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I've been duck hunting for two years now, and finally shot a banded sprig last Thursday. Banded in Japan no less, that thing tasted fine!

8 Years no bands..

I've hunted all over Alabama, Mississippi, Louisiana, Arkansas and Tennessee for the past ten years and have only been on one hunt where a band was taken. Of all places, it was a banded wood duck killed 10 miles from my house in Lowndes County by my hunting partner. I think it's just plain ol' luck.

The second year I was hunting I shot a greenhead, thought no one else shot, thats my duck. My Brothers dogs retrieved it back to him he started to hollar saying he got his first band. I thought he was jokin cause I didn't think he shot. He wasn't jokin cause he thought no one shot but him. Then the battle ensued, "I shot that duck" , "your full of crap, cause it shot it right in front of me" Long story short, it was his land, I was a guest, he's my OLDER brother. But not a total loss because I can still see it mounted on his wall when I go to his house.

10 years technically no bands (but I know the truth)

Caveman4572 wrote:The second year I was hunting I shot a greenhead, thought no one else shot, thats my duck. My Brothers dogs retrieved it back to him he started to hollar saying he got his first band. I thought he was jokin cause I didn't think he shot. He wasn't jokin cause he thought no one shot but him. Then the battle ensued, "I shot that duck" , "your full of crap, cause it shot it right in front of me" Long story short, it was his land, I was a guest, he's my OLDER brother. But not a total loss because I can still see it mounted on his wall when I go to his house.

10 years technically no bands (but I know the truth)

You don't know Wade do you? hehe

Been hunting for 12 years, 3 bands, all Greenheads from Canada, each shot in 99,00, and 01, respectively.

Been band-dry for the last 6 seasons.

I think it's a combo of luck/where you hunt/how much you hunt.

I have a banded Canada Goose, taken in my fathers back yard last day of resident goose season with a 9 iron 10 or 11 yrs ago. My nephew know wears it on his lanyard.

I have also been in a hunting party where a mallard drake was shot and not found until the next day and he was banded.

I have witnessed 1 woody drake, 2 pintails drake and hen, one mallard drake with a reward band and one Black duck Drake taken by a 10 yr old on his first hunt. All on seperate occasions, different states, with different people.

I have also killed a bunch of those from South Carolina But they have to band all the "flighted mallards"

That's his name, Jelly are you the person who started HECDF in Hollandale?

I really think the ratio is cloer to 1-400 vs. 1-100.

1 ross, 5 mallard (Jack Miner band last week!), 2 pintail, 1 grey, 1 bluebill,

Seen: 1 woody, 1 pintail, 5 mallard (3 double bands!!! I don't have that yet), Several snows, 1 speck, another ross,

One wood duck hen and one greenhead

2 bands. A drake woody, and just last weekend a drake greenwing teal.

Caveman4572 wrote:That's his name, Jelly are you the person who started HECDF in Hollandale?

Rwicker, check pm

I still have yet to hear of a banded gadwall. Greyducks get no love!

My Dad and I have 18. He has been hunting 44 years and I have been hunting 22years. I do have one greenhead that was over 10 years old when shot.

Got five in sixteen years of toting a gun to the blind. All mallards. I have no clue how many ducks I've killed since I started, but I can tell you that the one in a hundred ratio is way low, least in my case.