That may have been the story he was told, but that is a pen-raised lion. Wild African lion do not look like the MGM lion and there are no wild lion left in SA outside of a few parks.
I've got no problems if someone wants to shoot a lion behind high fence. Most of SA is little more than put-and-take farm hunting. So what's the difference with a pen-raised lion? But lion don't just happen to find themselves behind a high fence.
