Unbelievable Start!

The pics say it all. My buddy and I have had limits 4 days in a row. It's gonna suck going to work tomorrow


Day 1:





Day 2:



closed the limit with a couple greenheads




Day 3:





Today:



And finished up finding my first band!

Great job its gonna be a long week that's for sure!

I only work weds and thurs then I'm off all weekend

That a banded gaddy?

Sweet!!! Congrats on the band too

it is!

X2

Awsome!

Looks like an awesome start...congrats on the band!

Nice Job Brett.

Sweet!

You need to get your butt to work and quit showing us what we are missing.

Glad to see your on them fowlD!!

Wow!!

Where is this at?

Not around here, that is for sho

Congrats on the Great hunts and a Band.

Central Texas I bet.

http://www.texashuntingforum.com/forum/ubbthreads.php/topics/2728511/1

..........whats that shiny stuff down in that hole behind ya?

man, looks like a great time!

plastic rolled out to look like water??

congrats, FD!!

I bet it was lake travis

Nice hunt!

MOUNT THAT BIRD

its not in full plume, why would you do that?

only a topwater would not mount a banded bird

only a topwater would call someone else a topwater for making a topwater move...talk about topwater...think about it

......Huh?

Bands are for hanging on your lanyard.

Remove from bird, stomp trash, hang on lanyard. Next.



Mounting that thing is a waste time as is reporting said band.

Why have you abandoned the Barney and accecpt Topwater?

Congrats on the band. Grey duck jewelry is a rarity.

I like that ringer decoy. Where'd you get it?


Wood blocks are classy.

Man awesome start!!

Congrat's on the band!

J.J.

Congrats on that band and a heck of a hunt

It's a traveling decoy we're doing on another forum. I was the first to get it. I think I started it off pretty good!

Thanks for the words fellas.

It was a bitter sweet ending to the great trip. I didn't find the band until we were laying the birds out for the pic, but I know exactly which bird it was and that I shot it. I remember looking at how bad I destroyed it and how bloody it was. The band was covered in blood when I saw it.

It's not getting mounted(meat is already in the freezer). I did save that storm wigeon for a possible mount though.

cause its his first banded bird. full plume or not. its something to remember.

Great start and congrats on the band!!

congrats on a great start, and the bling just makes it all the more sweeter

Mounting it is up to you, the memory will stay with you no matter what. I can picture each one of my hunts that I shot a banded bird on in my head. I only have three in 21 years of duckhunting and I hunt 25-30 days of the season if that tells you how special they are. I have shot one in Lousiana during teal season, one in Texas, and a huge mallard drake in northern Oklahoma on an awesome hunt we limited out on Mallards and Canada's on. The Mallard was at least 8 years old and banded in Saskachtawon, Canada.

Don't worry about the bird not being mounted. I have 8 bands now and 7 are in a paper match box in my drawer and the other was flattened out, put in a frame along with the certificate and the Fed stamp for that year and hangs on a wall along with several others at a duck camphouse in Idaho( where the green head was shot) a friend owns.

Nice Homey.. 8 bands.. year 11 for me and goose egg on jewelry

GREAT JOB MAN!!!

This is season 32 for me and rest assured those bands didn't come easy cuz ain't a one was shot anywhere remotely close to centex. Bands come easier when you live/hunt in a mallard rich region and you hunt often. Unfortunately I don't live in a mallard rich region and have to travel to get my green. Have had several clients, when I used to guide, shoot a banded bird. Couple of woodrows, a pintail and a gadwall. I know several fellers that have hunted longer than I that have never shot or ever seen a banded bird. I don't think guys that have a lanyard full are any better of a hunter than those who haven't shot a banded bird. Shooting a band is just a stroke of good luck and being on the lucky side of the blind when the shot is called. Seen a few coin flips as well when 2 claim they shot it. Bands don't define a hunters abilities or knowledge, IMO. Just shows they hunt in a mallard/greater rich area, they hunt alot and shoot alot of green and greaters.

"4 days in a row" That is what I should have been doing instead of deer hunting. Looks like you got it going on. I would have been tempted to call in sick and make it day 5. Way to go!

Way to start the season, congrats!! Congrats on the band too!

Sweeet hunt!