Man's 18Kt Wedding Ring Found and Returned!
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Man's 18Kt Wedding Ring Found and Returned!
C-17A
12-09-2007, 4:21 PM
Greetings detectorists,
I have to say Bobg is my hero.......(reference a previous story)..........and gave me the idea to try and repeat his feat.
The story goes like this: A friend of mine here at school had his sister and brother in law up visiting about 6 weeks ago. While Tom and his brother in law were drinking some libations and smoking some cigars on his second floor balcony, the ring was dropped and it rolled off the porch into the flower beds/grass below. They tried that night and the next day to root around thru all the shrubbary, ivy vines and bushes -- but no luck.
Fast forward to last week when I was sitting in the auditorium waiting for a lecture to start and my detecting/prospecting friend Scott sat near me to BS and I handed him my brand new Gold Prospectors magazine that just came in the mail. Well, while thumbing thru it, Scott spotted the full page ad for the White's MXT detector and held it up for me to see, since that's my machine. Tom sitting close by happened to see it too and commented something like, "I sure need one of those to find a lost wedding ring". Well, I had to ask what the story was............and he told me how it was lost but couldn't be found. I volunteered to stop by with Scott today to try and find it for him. Tom promised us drinks and cigars if we could find it.......nuff said.
The flower beds were very challenging.......bushes, very heavily layered with ivy, and a LOT of roofing nails and copper wiring running in all directions for the exterior walkway and yard lights. I had to work the coil a deep into the plants as I could. After rooting around for about 25 minutes and even practice rolling some quarters off the balcony to watch their trajectory, we were ready to call it quits. All our hits were wires or nails or trash. I even tied a string on my own wedding band and placed it in several locations to try and get a "read" on how my detector should react.
Not wanting to fail, I ran one last sweep along the wood retaining logs and got a faint hit like "VDI +14 5 cents/ring." I lifted up the dead plant stalks/leaves and sitting on top of the dirt was the 18Kt wedding ring! Yeah!! So, Scott & I felt pretty darn tall at that moment, and Tom was really tickeled too.
Scott & I have a great cigars now to smoke at some point. So, another "save" where a very important piece of jewelry was found and returned to its rightful owner.
After this, Scott & I went over to the local beach and detected around some.......found about 10 or 12 nickels/pennies/dimes and a very small sterling silver toe ring in a volleyball court. Hey, we'd already had our big "find" for the day!
Happy detecting! Randy
Re: Man's 18Kt Wedding Ring Found and Returned!
twig/al
12-09-2007, 10:13 PM
C-17A, Great story with a happy ending!!!
twig/al
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Re: Man's 18Kt Wedding Ring Found and Returned!
C-17A
12-10-2007, 6:14 AM
Twig,
It was a Christmas gift of sorts to me.........to find & return a ring with emotional/sentimental value far beyond the metal itself!
Can't wait for my next trip ot into the "unknown" world of detecting! Will try to find an old revolutionary war period area here near Newport, RI, to explore.
One never knows what might have been lost.
Randy
Re: Man's 18Kt Wedding Ring Found and Returned!
russau
12-10-2007, 7:46 AM
done the right thing is 1ST rate in my books! SALUTE!!!!!
Re: Man's 18Kt Wedding Ring Found and Returned!
Dixiedredger
12-10-2007, 10:00 AM
I used to know a guy in Elijay Ga. who made extra cash by finding lost items for people. He even had Business cards and everything. Plus it got him lots of places to detect besides just flower beds.
I've been doin' so much, with with so little, for so long.... I can do almost anything, with nothing!!!!
WWW.dixieprospector.com
Re: Man's 18Kt Wedding Ring Found and Returned!
Bobg
12-10-2007, 4:26 PM
C-17A, Ya done good!!!
It's a good feeling to do something like that
Re: Man's 18Kt Wedding Ring Found and Returned!
C-17A
12-10-2007, 6:15 PM
Bobg,
I am learning it's not about finding something at another's expense........it's about the adveture and the great unknown. it is amazing just how much gets "lost" over time for whatever reason.....
What a great feeling to have helped someone else with my detector to recover a lost ring. Hope I get a lot more chances to help. Also, can't wait for my next outting, wherever that may be to search for lost treasure....
Thanks for your example!
Randy
Re: Man's 18Kt Wedding Ring Found and Returned!
twig/al
12-10-2007, 11:02 PM
C-17A, That shows your heart is in the right place!!!! It is a great feeling to re-unite someone with something that was important to them, that they had lost and given up hope of ever seeing it again...
twig/al
Alabama Prospecting Supply
www.alabamaprospectingsupply.com
Email: tom@alabamaprospectingsupply.com
Southeast Treasure Hunters Forum
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Re: Man's 18Kt Wedding Ring Found and Returned!
Herschel
12-11-2007, 4:42 AM
Way to go Randy. The joy was in being able to help a desperate feller out of a jam with his wife. You done good!
Herschel
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