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My boy just shot a banded duck! I've been hunting ducks 45 years and only shot one banded duck and that was way back when I was around 12.
We registered the band and got the word back.The duck was banded in Tilly,Alberta Canada. Get this in 1999, a wild ,14 year old malled

That's awesome! Good for him. That bird is up there in age..... correction was up there.

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wow

Duplex Lover wrote:My boy just shot a banded duck! I've been hunting ducks 45 years and only shot one banded duck and that was way back when I was around 12.
We registered the band and got the word back.The duck was banded in Tilly,Alberta Canada. Get this in 1999, a wild ,14 year old malled

That's very cool. Beats the hell out of the 12 year old mallard I got many years ago. Tell him congratulations. I know my band was difficult to read after 12 years how was yours?

Very cool, congrats to your boy.

The miles and things that bird has been through and seen! Very cool!!

Even though this is only my fourth year duck hunting i just have a feeling I'm never going to shoot a band. Congrats that's awesome!

huntfishnv wrote:Even though this is only my fourth year duck hunting i just have a feeling I'm never going to shoot a band. Congrats that's awesome!

Its just the luck of the draw. I took a couple kids out on the juvy hunt a few years ago, one of them (on his second season) killed a banded gaddie. I went about 8 seasons of app 200 bird seasons without seing a band.

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3legged_lab wrote:

huntfishnv wrote:Even though this is only my fourth year duck hunting i just have a feeling I'm never going to shoot a band. Congrats that's awesome!

Its just the luck of the draw. I took a couple kids out on the juvy hunt a few years ago, one of them (on his second season) killed a banded gaddie. I went about 8 seasons of app 200 bird seasons without seing a band.

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This is so true. Got my first band my 3rd year hunting. At that time my dad had never killed a banded duck. 10 years later my dad had 5 bands and I had 3. My dad shoots between 30 and 60 ducks a year and I kill between 120 and 170 a year. It's all about luck! It will happen one day.

Ive have more clean wipes than bands.

Mornin Beef wrote:Ive have more clean wipes than bands.

That should be normal

huntfishnv wrote:

Mornin Beef wrote:Ive have more clean wipes than bands.

That should be normal

While hunting: disclaimer

thats awesome!

its nuts how old ducks really get. i saw on another forum the record ages of wild, reported duck bands. the oldest was something like 30 years old on a black duck!

Because you can only shoot one. Pricks.

assateague wrote:Because you can only shoot one. Pricks.

You CAN shoot as many as you want, but it might not be legal.

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