Everyone thinks that their hunting club is the one that everyone wants to be a part of and since 2006 Team DrakeTakers has been that one. Head Pro-staffer Justin "The DrakeTaker" Reamer and Pro-staffer Austin Urban started DrakeTakers up 3 years ago and it has grown to have the reputation of killing waterfowl. Being part of Team DrakeTakers is known pretty well around the Topeka area and we are even asked about it at local Ducks Unlimited events. It all started in one of our early morning duck hunts on the Kansas River waiting for the first drake to take flight we started talking about making a name for ourselves. So as the day went on and in between the ducks landing in our laps we started coming up with names. Thats when Justin Reamer came up with DRAKETAKERS. From that moment on Team DrakeTakers was born. We now do everything we can to hunt ducks and geese, adding decoys to our spread, perfecting our calling and scouting out fields to ensure the hunt will be limitless fun with limits of waterfowl. Along with loving to hunt ourselves we also love to volunteer our time to DU. Justin is on the Topeka and Oregon Trail DU committees. Our biggest enjoyment from hunting is getting the younger generation out on some hunts. We started taking out younger kids from our area during the youth season. There is nothing better then going out and watching there faces light up when the first duck or goose gets into range. That is what being a DrakeTaker is all about, we have spread into making shirts, decals, and the latest being this website. We hope you enjoy it and will use all the information and tips to get the ducks and geese close enough to yell “DRAKE TAKE EM”.
X-Mas Eve Slaughter
This day was a weird one. The afternoon after Austin and myself limited out and got the band we scouted a field right behind my house that was full of geese. So we called some buddies and had 6 people lined up to go out in the morning. Well we got setup that morning and the snow we were supposed to get never showed up and neither did the geese. We did end up shooting 2 Snow geese that came by our spread, but that was it for the morning hunt. Well fellow DrakeTakers Pro-Staffer Austin Urban and Field-Staffer Jordan Lowe were the only 2 guys able to go out that afternoon with me. We setup with about 6 dozen decoys that consisted of GHG's, Hardcores, BigFoots and Dakota and about 2 dozen GHG Mallard FB's. We had shot 7 Canada's and were watching Snow Geese pour into the field next to us. Every flock of Canada's and Mallards that flew over us after the Snows landed went straight to the other field. I knew eventually the Snows would walk and field-hop their way into our spread and sure enough they did. After we let about half of the flock of 3500 walk past us looking for neck collars we decide to raise up out of the blinds and shoot it up. We ended up dropping 17 Snows. We totalled out with 17 snows and 8 Canada's that day. This was all in about 2 hours of hunting. It was a blast.
ooo my god
ReplyDeleteThanks..it was a really good day you are right
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