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DUCK & GOOSE BANDS HUNTERS JEWELRY
Nothing describes the feeling of shooting a bird with a band on it. The
adrenaline pushes thru your body from looking on the leg or neck of a bird
and finding hunters jewelry. Jewelry one cannot find in a shopping mall
or a Zales ring store. I know some guys who have been hunting for many
years and have never shot a banded bird. Myself personally I have been
very lucky with harvesting banded birds. And so many people wear them
proud on there lanyards like General Patton with his war medals.
Bands come in many forms, reward bands, neck bands, wing bands, leg bands
and even toe bands. That’s right some geese have toe bands on them. A
hunter can be having a bad day or hunt and a small piece of tin with Avise
Washington and some numbers on it can make them remember that day and bird
for the rest of there life. I really enjoy when you hunt with a young
hunter who gets his first band and puts it on there lanyard. It puts then
on top of the world, it makes them one of the guys, a real seasoned
hunter.
But the real importance of banding birds is to help Fish/Game Biologists
track birds and figure out flight patterns of waterfowl. When one sends a
band number in the government will send you a certificate with information
on the bird you harvested. One would be surprised were these birds were
tagged and were they came from.
This only leaves one thing, who gets the band when more than one hunter
fires into a flock of birds or at a single bird. Does it go to the guy
with the boat, the biggest guy in the blind or the old guy? Myself
personally I am addicted to jewelry. I love collecting bands. How our
group figures out the problem is simple. Every hunter who shot flips a
quarter. For example, Hunter #1 flips heads, Hunter #2 flips heads, and
Hunter #3 needs a tail to win the bounty. So hopefully the next time you
go hunting you can bring home some jewelry your wife will not want.
If you read this closely you can see that the bird was banded near
Ontario Canada. It is neat when you send in the band number and find out
that much information on the bird.
-Wild Bill-
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