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Purchased the Time Ranger about a month ago. Here in Oregon we've had a lot of rain the past few weeks. Today it was overcast and grey but the rain held off so I thought I'd take my TR out for it's first real hunt. I only had a couple of hours so I decided to go to a large middle school in town. I had been there once before with my 202 and found some lunch money, figured this would be a good destination for a short hunt. The ground was very wet, in some places is was mushy to walk on and almost immediately the right knee of my blue jeans was a big round wet spot.
I like to look over the area before I hunt to get a feel for high traffic areas and places where kids would tend to hang out or play. Today I settled on an area overlooking the track. There is a nice quarter mile track with a football field on the inside. On the south side of the track is a grassy knoll about 100 yards long and dropping off about 20 feet in elevation. There is a built in concrete grandstand about 50 feet long with 5 steps or levels for spectators to watch the events. I decided to work the grassy slope thinking people would sit on the slope and watch the competition. I also know that kids like to play on grass slopes and roll down them.
The hunt was going pretty well. I was getting the hang of the TR and learning what it was saying to me. I was working my way up and down the slope slightly overlapping each pass to make certain I would not miss anything. Nickels are sometimes hard to find because they buzz in between foil and pull tabs. Personally, I am always pleased when I find a nickel. Dimes and quarters are an easy find but nickels can sometimes be elusive. I found a quarter, several dimes and a handful of pennies, and the most nickels I have ever found in one outing. I found six altogether.
I was getting ready to call it a day and decided to make one more loop on the grassy slope. I worked my way down to the bottom, turned around and was about one third the way up when I got a solid hit that came in at the 50 cent mark on the display. The Time Ranger also gave me a solid numeric reading that told me I was about to dig silver. It told me the target was 5 to 6 inches deep. I used the no motion pin point to zero in on the target, carefully set down my machine and using my trusty 9 inch narrow screwdriver made my first probe and hit the target. I opened the hole large enough to get my finger inside and I felt a large round target. Slowly I positioned the probe below the target and began lifting my find out of the hole. You can imagine how pleased I was to remove abeautiful men's sterling silver ring from it's muddy grave. I removed enough of the mud to realize it was a genuine silver ring and placed it in my pocket until I returned home to clean it up and see what I had. It is a very heavy ring with a unique cross cut into it. On the inside it is stamped with the abbreviation "ster" for sterling. This is my first hunt with the TR and my first ring of the new year. Somehow I think this going to be a fun spring and profitable year. Thanks for letting me share my hunt with you all.
I like to look over the area before I hunt to get a feel for high traffic areas and places where kids would tend to hang out or play. Today I settled on an area overlooking the track. There is a nice quarter mile track with a football field on the inside. On the south side of the track is a grassy knoll about 100 yards long and dropping off about 20 feet in elevation. There is a built in concrete grandstand about 50 feet long with 5 steps or levels for spectators to watch the events. I decided to work the grassy slope thinking people would sit on the slope and watch the competition. I also know that kids like to play on grass slopes and roll down them.
The hunt was going pretty well. I was getting the hang of the TR and learning what it was saying to me. I was working my way up and down the slope slightly overlapping each pass to make certain I would not miss anything. Nickels are sometimes hard to find because they buzz in between foil and pull tabs. Personally, I am always pleased when I find a nickel. Dimes and quarters are an easy find but nickels can sometimes be elusive. I found a quarter, several dimes and a handful of pennies, and the most nickels I have ever found in one outing. I found six altogether.
I was getting ready to call it a day and decided to make one more loop on the grassy slope. I worked my way down to the bottom, turned around and was about one third the way up when I got a solid hit that came in at the 50 cent mark on the display. The Time Ranger also gave me a solid numeric reading that told me I was about to dig silver. It told me the target was 5 to 6 inches deep. I used the no motion pin point to zero in on the target, carefully set down my machine and using my trusty 9 inch narrow screwdriver made my first probe and hit the target. I opened the hole large enough to get my finger inside and I felt a large round target. Slowly I positioned the probe below the target and began lifting my find out of the hole. You can imagine how pleased I was to remove abeautiful men's sterling silver ring from it's muddy grave. I removed enough of the mud to realize it was a genuine silver ring and placed it in my pocket until I returned home to clean it up and see what I had. It is a very heavy ring with a unique cross cut into it. On the inside it is stamped with the abbreviation "ster" for sterling. This is my first hunt with the TR and my first ring of the new year. Somehow I think this going to be a fun spring and profitable year. Thanks for letting me share my hunt with you all.