Lions are not crossing into RSA from Botswana. Lions are not "eating all the game on my friend's ranch" and he can get you a great deal. These are the two biggest tricks in the book for you to shoot a canned lion. If that is your thing, that's fine but if you have reservations about hunting a released pen-raised lion, this is the scam to make you think you did it the "real" way. Wild lion hunts don't take just a couple of hours!
This is good advice.
With the new USFWS regulations on lion hunting, you'll need to get a special permit (in addition to a CITES permit) to import a lion trophy into the USA. There is still a lot of uncertainty on exactly how the regulations will be implemented, but it is a good bet that USFWS will
not issue import permits for captive bred lions.
http://huntforever.org/2015/12/28/h...t-lion-trophy-importation-into-the-u-s/ 
