How many bands

[Choclab]

Your gonna have to show me a couple of them spots GD....LOL!!! I would like a few more bands...

[General Disarray]

Your gonna have to show me a couple of them spots GD....LOL!!! I would like a few more bands...

Lots have come from the Tri-Cities area.  Others are from places unknown...

Try hunting those windy and sunny days, be patient and do a little looking at greenhead legs.  You'd be surprised at what you might see...

[fsherman357]

first cackler ever. opening day. not bad.

[fsherman357]

choco... invest in a good pair of binos and be patient like what General said you'd be surprised.  just cuz there is a greeny in your deeks doesnt mean you have to shoot him, especially when band hunting... hunted over in kansas at a pothole for big honkers for 6 guys and a buddy with a camera, we shot 6 banded geese. it can be done, but the wind was howling and the geese were hot and heavy...

[boomcity]

got one on sprig last year and a mallard the year before before that it had been 20 years since my last band and it was on a gw teal

[HuntinCrazy]

A band? Where??  Whats that?   In my 40+ years of waterfowling I have never had ONE band....I ain't quiting tho

[Antlershed]

I have shot one goose with a band and that was about 6-7 years ago.

[GoldTip]

I have collected 2 bands in 6 years of waterfowling, one Greenhead, and one goose.

[nyhunter]

I've got about five mostly off geese but when there is a dispute of who shot the bird the dog that retrieved the bird gets it on their collar

[crabcreekhunter]

I'm up to about 14 in my career so far, only nineteen years old so hopefully they will keep adding up!

[Choclab]

Helps when you are in a decent flyway....lol

[SpencerUSMC]

I've been with groups that have killed bands back in Kansas and Illinois, but not here.....I've had the disease for about 12 years or so, never once killed a band

[SmokingQuack]

I've taken 7 in 11 years, 5 mallards 2 geese. My cousin's a guide he averages about 5 or more a season. That 1 in every hundred is banded is exactly what I've been told. One day we just happend to shoot 2 bands. Some is luck some is statistics and tactics like bino's or spotting scopes. Some guys scout out the birds in the fields and look for bands, then come back the next day and wait for them to come back.

[hevi/shot]

No bands yet. I've been a few hunts where other hunters in my group have taken a band, but I'll just keep hunting and hope for the best.

[crabcreekhunter]

Was with a group one timeon my grandparents place and killed a band out of almost every group!  We ended up with a total of five on the day!  Ended with zero for me, guess I wasn't shooting at the right ones.lol