Internet controlled Shotguns??

[DerGolgo]

http://io9.com/5734863/internet+control ... nfestation

A man in southern Georgia, apparently fed up with all the wild hogs on his property but unwilling to spend unnecessary time outdoors, set up a complex network of webcams and powerful shotguns to solve his little problem.

The setup, believed to be the work of former property owner Jay Williams, allowed the user to observe the immediate area using webcams and then fire the guns remotely. The firearms were aimed towards a nearby food plot that's often infested with wild pigs. The guns were expensive Benelli shotguns, chambered for 3-inch shells and equipped with magazine extension tubes. For those of you who, like me, don't know the first thing about guns, here's what that means - those shotguns could have killed a ton of hogs. And then some.

Okay, so, this is illegal...everywhere?
I'm sure, somewhere in Russia (or Texas), someone is already registering domain names to sell this as a kit.
Also, watchout for "www.hunt-from-home.com".
Not to mention the endless possible applications this can have for self-financing warlords and dictators.
www.shoot-the-traitor.com, etc.

[rolly]

There was a website startup a couple years ago that did the internet 'hunting' thing, but I think they ran into regulatory trouble.

[Ban Guzzi]

Eh, I live in Texas. It seems everyone here hunts. And they also spend the year feeding the deer, pigs, whatever, in anticipation of 'hunting' season.
This doesn't surprise me at all. The shocker would be if more didn't already have this set up.

[JoJoLesh]

I seem to have memory of someone doing this about a decade ago (closed loop system then) to help disabled persons "enjoy the thrill of hunting"

I enjoy hunting, dont get me wrong, but this is not it. Nor is it a reasonable facsimile. Though, not being hunting (in ANY form) I do not have have an issue with it in the control of feral hogs.

[Sisyphus]

Pfft. That's nothin'. Here in Maine, they bait bears with 55-gallon drums of old donuts, get them used to feeding at the bait stations, and then right before the opening day of "hunting" season, they set traps.
All the "hunter" has to do then is walk out in the morning/afternoon/whenever he gets 'round to it, point a .44 at a trapped bear and shoot it in the head.

You want to know how they "hunt" coyotes here?

[DerGolgo]

You want to know how they "hunt" coyotes here?

Leave unattended babies in tents?
No, wait, that's Dingos...

[piccini9]

What could possibly go wrong?

[Sisyphus]

You want to know how they "hunt" coyotes here?

Leave unattended babies in tents?
No, wait, that's Dingos...

I actually have a really awesome story about that; more like an adult woman on a "safari" in Kenya, a Masai guide, and a hyena. True fuckin' story, too.

But no, this is far less awesome. To hunt coyotes here, you take several hound dogs, put them in the truck, attach radio collars to them and then let them go.
The dogs supposedly catch the scent of a coyote and follow them, driving them in whatever direction the coyotes run. The guys with the radio tracking gear and the guns get back in the truck and drive around on the roads trying to intercept one, two or maybe four or five dogs that are supposed to be driving a/several coyotes/deer, anything they think they can smell toward an intesecting point of road and chase. This can involve several u-turns, radio conversations between guys with other truckloads of dogs running all over other people's private property that are uninvolved in the "hunt," and countless hours of waiting. Eventually the coyote will run across the road where a gun-toting human sees it, jumps out of the cab of his truck with full camo gear and shoots it. Several more hours are consumed trying to find the missing dogs.
I usually see the carcasses of eastern coyotes, which are bigger than their western cousins, hanging from basketball hoops, front porches off trailers, what have you. 9 times out of 10 the guys that do this don't even own any livestock that may be threatened by coyotes. The rest of us are overrun with skunks, possum, raccoons, feral rats, and porcupines.
Fucking stupid.
I've often fantasized about hiding out in the woods with a suppressed AR-15 and a ghillie suit, "hunting" dogs. But that'd be a good way to get your house burned down if anyone ever found out.

[DerGolgo]

I've often fantasized about hiding out in the woods with a suppressed AR-15 and a ghillie suit, "hunting" dogs. But that'd be a good way to get your house burned down if anyone ever found out.

Your problem, sir, is that you're thinking too small.
Have you considered breeding ferocious killer beasts, trained to go for radio-collar wearing dogs, but not coyotes, a'la the pigs in Hannibal, or something like that, and drilling a small group of "judas coyotes" to lure a pack of dogs into a place for easy ambush by your killer beasts?

Now, wouldn't that liven things up a bit?

Or maybe attach small explosive charges to coyotes, so the hunters don't get a trophy after shooting them.

"Mystery exploding coyotes. Film at eleven."

[rolly]

You want to know how they "hunt" coyotes here?

Leave unattended babies in tents?
No, wait, that's Dingos...

I actually have a really awesome story about that; more like an adult woman on a "safari" in Kenya, a Masai guide, and a hyena. True fuckin' story, too.

But no, this is far less awesome. To hunt coyotes here, you take several hound dogs, put them in the truck, attach radio collars to them and then let them go.
The dogs supposedly catch the scent of a coyote and follow them, driving them in whatever direction the coyotes run. The guys with the radio tracking gear and the guns get back in the truck and drive around on the roads trying to intercept one, two or maybe four or five dogs that are supposed to be driving a/several coyotes/deer, anything they think they can smell toward an intesecting point of road and chase. This can involve several u-turns, radio conversations between guys with other truckloads of dogs running all over other people's private property that are uninvolved in the "hunt," and countless hours of waiting. Eventually the coyote will run across the road where a gun-toting human sees it, jumps out of the cab of his truck with full camo gear and shoots it. Several more hours are consumed trying to find the missing dogs.
I usually see the carcasses of eastern coyotes, which are bigger than their western cousins, hanging from basketball hoops, front porches off trailers, what have you. 9 times out of 10 the guys that do this don't even own any livestock that may be threatened by coyotes. The rest of us are overrun with skunks, possum, raccoons, feral rats, and porcupines.
Fucking stupid.
I've often fantasized about hiding out in the woods with a suppressed AR-15 and a ghillie suit, "hunting" dogs. But that'd be a good way to get your house burned down if anyone ever found out.

It's like a twenty-first century redneck re-imagining of the English fox hunt. I'm kind of impressed.

As for bait, coyotes prefer folk singers to babies.