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Originally Posted by Destry L. Hoffard
I killed three banded geese in one day years ago and killed two banded mallard drakes in Quebec the last morning this past September. I can't complain really, I've gotten quite a bit of jewelry over the years. I wear them on my lanyard like every other hillbilly braggart that I know. To me they're like shooting a big buck or the equivalent, a real trophy, and I like to show them off.
What's your most oddball band and your oldest? My most oddball is a greenwing teal, my oldest was a goose. He'd been banded as an adult eleven years before I shot him, but only five miles away from where the deed was done. I've also got a pair of BASC bands that I killed on mallards in Ireland, that was quite day as well.
And you've got me beat on the mini goose even without the band. In all the goose hunting I've done, I even used to be a guide, I've never shot one of the lesser races. Giants and the standard size, that's it!
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Well the most I've gotten in one day was 3 as well on mallards, but they used to band them right here so the Canadian band is a trophy for me. Most of the geese were banded in COlordo as well. The oddest are two. On geese, I shot a banded giant and a full year later shot another one only one band number apart. Both banded same day in North Park about 300 miles from us. On ducks, oddest one was a female redhead also killed on my place. I forget where it was banded. I too, like a hillbilly, wear the duck bands on my dog whistle lanyard the goose bands on my goose call. I counted and I have 22 duck bands and 8 goose bands, not like the guys in Stutgart but ok for me. Onse when liveing in Fort Collins area I had a great goos pit and killed 4 sub species of Canadas in one day. I have a photo but it is not digital. They were a giant, western, interior or great basin, and a Richardson's, that being the midget goose. My photo has them all laid out like mama, papa, baby,etc. with my beloved and deadly 870 meatmaster.