DrDetector
Bronze Member
- Joined
- Jan 20, 2007
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- Location
- Pittsburgh, PA
- Detector(s) used
- White's Spectrum XLT
14k White gold wedding band found & returned!
Long story short, the next door neighbor to my girlfriend's mom had thrown her wedding band off her finger and into their yard roughly 3 years ago, and upon hearing that I had a metal detector, my girlfriend's mom told me about this. I said I thought I could find it if they let me look with the detector. So the first two times I tried, I didnt' get there until nighttime, and with moths and bugs going after the flashlight I had it wasn't very efficient detecting. The third time I tried it was afternoon, and the family's kids were enthralled with the detector, and I literally couldn't swing it because I had kids on each side of me awaiting the treasures I may dig up!
So, the 4th time, I decided I needed to get serious and try to find this thing, since I judged it couldn't be anywhere other than this yard (road was too far, yard was fairly large). So I get to it, detect for maybe an hour and a half, digging up EVERY signal. Finally come upon a somewhat broken up signal in the +15 area on my White's XLT, dug it, and found the ring. I took some pics of it still in the ground, and some of it out. The neighbor was SOOOO excited I had found it for her. I even got a $40 reward which I refused, but in the end it was basically forced upon me so I accepted it. Also pulled a little over a dollar in clad and a 1985 dog license from an area 150 miles from here. Who knows on that one!
Long story short, the next door neighbor to my girlfriend's mom had thrown her wedding band off her finger and into their yard roughly 3 years ago, and upon hearing that I had a metal detector, my girlfriend's mom told me about this. I said I thought I could find it if they let me look with the detector. So the first two times I tried, I didnt' get there until nighttime, and with moths and bugs going after the flashlight I had it wasn't very efficient detecting. The third time I tried it was afternoon, and the family's kids were enthralled with the detector, and I literally couldn't swing it because I had kids on each side of me awaiting the treasures I may dig up!
So, the 4th time, I decided I needed to get serious and try to find this thing, since I judged it couldn't be anywhere other than this yard (road was too far, yard was fairly large). So I get to it, detect for maybe an hour and a half, digging up EVERY signal. Finally come upon a somewhat broken up signal in the +15 area on my White's XLT, dug it, and found the ring. I took some pics of it still in the ground, and some of it out. The neighbor was SOOOO excited I had found it for her. I even got a $40 reward which I refused, but in the end it was basically forced upon me so I accepted it. Also pulled a little over a dollar in clad and a 1985 dog license from an area 150 miles from here. Who knows on that one!
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