Ring survey

[Seabees]

What’s the deepest ring you have dug ? I don’t care about size, shape, gold, silver or junker etc. I’m just curious how deep and was it water or land. I’ll go first. Land is 4”-5” and at the beach it was about 9”-10”. Just throw it out there even if it was shallow. Thank you for your replies in advance. seabees

 

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[Trezurehunter]

Near as I can remember, it would be in the 5 to 6 inch range in the dirt.

 

[jersey]

12 in. sand

 

[Seabees]

12 in. sand

Nice job. At that depth I’m sure it was a keeper. I’m looking into adjusting some of my settings to see if I can get a little more reach. Thanks for the comment
sb

 

[xr7ator]

Working an old school (1920 or 30's) where they had a new school (mid 1950's) behind the old built and then raised the level of soil and a new parking lot in front of the old school, off to the side I was digging cherps (not even close to getting a VDI and many would think just ground noise) and coming up with pennies and dimes at a foot or even more. I got a super faint signal but got the machine to give a VDI that said quarter(!) so I dug and up comes a 20K to 23K gold band. It was down deep, around a foot. The soil was not hard packed at all and super easy to dig real deep so I kept going as the area had been hit a ton with detectors and all the good signals were long gone. I bought a 15" coil just to do this area again but by the time I went, the site was fenced up and old school scraped and couldn't get into the area again. Now, a new warehouse covers the spot.
I have found coins even deeper on the beach but don't remember any rings super deep in the sand.

 

[Seabees]

Working an old school (1920 or 30's) where they had a new school (mid 1950's) behind the old built and then raised the level of soil and a new parking lot in front of the old school, off to the side I was digging cherps (not even close to getting a VDI and many would think just ground noise) and coming up with pennies and dimes at a foot or even more. I got a super faint signal but got the machine to give a VDI that said quarter(!) so I dug and up comes a 20K to 23K gold band. It was down deep, around a foot. The soil was not hard packed at all and super easy to dig real deep so I kept going as the area had been hit a ton with detectors and all the good signals were long gone. I bought a 15" coil just to do this area again but by the time I went, the site was fenced up and old school scraped and couldn't get into the area again. Now, a new warehouse covers the spot.
I have found coins even deeper on the beach but don't remember any rings super deep in the sand.

Great story, there’s never enough time 😂. Thank you for sharing your story. sb