Author Topic: coolest duck ever shot? (Read 7542 times)

crow killer · « **on:** October 31, 2011, 06:57:57 PM »

ill post this weekend but what do you have

Caliber · « **Reply #1 on:** October 31, 2011, 07:02:58 PM »

Double banded drake mallard with a $100 reward-

Bigtine96 · « **Reply #2 on:** October 31, 2011, 07:06:36 PM »

Shot 2 neck banded geese that had leg bands and one just leg banded goose all in the same flock!

carpsniperg2 · « **Reply #3 on:** October 31, 2011, 07:08:10 PM »

I have only ever killed one banded drake mallard. It was with my dad and my best lab who is gone now. One of the best birds of my life

crow killer · « **Reply #4 on:** October 31, 2011, 07:15:12 PM »

srry to here about the dog but ive ended up killing 1 banded teal (green wing hen)

Boss .300 winmag · « **Reply #5 on:** October 31, 2011, 07:16:32 PM »

a goose that lays golden eggs, and revived it.

270Shooter · « **Reply #6 on:** October 31, 2011, 07:17:44 PM »

haha well i havent killed any thing really rare, except last year I killed a few drake spoony's we never see drakes over here, only hens, they looked like hell but it was something different. I've killed 3 banded greenheads though, 2 in the last 3 weeks!

Skagit_Hunter · « **Reply #7 on:** October 31, 2011, 07:19:23 PM »

oH DUCK..... nEVERMIND

seth30 · « **Reply #8 on:** October 31, 2011, 07:27:38 PM »

A shovler, I know nothing fancy, but I think they are cool

h2ofowlr · « **Reply #9 on:** October 31, 2011, 08:37:55 PM »

I have filled most of my US bucket list. I think I have a King Eider left to shoot. Then I will be on to South America for some shoots and chasing some whistling ducks.

seth30 · « **Reply #10 on:** October 31, 2011, 08:49:34 PM »

Quote from: h2ofowlr on October 31, 2011, 08:37:55 PM

I have filled most of my US bucket list. I think I have a King Eider left to shoot. Then I will be on to South America for some shoots and chasing some whistling ducks.

How expensive would average duck hunt down there be?

h2ofowlr · « **Reply #11 on:** October 31, 2011, 09:28:46 PM »

Quote from: seth30 on October 31, 2011, 08:49:34 PM

Quote from: h2ofowlr on October 31, 2011, 08:37:55 PM
I have filled most of my US bucket list. I think I have a King Eider left to shoot. Then I will be on to South America for some shoots and chasing some whistling ducks.
How expensive would average duck hunt down there be?

Depending on where and what I do $5 -$12k.

full choke · « **Reply #12 on:** October 31, 2011, 10:28:37 PM »

Got this one with a camera? Sorry the pics suck- but I just couldn't get close and there was a lot of grass/brush in the way as well as some other obstacles (that is a story for another time).

johnnyaustin44 · « **Reply #13 on:** October 31, 2011, 10:30:54 PM »

So far it would have to be a eurasion wigeon.

dannysdaddy · « **Reply #14 on:** November 01, 2011, 09:13:01 AM »

shot a wood duck and a merganser in the same day. pretty cool ducks. I shoulda mounted the woody.

DUCKDUDE · « **Reply #15 on:** November 01, 2011, 10:20:53 AM »

A banded green wing teal (Drake) that had a nose ring. Green square on one side of the nostlie and red circle on the other side.

upwind · « **Reply #16 on:** November 01, 2011, 02:47:27 PM »

Harlequin and eiders blue geese sand hill crane.

h2ofowlr · « **Reply #17 on:** November 01, 2011, 03:12:55 PM »

I think I found the coolest one!

carver52 · « **Reply #18 on:** November 01, 2011, 03:22:06 PM »

I've been kinda lucky with hybrids, a redhead/canvasback, mallard/greenwing, two mallard/widgeons. First two were drakes, the m/w were hens. But then two swans were hard to beat being so big. What else is there to say about 7 foot wingspans?

Wacenturion · « **Reply #19 on:** November 01, 2011, 03:39:03 PM »

Green Winged Teal in coastal South Carolina......only because it was my first duck about 44 years ago and it was banded. What are the odds on that....lol.

h2ofowlr · « **Reply #20 on:** November 01, 2011, 05:27:57 PM »

Quote from: carver52 on November 01, 2011, 03:22:06 PM

I've been kinda lucky with hybrids, a redhead/canvasback, mallard/greenwing, two mallard/widgeons. First two were drakes, the m/w were hens. But then two swans were hard to beat being so big. What else is there to say about 7 foot wingspans?

Darn park ducks cross breading.

D-Rock425 · « **Reply #21 on:** November 01, 2011, 05:52:56 PM »

mine would have to be a banded mallard i shot my first year duck hunting.

seth30 · « **Reply #22 on:** November 01, 2011, 07:11:48 PM »

Quote from: HunterFisher on November 01, 2011, 03:24:34 PM

My avitar is a double-banded harlequin bull.

how does anyone top this cool duck

Blacktail135 · « **Reply #23 on:** November 01, 2011, 08:09:55 PM »

DUCKDUDE thats pretty da*n cool right there. Never heard of such a thing.

BurleyDog · « **Reply #24 on:** November 01, 2011, 09:24:02 PM »

Its still hard for me to believe but I once took a limit of wood ducks in Ky (2). Both were double banded with $100 reward bands each.

Both were drakes.
I found out later that they had banded in the area just a couple weeks prior

I'll probably never top that one

WCTaxidermy · « **Reply #25 on:** November 01, 2011, 10:13:55 PM »

Duckdude, did the game department tell you what the nose rings were put there for? I have never seen or heard of them before. John

h2ofowlr · « **Reply #26 on:** November 01, 2011, 10:22:16 PM »

Quote from: DUCKDUDE on November 01, 2011, 10:20:53 AM

A banded green wing teal (Drake) that had a nose ring. Green square on one side of the nostlie and red circle on the other side.

They will use the nose rings on captive birds. Was the band an Avise style or a private bander? May be similar to what they do with the pheasant, but they take them out prior to release.

DUCKDUDE · « **Reply #27 on:** November 02, 2011, 08:28:48 AM »

Yes they did it was for observation purposes like a neck band on a goose. It was actually my first band when I was 14 the bird was 5 years old and from Alberta. I have shot many more bands since then including a double leg banded Brant.

WCTaxidermy · « **Reply #28 on:** November 02, 2011, 08:48:03 AM »

Thats pretty cool duckdude. Thanks for the information. John

carver52 · « **Reply #29 on:** November 02, 2011, 05:42:07 PM »

I know a biologist who goes up to the arctic every spring to band brant. One year he got an invite to hunt brant with a well known brant slayer. Their hunt was on the Baja penninsula. This was the bio's first brant hunt and he was stoked. So the first morning breaks daylight and a small flock swings in. Fired one shot so he wouldn't hit more than one and when the bird boy brought it in, low and behold he'd banded that bird that spring on the breeding area above the arctic circle. I thought it was pretty high odds against that happening but he told me that perhaps as many as 1 in 20 pacific black brant are banded every spring.

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