Old housing site hunt. :garrett:

[jim tn]

Headed out early this morning and was swinging away at 6:30. I went to a spot I hadn't been to for a while, an old Navy Military housing site that had been demolished when the Military went through a down sizing back in the 80's. The site was then donated to the city it was located in and they in turn turned it into a city park. Over the years the spot has been hunted hard and yours truly spent literally hundreds of hours on it from 06 through 08. It is the trashiest location I have ever hunted. The 3rd picture shows the screw cap of the brew of choice for the Navy guys. And they drank a bunch of it.

Along about 7:45 I got a scratchy high tone signal showing 4." Thought it might be another bottle cap. Found the target in the dirt clod and spotted the glint of gold. Yup, a 10K 1986 class ring from a high school in a small town up the road a piece and has the name Steve on it. Thinking that should be a pretty easy return.

Was ending the hunt near 11 and working my way back to my vehicle when I got a bouncy 81-84 high tone hit. Dug, flipped over the clod and spotted a silver dime. A 1946 Rosie. Ended the hunt with 7 wheat cents, the oldest a 1927, a few pieces of clad and Memorial cents and a pouch pocket full of trash.

Hope you all are swinging good this weekend. HH jim tn

 

[88junior]

Congrats on a great hunt Jim!!

 

[Mudd Dawg]

Way to go jim! I`m sure if this guy is still around he will be happy to get his ring back.

 

[tabman]

Nice going on the ring.

Luckily it bounced into the high tone some, because I know that you were not digging the gold range at that trashy site.

tabman

 

[mudpuppy]

Yeah! Big ring bounced high for you! Thats a one in a million there, considering the signal had no business being dug! Great work!
Mud

 

[Elton]

Awesome job Jim..Steve should be a very happy Man.........

 

[dgruff]

Looks like you did good! Congrats!

 

[John-Edmonton]

WTG with some gold Jim. Good luck finding the owner

 

[William-NM]

Congrats on a great hunt! Seems like, once you get enough hours on the detector, you develop a sixth sense that helps you sniff out targets that want digging, even when it isn't an obvious 'good' signal.
Hope you can connect with the ring's owner.

 

[jim tn]

Unless the fellow has moved and the school doesn't have his current address/location, seems like a near slam dunk getting it returned. It has his initials inside the band. Yeah, time is of the essence, right? Thanks, HH jim tn

 

[upnorth]

Wonderful hunt. Thanks for taking us along.