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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...

http://live-shot.com/ PETA can't be too happy about this. It looks like right now the only thing available are paper targets, but eventually the site will allow hunting of live game. For a fee, they will retrieve your prize, clean it out, and mail you the antlers + meat if you choose! Here is an excerpt from the site: "We are currently working on a very comfortable, ADA compliant blind which will house the LIVE-SHOT shooting system. Once this and the perimeter fencing are completed, will we be able to offer a unique computer assisted hunting opportunity. Disabled and handicapped hunters,...

A Texas company is considering letting web users use a remote-controlled rifle to shoot down deer, antelope and wild pigs. For a small fee users will take control of a camera and rifle that they can use to spot and shoot the game animals as they roam around a 133-hectare Texas ranch. The Live-Shot website behind the scheme already lets people practise shooting at targets via the internet.