Combat Warriors Hunts - Twin Oaks Hunting Club

6th Annual Combat Warrior Deer Hunt

2018 Combat Warrior Deer Hunt

5th Annual Combat Warrior Deer Hunt

Twin Oaks Hosted the largest deer hunt event yet, with 34 Warriors making the trip to Halifax County to deer hunt! With the help of area clubs and land owners we were able to give everyone a great chance at deer! There were a total of 21 deer to make their way to the cleaning shed! Everyone enjoyed a great weekend with great food and fellowship! We enjoyed some great music on Saturday night and the oysters, steak, BBQ all hit the spot! Looking forward to doing it again next year!

2017 Combat Warrior Deer Hunt

4th Annual Combat Warrior Turkey Hunt

Twin Oaks was honored to once again host the Combat Warriors in camp for a great couple of days of Turkey hunting! We could not have asked for better weather and better hunting! Thank you to all the area land owners and club who stepped up and helped us make this our largest Turkey hunt group yet! Lots of birds took a dirt nap and there were lots of happy hunters! The food and fellowship was great as always! Can't wait to do it again next year!

2017 Combat Warrior Turkey Hunt

4th Annual Twin Oaks Hunting Club Combat Warriors Deer Hunt

2016 Combat Warrior Deer Hunt

Twin Oaks was honored to host our 4th Combat Warriors Deer hunt! With our largest crowd yet! We had plenty of fun in store for everyone, and great food! The deer hunting was good overall with many deer coming to the cleaning shed! There were plenty of stories told around the camp fire and lots of great good eaten! Thank you to everyone from around the area that helped with the event! We could not do it without each of you!

3rd Annual Combat Warrior Turkey Hunt

2016 Combat Warrior Turkey Hunt

Twin Oaks was honored to host the Combat Warriors back into camp for another great time of good food, fellowship and hunting! The birds did not cooperate but the Rock fish did! It was a great time by all and we will get the Turkeys next time!

Third Annual Combat Warrior Deer Hunt

2015 Combat Warrior Deer Hunt

Twin Oaks Hunting Club welcomed 20 plus Combat Warriors for a weekend of hunting, eating and fellowship. The weather decided to actually work with us for the first time. We had wonderful food provided by some great friends of the club and group. Deer were seen and harvested and everyone had a great time. These events always end up with life long friendships built and life lessons learned for those who did not serve. We always look forward to the next hunt.

2nd Annual Combat Warriors Turkey Hunt at Twin Oaks Hunting Club

2015 Combat Warrior Turkey Hunt

Twin Oaks was once again blessed to host a group of our nations heros for a turkey hunt in Halifax County NC! A great time was had by all and life long friendships were made! This year the turkey did not want to be part of the part but we did have one hunter score a nice tom, but there were several close encounters and I am sure they will all want to come back to try and get revenge next year! Of course we welcome them to do so! We at Twin Oaks would also like to invite any locals out to see what the hunt is all about. Also if you would like to help support the Combat Warriors Foundation go to www.combatwarriorsinc.com and get in touch with one of the boards members and they can show you how you can help!

2nd Annual Combat Warriors Deer Hunt at Twin Oaks Hunting Club

2014 Combat Warrior Deer Hunt

Twin Oaks Hunting Club for the 3rd time and 2nd for a deer hunt hosted the Combat Warriors group! As always this event was amazing, it really hits home once you realize how much these guys give of themselves for our freedom, they sacrifice their bodies, minds and family time for us, for all of us!! These hunts are a just a little thanks we can show to them for what they do for us. This years hunt was once again hit by bad weather, we had heavy rains and winds but there were still several good hunts. As always at these events, old friends are seen and new friends are made. Twin Oaks and Combat Warriors Inc would like to thank all the local sponsors who helped with this event with out we could not do it! If you would like more info about Combat Warriors please visit their website http://www.combatwarriorsinc.com/ if you would like to get involved with Twin Oaks for our 2 hunts each year please see our contact page.

1st Annual Combat Warrior Turkey Hunt at Twin Oaks Hunting Club

2014 Combat Warrior Turkey Hunt

Twin Oaks Hunting Club was proud to have the Combat Warriors back with us this spring for a Turkey Hunt. With each of these events new friends are made and a good time is had by all who participate. The weather was not very cooperative on Friday with very bad storms and several inches of rain and lots of wind. The wind was still around on Saturday but everyone made it out to hunt and everyone enjoyed being out on the land.

1st Annual Combat Warriors Hunt at Twin Oaks Hunting Club

2013 Combat Warrior Deer Hunt

Twin Oaks Hunting Club was honored to host the Combat Warriors group of hunters. There is no way we can ever repay you for what you have given of yourself all we can do is show our thanks. Twin Oaks and its members were proud to have you call hunting with us and enjoying a time of fellowship. Many memories were made this week, new friendships sparked and great food!

