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

Thu Jul 16 18:33:20 EDT 2009

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, 
mlblood at 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"  <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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