[meteorite-list] WHO IS THE Worst and least SUCCESSFUL METEORITE HUNTER OUT...

Thu Jul 16 16:18:28 EDT 2009

That is real funny! Keep trying, your destined to find the 1st  
American Lunar! A kind of meteoritic justice.

Best Wishes

Michael Cottingham
On Jul 16, 2009, at 1:15 PM, Michael Blood wrote:

> 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"  
> <MeteorHntr at aol.com> wrote:
>
>> In a message dated 7/16/2009 12:11:43 P.M. Central Daylight Time,
>> joshuatreemuseum at 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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