WHOA!!! Residents of hell, Ice cream is served!
The Safari Club, the NRA and the Humane Society (how often are those three on the same side of the table?) are backing a bill to get rid of INTERNET hunting. This whack-job pasttime allows people to shoot and kill live animals from anywhere in the world, using an automated rifle. You can bag hogs, sheep, deer and antelope.
Wazzathuh?!?!
Look, i'm not anti-hunting at all, but this is ridiculous...
<------ Someone needs a different hobby (And deserves all the haters he can muster). But, hey, what else is gonna get the NRA, the Safari Club, and the friggin humane society to be allies?
Might be one for the poo, but i thought i'd put it here because i doubt there'll be much debate. Internet Hunting?
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"You can challenge yourself and compare your skills to other members with our on-line target shooting" You really have to wonder about anyone that would find that challenging.
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I'm not anti hunting at all....especially if you are a hunter that uses all parts as much as possible. So my question what happens with the animal in situations like these?
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What if a person wonders out in the field???????
Would it be muder?????????
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Originally Posted by Muyaha
I'm not anti hunting at all....especially if you are a hunter that uses all parts as much as possible. So my question what happens with the animal in situations like these?
They pack the meat or get it stuffed and mail it to you.
The problem with this is that it's just plain unfair. The animal has no chance.
Take it like this...
A hunter who actually goes out there has to know his or her stuff. s/he has to be very quiet, try to stay upwind (or the other way 'round, i'm spacing on this one) so the animal can't smell you, and if you screw up that animal is *gone.* That takes skill, as these animals are experts in that game.
With this thing it's *bzzzzzzzzzzzzzt* *whrrrrrrrrrrr* as the rifle moves, then point and click. *bang* Those sounds are not associated with a predator at all. It's just not fair, which is probably why the Safari club is so against it.
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"What Would Ted Nugent Do?"
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Originally Posted by madmaxine
"What Would Ted Nugent Do?"
:P
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The Safari Club, the NRA and the Humane Society (how often are those three on the same side of the table?) are backing a bill to get rid of INTERNET hunting.
LOL, politics & $$$ make strange bedfellows. I'm anti-hunting (with a couple of exceptions) so yeah, I agree Internet hunting is lazier than most hunting.
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Most of the men in my life have been hunters and fishermen. I'm too much of a lady to say what they would about anyone that participated in a sham like that "hunting".
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From live-shot.com:
LIVE-SHOT is similar to a trip to the rifle range with one very notable exception. Everything is done through a computer and the internet. A paid membership will allow for access to the range viewing camera(s) at any time. Members can then schedule a reserved session time which allows exclusive control of the shooting system to fire at a choice of various reactive targets. Please note that the shooting range is an outdoor facility located on a secluded ranch in the Texas hill country. Please take this into consideration while shooting is taking place, as weather can affect accuracy.
At all times during a shooting session, someone is at the shooting station and is available to answer questions (e-mail, instant messaging), provide assistance, and ensure a quality experience. This person has the ability to override the firing mechanism of the system to minimize the chance of a dangerous or illegal discharge from occurring.
Sounds like a Darwin Award just waiting to happen. :O :shoot:
I can just imagine someone forgetting to disable the firing mechanism before going out to do some maintenence on one of those "reactive targets". Then of course, you've got some guy on the net in his basement in New Jersey whose just polished off his eighth beer of the afternoon, clicks his mouse and...
"Damn Zeke! I got another one!" :smiley_dr
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I don't even know what to say about this. How ridiculous are these people, go out and hunt like real men damnit. Is this kind of like a caged hunt?
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Why not just buy a hunting video game?
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How do the people that pay for this know that its real? It could just be a computer animation.
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Originally Posted by Destiny
How do the people that pay for this know that its real? It could just be a computer animation.
Destiny~ It is presently impossible to create actual video-quality stuff. And they know this is for real if they found it the way i did, through the cable news networks. Complete with interviews and complete with the gun moving and firing...