How many birds have you taken with bands?
#12
RE: How many birds have you taken with bands?
ORIGINAL: johnch
IMO it is more about where you hunt and luck than skill
As I hunt in a area that they band local birds
But if the geese are gliding in
I look for neck and leg bands
John
IMO it is more about where you hunt and luck than skill
As I hunt in a area that they band local birds
But if the geese are gliding in
I look for neck and leg bands
John
then again some folks (I know a couple) could get a band walkin' through Wal-Mart....
#14
Join Date: Aug 2008
Posts: 10
RE: How many birds have you taken with bands?
Ive got 3 one goose and 2 mallards none of them had any history though just young birds I shot within 20 or 30 miles of where they were banded. but still alot better than shooting a trophey buck just my opinion.
#16
Fork Horn
Join Date: Oct 2007
Location: Tennessee
Posts: 314
RE: How many birds have you taken with bands?
I have never shot a banded duck.
Been duck hunting for years, still no bands. I almost had one last year. My cousin and I were the only two guys in the blind one slow morning. A lone mallard drake buzzed our decoys and we both popped up to shoot. I never pulled the trigger cause my cousin got him on the first shot. He retrieved the duck and noticed it was banded. He's older and didn't have his glasses, so he brought it to me to read where it was tagged. I looked at the tag and read, "Jack Miner Foundation - I Walk Among You Lev. 26:12." I nearly fainted. I have never felt excitement and grief so equally blended.
Been duck hunting for years, still no bands. I almost had one last year. My cousin and I were the only two guys in the blind one slow morning. A lone mallard drake buzzed our decoys and we both popped up to shoot. I never pulled the trigger cause my cousin got him on the first shot. He retrieved the duck and noticed it was banded. He's older and didn't have his glasses, so he brought it to me to read where it was tagged. I looked at the tag and read, "Jack Miner Foundation - I Walk Among You Lev. 26:12." I nearly fainted. I have never felt excitement and grief so equally blended.
#17
RE: How many birds have you taken with bands?
ORIGINAL: Crowkilla
I have never shot a banded duck.
Been duck hunting for years, still no bands. I almost had one last year. My cousin and I were the only two guys in the blind one slow morning. A lone mallard drake buzzed our decoys and we both popped up to shoot. I never pulled the trigger cause my cousin got him on the first shot. He retrieved the duck and noticed it was banded. He's older and didn't have his glasses, so he brought it to me to read where it was tagged. I looked at the tag and read, "Jack Miner Foundation - I Walk Among You Lev. 26:12." I nearly fainted. I have never felt excitement and grief so equally blended.
I have never shot a banded duck.
Been duck hunting for years, still no bands. I almost had one last year. My cousin and I were the only two guys in the blind one slow morning. A lone mallard drake buzzed our decoys and we both popped up to shoot. I never pulled the trigger cause my cousin got him on the first shot. He retrieved the duck and noticed it was banded. He's older and didn't have his glasses, so he brought it to me to read where it was tagged. I looked at the tag and read, "Jack Miner Foundation - I Walk Among You Lev. 26:12." I nearly fainted. I have never felt excitement and grief so equally blended.
#18
Join Date: Aug 2007
Posts: 125
RE: How many birds have you taken with bands?
you dont have to call in a miner band to see where its from... its only banded in one place, kingsville ontario in the pond behind the sanctuary. Miner bands have all the info on it, the year it was banded, and then a bonus bible verus. Was it an 07 band? If so i possibly helped but that band on since i helped alot last year. I shot 2 07's and one 2004 (100th year anniversary all on one day last season.)
#19
RE: How many birds have you taken with bands?
I've got three geese (one collar) and a bunch of ducks. Most of those ducks are either SCWA bands or plantation bands (release birds). I think just about every single mallard I shot when I lived in SC had a band on it. Ironically I shot a hen up here in VA that was a release bird from the SCWA (I felt like I had a magnet in my pocket for SC mallards). I think I have 7 or 8 true blue fed duck bands now. One was 11 years old, and the bird was at least 12 years old according to the cert. That was the day before Christmas of 2003.
I haven't shot a banded bird in the last two seasons, so like Gordon I think I'm about due again. I know of a field where dang near every goose in it has a leg iron.... still working on getting rights.... might have to bow hunt them... which would make it more like band shopping rather than true hunting. Be kinda cool though.
We shoot a lot of black ducks, which statisically I think is your best bet for shooting a banded duck. Big big studies continually happening on blacks.
I haven't shot a banded bird in the last two seasons, so like Gordon I think I'm about due again. I know of a field where dang near every goose in it has a leg iron.... still working on getting rights.... might have to bow hunt them... which would make it more like band shopping rather than true hunting. Be kinda cool though.
We shoot a lot of black ducks, which statisically I think is your best bet for shooting a banded duck. Big big studies continually happening on blacks.
#20
RE: How many birds have you taken with bands?
I live in an area that bands both ducks and geese so they are very common up here but it is STILL about luck. I have 5, I have a friend with 3 lanyards full, and my best huntin buddy who has hunted N-IA for 30 seasons has just a handfull. he did get 2 goose bands with one shot...but thats a story for another day.