ORIGINAL: Rammer
Right now I am averaging 1 band out of every 650 honkers that I harvest. So I'm not overly productive on getting my hands on bands. I'm in a terrible area for shooting banded birds. I've been in on a grand total of 4 honker bands, out of those 4 we had to draw names for 3 of them, didn't know who shot them. I was never lucky enough to draw one of those bands. Then as fate would have it, A loner came in 2 seasons ago on my side of the spread, and I shot it, and when my dog brought it to my blind, I noticed some BLING BLING on it.
This spring I got my first ever snow goose band by myself as well. I've been in on many snow goose bands/collars, but never killed one by myself (that we know of anyway).
No duck bands for me yet.
Rammer I am very envious of your statisical record keeping abilities... I was proud of myself for keeping track just of how many birds I shot last season... and who knows how many I've shot total... thats impressive and I mean that too brother!