Nashoba
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- Garret Ace250/Prospecter Bounty hunter(Backup)
Long story short.. I had to go help my mom move this past week. It is roughly an hour and a half drive. I stopped at a local park on my way out and found a dainty little sapphire and diamond ring made of 18k gold. Missing one sapphire, but what the heck.. I was pumped because I had JUST turned on my detector. Thought it might make for a lucky day. I found a bit of clad and moved on shortly thereafter.
A couple of small towns later and I decided to hit a park I have been wanting to hit. Saw a lady out there with an Ace250 and talked to her. She was very kind and was trying to dig the signals she was getting with a plastic composite spade of sorts. I let her did with my MightyAP digging tool for awhile and she was thrilled. She told me that there had been a bluegrass festival there the previous two days and my mind was all over the place. Literally.. I kept thinking about where the stage was and where most of the people would have been etc. She also told me the whole place had been full of RV's so I hit the perimeters of where they were parked and the clad started rolling in pretty good.
Then it happened. Dug a nickel signal and saw the light shining off a square cut stone set in a band and a huge rock on top. My heart was racing as I was thinking I had just found about a 3 carat diamond ring. I sat on the ground and literally had to calm myself before I cleaned any soil off of it(not from my pants) and looked at it...I must have let out a WHOOP because the lady came over and asked me what I had found. I showed her the end of the plug and she said, "Dear Lord you hit it big!!!!", and I had. I had hit a BIG Cubic Zirconia. ARGHHHHHHHHHHHHHHH :P I have dubbed it the Heart Attack Ring and never want to find another one! I haven't used such choice language in quite a long time as I did the first fifteen minutes I walked away from that park.
In the following week I hit my usual places in short bursts and found just one more junk ring and clad. Somewhere in there was a '59 wheat. I found some huge 12 and 14 ounce lead fishing weights used for sturgeon but they went into my tackle box before I could take pix.
I did get in about 6 or 7 hours of total hunting time while away. My net take was....
an 18k sapphire and diamond ring, 54 quarters, 66 dimes,22 nickels, 111 zincoln cents, 3 Saq dollars, and one 1959 wheat...plus a Guatemalan Quetzal worth about 7 cents
LOL
I hope you all enjoy the story and here are the finds.
~Nash~
A couple of small towns later and I decided to hit a park I have been wanting to hit. Saw a lady out there with an Ace250 and talked to her. She was very kind and was trying to dig the signals she was getting with a plastic composite spade of sorts. I let her did with my MightyAP digging tool for awhile and she was thrilled. She told me that there had been a bluegrass festival there the previous two days and my mind was all over the place. Literally.. I kept thinking about where the stage was and where most of the people would have been etc. She also told me the whole place had been full of RV's so I hit the perimeters of where they were parked and the clad started rolling in pretty good.
Then it happened. Dug a nickel signal and saw the light shining off a square cut stone set in a band and a huge rock on top. My heart was racing as I was thinking I had just found about a 3 carat diamond ring. I sat on the ground and literally had to calm myself before I cleaned any soil off of it(not from my pants) and looked at it...I must have let out a WHOOP because the lady came over and asked me what I had found. I showed her the end of the plug and she said, "Dear Lord you hit it big!!!!", and I had. I had hit a BIG Cubic Zirconia. ARGHHHHHHHHHHHHHHH :P I have dubbed it the Heart Attack Ring and never want to find another one! I haven't used such choice language in quite a long time as I did the first fifteen minutes I walked away from that park.
In the following week I hit my usual places in short bursts and found just one more junk ring and clad. Somewhere in there was a '59 wheat. I found some huge 12 and 14 ounce lead fishing weights used for sturgeon but they went into my tackle box before I could take pix.
I did get in about 6 or 7 hours of total hunting time while away. My net take was....
an 18k sapphire and diamond ring, 54 quarters, 66 dimes,22 nickels, 111 zincoln cents, 3 Saq dollars, and one 1959 wheat...plus a Guatemalan Quetzal worth about 7 cents
LOLI hope you all enjoy the story and here are the finds.
~Nash~
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I do believe I would have been wound up as well over that heart attack ring! Nice finds though and so glad the moving game is over too! 
