Bands

[Dr Duk]

How is this possible?
Our goose leas of over 25 years no bands.
Over 7500 geese taken.
Last week, the FIRST banded goose was taken.
1 every 7500.
Come on man!!

 

[bustsducks]

Thats expensive jewelry!

 

[Birdcrazy]

Pic or it's just hearsay

 

[Dr Duk]

Pic or it's just hearsay

 

[salthunter]

One of my very first hen teal I ever shot as a 13-year-old is the only banded duck I ever shot.
Banded in Connecticut , shot on the Minnesota River near Mankato
I've probably shot a thousand geese and about a dozen bands most of the bands came from Utah, a couple from Western Wyoming, and one from Central Montana.

An acquaintance runs a high-end Hunt club and they have the feds come out and band lots and lots of ducks and geese every year,

The club kills few hundred banded birds every year, most of them banded on their club.

Unfortunately too many people really wig out bands.

They're fun, they're cool, kind of need to get one once in awhile. But having a necklace of bands doesn't make you a man, a duck hunter, or a goose hunter.


When my daughter was a 9th grade my bands were on her backpack. She had so much interest from the high school boys It was incredible.

 

[William Reinicke]

Location location location.....

When we get new projects, we pound the mess out of them. Hasnt been a good goose project since 2011, so we have killed 3 since 2016. From 2008 - 2015 we killed in the neighborhood of 50-70 among 5 of us.

Mallard bands are the same way for us.

 

[nobands]

That almost borders on the impossible .

 

[William Reinicke]

Band hunting is fun when you know they are around though. Have a video where we killed 12 one morning on geese. I have successfully called 4 mallard bands out of the air as well that are on my lanyard.

What REALLY got my goat for about 5 years was being able to pick out homing pigeons in flocks. Talk about learning to train the eye. Most couldn't believe it could be done, but VERY different birds flying. I hunted with a guy one time who told me the differences, after raising them as a kid growing up, and he picked out 2 in the same morning. With a little skill and practice, sure enough, I was right about 75% of the time when I thought I was shooting one.

I will say bands really started coming for me when I started to train the eye to focus on legs and not flocks. For pigeons it was necks and wing beats. I bet if I had a go pro focused on my face, while I was hunting, it would look like I am on crack with how fast I am scanning legs on birds decoying.

Either way, banding projects and location is what really matters when harvesting large amounts of bands.

 

[Dr Swane]

How is this possible?
Our goose leas of over 25 years no bands.
Over 7500 geese taken.
Last week, the FIRST banded goose was taken.
1 every 7500.
Come on man!!

My buddy shot 3 bands in 4 hunts this start of the season. He estimated 100 birds taken per band, is the average for our area. Some years I’ve shot 5, others only 1. With that math, I’m due for a band, have 3 hunts remaining…

Last year we cleaned up a group of 5, all were banded, the last day of our north zone

 

[Northhunter]

There have been a collection of men hunting ducks out of our camp since the 60's. Thousands of birds taken. 2 bands.

The very first was a banded ringbill I shot one morning late in the season. I was excited to see where it came from. NWT? Northern Quebec? It had been banded about 15km away.. I felt cheated.