Shot a banded dove in Frio County a few years back. It was banded in Fort Hayes, Kansas. I'm not sure I've heard of one being killed that far from where it was banded. I need to find the band!
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How many of you have actually shot a banded bird?
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Out of the 40 years or so a Killin waterfowl....I have killed countless neck banded geese and even a few “bounty bands”
In that time I have killed exactly 1 banded duck. An old pintail hen that was so old she probably was just lookin for a place to give up the ghost and therefore made it easy for me [emoji16][emoji16]
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I have 1 band from a mallard drake I shot off the Neches River several years ago. It was 9 years old and banded way up north.
I have a few others I inherited from my granddad with the most coveted being a band from a Harlequin duck he shot in the 60's either off the Trinity river or Neches, I can't remember right now. It was banded by a private party in either Maryland or Michigan (again, can't recall exactly) and just has an address on it. So, my granddad sat down & wrote a letter and I can imagine has asked something along the lines of "what kind of hybrid wood duck wizardry is this?!" The man wrote back saying that it was actually a Harlequin duck and they only banded somewhere less than 100 over a couple years.
I still have that 60+ year old hand written letter from the guy who banded it.Last edited by offthemap; 02-12-2020, 10:32 AM.
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Got 1 - a hen wood duck from the Katy Prairie of all places. On that lease for over 10 years and it was the ONLY wood duck we ever shot out there. Property I shot her on is just west of Katy and surrounded by the airport and soon to be houses. Sort of sad.
Cool thing was when I got the certificate back, it said she was banded at a refuge on the Missouri River in Nebraska that spring. Looked at my big US map on the wall and you couldn't have drawn a straighter north-south line with a ruler. When she headed south for the winter, she headed straight south.
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How many of you have actually shot a banded bird?
7 bands for me.....5 mallards and one pintail....all drakes...and one green wing hen.
Couple of missed opportunities I remember vividly. Only two times I have flipped for one on a same bird shot between two guys I lost them both. Another time, we had a single mallard drake come in floating from my side on a slow day. Guy who owned the placed said kill that bird to my buddy...he popped up and folded it first shot and it was banded. Only duck we killed that day.. Also had a single snow come to my right and I was on the end and I killed it. Guide grabbed it and put it into the pile behind a guy next to me who couldn't hit the broadside of a barn standing inside it with the door closed. We had pretty good action so I guess he wasn't checking for bands. That guy had two specs, a canada, a "blue" and a snow in his pile at the end of the day. Snow was banded. Didn't want to be THAT guy. He was ecstatic and he ended up mounting it as it was his first band .......so it was worth swallowing my tongue.
Used to hunt with 2 buddies that were flooded timber mallard purists and they had a lot more than me.....
Couple of pics on my computer through the years.....
Last edited by Smart; 02-12-2020, 10:59 AM.
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