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Unfortunately by far the majority of high fenced South African properties seem to be 3000 acres or less.

The story by poprivit mentions the lion coming up to a fence corner. No judgements, a fenced hunt is what it is.

I once tried to do the same. The deer or antelope came upntona corner. " Now I have them!", I thought. But no, they sneaked through a hole under the fence ...

We have all seen lion charges on video with bubba clients on NE. The lions seem a bit clueless. At least in these videos. A lion is not a game beast. Can not be tamed. But bred in captivity, hand fed, would take a long time to wild up completely if ever.

I hunted a Zim high fenced property which another client thought was wonderful. The best hunting of his like. I felt a couple of days later, that the game didn't seem as quick to flee??? Later found out they were feeding pellets to the antelope from the back of vehicles. Our motor was a dinner gong. I decided to not hunt that sad property after one day again ... Not a challenge at all. For some guy who doesn't get off the bakkie except for hero trophy pics and collects braggin heads for the wall, it was a paradise.

Lions are not kept in the hunting areas for long, as they will cost a lot of antelope kills, all which add up to a lot of Rand.

Sorry there is NO comparison of zoo, circus lions to real true wild lions.

All is academic. I can't travel and can't afford it at the moment. Would like to tag along on one of these properties first to see. A next African safari would be for buffalo, maybe Mozambique. Free range absolutely. Otherwise plains game.

Good to dream however.

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John aka NitroX

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