09/05/2025
Is it luck or is he just that good?
Chance Cupp a 36 year old welding foreman for BNSF Railway is living a life long dream of raising his own bucking cattle and he is doing it in a big way. With less than 5 years in the bucking bull business, Chance has already:
• bought a young prospect (063) ✅️
• who ended up paying for himself ✅️
• bought a small set of heifers ✅️
• bred those heifers to 063 ✅️
• calved them out ✅️
• has been OVER 90 with 2 of the resulting calves ✅️✅️
Chance has been a part of the western lifestyle his entire life but one thing he has been striving for since he was a young man was to raise and haul his own bucking cattle.
After a lot of studying pedigrees and with the help of his parents and wife he decided it was time to take the first step in making that dream a reality. In September of 2021 Chance bought a yearling bull from the Warren Legacy sale on the advice of Brandon Stewart that this 063 bull was one to watch. With a high bid of $4,500 Chance and partners became the new owners of 063 Catawampus. This was only the second bull Chance had bought and they were looking for something more than what the first had offered in consistency. They were looking for one they could win with. Win is exactly what they did with 063 Catawampus.
Ninety days later at the Warren's Legacy Incentive Futurity splitting the win and leaving with just over $12,000 from their $4,500 investment. Chance and 063 continued to enter through his 2 and 3 year old years but this wasn't scratching the itch that Chance had to raise his own cattle. So with a little help from a friendly banker Chance stepped out and bought one heifer from Brad Sardelli branded 111 and 11 heifers from Brandon Stewart to start his own cow herd.
Now 2023, his small set of heifers are 2 years old and ready to breed and 063 Catawampus gets to show what he can do as a sire. There were 9 total calves born in Chance's care in the spring of 2024 and the FIRST set of calves that he put on the ground owning sire and dams.
Last weeked in Ada, Oklahoma 2 of those 9 calves were over 90 points BOTH days in the double header event. A heifer out of Chance's first calf crop branded 404 "Sour Patch" was 90.7 on Saturday and 91.3 on Sunday. 400 Houdini's Ghost, Sour Patch's paternal brother, was 90.8 Saturday and 91.1 on Sunday in Ada. According to Chance that's not the exciting part... Chance says that he is actively trying to find an ABBI Maiden futurity spot to lease or buy because the best of his first crop has not yet been entered.
So whether it is LUCK or he really is just that GOOD, only time will tell but either way we are rooting for Chance and his team to continue to put buckers on the ground and inspire other small breeders with a dream of raising elite cattle.
The guy that works the hardest tends to get the luckiest.
