Live-Shot already lets people practise shooting at targets via the internet and plans to them them use a remote-controlled rifle to shoot down deers, mouflon sheeps, antelopes and wild pigs as they roam around a 133-hectare Texas ranch.

John Underwood got the idea a year ago when he was watching deer via a webcam on another net site, “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.”

Each remote hunting session will cost $150 with additional fees for meat processing and taxidermy work.

Mike Berger, wildlife director of the Texas Parks and Wildlife Department, said current hunting statutes did not cover net or remote hunting. Besides, the law only covers “regulated animals” and there’s thus nothing to stop Mr Underwood letting people hunt “unregulated” imported animals.

Via BBC News.