I went goose hunting with 3 friends over the weekend here in Northern Maine. We saw approximately 300 geese, but we couldn't get them to commit to the decoys.
We did manage to kill 2 geese and they were both banded.
They had banded a lot of geese this past spring where we were hunting. So there was a very good chance of killing a banded one. Another group of friends hunted the same field as us a couple of days earlier and they killed 10 geese with 3 of them having bands.
I did not shoot these birds alone, we all shot pretty much at the same time.