[meteorite-list] WI update

From: eric at meteoritesusa.com <eric_at_meteoritecentral.com>
Date: Fri, 30 Apr 2010 17:37:39 -0600
Message-ID: <20100430173739.s2j22lf3kos04ggo_at_webmail.meteoritesusa.com>

Hi Rob, Sonny, Karl, Rob R. Marc, All,

Rob, I just wanted to say it was great to meet you finally after 3
years of back and forth emails and list posts. It's always good to put
a face to the name. It was good to get to meet you and Marc Fries too
(pronouned "Freeze") which I learned. ;) And Rob, I'm happy you were
there for me to share my second WI meteorite find with. It was good to
meet Rob R., and finally get a chance to hunt with Sonny too, though I
don't think I'd call it hunting "with" Sonny, since he likes to
practically run through the fields! ;) Great find Sonny! That's a
phenomenal piece!!! It was great to see it in person. Karl, good to
meet you and congrats on your BIG find too!

There's still hunters in the field, some arriving, some leaving, but
all having funn, meeting and hunting with each other and best of all,
people are sharing mroe than during West, TX...

Now THAT is cool!

Happy Hunting to ALL!

Regards,
Eric




Quoting "Matson, Robert D." <ROBERT.D.MATSON at saic.com>:

> Hi All,
>
> First off, wanted to congratulate Joe on his nice 320g find. After
> so many days in the field, you deserved to find a big one.
>
> I put in about 30-35 miles of searching in my 2 1/2 days there,
> and as others who have walked much greater distances will tell
> you, that's probably only enough to have about a 50% chance of
> finding a stone. Rumor has it Robert Ward walked a good 120
> miles to make his two finds! Unfortunately, I was not so fortunate,
> and came home w/o a find. But Sonny made a nice 144-gram find
> on Wednesday searching the same farm where I spent most of that
> day. That's two big finds for Sonny, this one without an assist
> from Brix ;-)
>
> All of the farmers I met were terrific, which even without a
> find made the whole trip worthwhile. Special thanks to Terry
> Boudreaux are in order, for he was instrumental in connecting
> me with many of these fine people. (A personal referral from
> Terry is pretty much as good as gold in this area; the locals
> have nothing but glowing praise for him.)
>
> I was happy to finally meet Eric Wickman and Karl Aston, and
> it was fun hanging out with Sonny, Rob Reisener and Marc Fries
> in the evenings back at the hotel, working out search area
> strategies for the next day. Looking through my Inbox, I'm
> sorry to see that I missed Mike Jensen -- didn't know he was
> out there at the same time. Good luck out there, Mike, and
> to the others braving the weather today!
>
> Cheers,
> Rob
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Received on Fri 30 Apr 2010 07:37:39 PM PDT