Desertsunburn Posted April 23, 2011 Share Posted April 23, 2011 http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TZy0eFujNrc Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
VegasRocker Posted April 23, 2011 Share Posted April 23, 2011 I wish I had more time on my hands.....and more money too. ;) Cool video Jim, thanks for sharing! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Kaimi Posted April 23, 2011 Share Posted April 23, 2011 Aloha Jim,See you are still hitting the desert a lot before the summer heat hits. Nice find guy.Will be in touch soon.Aloha and stay safe.Stan aka Kaimi Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Goldfinger Posted April 23, 2011 Share Posted April 23, 2011 Jim-Really nice video. Great for newbies. Thanks for posting.Now if we can only find a way to identify the valuable non-magnetic meteorites in the field. :shrug: Steve Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Desertsunburn Posted April 23, 2011 Author Share Posted April 23, 2011 Jim-Really nice video. Great for newbies. Thanks for posting.Now if we can only find a way to identify the valuable non-magnetic meteorites in the field. :shrug: SteveHi Steve!Thanks. The intent of the video was to encourage new folks to do the tests to determine if they have a meteorite.Not too long ago I had a lot of Elmers helping me out....most from this list right here....so I am paying it forward...so to speak.Some of the "lab types" are really complaining about too many meteor-wrongs....and that hurts all of us.You can study the pictures of the Lunars and Martians all day long and until you get your hands on them.....yada yada. So, if I see an interesting rock, I collect it and keep it around. I'd swear up and down I've found CK4's but have no idea....really.Over on the Club Space Rock forum, we are having a contest of sorts called Name That Meteorite. I've won it three times so far! Kind of fun and educational....and the last one was a lunar (A) from Meteorite Hills! It makes one pull the books and research.Stan, Yeah, when we are not out in a known strewn field, we are hunting for that elusive cold find. Someday....Someday....These gas prices are killing me!Jim Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Nugget Shooter Posted April 23, 2011 Share Posted April 23, 2011 Cool stuff and just what this forum is about. Good educational diddy there Jim! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
DolanDave Posted April 23, 2011 Share Posted April 23, 2011 Great instructional video Jim, As you were showing the window in the video, there was some nice new looking spent shotgun shells on the ground.... Watch out if you did that on BLM land, I was shooting out in the desert once, and had 2 BLM rangers show up, they were nice enough not to take my weapons, as I had my blue cards for both my handguns, but gave me a fat ticket for illegal discharge of weapons in a non designated area. Kind of scared the crap out of me, zoomed in a hundred miles an hour, got out of their vehicle with weapons drawn on me, like it was Iraq. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Desertsunburn Posted April 23, 2011 Author Share Posted April 23, 2011 Great instructional video Jim, As you were showing the window in the video, there was some nice new looking spent shotgun shells on the ground.... Watch out if you did that on BLM land, I was shooting out in the desert once, and had 2 BLM rangers show up, they were nice enough not to take my weapons, as I had my blue cards for both my handguns, but gave me a fat ticket for illegal discharge of weapons in a non designated area. Kind of scared the crap out of me, zoomed in a hundred miles an hour, got out of their vehicle with weapons drawn on me, like it was Iraq.Hi Dave!Nope...not me....I do not trash the desert.Jim Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
EdD270 Posted April 24, 2011 Share Posted April 24, 2011 WOW, very well done tutorial, desertsunburn. I can see how you got your handle, spending all that time in the desert. thanks for the video, it's very helpful to us newbies. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
peakbager Posted April 25, 2011 Share Posted April 25, 2011 Jim,Great video should be of great help to some , looking forward to meeting you and your lovely wife again maybe we will cross paths in the desert sometime. Great cold find let us know what ya got after it is tested.Bryan Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
moondog Posted April 26, 2011 Share Posted April 26, 2011 Jim, Nice video!! Tried the Dremil on cutting a stone once. The cutting wheel, after a while, got red hot and flew into dust in one single second. I think water cooled it might have worked. Yea I have spent most my hunting time looking for coldies, and at $80 min for gas it hurts. It would be great to walk on to a strewn field, but even to find one would be great. Not yet, but, I keep finding the money and keep hunting. The beautiful Nature ya find in the places ya hunt is the real reward! Good Hunting! Clifton Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
edheinrich Posted May 4, 2011 Share Posted May 4, 2011 Jim, I am a newbie and I found your video very exciting. In the last week I was able to put in about 14 hours in the local desert, El Centro, Ca. area. I save lots of rocks to test later. S. Calif. does not seem to have the concentration of meteorites that Az. has. We will keep trying. Two days ago I had just started hunting and found human skelatal remains so that day ended early. You just don't know what you will find. Thanks again for the video.Ed Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Desertsunburn Posted May 5, 2011 Author Share Posted May 5, 2011 Jim, I am a newbie and I found your video very exciting. In the last week I was able to put in about 14 hours in the local desert, El Centro, Ca. area. I save lots of rocks to test later. S. Calif. does not seem to have the concentration of meteorites that Az. has. We will keep trying. Two days ago I had just started hunting and found human skelatal remains so that day ended early. You just don't know what you will find. Thanks again for the video.EdWow! Was that in the El Centro area? Glad you enjoyed the video.More to come.Jim Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
edheinrich Posted May 5, 2011 Share Posted May 5, 2011 Wow! Was that in the El Centro area? Glad you enjoyed the video.More to come.JimJim, It was closer to Ocotillo about 30 mi W. of El Centro. The bones were very old and scattered over a large area close to a road. Kind of strange they were not previously reported. Ed Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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