"[2] In 2014, PBR co-founder and Director of Livestock Cody Lambert compared Bushwacker to the likes of Secretariat and Seabiscuit.
[8] Reindeer Dippin's father was from Naccarato breeding on his sire's side and his mother was AN 11, an #34 Oscar's Velvet daughter.
[12] David Fournier and Julio Moreno traded a few heifers each year at the American Bucking Bull, Inc. (ABBI) event in Weatherford, Texas – one of these was Lady Luck.
[14][7] In 2008, as a two-year-old, he moved to Stephenville, Texas, to work with the late handler Kent Cox.
[16] It started after being ridden by Thiago Paguioto, and after that, no one would stay on him again until August 2013, when J.B. Mauney was finally successful in riding him after nine previous tries.
[18] In October 2009, Markus Mariluch was the first to ride Bushwacker in the PBR for 88 points in Las Vegas, but this was not on the BFTS.
[19] João Ricardo Vieira, who won the BFTS Iron Cowboy event title in March 2014, in Arlington, Texas, attempted to ride Bushwacker for a $1 million bounty, but was quickly bucked off.
The record of 64 buck offs in 66 BFTS outs ranks Bushwacker eighth in all-time buckoffs to date.
During his retirement in 2014, PBR co-founder and Director of Livestock Cody Lambert compared Bushwacker with other preeminent animal athletes Secretariat and Seabiscuit.
"[3]Moreno retired Bushwacker from competition in October 2014 after winning his third World Champion Bull title.
The PBR actually built a stage for Bushwacker inside the South Point Hotel where the awards were held.
[23] "I hung on to him long enough for them to say I made the whistle, but in my eyes he is the greatest bucking bull there will ever be," Mauney said.
"[23]Bushwacker spent his final years in the Springer, Oklahoma, ranch of Julio Moreno's stock contracting partner Dallas Schott, where he died on July 2, 2024, at the age of 18.