NitroX
|
| (.700 member) |
| 25/07/09 11:28 AM |
|
Re: no more pet lions,hooray!
|
Quote:
There's an immense difference between the PG and Lions in these areas.
The plains game live in very large, fenced areas. I don't know what the average size is, but generally larger than 15000 acres and not uncommonly, 30000 acres plus. Most of these areas have no internal fences.
But most (?) properties are in the 2000 to 5000 acres range (?).
Quote:
The game in most areas is self sustaining. They live and breed in these areas all their lives and excepting occasional translocations, they know their home ranges very well indeed.
Again a lot of these properties buy the animals at auctions at the beginning of the season.
The more expensive the trophies fees the more likely they are being bought at auction IMO.
Not commenting on the difficulty of hunting at all, as by the end of the season some of these beasts have been chased almost every day during the hunting season.