“The fact that he followed up the next day says volumes a non-hunter would never understand.”
He could have the upmost respect for hunting, but in any case anyone who spends 50K or so to hunt a lion with a bow is probably prepared to follow up.
Freegards
Oh, I don’t know about that. Following spoor into heavy cover and looking for a wounded lion with a bow takes a certain courage that just plain money can’t buy. Hemingway and other Africana authors wrote of it often. A great many animals have been wounded by “hunters” only to run amok later from the pain and conditioning of their wounds.