lost gold ring

[fossilcrazy]

How do I find a gold ring with a diamond that has lost in the 1930s? The old gentlemen knows where it was lost, it was a garden at the time.
What would be the best setting on the mxt 300 for such a task.

Info: It is an old farm built in 1880 and there are horse shoes,lots of nails and a glut of iron items in the ground. Yesterday I found about 10" deep a pc of lead that looked like a bullet.
Any Ideas?

Thanks

 

[Bearharold]

I would think all metal or if you want to discriminate take out nothing but the iron cause gold can ring in anywhere from foil up depending on conditions and content of gold and size of the ring . How deep it is will effect what signal you get also . So that being said I would not take anything more than the iron out , but all metal would be best cause I have heard of gold ringing up as iron on rare occasions . You may have to dig up a lot of that iron and get it out of the way before finding your gold ring as it could mask it , if its really deep and being in the ground since the thirties an it being plowed no telling how many times ring could be at any depth . Hope you have good luck and find it , you know the area you need to hunt so should be able to find it but will take time and patience . Not sure how big a Garden area your hunting but you may be able to use a small sniper type coil and get around some of the iron also .



Harold

 

[srf2112]

Harold's advice sounds solid to me. I would also add that if you have a pretty small defined search area and not having success locating the ring you may want to start peeling away the layers of signals that may be masking a deeper ring target as Harold mentioned. Start with the strongest signals and dig those out then see what signals are left, change or suddenly appear. Dig the next round, etc... I'm not an expert but I've been amazed at times how much removing a target changes the remaining signals in a cluttered or trashy spot. Targets will suddenly give a signal in a spot where there was nothing before (masking). I'm pretty much saying what Harold said but just adding my own personal strategy and reasoning (confusion ?) If you can find that ring and return it to the gentleman after all these years that will be a moment you'll carry with you for the rest of your life. Good luck and let us know how it turns out.
HH
Scott

 

[fossilcrazy]

I will employ the settings and strategies both Scott and Harold suggested. I will let you know when (optimistic) I find it.

Thanks
Bob

 

[srf2112]

There's a lot more experienced hunters on here than I so keep checking the forum. You may get a lot better suggestion than mine. I can count all the gold rings I've found on one hand ( one ) but it's a different beast when you KNOW there's a gold ring in the area. Wish I could be there. Good luck Bob.
HH
Scott

 

[Joel-Winnipeg]

Ring has been in the ground almost 80 years.
Being gold and heavy may have sunk deep or could be shallow?
All metal and dig everthing as it could be masked with lots of junk.
Recently found two gold rings one was mans laying on top of matted grass VDI 32
and a ladies wedding band about 3 inches deep VDI 20

 

[Topo]

I would only descriminate the iron


good luck and I hope to see pictures of that ring

 

[RedRockNv]

Since the area had been a garden the digging may be easy so removing all iron targets is how I would handle it. It may be very deep due to turning over the soil but could also have been brought to the surface. We would like to know how it turns out.