What's Better?

Bands ???? Can't eat bands, there are a bunch of then hanging on the wall at the side of my reloading bench, it really gets me when I see some so called experts that have their call lanyards all festooned with bands , even to the point of polishing them and hanging around their necks .
I took a young guy out once , and as the geese were coming in he says " let them land , I want to look them over with my binoculars and shoot the ones with bands " this is what he learned from a "goose guide that had a lot of bands around his neck , and it impressed this young guy .
I said if you want to hunt with me , I shoot them "on the wing " , not on the ground , never took him out again .

I say to each there own as long as you use the geese you shoot who cares, there's too many of them around anyway.

I would take the band.

I've never got a band before, and would be very interesting to see the information of the bird.

I would take the pile of birds over the band if i was with other people. Would rather have the memory and stories of a successful day in the field than a single banded bird that the memory would just be the time we went out and only got one bird. If i was solo hunting it would be a different story id take the band over the pile of birds.

Anything that came to my dekes or jump shoot one during an incredible poor day with a band on it.

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Originally Posted by jaycee

Bands ???? Can't eat bands, there are a bunch of then hanging on the wall at the side of my reloading bench, it really gets me when I see some so called experts that have their call lanyards all festooned with bands , even to the point of polishing them and hanging around their necks .
I took a young guy out once , and as the geese were coming in he says " let them land , I want to look them over with my binoculars and shoot the ones with bands " this is what he learned from a "goose guide that had a lot of bands around his neck , and it impressed this young guy .
I said if you want to hunt with me , I shoot them "on the wing " , not on the ground , never took him out again .

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Curious is it the band hunting that bothered you or shooting them on the ground? With you on the band hunting as I would rather shoot the bird that presents the best /cleanest kill shot than stretch for a bird with a band. Conversely would rather land a flock in the decoy than whiff at a bird in the air.

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Originally Posted by finsfurfeathers

Curious is it the band hunting that bothered you or shooting them on the ground? With you on the band hunting as I would rather shoot the bird that presents the best /cleanest kill shot than stretch for a bird with a band. Conversely would rather land a flock in the decoy than whiff at a bird in the air.

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To each their own !
I think what really pizzed me off was that all he wanted to shoot was geese wearing leg bands , as this was what impressed him the most , the fact that a ??guide that took him out hunted that way and he had all those bands around his neck

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Originally Posted by jaycee

To each their own !
I think what really pizzed me off was that all he wanted to shoot was geese wearing leg bands , as this was what impressed him the most , the fact that a ??guide that took him out hunted that way and he had all those bands around his neck

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Think we are on the same page. Be it beards, antlers, ribbons, or bands none really measures the success of a hunter better than meat on the ground.

Take a pile up over the band , bands are a bonus , nothing beats birds feet down on the hole

take the cool band any day. goose meat isn't that great.