It was a silver kinda day out in the woods!!! 1st ring of the season!!!

treasurefiend · Apr 4, 2009

Today I met up with Kimsdad, Twistidd, & Watercolor out at or favorite woods and we all got some cool stuff. Today was my first time out with my new SunRay pinpointer - that thing is AWESOME!!! I was the first one to get there so I waisted no time and started hitting an area where an old water pump used to be back in the day, and BAM I got my first ring for the season!!! At some point in the day I wound up redepositing 1 of my 4 Wheaties somewhere, I'm just glad it wasn't one of my silvers... :tongue3:

Towards the end of the hunt I got a strong silver signal down maybe 5 inches or so but it was large. I dug down and right off the bat I encountered 2 very large roots, well I tried to dig around them and was quickly stopped by another root, that's when Twistedd tried to get at the target. Well after he made quick work of digging around he saw something shiny in the hole. I thought that oh man I just found my very first half or one dollar!!! But then he removed it from is hole, it was an old condom tin - I don't remember what it said on the tin but I do remember it had "Woody" on it :tongue3:

. I then though maybe some luck guy put some coins in it for safe keeping, WRONG!!!! The only thing inside was an unused petrified condom - LOL!!! I should of took a pix of the tin as it was old and it was under some huge roots but I put it on a tree stump just in case someother MD'er might want to keep it.

I now have 7 silver coins and 2 sterling jewelry for the year . :icon_pirat:

Enough talk, here are my finds.

coltdavis · Apr 4, 2009

Re: It was a silver kinda day out in the woods!!!

Nice finds TF congrats on your first ring of the season and an awesome looking merc! keep it up! Great video as always! best of luck and HH :thumbsup:

Bob S · Apr 4, 2009

Re: It was a silver kinda day out in the woods!!!

Nice Finds WTG

allen · Apr 5, 2009

congrats on all of that sweet silver !!!! :thumbsup:

Butler · Apr 5, 2009

Nice day, congrats on the silver. And as usual nice video. Thanks!

John (Ma) · Apr 5, 2009

Great looking finds, congrats.

history hunter · Apr 5, 2009

Your finds are great and very nice video. I use to hunt the lake front park in Chicago every once in a while and other parks in the area back in the 70's and found good stuff, hope you keep it up! HH!!

B|lker · Apr 5, 2009

OHH nice load of goddies :thumbsup:

TreasureFiend

Bill

gibsondan · Apr 5, 2009

I saw your video on youtube and left comments. That ring sure looks nice. Were you hunting in the woods next to a park? Great job!

Captn SE · Apr 5, 2009

Nice finds, guys! :thumbsup:

Fiend, you're gonna really like that probe. :thumbsup:

Nice acquisition!

HH,
CAPTN SE
Dan

Prairie Prowler · Apr 5, 2009

Congrats on the ring & thanks for the vid..keep up the good huntin..Bill

how u do n · Apr 5, 2009

Way to go. :thumbsup:

The ring looks like it is a world war 2 wedding ring.
While the war was going on there was a shortage of most kinds of metal and, a lot of people
could not get gold for their wedding bands. Therefore; a lot of people who got married
during the 2nd world war had silver wedding bands.
I have found several ring like that in my years of detecting and, they "always" are such
rings like the one you found. Way to go!!!
hh
dan

treasurefiend · Apr 5, 2009

gibsondan said:
I saw your video on youtube and left comments. That ring sure looks nice. Were you hunting in the woods next to a park? Great job!

This was at a forest preserve (no play equipment or ballfields) The ring I found by an old water pump foundation by the road and the rest of the stuff was found in the woods along the old trails that are still used to this day.

treasurefiend · Apr 5, 2009

bluefin1959 said:
Way to go.
The ring looks like it is a world war 2 wedding ring.
While the war was going on there was a shortage of most kinds of metal and, a lot of people
could not get gold for their wedding bands. Therefore; a lot of people who got married
during the 2nd world war had silver wedding bands.
I have found several ring like that in my years of detecting and, they "always" are such
rings like the one you found. Way to go!!!
hh
dan

WOW Awesome - thanks for the info!!! It was found by an old waterpump foundation and down maybe 4 or 5 inches deep.