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

From: Rob Wesel <rob_at_meteoritecentral.com>
Date: Thu, 16 Jul 2009 15:37:24 -0700
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That's pretty hard to beat Tom. I once lost a chameleon, that's what you get
for putting them back outside.

Rob Wesel
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----- Original Message -----
From: <STARSANDSCOPES at aol.com>
To: <mlblood at cox.net>
Cc: <meteorite-list at meteoritecentral.com>
Sent: Thursday, July 16, 2009 3:33 PM
Subject: Re: [meteorite-list] WHO IS THE Worst and least SUCCESSFULMETEORITE
HUNTER O...


> 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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