bands?

[snow shooter]

just wondering who all here has some bling bling :D .

i got2.

first one:
Drake Canvasback
Banded: 1999 or earlier
recovered: 2006
banded: Saskatchewan*

second:
Canada Goose (F)
banded: 1998 or earlier
recovered: 2007
banded: Minnesota

[wbfowler777]

i have yet to shoot a band.

[snow shooter]

should have had my collar. Big Eaglehead, right over top. maybe 50 yards. had a big flock working. didnt pull the trigger :evil: . never seen another one. going back in a few days. hopefully will get one!!!

[easternshoreboy]

shot two in one day When i was "giuding" a party. a dude told me if i gave them to me he would give 150 a pop lets just say by the afternoon i had another dozen dekes. he paid that much just to have two. i didnt understand that part, but i gess it is nice to be rich. those were the two ive ever shot.

[johnboysmh]

i have some
this last thanksgiving morning i shot my first neck collar it was banded 2006. Banded in New York. shot 07.

canada leg band 0998-24571 banded 2003 in Maryland shot 10-2-05

canada leg band and tarsus band. Leg band 0998-36997 tarsus band EC97 banded 02 shot in 07

canada leg band 918-29277 have recived COA yet shot 1-29-08

i also have 3 privite canada leg bands and 7 privite duck bands

[snow shooter]

shot two in one day When i was "giuding" a party. a dude told me if i gave them to me he would give 150 a pop lets just say by the afternoon i had another dozen dekes. he paid that much just to have two. i didnt understand that part, but i gess it is nice to be rich. those were the two ive ever shot.

wow. 300 bucks for bands? wow. :shock:

[easternshoreboy]

tell me about it i could aford to not sell them to him god damm city slickers

[duckhunter101]

i don't have any it is only my first year huntin waterfowl

[snow shooter]

well, on the way to school yesterday, flock of honkers came over. and guess what? I SAW A DAMN COLLAR! i am gonna snap and pick on off with my .308 eventually.......... :wink:

[KS Goose Killer]

I have shot a hen and a drake pair with bands.
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[RidgeNelson]

well, on the way to school yesterday, flock of honkers came over. and guess what? I SAW A DAMN COLLAR! i am gonna snap and pick on off with my .308 eventually.......... :wink:


thats completely ethical and legal :roll:

[snow shooter]

i was joking dude. take it easy.

[RidgeNelson]

i was joking dude. take it easy.

Okay glad to see you were.... Theres lots of people who do that and some even are dumb enough to post about doing it.

[snow shooter]

i know. i have actually seen a group of guys hop out of their trucks, in south dakota, 4 out of the 5 grabbed rifles, opened up on a flock of snows, jumped back in their truck, and took off.

also, there have been reports of guys running into a nesting area, grabbing the geese, and taking the bands off the birds.

nobody likes it, but guys will still do it. sad thought :cry:

[CUTTem10]

I shot my first band and two other bands in the same week...My first band was a goose and he came in with 5 others and swam into our spread. So I picked out the biggest one when I shot him the other five didnt move...So my brother shot another one...they didnt move...my uncle needed one more bird and we would have been done but he wanted to stay a little bit longer (we had been in the blind for about an hour). I went out and got mine and it had a band and my dad had to get the boat to get my brothers and it had a band....my uncle is still kicking himself. I shot my next goose band two days later. Then came my first duck band on christmas day two days after my second band. Nothin better than a greenhead with a little bling for a christmas present :D :D :D

[mike2355]

i have 4 bands, all shot last year. 3 jack miner duck bands (all shot on one hunt, actually doubled on a pair that came in, both had bands. It was just me and my buddy hunting that morning and we shot 5 miner bands all together).. then i shot a federal goose band out of a flock and sailed him and walked two fields for it... didnt walk back to the pit, i ran lol.. our group got 11 bands all together this year. ( 8 miner ducks, 1 miner goose, 1 federal black duck, and 1 federal goose)

[corybdesign]

ive hunted waterfowl for over 15 years and never killed a banded bird...however i am 4 species shy of killing at least 1 bird from all the major puddle duck species. I see alot of banded and collared birds in the spring when im taking pics, go figure...

[MN Waterfowler]

I might as well keep this going. In my 8 years of hunting I have 6 bands. I have 5 off of geese and 1 off a wood duck drake. It has been awesome these pass seasons!

Hunter

[IA92RainMaker]

I have one band i shot on a drake pintail in my last youth season. i was pretty stoked when i found out and ended up limiting out that day!

[BM90]

i have 4 bands, all shot last year. 3 jack miner duck bands (all shot on one hunt, actually doubled on a pair that came in, both had bands. It was just me and my buddy hunting that morning and we shot 5 miner bands all together).. then i shot a federal goose band out of a flock and sailed him and walked two fields for it... didnt walk back to the pit, i ran lol.. our group got 11 bands all together this year. ( 8 miner ducks, 1 miner goose, 1 federal black duck, and 1 federal goose)

bling stays around bling, what can i say....