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    So I seem to have hit a lucky streak, 2 bands just at 24 hours apart....hunting the exact same spot

    Yesterday’s drake was hatched and banded last Summer in Queen Ann’s county, MD

    Today’s hen was hatched and banded in 2009, Monroe county, IN

    Going to buy my powerball ticket right now

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    nice!
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    Very nice!

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    Pretty cool. For curiosity's sake, if you've shot a banded bird before, approximately how many birds did you have between it/them and these two? I've read numbers on here before of people's odds from their personal experience, but I can't remember them.

    I shot two wood duck bands almost exactly a year apart in the same spot. I've check extra close around December 19th each year since, but the bands must have been on the birds I missed.

    Edit: That's an old wood duck!
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    Quote Originally Posted by WNM View Post
    Pretty cool. For curiosity's sake, if you've shot a banded bird before, approximately how many birds did you have between it/them and these two? I've read numbers on here before of people's odds from their personal experience, but I can't remember them.

    I shot two wood duck bands almost exactly a year apart in the same spot. I've check extra close around December 19th each year since, but the bands must have been on the birds I missed.

    Edit: That's an old wood duck!
    I started hunting ducks in '06ish killed my first band in '16 on a wood duck hen on the last day of season. Watched a couple wood duck bands and a mallard band die to the guns of my buddies in between that time frame. And have since seen 1 wood duck band ('18). In all Ive seen 5 bands die on hunts I've been on in 15 years of duck hunting. The first two wood ducks I saw were killed a handful of years between the two, both killed in the same hole off the river and both were banded at the same place in Michigan. Mine also came from Michigan but was banded at a different location.
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    Quote Originally Posted by WNM View Post
    Pretty cool. For curiosity's sake, if you've shot a banded bird before, approximately how many birds did you have between it/them and these two? I've read numbers on here before of people's odds from their personal experience, but I can't remember them.

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    My last duck band was 2004. At least 3500 ducks ago.
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    Quote Originally Posted by sprigdog View Post
    My last duck band was 2004. At least 3500 ducks ago.
    Sprigdog sighting!

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    Quote Originally Posted by sprigdog View Post
    My last duck band was 2004. At least 3500 ducks ago.
    I saw a friend from high school on social media kill his first band a few weeks ago. He started hunting relatively recently and said the "band was hard earned." I chuckled. This would make him cry.

    Were bands such a big deal before they were social media trophies? There are "Band Hunters" Facebook groups and barrel sticks all over the place now.

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    Quote Originally Posted by WNM View Post
    I saw a friend from high school on social media kill his first band a few weeks ago. He started hunting relatively recently and said the "band was hard earned." I chuckled. This would make him cry.

    Were bands such a big deal before they were social media trophies? There are "Band Hunters" Facebook groups and barrel sticks all over the place now.
    Bands were way cooler before the inter web. We would call up on a rotary phone. Something like 1-800-Avise band. I forget.
    Then you’d get a certificate in the mail weeks later telling you all about the bird.
    The only way you could tell anyone you shot a banded bird was picking up the phone(landline) and telling folks.
    It was actually cooler in my opinion.

    Back to Jabs pigeon.

    I have this job where Albatross flock around the boat. Non stop. I’d bet 10% of them are banded. I sit in the wheelhouse and think of ways.
    Midway Island. 3000 miles away. I want one.
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    Quote Originally Posted by WNM View Post
    Pretty cool. For curiosity's sake, if you've shot a banded bird before, approximately how many birds did you have between it/them and these two? I've read numbers on here before of people's odds from their personal experience, but I can't remember them.

    I shot two wood duck bands almost exactly a year apart in the same spot. I've check extra close around December 19th each year since, but the bands must have been on the birds I missed.

    Edit: That's an old wood duck!
    In the grand scheme of things I really don't kill that many ducks per year, maybe hunt 20-25 days on average. So maybe it's all luck but I can't recall a season where I didn't kill a banded bird or at least been on a hunt where one was killed. I've killed several wood ducks, mallards, and at least one teal. A couple that stands out the most is a banded red head that a buddy and I tag teamed and a banded dove that came out of a 200+ bird shoot. That band was so small I dropped it in between the seats of my truck and haven't seen it since.

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    Bands are pure luck . Period.

    I know guys that have lots of bands and don't kill many ducks. That is the magic of geography, i.e. being near a banding site or under a major wintering area. I also know plenty of guys that have killed many thousands of ducks in their careers that have zero bands . Goose bands don't really count - especially on resident Canadas.
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    Quote Originally Posted by nitro5x6's View Post
    Bands are pure luck. That is the magic of geography, i.e. being near a banding site or under a major wintering area.
    Near a banding sight works well. We were about 1 mile from one this morning, didn’t know it at the time. Killed a limit of geese and 25 ducks. 9 of the ducks were banded. 4 out of one flock
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    Will make her dance

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    Congratulations! I just recently shot my first banded duck.


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    Nice. I think my last band was over 10 years ago.

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    I’ve killed 5 banded wood ducks....2008 ish, 2011, 2018, two in 2021

    5.5 miles apart from the farthest 2, the other three were between those two
    When in doubt, shoot him again!

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    Was that hen really banded in 2009 or is that a typo?

    I guess a duck could get that old. I shot a woodie drake that was six years old and banded as an adult.

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    Quote Originally Posted by Drylok View Post
    Was that hen really banded in 2009 or is that a typo?

    I guess a duck could get that old. I shot a woodie drake that was six years old and banded as an adult.
    If canvasbacks can live 3 decades, why can't a woodie live 2 decades?

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    Quote Originally Posted by willyworm View Post
    If canvasbacks can live 3 decades, why can't a woodie live 2 decades?

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    I didn’t know any of them lived that long.

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    Quote Originally Posted by willyworm View Post
    If canvasbacks can live 3 decades, why can't a woodie live 2 decades?

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    Most folks don't target Cans. ( anymore) used to be the King of Divers. Limited areas they live and migrate to.. Great table fare. I kill everyone I get the chance at. Best Can shoot I ever had was at Walpole Island. Lost a coin toss there on a Can hen that was banded. 11 years old if memory serves. The band looked new.

    Second best was in a AR ricefield. We had a small squadron strafe us and when they swung back around, we killed every damn one of them.

    Wood ducks get hammered everywhere they are found. That is a factor.
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