Sick of sprigs poking you in the back and holes in your decoy bags?
Well, cut them off with a hack saw, get a can of inflating insulating foam, plug up the back, trim off the extra after it cures and paint over the foam, you now have sprigless pintail dekes.
Was not sure until I opened the thread if you were talking about decoys or birds. What I pull on one eyed jack (Pat) is to tell him there was a band on that last bird and then when he jumps out of the blind I yank all the tail feathers.