Bagging Game A Mouse Click Away

When we first met John Lockwood on his ranch near San Antonio, we couldn't imagine that his robotic rifle that he keeps locked in a shed was quite so advanced or quite so popular.

He says people from "all over the world" are logging on to his Web site, Liveshot.com.

As CBS News Correspondent Lee Cowan reports, it offers anyone the chance to point a .22 caliber rifle at a target and pull the trigger, or in this case, click a mouse.

But he now wants to use the Internet to shoot live animals and that has made him one of Texas's most wanted men.

"That's not something that is ethical in anyone's imagination," says Kirby Brown of the Texas Wildlife Association.

Brown argues that at its core, hunting is about communing with nature, not basking in the blue light of a computer screen.

"Clicking a mouse in downtown Dallas or New York is not hunting," says Brown.

Moreover, big game hunters, like Jerry Johnston, say that ethically speaking, animals deserve to be killed by someone who's at least present.

"It's just not hunting, it's killing," says Johnston with the Texas Trophy Hunters Association.

Lockwood accepts and understand the criticism directed at him, but he says it's misplaced.

This isn't for active hunters like Johnston, it's for those who have never tried hunting before, he says.

It's also for those who can't hunt, like Dale Hagberg. He was paralyzed so badly he can barely speak. His one wish was to be able to hunt again.

He can only go outside when the weather is really nice.

By using his mouth to navigate the Web site, he can watch animals walk back and forth in front of the gun's camera and recapture, he says, the thrill he lost 17 years ago when he dove into a shallow lake.

"It's basically good medicine," says Hagberg.

But it's a bitter pill for most hunters to swallow, which is why they're hunting for ways to outlaw it for good.

"I'm going to keep going forward until it's not legal anymore," says Lockwood.

It's an unpopular position in Texas, where hunting is a religion, guns are sacred and any change in tradition is considered blasphemy.