OK, We've Covered Basketball Courts Being Good For Rings. How About Horseshoe Pitts?

[Critterhunter]

I would think these might be a killer place to find rings, just because of the very act of how people use their hands to throw the horseshoe with their fingers stretched outward and forward as they throw. Not to mention the horseshoe sliding down the hand as thrown and perhaps taking a ring with it. Give us your stories! I've been eyeing a few of these with the intention to hunt them but just haven't pulled the trigger yet.

 

[larryk56]

I never hunted the horse-shoe areas either but logic would dicate that
that be a darn good spot. Somehow its easy to overlook those kind of
spots.

 

[REVIER]

Funny...just started hunting a new to me park that has a pair of these pits.
First time through I didn't find any rings but I did find this earring.
Says silver, but on all my detectors it discs out at zinc, so I am suspect.
Still, a jewelry find.

 

[ZOFCHAK]

I would think that pull tabs may be a problem

Honestly, I don't think horseshoes is a sport that would see a high percentage of jewelery wearers. Wedding rings would be the most common, but those are worn on the left hand and would not be lost by most players. I've hit a few horseshoe pits while detecting and if I remember correctly aluminum scrap and some clad are the only finds I have picked up, but I'm sure there are rings to be found among the trash.

 

[Hank68]

Shirt pocket spills could lead to coins finds around the horse shoe pits?

 

[Critterhunter]

Good idea about shirt pocket spills as they bend over. Not all people are right handed. And besides, I know plenty of guys who play horseshoes and some of them wear some big honking gold rings.

That earing is silver since it's marked .925. Reason silver can read down by zinc is the size of it. Smaller than a dime and there is a good chance it will read that low. Good find!

 

[Hank68]

Glad you brought this topic up! I will pay more close attention to this areas Critterhunter. Thumbs up!