The Hunter

[RickC Sniper]

Originally Posted by Skybird

You are in urgent need to link that setup with a tablet with the Leopard's virtual gunner's seat from SBP!

What a GREAT idea! But wait.....maybe not!

I once stumbled on a website designed by a private hunting reserve located somewhere in Texas. They advertised a "real hunt".....right from your desk!

They set up a rifle with motors which allowed you sitting at your computer to elevate and traverse and fire. They then charged many many thousands of dollars which allowed anyone in the world to kill a deer.
They then butchered the animal, froze the meat and sent it to the customer. Their claim was that most of their customers were from countries that outlawed guns or simply lived where hunting was something one could not do.

I am quite certain this required reserve employees "shooing" a passive, probably drugged animal in front of the rifle's field of fire, which was quite narrow.

Thankfully they were in operation only a short time.

[Skybird]

Originally Posted by RickC Sniper

What a GREAT idea! But wait.....maybe not!

I once stumbled on a website designed by a private hunting reserve located somewhere in Texas. They advertised a "real hunt".....right from your desk!

They set up a rifle with motors which allowed you sitting at your computer to elevate and traverse and fire. They then charged many many thousands of dollars which allowed anyone in the world to kill a deer.
They then butchered the animal, froze the meat and sent it to the customer. Their claim was that most of their customers were from countries that outlawed guns or simply lived where hunting was something one could not do.

I am quite certain this required reserve employees "shooing" a passive, probably drugged animal in front of the rifle's field of fire, which was quite narrow.

Thankfully they were in operation only a short time.

Samsung Sentry Drone? Sony Autonomous Combat Droid? Those things are real, unfortunately, though under different names.

And they all run by Chinese-made chips, like almost all Western hightech weaponry as well.

I wonder if that is clever.

Hm. I am hijacking my own thread again.

(from a German comedy that was very successful over here).

[Oberon]

I couldn't agree with you more if I tried Skybird. There have been numerous disasterous attempts to 'manage' nature in this country, and around the world. From introducing Myxomatosis to rabbits in Australia, to culling falcons in the UK in order to try and help the sparrow population to grow. Man never knows the balance like nature does, it's a self-regulating machine and every time we interact with it, we break it.

In regards to hunting being a more American thing...nonsense. It's very popular around the whole of Europe and is a way of life in parts of Russia. However, Skybird is again right in that for most people in the UK it involves copious amounts of alcohol from hip flasks, a shotgun and a very docile bird...which they usually miss because they're so drunk. That is not hunting, there is very little skill involved in it, and it's primarily for rich merchant bankers to get together and get drunk whilst maintaining their air of richness since it's primarily a 'sport' that rich and upper class people do, whilst the lower classes go and act as 'beaters' (disturbing the game birds so they fly up into the sights of the shotguns). Proper hunting, the likes of which this game simulates, is a relatively rare thing and has declined over the years as tougher laws on what can be shot have come in, because of overhunting.

I too have heard about the hunting website nonsense, and am glad that the site in question has shut down, however, sadly, I am sure that there are others.

[Red October1984]

I guess you guys just don't understand the people of Southeast Missouri. Deer season is treated as an annual holiday.


I'll let you guys have your thread back.

[Skybird]

@ Oberon,

off topic, but I don'T know if you still patrol the flightsim forum. The long awaited extended version of the Airbus 320 by Aerosoft that you once asked me about (years ago), has been released two days ago. Five manuals. So far download only, boxed version follows by the end of January. First feedback in their forum I read yesterday was very positive. But customer demand has brought down their servers.

[AVGWarhawk]

I downloaded this sim last night. Played a few tutorials. Kind of fun and relaxing.

[Oberon]

Originally Posted by Skybird

@ Oberon,

off topic, but I don'T know if you still patrol the flightsim forum. The long awaited extended version of the Airbus 320 by Aerosoft that you once asked me about (years ago), has been released two days ago. Five manuals. So far download only, boxed version follows by the end of January. First feedback in their forum I read yesterday was very positive. But customer demand has brought down their servers.

Oooh, thanks for the heads up, I'll have to take a look at that.

Another (virtual) hunter here. This game is a pearl, just a little expensive for my taste (the ingame currency for example).
One has to invest a nice sum to enjoy everything the game has to offer - but still, its everyones choice how much to spend on it...
I just reactivated my membership for 3 month and went to explore Hirschfelden and its new prey a little more. And I was very lucky as well.
My new favorite weapon is definately the Recurve Bow with illuminated arrows. They help a ton to track and find wounded animals - and look fancy.

[Aktungbby]

God bless! "trapper clothes"! I still make 'em to go with my blackpowder rifles , also made by me and I knapp my own obsidian knife points and attach stag handles to 'em for that 'buckskinner' motif but now that I see I can go virtual hey... I'm ' GAME' 'Possible bags and gun barrel sheaths included. The percussion caps are German, the mos' reliable... natch!