Toxie Givens

So Gabbie was up 3 to 2 on Tad. Tad talked his dad into sneaking up to Georgia and trying to get at least one gobbler to tie Gabbie. This hunt happened the first week in May. It was hot and the hunting was hard, but Tad got onto one that almost got away. Watch this close encounter that Tad had with a couple of wary Georgia eastern gobblers.

Gabbie has tagged out in Kansas so she decides to try her luck again with these weary Georgia birds. She and her dad roosted one in this field but this gobbler did not read the script and did everything backwards in this hunt. Watch and see how she still connected on this stubborn Georgia gobbler.

Once Gabbie learned what it takes to shoot a mature tom, she does it again in Kansas with another great gobbler at Wheeler’s Whitetails. Watch Gabbie tie the competition with Tad, 2 to 2.

Gabbie has had enough struggling early season hunting in Florida and Georgia. She heads to Kansas to visit Mike Wheeler of Wheeler’s Whitetails and harvests her first turkey. Meanwhile, Tad is having no luck during spring break in Mississippi finding turkeys. Watch Gabbie get on the score board with her first ever turkey.

It is the second day of Florida youth season where Tad goes back to his father’s honey hole and gets another great turkey while Gabbie tries another public location with the same results. See Tad shoot another great Osceola gobbler.

We start the 2012 season with Gabbie and Tad hunting Florida during youth season. Gabbie struggles to get a gobbler on the ground on public land, while Tad makes it look easy on his father’s hunting club. Watch this smack down by Tad.

In this webisode, Gabbie and Tad introduce their new show and before we can start looking at the 2012 season hunts, they take a look back at the 1st Jr Turkey Thumpers contest of 2011. Enjoy this look back.

I can sum up this season in one word — WOW! We had a great year and if you been following all our videos, I do not think you can argue against that. We captured 14 videos of 15 turkey kills in Florida, Georgia, and for our first time in Kansas. We struck out this year in Mississippi and we did not go back to Texas. Watch the below video for a brief recap of these hunts.

Our Hazel Creek decoys helped us with 8 of these birds. The other times it was raining and we could not get them out of the truck. That is 28 birds we have taken using them over the past 4 years.

We are excited about next season. We saw lots of jakes, which will be mature for next season; plus, we had a few gobblers that got away when we could not close the deal. We show you these encounters briefly in the video also.

So enjoy the video below and we hope you come back and watch our 2013 season of Turkey Thumpers next season. Thanks!

Now Tad has killed 5 Osceola gobblers over the last 4 years (2 this year) but the Eastern turkeys have always seemed to stay out of his reach. He has had a couple of shots but missed both times in Mississippi.

This year was the first time I had opportunity to take him to our club in Georgia. He was excited and I was nervous because it was May and it was going to be hot and difficult. I did not know what kind of success we would have.

We sat our tent in an area where I knew there were 2 mature toms that had been giving us the slip for 3 years. We thought we had them the first morning when they were gobbling and strutting their way to our setup. But then a hen appeared and took them away in the opposite direction. We decided to try it again at that same spot the next morning and watch the video to see what happens.

Since I was tagged out in Kansas, I videoed Chuck’s last gobbler. I enjoyed hunting with him and I am not going to get too much into the story here because he covers it in the video intro. I am going to add that I was upset when he let this gobbler initially walk off due to the weather coming. Now it rained off and on while we were there, but after this hunt it rained straight for 5 days and I was afraid he let a great bird and opportunity walk away. Enjoy this video and if you listen closely you can hear us going back and forth as to what we think should happened.