kurtstuben
Jr. Member
- Apr 19, 2014
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- Detector(s) used
- XP Deus, AT Pro, ProPointer AT
- Primary Interest:
- All Treasure Hunting
Last Saturday I had the opportunity to tag along with Carolina Tom & Todd Lipe (P@tch) on a hunt, I needed one badly as it had been several weeks since I'd pulled trash out of the ground! Tom had secured a permission that the two of them have hunted several times and I'd hunted once before with them. While we took our morning break the landowner stopped by to chat and to see how we were doing, sorry to say we had no treasure to show by that point. After he left we decided we'd give it another 30 minutes to an hour before we left to try another spot.
A little background here is important...I had just returned from a week of hunting in PA & NJ with Carolina Tom & Smittyman (we were at DIPA then with some awesome guys from T-Net in other spots in PA/NJ) and I didn't dig any good targets while they were filling their pockets with silver and old copper.
So, on this day, I had decided to try a different approach to deciding which targets to dig...let's just say I have a limit to the number of holes I can dig in a day but today I said to myself I was going to dig every repeatable target until I couldn't get down and back up. This paid off big!! I was following Tom & Todd and had a jumpy but repeatable target, reading 74-81 on the Deus and it passed the bottle cap test. I said "well this is either a zincoln or an aluminum screw cap" and got down to dig, after a second I let out this sound and both Tom & Todd stopped and looked and I said "I've got an effing class ring". Nuh uh came from the peanut gallery
Needless to say, I was able to follow that up with a 46 Rosie and a couple of cool parking tokens (from other locations), along with this fancy clasp that I can't identify (any help is appreciated).
I know this is a super long story but I know what everyone is gonna say...."Ring Return!!" So, here's where is gets even weirder. Sunday morning I get up and search for the name inscribed inside the ring...turns out he's a registered sex offender + felony conviction of felon in possession of a firearm + has active warrants out. Crazy sh!*
A little background here is important...I had just returned from a week of hunting in PA & NJ with Carolina Tom & Smittyman (we were at DIPA then with some awesome guys from T-Net in other spots in PA/NJ) and I didn't dig any good targets while they were filling their pockets with silver and old copper.
So, on this day, I had decided to try a different approach to deciding which targets to dig...let's just say I have a limit to the number of holes I can dig in a day but today I said to myself I was going to dig every repeatable target until I couldn't get down and back up. This paid off big!! I was following Tom & Todd and had a jumpy but repeatable target, reading 74-81 on the Deus and it passed the bottle cap test. I said "well this is either a zincoln or an aluminum screw cap" and got down to dig, after a second I let out this sound and both Tom & Todd stopped and looked and I said "I've got an effing class ring". Nuh uh came from the peanut gallery
Needless to say, I was able to follow that up with a 46 Rosie and a couple of cool parking tokens (from other locations), along with this fancy clasp that I can't identify (any help is appreciated).
I know this is a super long story but I know what everyone is gonna say...."Ring Return!!" So, here's where is gets even weirder. Sunday morning I get up and search for the name inscribed inside the ring...turns out he's a registered sex offender + felony conviction of felon in possession of a firearm + has active warrants out. Crazy sh!*
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