Guys, welcome our two newest members

[savduck]

Thumpers please welcome our two newest members for 2013. With several days left, I felt it was best to get our team set so we could start bonding and enjoying this thing.

Our newest guys,

BLUERIBBON and ALLOUTDOORS
You guys post up and let us know a little about your selves. Welcome aboard.

[blueribbon]

Well my name is Ty Green. I live in SW Iowa. I am currently living my dream! I just last fall took over managing an outfitting business in NW missouri and through that now work with another business in SW iowa. Total acreage now is 15000 between the 2 but we are growing both.

I love to Bowhunt Birds and bucks. I have been on the Gobble kings and was on the back to back champs VooDoo Hunters. i Got to hunt with TRKYHNTR last spring and had a great time. He left me with a trumpet to try out so this is my first year.

I shoot Competitive 3d archery and am planning to expand the shoots i go to this year to include the ASA shoots down south.

I have a great wife and 5 kids 2 boys and 3 girls. My boys love to hunt with me and we have alot of fun in the timber.

Thanks for letting be part of the team!!!   

[alloutdoors]

Hi everyone, thanks for having me and I'm very excited to be on the team this year!  My name is Ryan von Linden (Dutch/German ancestry), and I live in Schoharie County, NY. I'm 32, have a 19 month old son, and my wife and I both work for our state conservation department.  I've spent time hunting just about everything our state has to offer, but turkey hunting is my passion.  I've been chasing turkeys since I was 13 and everything I know about it I learned from the birds themselves as I grew up in a family of non-hunters, and my uncles and cousins who did hunt only hunted deer.  It took me three years, and the accumulation of a number of hard won lessons, before I was able to put it all together and kill my first spring bird but I never really looked back after that.

I hunt mostly with my bow these days although I still like to grab the shotgun for a quick hunt here and there or if I plan to do some running and gunning. I think my favorite thing is introducing new people to the sport, especially if I am able to help them get their first bird, which I am grateful to have gotten to experience many times now.

Although I've played around with suction calls in the past and used them as locators a few times, it's only been within the last year that I got really serious about trying to master them.  The first nice trumpet I owned was one from Brian, and now I have a small collection of trumpets including a 2nd from Brian, a couple from Pappy, and a Matt McLain that I recently picked up and really like. I also have several wingbones and other yelpers from various makers.  I'm really looking forward to getting in the field and putting them to use this spring.

Thanks again for letting me join the team!

[savduck]

Ty and Ryan. Welcome to the team. We are glad to have you. The rest of the team was all together last year and we all had a blast. Figured we should all let you know something about us.

Del, married, 3 kids. Build houses for a living. Live and breath duck and turkey hunting. Been at it since 1987 or so, killed my first in 1990 on my birthday. Chase them down here in the swamps of SC and GA.

[Houndstooth Game Calls]

Hi I am Lyle Gilbert and I am a addict. I am addicted to killing turkeys and building turkey calls I yelp 365 days a year and when I don't yelp I watch turkey porn on YouTube I am sorry I am sick feller!! Other than that welcome aboard let's put some on da ground!!!-LG

[VanHelden Game Calls]

Welcome.
Doug, married with 2 kids. I am a printer full time, help out on the family farm, make turkey calls, sell furniture part time and teach Sunday school and a cubscout leader.   I also love to hunt and bowhunting is my passion but it is getting a little tougher to fit in as much as I want.

[Basser69]

Welcome to the team guys! Scott Thomasino here, married 5 kids and a turkey addict. I started making trumpets about a year ago and it has fuled the fire even more

[jbrown]

Welcome to the team guys, my name is Jim and I am a duck and gobbler addict! I guess I'm the old man of the team at 62, been huntin since the age of 4, hunted gobblers since GA has had a turkey season...killed a lot of gobblers, had tons of fun. I love helpin hunters kill there first gobbler. Lookin forward to huntin with some of y'all this season! We had an awesome season last yr, I think we'll do it again this season!!

[drenalinld]

Glad to have you two. I am David. I am turkey crazy, father of two beautiful little girls, and husband to a great wife who lets me hunt more than I deserve to. This is gonna be fun!

[TRKYHTR]

Welcome you guys. My name is Joe. I am married with 3 kids. I am a turkey addict and think of turkeys 365. So much that I have learned how to use all different types of calls, make my own calls, raise turkeys and do turkey taxidermy. That way I am involved with turkey stuff daily.

TRKYHTR
Joe

[870BkWht]

Welcome to both of you. 

Im Ben, live in West Virginia, and married with 2 kids.  A boy and a girl.  Im still learning more and more every year about turkey hunting, but Its more fun than I can have and still keep my clothes on.  Glad you 2 guys are on the team.

[merocustomcalls]

Brian Mero, 36, Eau Claire Wisconsin.  I recently got engaged and my fiance Sondra and I love hunting together.  Been making friction calls and trumpets for about 6 years now.  I enjoy all kinds of hunting and fishing.