tnt-hunter
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- Apr 20, 2018
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- Fisher CZ-21, Minelab Equinix 800, ,Garret AT Pro,
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As I was leaving my hunt on Sunday I got a call from a guy I know. His wife had lost her diamond engagement ring in a local park by the pavilion. They had posted on Facebook looking for someone with a metal detector. A good friend of mine who works with him saw it (I?m not on Facebook) and told him to call me, that I am good with a metal detector. He called and I told him I could meet him on Monday morning.
I know this man because he and his wife have worked with a local organization that provides Christmas toys for underprivileged children. They serve over 2000 children each year and he has been with the organization for over 30 years. During most of that time my Boy Scout troop has helped out at the gift wrap that helps raise money for the toys. My wife and I alway donate and for the past several years my wife has made knitted hats to give to the kids. (They always give a warm hat and gloves to each child who gets toys). I coordinate the scouts participation with this guy so we talk several times a year. I really wanted to find the ring for him.
We met and he showed me the rather small area he thought she lost the ring in. I slowly gridded the area and got down and pinpointed all the likely targets hoping to see the gold shining back at me in the thick grass. No luck. He and his wife had gone through the trash so I detected that area they had used in case it had fallen into the grass. Again no luck. We emptied out the trash (the bags were in a fenced enclosure and his bags were different from the rest so we knew we had the right bags). I removed the cans from the trash and scanned everything else. No ring. He said he would have to go home and search trough her car in case it fell off there. I stayed and reworked the area at a 90 degree angle to the first time, this time digging all the mid and high tones in case a stronger signal masked the thinner gold ring. With the first look and the redetecting of the area I worked for 5 hours and could not find the ring. It might have gone home with one of the kiddies because she did use her ring hand to break the pi?ata at the party when it failed to break. Her ring may have been bagged up with the candy the kiddies scrambled to get. One thing I know for sure it is not where they thought it was lost.
I am really disappointed. These folks are great people and they deserve to get their ring back. I have returned 19 class rings and other numerous pieces of lost jewelry in my 19 years of detecting. Why couldn?t I find this one?
I didn?t come away empty handed. I did dig 58 pop tabs, 76 coins with a face value of $4.25, 3 game piece beaver tail tabs, a kiddie ring, a cheapie pendant, a live pistol round, an allen wrench screw driver combo, bottle caps, foil and a little can slaw.
It was a frustrating day. 90 and sunny, dripping in sweat, constantly digging what I thought might be the ring only to get more junk. I will go back and see if I can figure out where the ring might have flown off her finger. I did do part of the adjacent tot lot with that in mind. Thanks for looking, stay safe, may your coil lead you to good things and may your luck be better than mine was on this day.
I know this man because he and his wife have worked with a local organization that provides Christmas toys for underprivileged children. They serve over 2000 children each year and he has been with the organization for over 30 years. During most of that time my Boy Scout troop has helped out at the gift wrap that helps raise money for the toys. My wife and I alway donate and for the past several years my wife has made knitted hats to give to the kids. (They always give a warm hat and gloves to each child who gets toys). I coordinate the scouts participation with this guy so we talk several times a year. I really wanted to find the ring for him.
We met and he showed me the rather small area he thought she lost the ring in. I slowly gridded the area and got down and pinpointed all the likely targets hoping to see the gold shining back at me in the thick grass. No luck. He and his wife had gone through the trash so I detected that area they had used in case it had fallen into the grass. Again no luck. We emptied out the trash (the bags were in a fenced enclosure and his bags were different from the rest so we knew we had the right bags). I removed the cans from the trash and scanned everything else. No ring. He said he would have to go home and search trough her car in case it fell off there. I stayed and reworked the area at a 90 degree angle to the first time, this time digging all the mid and high tones in case a stronger signal masked the thinner gold ring. With the first look and the redetecting of the area I worked for 5 hours and could not find the ring. It might have gone home with one of the kiddies because she did use her ring hand to break the pi?ata at the party when it failed to break. Her ring may have been bagged up with the candy the kiddies scrambled to get. One thing I know for sure it is not where they thought it was lost.
I am really disappointed. These folks are great people and they deserve to get their ring back. I have returned 19 class rings and other numerous pieces of lost jewelry in my 19 years of detecting. Why couldn?t I find this one?
I didn?t come away empty handed. I did dig 58 pop tabs, 76 coins with a face value of $4.25, 3 game piece beaver tail tabs, a kiddie ring, a cheapie pendant, a live pistol round, an allen wrench screw driver combo, bottle caps, foil and a little can slaw.
It was a frustrating day. 90 and sunny, dripping in sweat, constantly digging what I thought might be the ring only to get more junk. I will go back and see if I can figure out where the ring might have flown off her finger. I did do part of the adjacent tot lot with that in mind. Thanks for looking, stay safe, may your coil lead you to good things and may your luck be better than mine was on this day.
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