope he can do it again : )

Heath when you say typical are you talking clean looking typicals such as shock & awe and absolute maximus???

I always get a good chuckle when people say a deer like that is not what they are breeding for.

I just dont think you can go wrong with a buck that has the beam and tine length that New Image has. If you look at him he has just about everything that you could ask for a breeder to have. Extra inch's, yes he has that as well but they are good looking inch's. But look at the frame on that buck and he is for sure one buck that the photo can not even get close to showing how big and nice that frame is. I have not seen the 500+ inch antler's but did have the shed's from the year before in my hand and all I can say is Awesome. I would with out a doubt use that buck on every doe I have if I could and would expect some nice clean typical's from some of them.

I also saw the rack and agree it is an amazing animal and one anyone would be proud to raise. My thinking is can a buck like that make a clean rack such as heath did with shock & awe and what alot of the texas guys are doing. I would say there are some out there that are trying to make real clean, real typical deer. Some are not worried so much about the inches and are more intrested in big framed clean deer. In these eye's there is nothing better looking than a long beam with long single clean points coming off that wide open frame. Throw a couple nice 6 inch drop tines in the right spots and so much the better. Kinda like the look of blazer just much bigger all the way around.

If you want big clean typicals check out Gene's place. He had some awesome ones at NADEFA. If you want points and mass check out Ballistic. He is off to a great start this year with huge, huge bases.

As a whitetail nut, I love the fact that when you dream about whitetails, they are all different like snowflakes. I love the big typicals, the big non-typicals, the long tine high hat bucks, the wide bucks, the bucks with drops, the massive ones.....I love them all!



So when breeding, I have always selected for antler pushing potential first, and then configuration second. As Mike says to each his own. New Image is my choice for the combination of everything I like to see in a whitetail. Am I hoping to get big typicals from him....yes. Am I hoping for big non-typicals from him...yes. Am I hoping for wide and massive deer from him...yes. I want them all and breed for all of them. I will cross him with my Timberjack does and see what happens!

Wild Rivers Whitetails said:

If you want big clean typicals check out Gene's place. He had some awesome ones at NADEFA. If you want points and mass check out Ballistic. He is off to a great start this year with huge, huge bases.

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Jane i dont see Ballistic in the budget this year but i will be usein a straw or two of stretch in some of our does that have nothing smaller than 29in inside spreads in their pedigree's. I am sticking with the clean wide open frame look on our farm. They might not score the highest but they sure are pretty to look at and they will sell by the truck load's!

Four Seasons Whitetails said:

I also saw the rack and agree it is an amazing animal and one anyone would be proud to raise. My thinking is can a buck like that make a clean rack such as heath did with shock & awe and what alot of the texas guys are doing. I would say there are some out there that are trying to make real clean, real typical deer. Some are not worried so much about the inches and are more intrested in big framed clean deer. In these eye's there is nothing better looking than a long beam with long single clean points coming off that wide open frame. Throw a couple nice 6 inch drop tines in the right spots and so much the better. Kinda like the look of blazer just much bigger all the way around.

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When New Image was bred to big typical does he produced monster typicals. One thing that is hard to do when breeding typicals is keeping the blood flow. I am crossing shock n awe and rambo to each other both giant clean typicals. My only concern with taking this product and breeding it to a wide clean buck again is that I will start to lose my blood flow. I love a pure bred typical doe bred to a buck like new image. Bill Reddinger has alot of Rex daughters a big clean typical and I think this is where the giant typicals came from. Yes they were clean and huge. I will try to get a picture of them. One scored of 244" with only split g2s one of the biggest typical framed deer I ever saw. He would fit in and look real nice beside two of my favorite deer big guy and absolute maximus. He was a deer that should have been bred.