Toxie Givens

In this webisode, we are trying a new electric fence design. This design is called the offset fence design. We failed last year with our traditional 5 strings design so we decided to try this design this year. Watch this video as we discussed installing this fence design around 3 acres of our iron and clay peas. Contact me if you have any questions.

Last year we planted it, BUT the doves did not come. We had such a severe drought last year, the doves were just nowhere to be found. Well, Chuck and I are at it again this year, planting about 4 acres of brown top millet and sunflowers. Our goal once again, is to have our kids bust some doves. Watch this video to see our plan and also see what has already gone wrong.

It is my favorite time of the year when turkey season is over and it is time to get those trail cameras out and start monitoring for antler growth and fawn recruitment. Watch this video to learn about how our strategy is going to change this year and stay tuned for our photos.

In this webisode, we take you around our lease to show you the different food plots we planted this spring and summer. We deviated from our management plan a little and we will discuss these changes. Enjoy this video and pray with us for more rain.

Chuck and I went on a turkey hunt with Mike Wheeler of Wheeler’s Whitetails in Kansas. We knew he had a ton of turkeys with a near 100% success rate but I have to admit we went with an ulterior motive. You see, Mike grows and kills some of the biggest bucks in the Midwest and Chuck and I wanted to learn some techniques from him. We wanted to see if these techniques could be applied on our hunting lease in Georgia and brought to you in Reality Hunt Club webisodes. The interview portion of this video is over 17 minutes long so heads up on the length. The first half is talking about Mike’s outfitting business with the second half being all about his tricks and techniques. I hope you guys enjoy this video and we will be trying some of his advice in our management plan and will bring you our success or failure in implementing some of them.

This year we decided to put a couple of gravity/nudge feeders on the club. We shopped around but could not find one we liked, nor could afford, so we decided to buy all the components and put them together ourselves. After we put them out, the majority of the deer have yet to figure out how to use it, so as of mid April, we are just going to run corn in them. Maybe next year all the deer will be using them and we can use a high protein supplement feed. Until then, we will wait until they figure it out.

Watch the video as I go over all of this and show your some trail camera video of our deer interacting with these feeders.

It has been about a month since we have released a Reality Hunt Club
webisode. Some of you might wonder what we have been doing. Well, we have been thumping turkeys on our club. Watch this video for some of our hunts and our management conclusions about this year’s turkey season.

Side Note: You can watch all of these hunts in their full length and more at TurkeyThumpers.com.

This webisode is all about our management plan for the upcoming season. It helps plan out our work and defines our goals. Watch this video as I go over our plan in details. You can download this plan by clicking one of the following links: Word Doc or Adobe PDF.

This webisode discusses 2 ways of how we were lucky enough to get our habitat regenerated through control burning and fertilization. We talk about how it is important to perform this underrated management tool but how sometimes, as hunters who lease land, this is not a viable option. Watch this video to understand more.