bear hide drag?

[mountain top]

I used to start coon dog pups with a fresh coon hide drag, toss the hide when it got too ripe, anybody start bear dogs on a drag? If so do you keep the bear hide cool or tan it and use sent before it starts tosour? Fresh bear hides arent as easy to come by as coon hides are.

[Dale T]

We use a bear hide drag that we keep in the freezer until the morning of our field trial for the bear race with Boatman bear scent on it after the field trial we get it back in the freezer until the next race, theres been years that we have gotten three bear races done with the same piece of hide.

[mountain top]

thats what I was thinking, just thaw it out when i,m ready to mess with the pups, is the boatman scent better than the grawes scent?

[halfbreed]

i use hog hide drags for my young dogs just like coon hides it dont have to be very big piece one hog i make many drags and freeze them till used and back in the freezer i hope somethings as good as boatman lures cause ol bill give it up this year . i hate to see em go used em for years

[bearcat 35]

ya it is sadd to see bill botman go always used there scents didnt no they where closein shop till i red this and bear hide drags is the best thing you can do to train pups but live action is the best