Turkey Thumpers

This is the last in a 3 part series where Ms. Gabbie Campbell has been proving how good a turkey thumpers she is becoming. They returned from Kansas and decided to give Georgia another try. They had a score to settle with these GA gobblers.

Now in the last webisode you saw Gabbie Campbell get her first bird. In this hunt, Chuck and Gabbie are still in Kansas trying to get a double, Chuck with his bow and Gabbie with her gun. They had 2 nice gobblers come in. Watch the video to see who connected and who did not.

Chuck and his 12 year old daughter, Gabbie, have been hunting hard in both Florida and Georgia but were coming up short. They then went on a road trip to Kansas for youth weekend and they got her first bird. This gobbler strutted for hours before finally committing to their setup. Watch this video.

Now every year I enjoy hunting with my good friend Bill Vincent. I took him 2 years ago to get his first turkey and we have been going ever since. This year he came up and we had a hard time getting a mature bird in gun range during the first few days. Watch this video to see if we are successful.

Everyone had gone home from our lease in Georgia but me, and I thought I would try to hunt these gobblers that have been giving us a hard time. We knew where they were traveling before roosting and put a tent there. Watch this video to see if I can get a gobbler before the rain.

Well, this is quite a story. I wanted my father and myself to get a double turkey kill if we had the opportunity. This opportunity did present itself, but due to some miscommunication it went from a control organized 2 hunters 2 shots 2 kills, to instead a reenactment of the shoot out at the OK Corral. Watch this.

Now we hunted a whole week in Mississippi and had no luck. The birds were henned up and we even had a turkey shot out from us on a neighbor's properties. So when we got to Georgia we had a lot of pent up energy when this gobbler came in. He never got excited at the decoys but just starred.

While turkey hunting on our lease in Georgia, we had 2 separate encounters with Jakes and our Hazel Creek decoys. Both of these encounters were funny and I thought I would upload the video for you guys to enjoy.

Now that Tad had killed a great turkey the day before, he talked me into letting him shoot another the next day since it was still Florida youth season. His excuse was that he wanted to win our 2nd Annual Jr Turkey Thumpers contest again.

For the past 2 years, Tad and I have started our season here in Florida chasing Osceola turkeys during youth season. Tad did not disappoint as he connects on this great bird first thing in the morning. This turkey had a 10" beard with 1 1/4" spurs. Watch the video of this great hunt.