Gander,
I see you live in Ohio, where I know they do alot of banding. I have watched videos of Ohio hunts where they killed like 8 neckies that day. Congrats on the Iron and plastic. It is awesome to see them shot. I would say it wasn't so much luck as it was location like everyone said. But anyway, congrats. Hope you are hooked on waterfowling.
My buddy shot a banded mallard monday night in our honey hole.
Kansas doesn't do hardly any banding, so I guess I am pretty much SOL. Have seen 4 neckies while hunting ducks when canadas weren't in season. Flying over 15 yards high. Killed a snow out of one of the groups of canadas.