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man i am sick and tired of hearing about these people shooting banded
geese out of their truck window with their rifles. I go out and hunt my booty
off and i've only got a couple of bands. I talked to a guy the other day that his friend has over twe dozen neck bands, and i think it's bs. what do yall think?

I call BS on that crap too! Just a bunch of bling bling' status hunters... I bet they don't tell people how they really got the bands! They probably don't know how to hunt any other way!!!

probably got em off ebay or sumin!

My wife's college roommate's boyfriend took me hunting last year. We were on the way back and passed a field full of geese. We stopped and he put his Ruger 22 out the window. I though he was just scoping them because we didn't have any nocs. He shot once and killed a goose. I didn't really think much of it until we went and picked it up. It was banded. He said they do that about every afternoon after class. Don't hunt with guy any more. Even though there's way too many of them that's still pretty sh1tty! I agree it's BS.

It is just one more less snow to have to deal with. I know a couple of people that do it and neither one of them ever go showing off the neck bands. They just do it for a rush I guess

Thats low down.. I have heard of folks floating a big log out where they hunt for birds to climb up on so you can see their legs. Ducks love to climb up on something after they feed. Its a good way to pick out banded birds.

The guys in our club know that I would never do that to a poor old sky carp! Man those 17s can really reach out.

It sounds like a good way to sharpen up on marksmanship. I saw a couple in a field last year that had their necks cut and they were missing a foot. I am sure they used to be banded. I wonder how steep of a fine this is if a person gets caught?

l30e22r17 wrote:man i am sick and tired of hearing about these people shooting banded
geese out of their truck window with their rifles. I go out and hunt my booty
off and i've only got a couple of bands. I talked to a guy the other day that his friend has over twe dozen neck bands, and i think it's bs. what do yall think?

amen, brother!

I wonder how steep of a fine this is if a person gets caught?

Hunting from public road-Federal $500
Shooting waterfowl with rifle-Federal $500
Wanton waste-Federal $500
Possession of unlawfully taken waterfowl-Federal $100 per bird

Or...my most recent case: the shooter was fined $1067.00 for having no 1)state or 2)federal waterfowl stamp, 3)trespassing, 4)shooting waterfowl with rifle, 5)hunting from a public road and 6)wanton waste and the driver was fined $487.00 for having no 1)state or 2)federal waterfowl stamp and 3)hunting from a public road. I also confiscated a beautiful, stainless with synthetic stock, Ruger MK II .270 with Leupold scope. There was a pit blind directly beyond the geese; he hit 4 geese with one bullet, the Feds were ready to lay a $1900 fine on him.

Is a band worth that to you?

People have been killed by rifle bullets passing through their decoys. Think about what you are doing before you pull that trigger.

Wingman wrote:

I wonder how steep of a fine this is if a person gets caught?

Hunting from public road-Federal $500
Shooting waterfowl with rifle-Federal $500
Wanton waste-Federal $500
Possession of unlawfully taken waterfowl-Federal $100 per bird

Or...my most recent case: the shooter was fined $900+ for having no 1)state or 2)federal waterfowl stamp, 3)trespassing, 4)shooting waterfowl with rifle, 5)hunting from a public road and 6)wanton waste and the driver was fined $500+ for having no 1)state or 2)federal waterfowl stamp and 3)hunting from a public road. I also confiscated a beautiful, stainless with synthetic stock, Ruger MK II .270 with Leupold scope. There was a pit blind directly beyond the geese; he hit 4 geese with one bullet, the Feds were ready to lay a $1900 fine on him.

Is a band worth that to you?

People have been killed by rifle bullets passing through their decoys. Think about what you are doing before you pull that trigger.

Hey how much you want for the rifle?

It's in the Cassidy Bayou Game Warden Museum and Poachers Exhibit...it's not for sale.

People have been killed by rifle bullets passing through their decoys. Think about what you are doing before you pull that trigger.

It's rampant. Creeping, though not sporting by some folk's standards, is hard work and quite legal during the CO. How do you know there's not someone watching that flock from teh other side, sneaking or otherwise?

Short story: Last year we had an altercation with a fella the shot among a flock we were sneaking and scoped another that one of our group was looking at from 50 yards the other side! He saw the flash of the scope and hit the ditch! Wouldn't you know it - our boy was a GW and dropped a dime. Just a matter of time before a legal ditch runner takes someone's errant bullet. He!! no it's not worth it.

I read about a guy over at the 'fuge last year that was hunting canadas somewhere up north. Seems a farmer had given him and his buddy permission to hunt his fields. They got setup one day and the farmer came driving along and started shooting their decoys from the road with a rifle thinking they were real birds eating his crops. One of the guys got shot, not sure if he died or not, but tragic. I get nervous as a cat when hunting fields like that, 'specially when our spread is visible from the road. You boys snipin' those neck banded snows need to think about that, it definately ain't worth it.............

ramsey.. wrote "legal ditch runners"

wtf... aint no such thang as no legal ditch runner.. you come run my ditch and you'll be my bit*h