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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.

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Maine,

Nice sterling rings.

Did you get them at the same time? If so , I'll bet it was a mating pair.

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Maine,

Nice sterling rings.

Did you get them at the same time? If so , I'll bet it was a mating pair.

Mike


 There were 4 of us hunting out of lay out blinds. We shot them the same day, but not a mating pair.

Both are females, both were banded in the same area that we shot them. However, one bird was banded in spring of 2010, the other was banded in 2006.

 

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Years ago my dad shot a pair of banded mallards on the same day. Turned out they were both banded on the same day at the same location a month before.

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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.

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