Re: [meteorite-list] WHO IS THE Worst and least SUCCESSFUL METEORITE HUNTER O...
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
Re: [meteorite-list] WHO IS THE Worst and least SUCCESSFUL METEORITE HUNTER O...
Tom, that story beats all! LOL And I agree - Michael Blood may be one of the worst finders, but he's a great guy. :) Best regards, MikeG On 7/16/09, starsandsco...@aol.com starsandsco...@aol.com wrote: 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
