I can respect another opinion but I just don't get why the question is being asked in a Deer Hunting forum or why being asked at all. Part of the question also seems to border on high fence hunts. To each his own, if one cares to shoot a lion, good for him. Its not my cup of tea and doubt I would have the $10-$20k pocket change to do so.
Ahh, I hate to disillusion anybody, but african lion hunts[excluding canned RSA hunts] START around $35,000 and go upwards toward $90,000+ all in. That sure separates the men from the boys, financially.
Looking at trophy lion kill pics doesn't bother me one iota. If it wasn't for hunters that CAN afford to hunt lions, the African lion population would be far worse off, than it is. A dollar value has to be placed on a specie, in Africa, so that it will encourage conservation of said specie. Without that, the specie would be doomed to extinction due to poaching, or in the case of predators, conflicts with human/livestock. Wild remote Africa is still there, but continues to shrink because of human encroachment.
maddog
