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Originally posted by Bwanamich:
Outstanding art, Andrew!! What are the measurements of the painting?

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Originally posted by fairgame:

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Originally posted by Bwanamich:
Outstanding art, Andrew!! What are the measurements of the painting?

A couple of square meters. The painting is some ten years old which makes it one of the oldest Lions on AR.

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Originally posted by fairgame:

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Originally posted by Bwanamich:
Outstanding art, Andrew!! What are the measurements of the painting?

A couple of square meters. The painting is some ten years old which makes it one of the oldest Lions on AR.

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See, even back then you knew the nose had to be black!

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Originally posted by fairgame:


This is a Lion I was commission to paint some years ago, when I was an active wildlife artist. Most of my paintings and sketches were the study of this animal from life. Similar images decorate the pages of safari hunting brochures and the hunter is sold this image, nothing less. This is a Lion.

If we page through all the scientific research the conclusion is the Lion to take is now too old to defend a pride? Surely we can agree on this? This Lion is on a downward spiral and the shooting of him will not effect the social order of the pride. This is the Lion illustrated above.

The fuck up is that these Lions are few and far between and the demand for such animals far exceeds the population, hence lesser and younger Lions are taken to warrant quotas and to inflate success rates.

Forget scientific jargon and simply offer the consumer the opportunity to take a Lion, as illustrated above. If an operator cannot do this then the consumer should be adequately compensated and the opportunity can be sold again. This is conservation.

Example: I have a private Kafue area which will be ready for hunting next year. The wildlife authority have given me one Lion on quota as the adjacent community have persistent problems with Lion, however I am unsure of the quality or age of these problem Lions. If the Kafue is anything to go by and the fact we are adjacent to the KNP then I am fairly confident and let us say 40-50% that the area will produce a big old 6 year plus Lion. But I am not going to extend that flimsy statistic to my consumer as I am not prepared to gamble with his money. To protect my Lion and the client I intend to offer a fair daily rate and a high trophy fee only to be paid on success. I do not need the likes of Packer to tell me what is right or wrong, the Lion the hunter seeks is the picture that I have painted.

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Originally posted by smarterthanu:

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See, even back then you knew the nose had to be black!

See, Fairgame even knows when you have one lion on quota you sell a lion hunt, Not Four!

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You talking to me? I don't sell any lions at all. In fact I don't sell safaris, I just outfit for them.

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I know my limits.
Do you?

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Originally posted by Double-D:
You no to look at you Andrew I would never guess you had such talent. I always figured ur talents were more to finding big old lions than painting them! I think as hunters we all need to aspire to taking the older animals out of the gene pool. But some times soft boss buff and red nosed lions get shot, "hunters are human" and in the heat of it all we need P.H.'s like Andrew who can see threw the..........