Yesterday when fly tagging I had one fly tag that didn't have the plastic lock on the back of the tag that the button goes through and one tag the cow jerked and I ripped her ear out and lost a button. I didn't have any buttons because I usually use ztags so I had a couple old z tags that I missmarked. I cut the bottom part of the z tag off and left the neck of the tag and the piercing back part. I then used that to pin the allflex type tag to the cows ear. Worked slick as a ...well worked slick as a button. :wink: