What's Cool About Shooting Banded Ducks?

It's also cool to shoot banded ducks and geese because less than 1% of their populations are banded. It's a rarity thing for some people. The first goose I ever shot was banded (happens to be my only band) and when the dog brought it back I thought I killed someone's pet because I had never seen or heard of a band before.

The coolest thing to know is where the duck came from and how old it is and stuff.

I’m from Texas and have 2 bands they are somewhat of a rarity down here close to the coast, now there’s boys in Arkansas that have lanyards with more aluminum than a Ford f150.

What's even cooler is when you metal detect the band in the dirt that's 30-70 years old.

I'm amped up for hunting season and you give me John Nores and Steve Rinella in the same week. Thank You!!!!!

We call it " Jewelry" It's cool as shit!

Shout out to the rice fields outside Sacramento.

I shot my first band in North Dakota at age 13. Drake Mallard, banded in La Centre, Kentucky. I just wanna say now how rare it is, especially at that age to shoot a band. So don't get your hopes up about shooting one. My grandpa hunted his whole life, all season, and only ever shot 1 banded goose. Very cool to see where they were banded though.

I got a band Canvasback from Saskatchewan that's 28 years old back in the late 90's.

"it's all sloppy seconds" lmao

It’s exhilarating!!! Neck band even better

"it's all sloppy seconds man" - Steve Rinella

Ducktales, oooh oh!!

Steve 'I got bands' Rinella

I had gotten a banded goose and I wear it as a ring on my hunts

I know why some guys wouldn’t report their bands. We had the season closed for 3 years during the end of November by the waterfowl biologist by band reports. I go to every years meeting and due to the amount of bands reported during the migration he closed our zone. I was the first to report my bands and totally understand conservation but that thanksgiving week has been at least a 30 year tradition for my group of hunting buddies. The best band I have was shot in CT and banded in Greenland before it could fly on a male Black Duck. I wish I could share the images of bands. When we were young men I kept a diary of all the hunts and we use to average 5-6 bands a year but we hunted geese a lot. 5-6 bands out of 400 geese a year average between 6 guys. They are rare we just hunted every day of all 3 seasons we get in our area.

I have shot several band since i hunt, near 80(i live near a banding place)but its always fun when you get a duck : for exemple an old mallard the band are so worn you can’t read the number ,a greenwing teal from Virginia (i live near Montréal)or a mallard from manitoba,to see how far these bird can do for their migrations.

It’s not anti science lol, it’s just so rare to shoot and banded bird so people feel the need to keep it as more of a trophy due to its rarity.

They dont report the bands because they don't want nobody knowing the damn honey hole lmao

Words to live by it's all sloppy seconds I swear I've watched all his shows after that quote I'll most definitely be watching his sloppy seconds rinella your killin me

Tagged fish are just as cool to catch.

i killed a mallard drake with two bands on it one of them was a reward band worth 5 dollars and yes i turned the number in i live in arkansas

He just skipped the reason most think its cool......to know where the bird you shot came from

I mainly think that it’s hunters feel the more bands that get reported, then the limits may get lowered. I’ve heard this said many times.. by those guys that don’t report them

Everyone I tell Illinois has pelicans laugh at me.. twice a year, rivers like the Illinois and rock river get a white pelican. Their flight migration changed after Katrina

I'm sure the guy that was bragging his bands "were unreported" probably boasting about poaching and over harvesting.

I’ve never even killed a drake yet😂 ive been hunting for 3 years, even if i aim at the drake i always knock down hens😂 i dont get it lol

Fuck yea bud

Killed a banded woody in SC and called 1 800#. I got my certificate and it was released that June Madison Wisconsin killed Jan in SC. My most prized kill.

A buddy shot a snow goose that was banded 19 years earlier. Seriously, how old do those snow geese get?

....polynesians used migration routes of birds to navigate the PACIFIC OCEAN.

I got 4 bands

Hearing him swear is weird.

So it's just very rare ???

Never understood the banded duck thing.... I shot a tagged redfish, called in the info for the LDWF's sake. It was interesting, but I was still more interested in the fillet than the tag...

Cool bro

Seasoned consistently successful hunters do not like revealing the location of their honey holes. People are always trying to weasel free info out of the top 10%ers. That's why charter captains don't talk on the radio. One look at me and people know I'm an old pro. People ask where I got a big buck, I'll tell them the county. That's it. Sometimes they get mad. If they ask for more specifics, I ask if they want the coordinates of my stand. They usually don't want to talk to me anymore after that. If I'm killing the gills, and I notice people watching me, I'll sometimes start throwing bass plugs until they move away. If they ask how I did, I tell them I got a couple little ones. Any more questions, "it's bad luck to talk about it", or "my Gramps swore me to secrecy on his death bed", lol. My favorite is "sorry, I'm not giving free fishing lessons today." Shuts em right up. I've concocted some pretty eloborate lies to discourage competition, lol. The first step in locating game is to locate the game. I don't know why this is so difficult to figure out. Game wants to be where you're NOT, and so do I.

Hell yeah. Who doesn't want to go to SoCal for the winter

I’m from North Dakota and I don’t know what hillbilly he met cause we arnt anti whatever but I couldn’t tel ya why hunters don’t call here

I shot a duck and on the band it said Led Zeppelin

Dude anti government but I’m all for duck migration

Report banded ducks and geese and there will be more ducks and that's a fact

BEEN DUCK HUNTING FOR 35 YEARS AND HAVE ON KILLED ONE BANDED BLACK MALLARD IN SOUTH LOUISIANA. THEY LIVE DOWN HERE YEAR ROUND AND IT WAS BANDED ABOUT 30 MILES FROM WHERE I SHOT IT.

What's cool about shooting silly goose Redban?

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Third bitches

Guys don’t report bands because they live close to a banding site and they wanna keep killing bands OR they don’t want the limits adjusted because they’re killing a lot of bands.

watched it. still dont get whats so cool about shooting a damn banded duck.

This guy uses a lot of words to say very little

*Americans

I have no objection to anyone doing what they feel is good for them, but just want to know would you shoot a dog with a collar on? or a cat? my ducks are branded because they are owned as pets, they play out in the marina during the day and come indoors at night why would you want to shoot someone's pet? I just don't get it. you would be happy killing someone's pet to get a thrill?

There is absolutely nothing cool about shooting any duck, unless you're starving and out of canned beans.

He has a very different definition of what "cool" is to me. I nearly fell asleep listening to this.

My dad shot one ages ago and still has the band. Having said that, hunting isn't that cool or fun :).

To report a band is to give up your hunting spot to every amateur with a computer, and the people who actually phone these things in aren't contributing to the scientific advancement of our species. The only practical effect of reporting your bands is to make it easier for lazy hunters to overhunt those birds to the brink of extinction. Sometimes doing the "smart" thing is actually moronic if you just take a second to think out the potential positive and negative consequences of an action.

im a bit uneasy about killing animals for fun