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I thought I'd start a new thread after the "how many bands thread." It seems that some people kill a lot of banded birds and some kill very few. I've killed 2. To get my 2, I've probably killed in the neighborhood of 400 or 500 ducks and geese, meaning I'm likely somewhere over 200 birds per band.
So, about how many birds does everyone kill in order to get one banded bird (guess are welcome)?
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I have 6 mallards bands, I would say approximately every 80-100 mallards I shoot I get a band. But it all depends on where you hunt and what time of the season it is. Early season local birds in the Yakima valley seem to have quite a few bands. I don't really count other ducks since its pretty rare to see anything besides mallards banded around here. Although I have seen banded redheads teal pintails and wigeon
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How many bird per band?
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March 21, 2013, 07:53:40 PM »
Every 450 ducks or so, every 70 or so geese.
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I was averaging about a 100 ducks per band and about 30 snow geese per band if averaged out. Sometimes thy come in waves. Shot 5 banded ducks in one week with a winter storm that pushed fresh birds from the north. I hunted a field that had a good sized flock of collared honkers in it years back and shot a limit of collared / banded birds. Just depends. If you hunt near banding sites, your odds go way up. A good example is Savies Island, Yakima area, Tri-Cities. Some guys get dozens of bands per season hunting those areas.
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March 22, 2013, 04:38:57 PM »
I have 1 band for the hundreds I have killed in my life. I don't think they like packing that metal down this far
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March 24, 2013, 01:37:22 PM »
Getting bands is weird for me. I would say just nickle and dime over the years. Some good seasons with no bands and piss poor with a band or two. Like the 2011-2012 season only about 20 ducks harvested in 15-20 hunts and got a band over a ten year drought. That band sure did not take 1 ounce of frustration away from that year.
I also got real upset because when the person asked how I encounter this band I answered harvested bird. That person did not have a clue of what I was talking about. Has hunters ed failed that much on us over the years because hunters don't know how to answer these basic questions anymore?
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March 24, 2013, 08:55:09 PM »
1 band for every 1500 ducks
1 band for every 500 geese. Only one goose band
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March 24, 2013, 09:12:48 PM »
Very first Canada was banded. This was around 1980. Huge pile of South Sound/southwest ducks and geese and ZERO others
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I have 4 bands in 22 years of waterfowling. 3 mallards, 1 bluebill. No goose bands. I have no idea how many birds I've harvested in that time. 2 of those bands came in back to back weekends 2 years ago. All from the eastside, all were banded in Canada. My hunting buddies have taken several that were banded in Ephrata, both ducks and geese.
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It seems like i get a band for every 200 ducks killed. I got them 3 years in a row exept thish year
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My dog has more bands than me.... Got a bird before shooting time last season and it was banded. I have probably 400 birds and no bands. Not proud of it haha
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This year 1 band for 60 birds. I pheasant hunt more than duck. I have shot 2 banded drakes in one day and 4 in 1 year. I haven't saved all of them but I have 12 duck and 2 goose bands. We used to send in the info and toss the bands. I started saving them when they started having the phone number on them. I only have one of the older bands that doesn't have the telephone number. The waterfowl bands are to the left of the blue bands.
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Re: How many bird per band?
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I SIR, am not lucky.
I have 0.
But my Father and my brother have dozens combined, from sitting RIGHT NEXT TO ME IN THE BLIND!!
lol....
One of these days I'll get lucky.
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NOT IF IM STILL IN THAT BLIND
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Re: How many bird per band?
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well... atleast I do have one of those blue pheasant release bands... but they don't really count.
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