Bands

[Pirogue]

Do you share the same sentiment towards others on here that said they look for bands on geese?

Not at all.In fact I look for and target them myself.
My problem with TT was the fact that he was doing it with paid clients and then smoking them himself.

 

[fallsflight]

We had a decent year for us with 6 banded ducks. One of the hunts I shot two banded Black ducks, not from the same flock. One was banded in Feb 2022 and the other was banded 9 years ago and is at least 10 years old. Band was so worn I couldn’t read most of the numbers. Sent to the lab for etching.

 

[creedsduckman]

Not at all.In fact I look for and target them myself.
My problem with TT was the fact that he was doing it with paid clients and then smoking them himself.

I've never understood the guides that would snatch the bands off clients birds when they took them from the dog or retrieved them themselves. I can't imagine needing one so bad you have to snake it from someone else. I couldn't care less about being in a draw for one either. When I was younger and had none or only a couple yeah sure, I tried to rationalize that I killed a band if we picked one up and have a couple I got that way. Now I couldn't care less about it if I don't know for sure I killed the bird.

 

[blacktail]

My last band was a sprig. Was hunting with a buddy that had first go on bird. He shot twice and on his 3rd shot I fired simultaneously. Bird crushed. You just know when you crush one. I suggested we flip a coin. He suggested he does a necropsy later at his house. I was shooting 2's he was shooting 3's. I gave him one of my shells so he could open it up. He opened one of his. Size was different obviously, but they were different color. Silver and black.
He recovered 3 #2's.
He called me and said I win. I said it sure would have been easier to flip a coin.

 

[JRS]

My last band was a sprig. Was hunting with a buddy that had first go on bird. He shot twice and on his 3rd shot I fired simultaneously. Bird crushed. You just know when you crush one. I suggested we flip a coin. He suggested he does a necropsy later at his house. I was shooting 2's he was shooting 3's. I gave him one of my shells so he could open it up. He opened one of his. Size was different obviously, but they were different color. Silver and black.
He recovered 3 #2's.
He called me and said I win. I said it sure would have been easier to flip a coin.

That’s next level dedication

 

[blacktail]

That’s next level dedication

That's exactly what I was thinking. His thought process was if he was to keep a band he wanted to ensure he shot it.

 

[nobands]

No band involved in this story .
As a teenager I got pretty well acquainted with a Ole boy that that was a legend. My dad worked with and hunted with his son .
Ray was casting for northerns and bass on a local marsh out of his rowboat, since waterfowl season was open also had his shotgun.
A lone blue goose Flys over and he shoots about the same time a guy walking the dike does , goose folds dead and Ray rows his boat over gets the goose and takes it to the dike . Says the other guy can have it. They talk and the other guy says no , it was probably too far for me it's yours .
Ray gets home and picking it finds out it didn't have a pellet of what he was shooting in it .
The dike walker worked at the local factory, so Ray
makes a few phone calls and gets his number and address and drove 40 miles that night to take him a handpicked goose .
That Ole boy was one of a kind , only guy I ever knew that ate a 12 pound walleye, he had 13 mounted so why not eat it he said .

 

[johnpaul]

I’ve seen close to if not that many lessers die and have never seen a band in person. Not that unusual.

 

[DrakeStar]

My last band was a sprig. Was hunting with a buddy that had first go on bird. He shot twice and on his 3rd shot I fired simultaneously. Bird crushed. You just know when you crush one. I suggested we flip a coin. He suggested he does a necropsy later at his house. I was shooting 2's he was shooting 3's. I gave him one of my shells so he could open it up. He opened one of his. Size was different obviously, but they were different color. Silver and black.
He recovered 3 #2's.
He called me and said I win. I said it sure would have been easier to flip a coin.

Admire that honest fella.

 

[blacktail]

Admire that honest fella.

Absolutely. Hunting with him tomorrow for the season closure.