ORIGINAL: SwampCollie
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!
Thank you! The last couple seasons I have let my waterfowl hunting slip a bit. I haven't gone near as much, and my bird count is WAAAY down. I'm going to make that up though this season.
So far the tally for '08 (extended honker season at Pierre) on honkers is 47.
spring snow geese - 15 w/ 1 band
My trick to keeping track is taking my digital camera, then when I upload my pics I date the folder and put them into '08 Waterfowl folder, etc.
