Five Ring Day

[LawrencetheMDer]

Woke at 5am to metal detect and had to walk the dog before leaving for the beach. Hit the beach at 6:30am and hunted till 12pm. I knew it was going to be a good day when I hit a nice costume ear ring 10 secs after turning on my CTX 3030. I knew it was really going to be a good day metal detecting when I hit my first ring about 2 minutes into the hunt as I was headed for the water. And, I knew it was going to be a really really good day when I hit my second ring about 15 minutes into the hunt. And this was all on dry sand!






I was having such a good time (read; targets abound) that I spent an hour searching the dry sand before hitting the water, which was a cool 66 degrees. It wasn’t long, about 1 ½ hrs into the hunt when I snagged a Triton Tungsten Carbide ring in 2 ft of water, making it 3 for the day. A short time later, I found this nose ring marked “Moth”. [A ring is a ring; number 4.]





After about 3 hrs and 15 minutes in the water I decided to hit the dry sand as I meandered back toward the truck. BANG! I could not believe it but found my 5th ring for the day.



I looked at the rings in detail when I got home and found that 2 were marked 925 sterling silver (1 looks like a Pandora ring), 2 were unmarked costume jewelry and the nose ring was marked “Moth”, and appears copperish.

Of course, the hunt could not be complete without the customary Cremation Tag; this one is marked “Restland Crematory 29973”. Interestingly, the only Restland crematory I could find was in Dallas Texas. My 4th crematory tag this year. I’ll return it to the Gulf next week.



Happy Hunting

 

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[LawrencetheMDer]

Make that 6 Rings

After publishing the above post, I couldn’t shake the feeling that something just wasn’t right. Tossing and turning all night, I went over and over the hunt the previous day in my head and realized that a ring I had recovered in about 5 ft of water was gone. I awoke at 6am to realize; the metal detectorist who finds rings lost one. It was still dark outside when I grabbed a flash light and headed for the car port where I wash everything when I get home – nothing there. Carpeted stairs? Nothing. A search of my pouch, with numerous pockets, also failed. I searched the truck and driveway. Nope. Returning to the truck, I again searched the pouch when I found the ring under the pouch on the floor. – the 6th ring!



The ring is marked 925 silver and “CB”. I’ll have to check the stones to see if they’re diamonds. Ya know ya had one heck of a hunt when you find so many rings you can’t keep them straight. I hope to have more of these “problems” in the future metal detecting.

 

[brncofan]

Congrats great hunt for you

 

[claire]

Pretty rings!

 

[slider66]

Very nice finds. Congrats

 

[A2coins]

Wow Ineed a day like that I think 3 is the best Ive ever done Well done Tommy

 

[BLK HOLE]

Dang you crushed it!

 

[Shooting Star]

A 5-ring day....truly an Olympic moment.

 

[sandmartin]

Awesome!

 

[ARC]

Using The X2 ?

 

[LawrencetheMDer]

Using The X2 ?

My go to is the CTX 3030 w 17" coil and, yap, I hunt w the 17" in surf all day.

 

[Professor of Engineering]

Well done!

 

[cntrydncr1]

That was a fun day of digging! congrats!

 

[dig deeper now]

You are a ring finder land and sea both deliver for you GREAT HUNT. Waiting for 1st ring with a diamond in it small or big single. HAPPY HUNTING

 

[Radon]

Great job! That's a lot of nice bling!