Hi Michael, I just might have you beat. I spend most of my meteorite
time on the microscopes but I have spent more days hunting than I care to
remember and nothing.
My icing on the cake was when I took my son to Gold Basin and was certain
he would find some thing. I bought a 156 gr. Gold Basin on eBay and
placed
it under a bush. We hunted around so as to not make it look obvious of
what I had done and then we worked our way back to the hidden stone. Two
hours of looking for it and it was lost. He was done with that area and
wanted to move on. I kept saying "There has got to be one here, I just
know
it!"
Never did find that one!
Tom
In a message dated 7/16/2009 2:16:01 P.M. Mountain Daylight Time,
mlbl...@cox.net writes:
Hi All,
I nominate myself as the worst all time meteorite hunter.
I have searched 12 strewn fields including the following and under
The tutelage of no less than John Blennert at Gold Basin, The Lawrence
Family who LIVE in the Correo Strewn Field and have found more than
All others combined, and Steve Shoner, the Master of Holbrook:
Correo
Some stinking "Dry Lake" in CA
Gold Bason
Canyon Diablo
Glorietta
29 Palms
Holbrook
Others too numerous to even remember.....
My TOTAL "take" = one single Correo of 11.18g
Can anyone challenge my all time failure as a hunter?
I particularly remember walking parallel to John, only a few yards
Off to John Blennert's right and watching Gold Basin meteorites
Jump out of the ground and into his pockets. I swear at one
Point he picked up 5 different specimens in less than 5 minutes!
Me.... Well, not so good.
If anyone can challenge the magnitude of my record as the
Worst all time meteorite hunter, I double dog dare ya.
Best wishes, Michael
On 7/16/09 12:39 PM, "Steve Arnold dealer/Qynne" <meteorh...@aol.com>
wrote:
In a message dated 7/16/2009 12:11:43 P.M. Central Daylight Time,
joshuatreemus...@embarqmail.com writes:
Steve Arnold is a contender, I think he beat
the pants off Mike at West, but didn't he have a 5 year long drought?
*******
Phil,
I am honored by your mention, but we have to be serious here. I have
only
hunted at 7 sites in the last 4 years, spending 90% of my time at two
sites. West was a fun 28 day detour in it all.
Before 2005 I was an amateur meteorite hunter only hitting one or two
places a year with metal detector in hand. In 2003 I picked up 113
meteorites
from Park Forest, one being 11 km from the main mass, I found the most
there, but I don't think anyone else was even trying to find a lot.
For the most part, over the years I invested most of my time and made
most
of my money from being a dealer not a hunter.
If we are judging this by total weight recovered, I am beat by quite a
few
people on lifetime numbers. If we are judged by total number
recoveries
from different locations, there are many people who beat me. If we
judge by
profit from meteorite sales of found meteorites, there are many more
higher on that list than I am.
Maybe, if you judged success by most media coverage (TV, newspaper,
Radio,
Magazines,internet, etc.) I would be at the top of that list. But I
hardly think that is a good barometer for determining the "Most
Successful
Meteorite Hunter."
Success is our world is often judged by the amount of money you make.
So
who has made the most money? But what about people that are not in
this
for the bottom line only? Cottingham mentioned not willing to
sacrifice
family time to be gone from home too much. If his kids grow up
emotionally
well balanced because he was in their lives more, but someone else
finds more
meteorites but has a lousy home life, some people might argue who
really
was more of a "success?"
It is easier to measure who did the best at one location. Let's all
go
to Holbrook for the weekend, and whomever finds the most in number wins
the
title for the day. Or drop us off at Munonionalusta for a week, and we
can
put the bounty on the scales 7 days later. Who found the biggest West?
Or the most Wests? Or the most total weight of Wests? Who will find
the
most at this new Arizona Strewnfield?
I think it might be possible to single out who might have had the best
year financially, in total weight, in total numbers etc in a given
year, but
to stretch it out for more than a decade long period of time, that gets
a
bit tough, and very subjective.
Someone might be better or worse than their numbers indicate because of
other factors in their life. Others might just get a little lucky.
It is all so subjective.
And to top it off, I don't know if anyone out there is hell bent on
finding the most new meteorites, or the most total recovered weight, or
the
biggest single meteorite of all time. Most of us do this because we
love
it.
We love the challenge that each day brings, that each new fall brings,
that
each old strewnfield with new clues brings.
I would guess there are people that want to find as many as they can.
Or
to find the biggest they can. And I am sure there are people that want
to
make as much money as possible. But as with so many things in life, it
isn't so much beating everyone else, but beating mediocrity and being
the
best
one can be.
If being a husband, a father, a grandfather, a teacher, a dealer, a
scientists, etc. gets in the way of being a better "hunter" then we all
make
those quality decisions at different times in our lives.
And since this isn't like boxing, where one unquestionable champion
holds
the title until someone takes it away from him, and since this isn't
like
pro football with a Super Bowl game at the end of the playoffs, how do
you
measure the current Champion?
Maybe it would be better to look at this more like a "Hall of Fame"
question where a lifetime of contribution is recognized on a persons
individual
accomplishments and contributions.
Steve Arnold
of "Meteorite Men"
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