Where NOT To Hunt: First and foremost. Do not hunt on land you don't have permission to hunt on. This is perhaps the most important rule in the meteorite world. Trespassing is illegal. Don't do it. People that do, make it harder on the rest of the meteorite community, and it can tarnish reputations and turn people off to the professional meteorite hunters that do follow the rules. Also, not all terrain lends itself to meteorite hunting. Swamps wouldn’t be a good place to look, but anywhere that is relatively dry, with old ground is a great place to hunt. You can find meteorites just about anywhere on the planet. The Willamette meteorite for example (the largest meteorite ever found in the United States at 15.5 tons) was found in Oregon of all places. I don’t know if you’ve ever been to Oregon but it rains there in the forested areas almost daily. A lot of the Willamette had weathered away but it still is the biggest meteorite yet to be found in the U.S. If a chondrite (stone meteorite) falls in the ocean, the iron in it breaks down and will crumble into nothing in a short period of time. Water, humidity, and wind erosion contribute greatly to a meteorite’s demise.
A Little About Me I've been a wilderness junky all my life. I was born and raised in the sticks and spent my entire childhood and early adult life stomping around the wilds of Florida so I know a thing or two about hunting, and the outdoors. My dad was a sergeant in the Army and he raised us like little soldiers. He always told my sister and I to “Always Be Prepared”. We spent so much time in the wilderness it was like a second home to us. We would go on hunting trips and survival trips like other people went to the movies. This was great training for meteorite