time4me
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Sorry for the long post, but feeling pretty sick about what happened today and thought writing about it might be therapeutic.
So, I was looking forward to today for the past few days, because I was going to a park / campground I like to detect and had about 5 hours all to myself.
I hunted for about 2.5 hours in one location, and then drove to another campsite in the park to spend the next couple of hours. After about 45 minutes or so in this new location, I was digging the latest detection and noticed that my wedding ring was gone. I felt sick. I checked all around the hole and dirt I was just digging through, and then retraced the path I had taken for quite a ways back towards the car. Then I turned around and retraced my path all the way back to that latest hole again, and then all the way back to my car. No ring.
Now I feel really stupid for wearing the ring while detecting out in the campsites, fields and trails. I have always worn my wedding ring while detecting, as it is on my left hand, and I dig with my right hand and pass the dirt over my coil with my right hand - the ring never interefered with detecting. I normally wear a ring on my right hand too, and this one I take off and leave in my car so I can pass the dirt over my coil. It was quite cold today, and I think that it being cold, along with the very dry dusty ground I was digging in was the recipe for disaster - my fingers were a bit skinnier due to the cold weather, and the dust caused the ring to simply slip right off.
If there can be any good news to this story, the ring I lost was not my original wedding ring. My original wedding ring is a basic yellow gold band, and has an engraving on the inside from my wife. I bought myself a different ring a couple of years ago, as I wanted a white gold colored ring. The ring I ended up buying was actually "grey" gold, 18K, and made a special way by a german company. It was about $2,000, and I've worn it every day since I bought it. Now it is lost along a hiking trail or in an open overgrown field. Man, am I ever depressed about this.
As soon as I got home I got out my original wedding ring, and I'm wearing it now. Lesson learned - I will never wear any rings again while out detecting.
Oh, my take for the day was one 1948 rosie, a 1950 wheatie, a ton of clad and a ton of bullet shells.
I'll probably head back out to the area again and try to cover some of the same ground that I was over today, but I didn't stay in one specific area today - I wandered quite randomly through fields, sometimes on the trails, sometimes off the trails. Finding the ring will be one in a million.
Totally bummed and feeling very stupid.
So, I was looking forward to today for the past few days, because I was going to a park / campground I like to detect and had about 5 hours all to myself.
I hunted for about 2.5 hours in one location, and then drove to another campsite in the park to spend the next couple of hours. After about 45 minutes or so in this new location, I was digging the latest detection and noticed that my wedding ring was gone. I felt sick. I checked all around the hole and dirt I was just digging through, and then retraced the path I had taken for quite a ways back towards the car. Then I turned around and retraced my path all the way back to that latest hole again, and then all the way back to my car. No ring.
Now I feel really stupid for wearing the ring while detecting out in the campsites, fields and trails. I have always worn my wedding ring while detecting, as it is on my left hand, and I dig with my right hand and pass the dirt over my coil with my right hand - the ring never interefered with detecting. I normally wear a ring on my right hand too, and this one I take off and leave in my car so I can pass the dirt over my coil. It was quite cold today, and I think that it being cold, along with the very dry dusty ground I was digging in was the recipe for disaster - my fingers were a bit skinnier due to the cold weather, and the dust caused the ring to simply slip right off.
If there can be any good news to this story, the ring I lost was not my original wedding ring. My original wedding ring is a basic yellow gold band, and has an engraving on the inside from my wife. I bought myself a different ring a couple of years ago, as I wanted a white gold colored ring. The ring I ended up buying was actually "grey" gold, 18K, and made a special way by a german company. It was about $2,000, and I've worn it every day since I bought it. Now it is lost along a hiking trail or in an open overgrown field. Man, am I ever depressed about this.
As soon as I got home I got out my original wedding ring, and I'm wearing it now. Lesson learned - I will never wear any rings again while out detecting.
Oh, my take for the day was one 1948 rosie, a 1950 wheatie, a ton of clad and a ton of bullet shells.
I'll probably head back out to the area again and try to cover some of the same ground that I was over today, but I didn't stay in one specific area today - I wandered quite randomly through fields, sometimes on the trails, sometimes off the trails. Finding the ring will be one in a million.
Totally bummed and feeling very stupid.
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but i have used this method before to find my way back into good hunting spots that i hadnt hunted in years...and the same contour, trees and rocks that i reacted to by going around or down, i reacted to once again and would find my way to the exact spot many years later....why not give it a shot ...cant hurt anymore than it already has...keep a positive attitude and good luck
