Thanks for relating your experience. If you enjoyed your hunt, found it exciting and worthwhile for you. It's your hunt and money.

I am of two minds.

Firstly I would do a Tanzanian or Zimbabwean, Zambian, possibly Mozambique wild free range like. 1000% more before a captive bred high fenced lion hunt. I've seen how farm bred stags act even a year later. And that fence is always an impediment to escape and fair chase hunting.

But from a conservation point of view I think the captive bred lion hunting industry may provide a better means of lion survival than in the wild. Greedy invading humans and especially goats and cattle are too great a competition with big wild cats. Tigers in India should be established into a captive breeding hunting proposition as well. We might see twice as many tigers then as currently in the wild.

Personally I doubt I will ever be able afford a true lion hunt. If a high fenced lion was longer fending for itself in the wild, able to wild up a little. The fenced enclosure larger. And using something requiring close hunting such as my 10-bore might spice it up a bit.

I am not a trophy collector but a hunter. High fenced hunts have always been dis-satisying compared to true open free range. Sometimes the high fenced hunts have been harder. The game constantly harassed.

A true open fair chase lion hunt, what a dream it would be.