Shakari,

Thanks for the info.

I have a question. In Zim last year I was offerred the oportunity to hunt a lion since an earlier hunter had struck out. By the time it was all confirmed we were limited in time, but we did try to track a lion and a lioness that were together, with no other lions apparently since we only ever saw their tracks. We never caught up with them. Was this the beginning of a future pride?

Also, in addition to tracking the big footed male and his lioness, we baited for them, meaning him. We did have a large - huge to me lion - feeding on a bait and got to watch him but the PH told me not to shoot, since he was too young. He told me that as much as he wanted for me to shoot that lion he could'nt make some faint spots disapear. He told me two more years and that lion would be a really nice lion. The lion was huge to me, but how old was he likely to be?

We made the bait harder to get to in the hope of discouraging the too young lion and still atracting the older or at least larger footed lion, but no go. Other baits were unsuccessful, though we did find a pride of ten or so lionesses and youngster - never saw the lion(s) and they never hit a bait.

A later hunter who posts here, Zimhunter I believe, tracked and took a nice lion from the same conccession. Been wondering if it was one of the lions we were either baiting or tracking.

JPK