What's up flockers....

[Flightstopper]

Own up, y'all had the tracking collar frequency didn't you?

[DeadEye_Dan]

No, but we were told that they put bands on 1200 mallards that summer including transponders on 20 hens...don't think we weren't on the look out for those.

[Flightstopper]

Haha

[DeadEye_Dan]

7-8 years ago, we had a hot field lined up for early goose.

First thing, we get a group that comes in and we kill all 7 birds. Go pick them up...every single one was banded...with sequential numbers. Killed an entire family group...when we reported them, the band data hadn't even been turned in yet.

[sws002]

7-8 years ago, we had a hot field lined up for early goose.

First thing, we get a group that comes in and we kill all 7 birds. Go pick them up...every single one was banded...with sequential numbers. Killed an entire family group...when we reported them, the band data hadn't even been turned in yet.

I've got a buddy by Lincoln NE that has a mason jar full of bands that he has never called in for a very similar reason. They do some very heavy banding on local geese around here, and back when we used to have an early season, they would kill a ton of bands that were sparkling new, always from a couple miles away and banded the previous summer. Think they killed 30+ bands one day.

[Indaswamp]

Inda, sorry to hear about your dog.


Where was the pintail banded?

Kutawagan Lake, SK on 07/19/2007

That's the fascinating thing about bands...that ol boy has covered some miles since '07, seen some decoy spreads, and avoided the guns for 7 years...just fascinating.

Young hen did him in...she was in the lead and it was patchy fog that morning, which you can see from the pic. We were not calling aggressive at all, buddy only did a short 5 note hail call and I tweeted on my pintail whistle until they floated over head at 30 yards, We jumped 800~1000 birds from this spot going in to set up and knew they would return by the way they were acting. We did not use a boat blind ( I hate boat blinds), just backed up against a small cut grass patch with the wind at our back and put 6 willows close in front of us. Small and tight blind-that's how I like to hunt. Parked the boat in a big azz boat blind 150 yards behind us and covered up the motor and the gas tank with life jackets and decoy bags.

They came in from my side, I was on the left. I stood and saw hen, drake, drake. I do not know why I shot the middle bird. But in the moment, something Told me to shoot the middle one. I was aiming at the back bird and adjusted my lead on the middle drake. Folded him on the first shot. Turns out that the cut grass was thick on top of my buddy -blown over on top of him in the 15-20 knot wind- and he could not see to shoot anyways. Maybe I saw that out of the corner of my eye and my brain processed it, maybe I heard him cussing....dunno...fate maybe?

But I'm giving credit to the dog for that shot and that bird.

[Indaswamp]

Cool bird Dan.

I shot that pintail on my first hunt back to the camp after loosing my old yellow dog. That old dog sent that bird to me-I believe that. It was decided on that hunt that the species of duck for the decoy to hold Bourbon's ashes will be a pintail drake. My buddy that carves was in the blind with me.

Right on Swamp. Hate to of heard of your loss.

I posted a tribute thread if anyone cares to read it. Just a collection of hunts from the log book that stand out and tell a story about Bourbon. Lots of memories inda blind with that dog...

[DeadEye_Dan]

I posted a tribute thread if anyone cares to read it. Just a collection of hunts from the log book that stand out and tell a story about Bourbon. Lots of memories inda blind with that dog...

Tribute is posted here...some good reading!!

http://www.duckhuntingchat.com/forum/vi ... p?t=580353

[NuffDaddy]

Then you have the other kind - bird we killed Tuesday was banded 22 miles away on 8/13/14 and was too young to fly...lol.

Only band I have was a goose that was banded a few months prior. Banded as too young to fly in Ohio and killed in MI in the fall.

Poor fella had a broken compass.

[Indaswamp]

I posted a tribute thread if anyone cares to read it. Just a collection of hunts from the log book that stand out and tell a story about Bourbon. Lots of memories inda blind with that dog...

Tribute is posted here...some good reading!!

http://www.duckhuntingchat.com/forum/vi ... p?t=580353

Thanks Dan for posting that.