Did my good deed for the week, lost glasses in the brush

mpostma

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Jul 21, 2008
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East Jordan, Michigan
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Minelab Etrac & Quattro
I was at Subway a couple of evenings ago a guy I know came up and asked if I thought I could use my detector to find a pair of glasses lost in the woods. I said I could give it a try, but wire frame glasses can be pretty tough.

His father in law was moving brush while he was cutting up trees for firewood. When they stopped for a minute to wipe some sweat off the father in law realized his brand new glasses were gone. They searched for a few hours, moved a bunch of brush piles, but had no luck.

Last night I went out with them right after work. Put the pro coil on my Quattro, and ran it over my glasses a few times.
As I had suspected, not too much signal off steel rims. At about 4" it would just give a little squeak, and show iron at a foot down. I worked around the brush for a couple of hours and got plenty of iron signals, but no glasses.
I went to the truck and put on my 5 /12" Sunray Excellerator coil, and tried that on my own glasses. Hmmm, needed to be within about 3 inches of the coil, and the scale was bottomed out for depth.
Started back at the last brush pile we moved, and caught my glasses on a branch and into the brush they fell.
When I swung my coil over them I got two distinct signals. Thought I had hit both bows. When I bent down to pick them up there was a lens laying on the ground! Checked my glasses, and they still had two. There lay the rest of the set about six inches from mine. When I looked them over I realized they were almost completely titanium! I must have gotten just the screws? Anyway, if I hadn't dropped mine I'm pretty sure I would never have found them.

We dropped the glasses off at his home, as he was gone to a funeral. Today he stopped over to thank me and offer to pay me for my time. I refused to let him pay me. I was just glad to be able to help him out!

Happy Hunting!
Mark
 

black651

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May 6, 2009
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Saint Paul, MN
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Bounty Hunter Pioneer 505, Whites Coinmaster, Bounty Hunter LRP
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That was very cool of you to help him out like that. Good job and I'm hoping this pays off with a little karma down the road when you are digging up your next find! :icon_thumright:
 

Deepdiger60

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Jun 18, 2009
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Long Island E-end
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Minelab Sov GT,Sovereign xs2-pro Fisher CZ21 Custom Skullies , Stealth 720-i
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Good hunt and return :icon_thumleft: sensitive MD to pick up just the screws :laughing9: sure glad LC,s weren't made of Titanium Good job Dd60
 

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