[meteorite-list] Meteorite hunters flock to West area

From: David Pensenstadler <dfpens01_at_meteoritecentral.com>
Date: Sat, 21 Feb 2009 14:29:40 -0800 (PST)
Message-ID: <634660.50879.qm_at_web90303.mail.mud.yahoo.com>

Mike:

Good explanation for those of us who can only sit back here and wish. Hope you find that main mass.

Dave


--- On Fri, 2/20/09, Michael Farmer <meteoriteguy at yahoo.com> wrote:

> From: Michael Farmer <meteoriteguy at yahoo.com>
> Subject: Re: [meteorite-list] Meteorite hunters flock to West area
> To: "Meteorite Central" <meteorite-list at meteoritecentral.com>, MeteorHntr at aol.com, dfpens01 at yahoo.com
> Date: Friday, February 20, 2009, 10:13 PM
> All of this land is private, and let me tell you, you had
> better get permission first, then hunt. Just today we asked
> permission to hunt one property and were flat out denied,
> the old woman said that not one person had better set foot
> on her land. apparently someone had and had been seen by the
> landowners. We were hunting the property next door and
> watching those people patrol on four-wheelers, glaring at
> us.
> Strange people out here, but some really nice ones. We
> contracted several hundred acres today, free to search, we
> must pay a set gramprice to the owners for anything we find.
>
> We have already made payments to landowners. That is not
> public need to know, just between the hunters and the
> landowners.
> There will not be any free ride out here, that is for sure.
>
> Some pieces have been found in the roads though, that is
> finder-keeper.
> Michael Farmer
>
>
> --- On Fri, 2/20/09, David Pensenstadler
> <dfpens01 at yahoo.com> wrote:
>
> > From: David Pensenstadler <dfpens01 at yahoo.com>
> > Subject: Re: [meteorite-list] Meteorite hunters flock
> to West area
> > To: "Meteorite Central"
> <meteorite-list at meteoritecentral.com>,
> MeteorHntr at aol.com
> > Date: Friday, February 20, 2009, 3:13 PM
> > Mike, Moritz, Robert, Shauna, and others:
> >
> > Great work.
> >
> > I was wondering whether this fall is on private, city,
> or
> > government property, and who actually owns the finds.
> Since
> > Mike posted that this is all farm country I inferred
> that it
> > is all private property. If so, do you guys always
> get
> > permission to hunt the property? Do the property
> owners get
> > anything in return for their permission to hunt?
> >
> > With so many people arriving to hunt, it seems that
> this
> > could be a concern by some hunters if not all people
> know
> > the proper procedures for hunting on various types of
> > property.
> >
> > Just wondering.
> >
> > Dave
> > --- On Fri, 2/20/09, Jim Strope
> <nwa482 at comcast.net>
> > wrote:
> >
> > > From: Jim Strope <nwa482 at comcast.net>
> > > Subject: [meteorite-list] Meteorite hunters flock
> to
> > West area
> > > To: "Meteorite Central"
> > <meteorite-list at meteoritecentral.com>
> > > Date: Friday, February 20, 2009, 8:25 AM
> > > Interesting Article on Texas Fall:
> > >
> > >
> http://www.star-telegram.com/804/story/1214950.html
> > >
> > > Jim Strope
> > > 421 Fourth Street
> > > Glen Dale, WV 26038
> > >
> > > http://www.catchafallingstar.com
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