Once you get involved in the outdoors, you’ll be thinking about it 24/7. The Young Guns Fun and Games page is the place to experience the outdoors when you can’t actually be in the field. Each feature is designed to sharpen your outdoor skills and have a blast while you’re at it. Play games, swap hunting stories, and learn from other Young Guns Hunt Club members from across the country.

Waterfowl Trivia

  • According to a 1957 issue of Ducks Unlimited Quarterly, a trout tagged by Wyoming biologists and a merganser banded in th

  • Information on life span is collected every time a banded bird is reported to the Bird Banding Laboratory in Laurel, Maryland. And the record ages for some duck species may surprise you.

  • A band placed on the leg of a pintail in Canada’s Northwest Territories was recovered from the stomach of an American alligator in Florida’s Orange Lake 13 months later.

Hunting Stories

  • By Charles "HammerTime" Snapp, Drake Elite Team Member

  • By Jason Thompson, Drake Waterfowl Web Manager

  • There's one thing Drake Waterfowl likes better than duck hunting and that's kids.

    There's one thing Drake Waterfowl likes better than duck hunting and that's kids.