Letter from Jason Hocutt,

To All,

It is Tuesday morning 12/10/2013. I have come home this week to prepare and ready myself for another out of state hunt but also to take time to reflect what I personally took place in this past weekend at Twin Oaks Hunting Club. When I arrived home Sunday afternoon I first knelt down at my front door entrance and hugged my six year old son, AJ, who all week prior wanted to go to the club “to be with the guys” (as he said). Oh how I wish now that I had done this. Then I stood up and with tears in my eyes as I grabbed my wife and gave her a big huge and then a kiss. I looked at her and told her that “ I had a life changer this weekend.”

You see I hunt more than most people and you could say I have been blessed to go to many different places in North Carolina, nine other states, and one different country to do this. Every hunt that I go on that could be just a weekend hunt at my club or a fourteen day hunt to Canada I have never not pulled into my drive way or half way down before my dog starts to bark and alerts my wife and child so they are ready and standing at my front door with a smile and the most welcoming love I ever have known. As soon as I pulled down my drive way after this weekend Combat Warrior hunt and I saw the door opening and knowing they would be waiting for me to stop and get out for my hugs and kisses it then hit me like a baseball bat. Yes I get home sick on my hunts and yes I am sure my wife and child miss me greatly but I could not know what my dear new friends like Clay Culpepper, PV2 Nicholas C. Culpepper, Mark Craft’s son Danny Craft and all of the families of our brave men and women that have went through during their time away from each other in serving our country and defending us Americans. I am sure in you seeing your family for the first time from going through the battles and seeing your sons or daughters after not knowing their troubles and challenges had to be indescribable. All I can say is every time from this day forward I will look at my drive way after a short or long hunt much differently then you will ever know and thank you for that.

I have been reading all the emails from this past weekend from the Warriors as well as the Twin Oak Members and just taking them all in. I have read “that it was a great weekend”, “it was a fun weekend”, “that Twin Oaks busted their buts for this cause”, “that people will not ever forget this time or people they had met”, that “how appreciative the Warriors were for this event”, and on and on. After reading and reflecting back on this weekend I feel like the Reporter Joe Galloway (Actor Barry Pepper) from the movie “We Were Soldiers” the movie about Lieutenant General (Ret.) Hal Moore (Actor Mel Gibson) in the Battle of Ia Drang on November 14, 1965. Near the end of the movie and after the fighting was over “Joe” was looking all around him with tears in his eyes and saw “Lieutenant Moore” and said “Sir I do not know how to tell this story”. That is how I feel after this weekend.

I stood in the club's yard this past weekend after all the people involved with the event and club members had left and looked around knowing that it was not a tragic battle field and thank God for that, but it was a great and life changing event that had just taken place where I stood. I saw the little American flags blowing in the wind and that is when it started sinking in for me. I guess I was worried so much about making things perfect I didn't take time to look at what was going on around me.

Our brave men and women made this possible for me to be a part of a great club like Twin Oaks. They have, as many before them, and many after them fought for our freedom to go into the woods with our children and friends. They have fought for us to be able to be free enough to start clubs like Twin Oaks. They have stitched the blanket of freedom that we and our families pull over our bodies each and every day and night to feel safe in our daily lives. I will not lie about this but I stood in that empty yard and broke down with tears. I felt I could have done more for the men as they have given so much to me and my family this past weekend and wish I would have done so now. I felt so blessed to have met each and every one of them. I wish I could have had a chance to get to know them better.

I left the club with a one hour drive ahead of me and I thought back on every little detail that I could and laughed and cried at the same time. From sitting in the stand with Danny and hearing just a few stories of his life in the military. I cried on the stories but laughed about me telling him to “just shoot the one in the middle” as there was only three deer in the field when I last looked but as I was saying that the forth one came into the herd. Then I said “hell shot either one in the middle.” To me saying at the end “hell shoot any of them” because at this time about nine was standing there. Yes this is when I started laughing. Great hunt and great memories. I thought about all the Warriors in that one hour ride. If I am being honest I am still thinking about them.

My heart is stronger now and I have a fire in me as well. I want more. I will work hard each and every day as a husband and father. I will go the extra mile if you will to do good for the people around me. I will take time to feel the wind, rain, and sunshine on my face. I will pray for the fallen that are not with us anymore. I will give when I have nothing else to give. I will give respect without first receiving it. I will do more each day of the week. I will love without being loved. I will do these things because the men that I just met this past weekend have done all of this and a hundred times more for me and they didn't even know my name until this past weekend. I at least owe them that back and my lifelong appreciation. I will support the Combat Warriors as long as they will have me and need me. Thank you men for being a part of my life. Thank you for fighting for me and our country I live in. Thank you for being unknown heroes and known heroes. Thank you for helping me understanding my driveway.

God Bless,

Jason H. Hocutt

Founder and President of Twin Oaks