KEVTEC
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- Apr 19, 2010
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- Northern Ohio
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- White's Spectra V-3 upgraded to V3I W/ SEF 15X12 Butterfly coil, White's Vision upgraded to V3I W 12 in coil, Minelab Excaliber II, Minelab E Trac, Minelab GPX 5000, Discovery TF 900 2 box, Garrett Pro Pinpointer
I was married in August of 2007 after being divorced for 24 yrs. Even with my first marriage I never was a ring or jewelry wearer as I always worked with machinery. I had seen many people lose fingers from wearing rings, anyway being married in August, around the 2ND week of November I have a yearly chore of sucking up the leaves on my 5 acres that are fenced in. Usually it equates to around 600 bushel. On the third day of this chore, the next morning as I was in the shower I noticed my wedding band was gone. 
I got dressed and looked in the gloves I was wearing and no ring. I even went on the roof to check the gutters as I was cleaning them this week also, but no wedding band. Finally I explained to my wife that I had lost it. As you can imagine the look on her face was less than receptive. During a period of 5 yrs I had sold my detectors as I had been doing it for over 25 yrs and kind of lost interest. In November of 09 I decided to get back into detecting and bought a White's V 3, and a Minelab Excaliber II. I had found quite a bit of stuff in my yard, and even looked for my wedding band, but no luck. That was until today, she was gone to the store so I got the V3 out and within 20 ft from my house I got a VDI of 30 with a consistant sweet sound as I passed back and forth over the target. At 4 inches as I removed the plug there was the glimmer of gold, my wedding band. I don't know how I had missed it before, so I called the wife's cell phone and told her and when she arrived home she said she was going to have it sized to fit her index finger, and she even admitted that she initially thought I lost it on purpose since I didn't like wearing rings. I left the plug out of the ground so she could see the mark the ring had made in the mud as it had rained the previous day. I just wanted to share this as I understand now that there is never a place that is completely hunted out!!! 
I got dressed and looked in the gloves I was wearing and no ring. I even went on the roof to check the gutters as I was cleaning them this week also, but no wedding band. Finally I explained to my wife that I had lost it. As you can imagine the look on her face was less than receptive. During a period of 5 yrs I had sold my detectors as I had been doing it for over 25 yrs and kind of lost interest. In November of 09 I decided to get back into detecting and bought a White's V 3, and a Minelab Excaliber II. I had found quite a bit of stuff in my yard, and even looked for my wedding band, but no luck. That was until today, she was gone to the store so I got the V3 out and within 20 ft from my house I got a VDI of 30 with a consistant sweet sound as I passed back and forth over the target. At 4 inches as I removed the plug there was the glimmer of gold, my wedding band. I don't know how I had missed it before, so I called the wife's cell phone and told her and when she arrived home she said she was going to have it sized to fit her index finger, and she even admitted that she initially thought I lost it on purpose since I didn't like wearing rings. I left the plug out of the ground so she could see the mark the ring had made in the mud as it had rained the previous day. I just wanted to share this as I understand now that there is never a place that is completely hunted out!!!
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