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Hunters Can Soon Go Trigger Happy... in Front of Their Computers...

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  1. kwik_e_mart

    kwik_e_mart Member

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    http://story.news.yahoo.com/news?tm...=757&e=3&u=/nm/20041117/od_nm/life_hunting_dc

    Texas Officials Wary of Plan to Hunt by Internet

    Wed Nov 17, 8:45 AM ET Oddly Enough - Reuters

    By Jeff Franks

    HOUSTON (Reuters) - Hunters soon may be able to sit at their computers and blast away at animals on a Texas ranch via the Internet, a prospect that has state wildlife officials up in arms.

    A controversial Web site, http://www.live-shot.com, already offers target practice with a .22 caliber rifle and could soon let hunters shoot at deer, antelope and wild pigs, site creator John Underwood said on Tuesday.

    Texas officials are not quite sure what to make of Underwood's Web site, but may tweak existing laws to make sure Internet hunting does not get out of hand.

    "This is the first one I've seen," said Texas Parks and Wildlife Department wildlife director Mike Berger. "The current state statutes don't cover this sort of thing."

    Underwood, an estimator for a San Antonio, Texas auto body shop, has invested $10,000 to build a platform for a rifle and camera that can be remotely aimed on his 330-acre (133-hectare) southwest Texas ranch by anyone on the Internet anywhere in the world.

    The idea came last year while viewing another Web site on which cameras posted in the wild are used to snap photos of animals.

    "We were looking at a beautiful white-tail buck and my friend said 'If you just had a gun for that.' A little light bulb went off in my head," he said.

    Internet hunting could be popular with disabled hunters unable to get out in the woods or distant hunters who cannot afford a trip to Texas, Underwood said.

    Berger said state law only covers "regulated animals" such as native deer and birds and cannot prevent Underwood from offering Internet hunts of "unregulated" animals such as non-native deer that many ranchers have imported and wild pigs.

    He has proposed a rule that will come up for public discussion in January that anyone hunting animals covered by state law must be physically on site when they shoot.

    Berger expressed reservations about remote control hunting, but noted that humans have always adopted new technologies to hunt.

    "First it was rocks and clubs, then we sharpened it and put it on a stick. Then there was the bow and arrow, black powder, smokeless power and optics," Berger said. "Maybe this is the next technological step out there."

    Underwood, 39, said he will offer animal hunting as soon as he gets a fast Internet connection to his remote ranch that will enable hunters to aim the rifle quickly at passing animals.

    He said an attendant would retrieve shot animals for the shooters, who could have the heads preserved by a taxidermist. They could also have the meat processed and shipped home, or donated to animal orphanages.
     
    #1 kwik_e_mart, Nov 17, 2004
  2. Isabel

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    I cannot even begin to tell you how many things are wrong, or could go wrong, with this idea....

    but your post title made me think of this:

    Got an AK-47, well you know it makes me feel alright
    Got an Uzi by my pillow, helps me sleep a little better at night
    There's no feeling any greter
    Than to shoot first and ask questions later
    Now I'm trigger happy, trigger happy every day

    Well, you can't take my guns away, I got a constitutional right
    Yeah, I gotta be ready if the Commies attack us tonight
    I'll blow their brains out with my Smith and Wesson
    That ought to teach them all a darn good lesson
    Now I'm trigger happy, trigger happy every day

    (Oh yeah, I'm)trigger, trigger happy
    Yes I'm trigger, trigger happy
    (Oh baby, I'm)trigger, trigger happy
    Yes I'm trigger, trigger happy
    (Oh I'm so)trigger, trigger happy
    Yes I'm trigger, trigger happy
    Better watch out, punk, or I'm gonna have to blow you away

    Oh, I accidently shot daddy last night in the den
    I mistook him in the dark for a drug-crazed Nazi again
    Now why'd you have to get so mad?
    It was just a lousy flesh wound, Dad
    You know, I'm trigger happy, trigger happy every day

