RE: Bad luck story...Good stuff!
i have hunted waterfowl for 20 years and never got a band. i hunt with a guy 8 years younger than me who has two, a guy 15 years younger that has 2 and my dad who has more than i care to count. i don't hunt for bands, i hunt for whistling wings, the cupped and committed visions and for flying filet mingeon. would mind getting a a few bands before i go to the holy hunting grounds but if i don't, doesn't make me any less of a waterfowler.