🏆 HONORABLE MENTION Gold wedding ring returned

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I haven’t hunted much lately. The heat and humidity here in SC is absolutely unbearable. Well that changed today when I got a call from my neighbor down the road.. he had lost his wedding ring. Normally I get a call from neighbors to look for property markers, lost tracker parts and tools. So even though I don’t particularly enjoy hunting in this heat, I was happy to try and find it for him. It’s an old farm and one of my best permissions. Moreover, he and his wife are great people.

He wasn’t sure where on his farm or for that matter exactly when he had lost it. He just knew that he noticed it wasn’t on his finger yesterday some time shortly after he had pressure washed his house after working on his truck out at the barn.

His house is quite large and surrounded by large hydrangeas and butterfly bushes. So I did the best I could with the smaller HF coil. Then headed over to the barn. I gridded out that area and worked it twice but all I found was some .22 casings and a few tore up pennies. Determined to hunt for his ring for at least until I couldn’t handle the heat, I worked my way back to the house and back through shrubs once again. There wasn’t too much room for much swinging of course. Targets were all non ferrous junk.. easily heard using my program and double checking with the graph.

So I decided to set down the detector and use the XP pinpointer with the sensitivity cranked up. I started at the tops of the hydrangeas and shoved my hand in deep in one IMG_7101.jpg when I heard a couple beeps. I kept pushing downwards until my face was almost in the shrub ...the beeps were increasing. So I got down on my hands and knees and lifted the shrub up so I could get to the center of it. This is where it gets kind of funny. You have to understand...I’m a girl...I don’t do bugs! Moreover,it’s so hot the snakes want out of the heat, too. So hello no I didn’t want to stick my head under there AT ALL. But my pin pointer was going nuts ,so I went for it anyway completely against my arachno-herpeto phobia self.

There it was... at the base of the shrub inside the stocks. I grabbed it quick and got outta there believing that every creepy crawler had crawled into my hair. Had to have been there..lol. I laugh at myself often after the fact.

My neighbor normally thinks I have a fruitless hobby... not today. Here it is.. He’s happy and I’m a filthy sweaty mess. Nonetheless, I’m happy to have found it.

Time for a celebratory shower and a cold beverage.
 

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Honorable mention that had to be alot of luck to find that with your PPter looks like you got some good karma coming your way your a hood person and that's a great thing you did.. Tommy
 

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Honorable mention that had to be alot of luck to find that with your PPter looks like you got some good karma coming your way your a hood person and that's a great thing you did.. Tommy

Thanks Tommy I’m not opposed to hard work; I am opposed to this heat. It totally has caused major cabin fever. I dreaded the hunt but ultimately it got me out of the house and helped my neighbor. So I’m good for a little while anyway. Can’t wait til winter.. lol.
 

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I hear ya I like detecting in the winter as long as the ground isnt to froze then I hit the woods seems not to freeze as much plus no sqeeters and ticks and less people
 

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I hear ya I like detecting in the winter as long as the ground isnt to froze then I hit the woods seems not to freeze as much plus no sweetest and ticks and less people

Ground rarely freezes here. In the summertime it can get as hard as a rock when it hasn’t rained in a while. Only place is plowed farm fields or beach hunting then.
 

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Good job! Honorable mention!! Anyone that finds a lost ring with a pinpointer has some excellent detecting skills, grats!!!
 

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Good job! Honorable mention!! Anyone that finds a lost ring with a pinpointer has some excellent detecting skills, grats!!!

I appreciate the compliment however I really feel it was a bit of luck and a whole lot more of stubborn determination.
 

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Stubborn determination and luck are traits of a fine detectorist!
 

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There it is hes got that right!!!!!!!!
 

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Y’all are sweet..Thanks again.
 

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Honorable mention for sure! IN the bush...priceless.
 

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I’m actually more exited about being able to post on Tapatalk without messing it up too much. Lol.
 

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Smokey... lol. I was, as they say here, “ ska-irt”. Ticks, hornets, brown lacroos, fire aunts, wolf spiders , SNAKES... I had visions of all of the above in there. Lol. I
 

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They were there, but hiding from the Deus. They think it can find them.:laughing7:
 

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( shivering at the very thought)
 

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Last year I found his wife’s gold earring that had missing for 5 years. Fortunately, it was about 3 inches deep right outside the back door. I’m gonna see if I still have the pic.
 

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Congrats on being able to help out!
That's how I got into metal detecting. I was outside in the winter playing with the dog, threw a toy and my wedding ring flew off. Looked everywhere and no luck. Went to the hobby store and rented a Whites metal detector and found the ring in a shrub. Been hooked ever since.
 

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awesome job, way to go and congrats
 

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I found the pic but don’t know what’s going on ....tapa app not uploading pics.

@ A2 ... you use this app.. any clue what the prob may be?
 

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