time4me
Bronze Member
- Aug 30, 2005
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- E-Trac, Explorer II, Excalibur
You're going to have to read through this to get to my unbelievable find today, but believe me it is worth it!
I've been watching the weather all week this week hoping for a nice day today (Friday) as I wanted to go out to one of my favorite spots and spend a few hours detecting. Unfortunately it started raining yesterday, and the rain just dragged on into today. It wasn't a downpour, but a steady drizzle.
I said "screw it" and went anyways.
Here's a look at the weather outside on my drive out to my spot...
I wore a raincoat, changed into some boots, and wore gloves and started off on my hunt. I got to my destination at 10am this morning, and told myself that I needed to leave at noon so I could get back home and get cleaned up before going to pick up my son from school. So I started hunting a campsite area that I had hit a couple of times in the past, but had not been to for at least three months.
One of my first finds of the day was out in a field, and I wasn't quite sure what it was...
I could read the word "COMPASS" on it, so I knew it was some sort of compass, but I would wait to get home to try opening it.
The next two hours were pretty miserable as I was soaked, and my right knee was totally caked in mud from kneeling to dig. My right arm was also covered in mud from going in and out of the detector arm strap. I was determined to find a silver coin today to keep my silver streak alive (silver coins on each of my last four hunts). But the two hours crept by and by noon I had quite a few coins and other odds and ends, but no silver coin.
I was really bummed about not finding a silver coin, so I gave myself another 15 minutes to hunt. Those 15 minutes came and went, and still no silver coin. Well, 12:30 is not going to kill me, I thought to myself - I'd still have enough time to get home, shower and change clothes, and get back to my son's school. So I headed back out into the field to give it 15 more minutes.
Well, it was 12:30, and still no silver coin, so I turned and started back towards the car to call it a day. About half way back to the car I got a high tone, but it didn't register on the display of the Explorer II where silver would register - it was more in the area of a zinc penny. Frustrated, I knelt down to dig this last hole before hightailing it home. I dug a shallow plug, and my probe told me the item was in the plug. I ripped apart the grass, and out fell a heavy silver colored ring.
I sat there in utter disbelief. This was MY RING. My 18kt gray gold $2000 wedding band that I had lost at this site back in September - you may remember my post from the day I lost my ring:
http://forum.treasurenet.com/index.php/topic,182204.msg1331915.html#msg1331915
I never thought I'd see this ring again. When I first noticed that I had lost it on that fateful day back in September of last year, I was in another area of this campground about a half mile away. I had started that day in the campsite area I was hunting today, but then I got in my car and drove to a completely different area of the campgrounds, and was sure that I had lost the ring there as that's where I noticed it missing - after I had been hunting in this second spot for about an hour. I went back to that other area several times and retraced my steps for hours with the detector trying to find my ring. I did think there was a small chance that the ring could have been lost at the first campsite area that I started at that day, but I had covered so much ground that day - all through a couple different fields, through some wooded areas - that I had told myself back in September if I had in fact lost the ring at this particular site, there was no chance I'd ever find it as I covered way too much ground that day.
So there I sat in the drizzling rain - soaking wet, muddy from head to toe, staring at one of the most amazing finds I've ever made - my own wedding band!!!
Here is the total take for the day, less the big trash...
I did find three wheat cents, with the oldest being a 1936. But no silver, so the streak has ended.
Here is that compass cleaned up a bit...
It is a Lensatic Compass, made in Japan. I wish it were solid brass, but it is some base metal plated with a brass colored plating. Here is a website I found that tells all about the Lensatic Compass...
http://mysite.du.edu/~jcalvert/astro/lensatic.htm
And finally, here is my truly unbelievable find of the day - back where it belongs...
I hope your next outing is as exiting as this one was for me!
Happy Hunting,
Jim
I've been watching the weather all week this week hoping for a nice day today (Friday) as I wanted to go out to one of my favorite spots and spend a few hours detecting. Unfortunately it started raining yesterday, and the rain just dragged on into today. It wasn't a downpour, but a steady drizzle.
I said "screw it" and went anyways.
Here's a look at the weather outside on my drive out to my spot...
I wore a raincoat, changed into some boots, and wore gloves and started off on my hunt. I got to my destination at 10am this morning, and told myself that I needed to leave at noon so I could get back home and get cleaned up before going to pick up my son from school. So I started hunting a campsite area that I had hit a couple of times in the past, but had not been to for at least three months.
One of my first finds of the day was out in a field, and I wasn't quite sure what it was...
I could read the word "COMPASS" on it, so I knew it was some sort of compass, but I would wait to get home to try opening it.
The next two hours were pretty miserable as I was soaked, and my right knee was totally caked in mud from kneeling to dig. My right arm was also covered in mud from going in and out of the detector arm strap. I was determined to find a silver coin today to keep my silver streak alive (silver coins on each of my last four hunts). But the two hours crept by and by noon I had quite a few coins and other odds and ends, but no silver coin.
I was really bummed about not finding a silver coin, so I gave myself another 15 minutes to hunt. Those 15 minutes came and went, and still no silver coin. Well, 12:30 is not going to kill me, I thought to myself - I'd still have enough time to get home, shower and change clothes, and get back to my son's school. So I headed back out into the field to give it 15 more minutes.
Well, it was 12:30, and still no silver coin, so I turned and started back towards the car to call it a day. About half way back to the car I got a high tone, but it didn't register on the display of the Explorer II where silver would register - it was more in the area of a zinc penny. Frustrated, I knelt down to dig this last hole before hightailing it home. I dug a shallow plug, and my probe told me the item was in the plug. I ripped apart the grass, and out fell a heavy silver colored ring.
I sat there in utter disbelief. This was MY RING. My 18kt gray gold $2000 wedding band that I had lost at this site back in September - you may remember my post from the day I lost my ring:
http://forum.treasurenet.com/index.php/topic,182204.msg1331915.html#msg1331915
I never thought I'd see this ring again. When I first noticed that I had lost it on that fateful day back in September of last year, I was in another area of this campground about a half mile away. I had started that day in the campsite area I was hunting today, but then I got in my car and drove to a completely different area of the campgrounds, and was sure that I had lost the ring there as that's where I noticed it missing - after I had been hunting in this second spot for about an hour. I went back to that other area several times and retraced my steps for hours with the detector trying to find my ring. I did think there was a small chance that the ring could have been lost at the first campsite area that I started at that day, but I had covered so much ground that day - all through a couple different fields, through some wooded areas - that I had told myself back in September if I had in fact lost the ring at this particular site, there was no chance I'd ever find it as I covered way too much ground that day.
So there I sat in the drizzling rain - soaking wet, muddy from head to toe, staring at one of the most amazing finds I've ever made - my own wedding band!!!
Here is the total take for the day, less the big trash...
I did find three wheat cents, with the oldest being a 1936. But no silver, so the streak has ended.
Here is that compass cleaned up a bit...
It is a Lensatic Compass, made in Japan. I wish it were solid brass, but it is some base metal plated with a brass colored plating. Here is a website I found that tells all about the Lensatic Compass...
http://mysite.du.edu/~jcalvert/astro/lensatic.htm
And finally, here is my truly unbelievable find of the day - back where it belongs...
I hope your next outing is as exiting as this one was for me!
Happy Hunting,
Jim
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Congrats on that and the compass 
