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

From: Michael Farmer <meteoritehunter_at_meteoritecentral.com>
Date: Thu, 16 Jul 2009 13:27:44 -0700
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Michael
Oh my god I just blew hot sauce out of
My nose reading this! Frigging pricless. Dude you may not have
foundany meteorites but you tried and that is all anyone can do.
Michael Farmer

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Michael


On Jul 16, 2009, at 1:15 PM, Michael Blood <mlblood at cox.net> 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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