    Oh, I still haven't figured out the safety on my rifle yet
    Little Fluffy took a round, better take him to the vet
    I filled that kitty cat so full of lead
    We'll have to use him for a pencil instead
    Well, I'm so trigger happy, trigger happy every day

    (Oh yeah, I'm)trigger, trigger happy
    Yes I'm trigger, trigger happy
    (Oh baby, I'm)trigger, trigger happy
    Yes I'm trigger, trigger happy
    (Oh I'm so)trigger, trigger happy
    Yes I'm trigger, trigger happy
    Better watch out, punk, or I'm gonna have to blow you away

    Come on and grab your ammo
    What have you got to lose?
    We'll all get liquored up
    And shoot at anything that moves

    Got a brand new semi-automatic weapon with a laser sight
    Oh, I'm prayin' somebody tries to break in here tonight
    I always keep a Magnum in my trunk
    You better ask yourself, do you feel lucky, punk?
    Because I'm trigger happy, trigger happy every day

    (Oh yeah, I'm)trigger, trigger happy
    Yes I'm trigger, trigger happy
    (Oh baby, I'm)trigger, trigger happy
    Yes I'm trigger, trigger happy
    (Oh I'm so)trigger, trigger happy
    Yes I'm trigger, trigger happy
    Better watch out, punk, or I'm gonna have to blow you away
     
    #2 Isabel, Nov 17, 2004
  3. MR. MEOWGI

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    Will they still wear the deer urine?
     
    #3 MR. MEOWGI, Nov 17, 2004
  4. weakfromtoday

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    I always thought that the point of hunting was the trip, regardless if you killed anything or not. Seems like a dumb idea to me.

    Just because ya can....doesn't mean ya should.
     
    #4 weakfromtoday, Nov 17, 2004
  5. JayZ750

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    The website doesn't work when you click it. Must be complications already.
     
    #5 JayZ750, Nov 17, 2004
  6. Oski2005

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    The link in this thread is messed up, there's like a comma and a slash after com when you click it.

    Who sings that song Isabel? Right now it's reminding me of Grand Theft Auto, when you walk into the Ammunation gun stores and they have the commercials playing in there.

    This is from Vice City

    Speaker: The store leading the fight against communism is having a blow out
    sale! Ammu-Nation has a wide array of peacemakers! Come by Ammu-Nation
    on Militia Mondays, exercise your second Amendment right and get 10%
    off all armor piercing bullets. We’re the only gun store that let’s
    you try it before you buy it! Need anti-tank missile? We’ve got’em!
    Flamethrowers? Oh yeah! No credit, no problem! No money down, 90
    days, same as cash. Shoot now, pay later! If you’re in the 10 minute
    waiting period fire off a few rounds at the Ammu-Nation gun range,
    featuring faces of famous commie pinkos! Come by Ammu-Nation and
    register to win an anti-aircraft gun actually used when we whooped
    Australia’s ass! This weekend is the Ammu-Nation Film Festival with
    free screening of the documentary Red Dawn! Ammu-Nation protecting
    your rights!


    The fake website from GTA III is still up.
    "Ammunation. Whooping Liberal Pinkos since 1978!" (some of you who visit the D&D might think this is the kind of talk from some of our fellow members, it is eerie how much those guys sound like this parody)
    http://www.rockstargames.com/grandtheftauto3/flash/ammunation/
     
    #6 Oski2005, Nov 17, 2004
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  7. BrianKagy

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    This thread proves the Internet is a bad thing.
     
    #7 BrianKagy, Nov 17, 2004
  8. junglerules

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    I'm not sure who sings it, but I'm thinking it's Weird Al. It sounds extremely familiar. Am I right??
     
    #8 junglerules, Nov 17, 2004
  9. Isabel

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    You're right. :)
     
    #9 Isabel, Nov 17, 2004
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