Meter reading on Tungsten rings

[2wheeldevil]

Gentleman lost his tungsten ring while tailgating for a football game in a grass area next to a tennis court. This area is on a campus and has had tailgating done there for years. You cannot move your coil one foot without hitting good solid targets, bottle caps, pull tabs, coins, etc.
Notching out everything except the ring seems to be the quickest way to find the ring and avoid digging-ring may have been stepped on and pressed into the dirt.
Checking one of my tungsten rings, I get a reading of 61-62. Can you give me some readings on any of your tungsten rings. How do you suggest I set up the notching numbers to find this ring and which coil to use?

 

[jim tn]

I would use the 5 x 8 coil. Keep in mind it will be a bang/surface hit. The 3 or so I have found came in in close to a 70 + - reading. Found mine on the beach, dry sand and they were pretty good size. HH jim tn

 

[Flanaganj25]

found this one couple yrs back. just swept it with my at pro and got a 52-53, and was pretty steady. it's gonna b somewhat challenging since that's about the range for a lot of tabs. good luck and hope you can recover that ring!

 

[2wheeldevil]

Going to try notching out everything except 50 to 70 and see what happens. Ring was lost only 5 days ago so it will be right on top or pressed into the dirt. Will use a screwdriver to scrap the dirt on shallow targets. Talked to Campus Police and they frowned on digging but gave me the go ahead for a surface hunt. Area is about 50 by 80 ft so will set up a grid and see what happens. Time is running out, snow projected soon!!

 

[2wheeldevil]

Got lucky and eyeballed the ring, nobody had stepped on it. Notching out everything from 50 to 70 did not work, the ring rang up as 75 on the At Pro.

 

[2wheeldevil]

That should be notched everything out EXCEPT 50 to 70 and that did not work.

 

[jim tn]

Ahh, good eyeballs and job locating the ring. Yeah, that 75 reading is near where the couple I found came in at, too. Good job! HH jim tn

 

[2wheeldevil]

Here is a picture of the Matt with his ring back on his finger. He is out of the dog house now!