Andy, the de-tanlger "stuff" we use is applied before to help facilitate burr removal. We have different kinds of brushes for different burrs. You learn what works best...and, yeah, it takes time. But, most days, it's worth it. (Here's Alder before and after from an early season SE MN grouse hunting trip. Again, cockleburs are worse, and sometimes their ears look like clubs. We don't trim their ears as much as their body and leg hair. We leave the tail feathers, but by mid-season they're gone and they've developed what we call "monkey finger.")
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"Doubtless the good Lord could have made a better game bird than bobwhite, and better country to hunt him in...but equally doubtless, he never did." -- Guy de la Valdene (from A Handful of Feathers )
"'I promise you,' he said, 'on my word of honor, I won't die on the opening of the bird season.'" -- Robert Ruark (from The Old Man and the Boy)
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