Hard to believe but a true story

[jhen999]

I bought some scarp gold from a California surplus auction in the late 1990,s , I took it to a jeweler to have this ring made and in 2006 I lost it on my 5 ac. piece of property while throwing hay to my horses, it was a few hours before I realized it was not on my finger, went looking for it, but with the horses all over the place where I thou the hay, I had no luck, a year later I bought an whites classic III and went looking for it, no luck then either, a year or two later I tried it with a new whites mxt ...no luck then either...a week and a half ago I got a Minelab x-terra 705 and went out looking again, low and behold after a few hits on some old rusty nails I got a good solid hit and out popped my ring that I had lost 8 years before, now I don't know if I just missed it with the other detectors, but lady luck was with me today....I think I am going to go get some lottery tickets tonight .....one happy man here..

 

[sliverofsilver]

congrats on the finding of your ring
that dont happen often enough
Ahh! an 8 yr story with a happy enging
dont get much better
HH

 

[el padron]

That is a beautiful ring, I'm glad you found it. Is it very expensive to have a ring like that custom-made if you supply the scrap gold?
if you want an 18 carat ring, can you supply any kind of scrap gold?

 

[jhen999]

Just happen to be enough scrap gold and stones that it didnt cost anything other than what it cost me to get it at the auction...at that time it was a sealed bid auction, I got it for $125. There don't do sealed bids anymore, the ring has 1oz of 14 k gold, I was going to do 18k buy the jeweler said 18k is to soft and starches to easy.

 

[mrbill98]

Reunited with a long lost love, feels soooo good. Technology is taking LUCK out of so much of today's treasure hunting. "I'M ALL IN".

 

[jewelerguy]

nice. glad you got your ring back. hope you win the lotto too

 

[jhen999]

I think I already hit the lotto finding my ring....don't want to push lady luck....I,ll take it and run...

 

[park pirate]

Cool story..

 

[Msbeepbeep]

Awesome recovery! Let us know if you hit it big!

 

[BDinutah]

What story! Congratulations on finding your ring, and to see that it hasn't been damaged after all that time, was it buried?

 

[RustyGold]

Awesome story! Glad you got it back and that the X-Terra worked out for you!

 

[SusanMN]

Just curious what kind of number that ring came in as on your Xterra. You don't come across those big boys too often.

 

[jhen999]

The ID number was showing 20 to 22...

 

[oakhunter27]

cool story glad u found your ring

 

[: Michael-Robert.]

Good for you. Determination payed off. What was the signal number on your Xterra when you found it and how deep was it?

I bought some scarp gold from a California surplus auction in the late 1990,s , I took it to a jeweler to have this ring made and in 2006 I lost it on my 5 ac. piece of property while throwing hay to my horses, it was a few hours before I realized it was not on my finger, went looking for it, but with the horses all over the place where I thou the hay, I had no luck, a year later I bought an whites classic III and went looking for it, no luck then either, a year or two later I tried it with a new whites mxt ...no luck then either...a week and a half ago I got a Minelab x-terra 705 and went out looking again, low and behold after a few hits on some old rusty nails I got a good solid hit and out popped my ring that I had lost 8 years before, now I don't know if I just missed it with the other detectors, but lady luck was with me today....I think I am going to go get some lottery tickets tonightView attachment 994768.....one happy man here..

 

[jhen999]

its was about 3 to 4 inch's deep and the ID number was 20 to 22