scaupus
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14k, 2.2 grams, the 2 side stones are diamonds, the center is aquamarine
Wednesday I was really looking forward to hunting this field again. I felt optimistic. I could have considered the fact that i had already removed 6 gold rings from the field to be a crippling handicap, that the field was now barren. And I had thought that, many times. But Wednesday I was thinking..."bet on a winner!" well, that's how I had found the previous six rings, anyway.
I started swinging my ctx 3030, and I bypassed a lot of signals. These included bottlecaps that have ferrous tails or ferrous halos (which I like to be able to hear, hence almost no discrimination); 12/15 and 12/28 tabs; deep signals; overly large signals; multi-point signals; 12/39 zinc pennies; and even 12/43 dimes. The CTX can really tell the dross from the gold.
Finally I came upon an agreeable signal: 12/6, strong, tight, clean, and not deep (deep is almost always bad in south florida parks, unless its coming from under a big ball of bahia grass. A bahia root ball can push a ring down deep, I've seen it) .
I swung my digging adz, and scooped out a clod of earth and roots. I saw a gold band peeking through the dirt. Very quickly I could see it was real gold, and it had stones. Just what I was looking for!
And it was in the very first hole I dug. How great was that?
Wednesday I was really looking forward to hunting this field again. I felt optimistic. I could have considered the fact that i had already removed 6 gold rings from the field to be a crippling handicap, that the field was now barren. And I had thought that, many times. But Wednesday I was thinking..."bet on a winner!" well, that's how I had found the previous six rings, anyway.
I started swinging my ctx 3030, and I bypassed a lot of signals. These included bottlecaps that have ferrous tails or ferrous halos (which I like to be able to hear, hence almost no discrimination); 12/15 and 12/28 tabs; deep signals; overly large signals; multi-point signals; 12/39 zinc pennies; and even 12/43 dimes. The CTX can really tell the dross from the gold.
Finally I came upon an agreeable signal: 12/6, strong, tight, clean, and not deep (deep is almost always bad in south florida parks, unless its coming from under a big ball of bahia grass. A bahia root ball can push a ring down deep, I've seen it) .
I swung my digging adz, and scooped out a clod of earth and roots. I saw a gold band peeking through the dirt. Very quickly I could see it was real gold, and it had stones. Just what I was looking for!
And it was in the very first hole I dug. How great was that?
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