Mike (Virginia Beach)
New member
I started my vacation yesterday. I'm off until a week from Monday. I have a lot planned, but detecting is in there PROBABLY every day. Or night, as the case may be. Anyway, I'm "Bachelor Boy" for a week, so I can do what the hell I want. 
So last night I hit the beach at about 11:30 and hunted until about 4:30. Looks like Ophelia did us some good with moving some stuff around. The targets were abundant and I only saw one other hunter, David from Suffolk. At the time, neither of us had any rings...both had scads of clad and I had the cruddy non-working watch. I think there should have been more "rings and bling" than there was...I've seen 7-ring nights when there weren't nearly as many targets, but we take what we can get. The Excalibur was sucking them from down deep and getting some pretty subtle signals. I don't remember the last time I dug so many nickels, and they ALL sounded sweet! Most of the pennies were dug as a public service...I can tell most of the time. Although the "bubbly and crusty" ones WILL fool you sometimes.
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In my last half hour I hit the HUGE and HEAVY ring. Had a SWEET gold sound. Looks to be white gold or perhaps platinum. It's definitely not junk and it's not silver...the sound on the Excal is too low for silver. I'm going to have it checked, because although it IS stamped, it's stamped so deep you can't read it. It's solid and heavy and it's not plated. I found it jam-up against a 3 foot cut, about a foot deep.
Anybody have any idea of what this ring is and what it means?
So last night I hit the beach at about 11:30 and hunted until about 4:30. Looks like Ophelia did us some good with moving some stuff around. The targets were abundant and I only saw one other hunter, David from Suffolk. At the time, neither of us had any rings...both had scads of clad and I had the cruddy non-working watch. I think there should have been more "rings and bling" than there was...I've seen 7-ring nights when there weren't nearly as many targets, but we take what we can get. The Excalibur was sucking them from down deep and getting some pretty subtle signals. I don't remember the last time I dug so many nickels, and they ALL sounded sweet! Most of the pennies were dug as a public service...I can tell most of the time. Although the "bubbly and crusty" ones WILL fool you sometimes.
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In my last half hour I hit the HUGE and HEAVY ring. Had a SWEET gold sound. Looks to be white gold or perhaps platinum. It's definitely not junk and it's not silver...the sound on the Excal is too low for silver. I'm going to have it checked, because although it IS stamped, it's stamped so deep you can't read it. It's solid and heavy and it's not plated. I found it jam-up against a 3 foot cut, about a foot deep.
Anybody have any idea of what this ring is and what it means?
