Guy comes in the store to talk about a detector. I start talking to him about the diffrent machines. He informs me that he has been checking on other brands of detectors and we were the only ones around for a hands on demonstration. I show him the DFX and he decides to buy it with all the fix'ins.
After a week or so he shows up and tells me that he found something interesting. I asked "Lets see it" he did not have it on him. He came in yesterday to show it to me. He pulled his hand out of his pocket and started pulling a gold chain by the clasp out of his hand. This is how he retreived his target;
He just got to the beach and was trying to ground balance the DFX and it kept stating it was unable to balance, so he remebered how I told him to balance it. After it balanced he moved back over the area that he was having a problem balancing at. He got a hit and started to dig. Got down to 6-8 inches and seen the clasp of the gold chain. He grabed it and started to pull, it was snaged on something so he dug down more. The chain was going under a stick and he broke the stick out and out popped a man's gold ring with 7 diamonds totaling about little over a carat. The ring was tyed on to the necklace. Then he tryed to pull more and it was still stuck, dug down more and hit a peice of rebar and dug around it to move it out of the way. Then would you beleive another ring, woman's diamond gold ring with a 1 carat diamond and another 2 carats in baggats along the side, tied to the necklace like the man's ring.
The mans ring was 14kt weighing 8.4 grams, woman's ring was also 14kt and weighing 8.3 grams and the gold chain was 14kt at a length of 24 inches and weighing in at a whopping 41.2 grams.
This find has me all fired up to get out and detect.
Happy hunting all,
John SwFl