[meteorite-list] How about a thread to discuss hunting ethics - west

[MeteorHntr at aol.com]

Jason,

Remind us all what weights you found and how much the trip  cost you and your 
dad, and the cost of the time your dad had to invest in lost  Medical Doctor 
wages to find what you guys found?  OK, leave out of the  formula what your 
dad's time is worth, that is none of our business.  Why  don't you just figure 
your time invested as being worth $15/hour, for the total  cost.

Now, recalculate what your cost per gram would have been if you  didn't find 
your big rock, as few hunters were as lucky as you were in finding  such a big 
rock. 

Also, break down what it cost YOU for your finds per  gram and break down 
what price per gram your dad paid for all of HIS  grammage of rocks he found, if 
you would for us?

By the way, how much are  you willing to sell some of your specimens for?  
Would you sell them for  double your cost, for a not so "clinically insane" 
price of say  maybe $24/g?   At that price, I might be a  buyer.

Steve
 


In a message dated 4/2/2009 6:16:52 P.M. Central Daylight Time,  
meteoritekid at gmail.com writes:
When their profit margin is extremely high  (after
calculating the cost of our trip, we paid $12/g for the West  stones
that we found on public land - compare to the clinically  insane
selling prices of $50-100/g), 
 
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