Drake Team Member wins the 2009 World Goose Calling Championship!

Wade Walling, Elite Team member, practices his routine near his Illinois home.

We are proud to congratulate Drake Elite Team member Wade Walling as the winner of the 2009 World Goose Calling Championship! Wade beat out 33 other contestants at the contest in Easton, MD, this past weekend to earn the most coveted title in competitive goose calling. Wade, a resident of Romeoville, IL, has been a member of the Drake Field Expert team for several years and proudly joins the ranks of our Elite Team with this world championship victory.

More congratulations go out to Kent Cullum for winning the 2009 World Live Duck Calling Championship. This victory gives Kent back-to-back titles in the World Live Duck contest, a first in contest history. We're proud to have Kent wearing Drake Waterfowl gear day in and day out as he hunts with the Echo Championship Calls team, one of our valued marketing partners.

For more info on the Waterfowl Festival visit: www.waterfowlfestival.org.

All images courtesy of (Dave & Joan Hagan, Golden Memories Studio, Inc.) in White Hall, MD.