Posted on 11/27/2004 11:05:56 AM PST by Willie Green
DALLAS -- Video hunting games have been around for years, but a San Antonio, Texas, man hopes to market a new Internet wrinkle using real bullets and live animals.
John Lockwood, who works as a body-shop estimator for a car dealership, got the idea for liveshot.com while watching a virtual hunting Web site in which Internet viewers "bagged" game with a camera.
He spent about $20,000 to build a motorized platform capable of aiming and firing a rifle via computer and started up his Web site, where an Internet marksman could plink targets with a .22 rifle.
Now Lockwood wants to expand the idea by setting up a hunting rifle connected to a video camera at waterholes or wildlife feeders at his small ranch near Rocksprings, Texas. A "hunter" in the comfort of his office or home could watch a computer screen until a target animal is spotted, then use the computer to line up the rifle and fire the shot.
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Someone been watching "The Jackal"?
So who's gonna field dress the carcass and tote it out? Or just leave it? I'm an ex-hunter who still loves wild game, just don't enjoy the killing, personally. Don't mind if others do, however, this is one of the dumbest F*#@ing ideas I've ever heard of.
This is a dumb idea, but the Media won't drop it. This story has been reported for the last 2-3 weeks.
A "ranch hand" takes care of that stuff.
After you "bagged your game", they'll skin/clean/butcher/taxidermy/mount your meat and/or trophy for ya and have it shipped to ya. No need to ever actually log-off the internet and venture into the great outdoors.
What a barfin' farce. This isn't "hunting". No way. It's a freaking video game with live slaughter.
So9
A "ranch hand" takes care of that stuff.
After you "bagged your game", they'll skin/clean/butcher/taxidermy/mount your meat and/or trophy for ya and have it shipped to ya. No need to ever actually log-off the internet and venture into the great outdoors.
How much extra to shoot at the worthless scum retrieving the animals?
So9
You and I are having completely different reactions to this story.
My reaction was, "Gosh, I wonder if I could hunt terrorists? Say manning a .50 cal sniper rifle looking over some cold miserable pass in Afghanistan."
Frankly, I don't think much of the hunting by mouse concept either.
It truly is a terrible idea, but it can make money.
I understand a staff will handle the details. Maybe after you shoot the animial you can pick off the staff.
I don't like the shooting animals part, because thats just not hunting. Isn't baiting wild game illegal as well?
But shooting terrorists by remote, now theres an idea.
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