Internet hunt

Internet hunt (plural Internet hunts)

1. The practice of hunting animals by controlling a firearm over the Internet.
   • 2005 March 3, “Virtual adrenalin”, in The Economist‎:

     Mr Giles says he is honoured that Mr Lockwood, a friend and co-worker, chose him for the first internet hunt — even if Mr Lockwood had to grab his rifle and finish off that wild hog after Mr Giles's first shot didn't quite do the job.

   • 2005 March 20, Toby Harnden, “Hunters queue up to shoot live animals over the internet”, in The Telegraph‎:

     The next internet hunt is scheduled for April 9. Dale Hagberg, 38, from Indiana, who has been paralysed from the chin down for 18 years, will use a joystick operated by his mouth to shoot at a blackbuck antelope.

   • 2009 January 30, Carrie Haderlie, “Virtual hunting shot down”, in Laramie Boomerang‎:

     During an Internet hunt, Gasson explained that a “hunter” will sit in front of a computer in any location, visit a Web site that offers hunts for a fee of about $1,500-$2,000 and wait as an animal — often a deer fenced into a small area — is lured into the sights of a remote-controlled gun with Purina Deer Chow.

   • 2011 February 4, “North Dakota bill aims to prohibit hunting via Internet”, in Park Rapids Enterprise‎, archived from the original on 21 June 2020:

     The bill also bans hosting an Internet hunt, enabling someone else to hunt through the Internet, and importing, exporting or possessing wildlife that's been killed by an Internet hunt.

2. An Internet-based scavenger hunt.
3. A collective search for a person by Internet users; attempted doxxing.
   • 2006 June 4, “From flash mob to lynch mob”, in CNN‎:

     One, a professor of psychology at the Shanghai Academy of Social Sciences, called for an "Internet hunt for the immoral foreigner" and called repeatedly for the man to be "found and kicked out of China!!!"

   • 2017 May 12, Daily Mercury‎, archived from the original on 22 June 2020:

     Naked shark straddler sparks internet hunt