I have no beef about hunting necessarily. However hunting real deer from a PC instead of actually showing enough initiative to get off your butt to do it in person, well that is just sad.

I was raised that hunting is not a game, it is something that should only be done if you plan on eating what you take down. As someone who has hunted, I learned at an early age that it is not a game whatsoever. The idea of sitting in a chair and using technology to do the dirty work for you is just unacceptable to me. Those who choose to do this cannot seriously tell me that they are doing this for food. They are doing it because they think it is ‘cool’.

The Web site 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.