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Ready, Aim... Click?
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By meaCulpa, Section Culture
Posted on Mon May 9th, 2005 at 01:26:28 PM PDT
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Fragin' your buddies online not doing it for you anymore? Perhaps you'd like to kill something for real while you bask in the warm cathode rays of your computer monitor. Well, if that is the case, your wait is over. Live Shot, an online business out of Texas, offers thier members the opportunity to schedule an online hunt. You heard it right, online hunting.
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Being from a little po-dunk Texas town, I grew up around strange hunting pratices that always seemed a bit questionable to me. When deer hunting season began each year, hundreds of city slicker hunters decended on our town traveling to deer leases that they had aquired from the locals. Perhaps in Washington, hunting means truging around in the mud and the cold, patiently stalking an animal until you found the right moment to pull the trigger. This is not so in Texas, where many landowners have deer blinds where you can sit and wait for the deer to come to you. Doesn't sound like that would work very well, does it? Well it does when you install a time release deer feeder in front of the deer blind, and feed them all year round. The deer, and other animals like wild boar get into their routine of going to the feeder everday at certain times, then when hunting season rolls around, they get a nasty surprise with their breakfast.
There are people who don't hunt this way in Texas, but for the most part this is how it's done, so it wasn't much of a shock to find out that online hunting was being offered in Texas too. The "hunter" has to buy a Texas hunting license, which makes the business is all legit, well at least in some states. Apparently California has pending legislation to ban this activity in thier state.
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