Spent 8 hours in the lake today, got a his and hers..

[BarnacleBill]

Cz20 freshW, found the large 10K men's yellow band, normally run disc @ zero, but the .22 cal cartridges were killing me, plus heavy iron infestation. Set disc to reject .22 @3 on disc dial, checked a Jeff and the 10K and was good to go.

Pulled the art deco dinner ring, 18K white gold w/ 3 pieces of ice out of a pile of iron. Rang mid-tone, checked on Fisher Excel ID later, displayed +5. Ring does not appear to be repro.

The Excel sure is mighty handy for checking a target for conductivity, the 10K rang out @ +15.

Good day on the ranch but, 3 hours sleep last nite, 8 hours in the water, I'm beat!

BarnacleBill

 

[Bavaria Mike]

Excellent hunt, many nice finds and congrats on the gold! HH, Mike

 

[Jackpine Savage]

Great Haul you got there. That dinner ring is exceptional, hard to tell for sure from the pics but the diamonds look like an older style cut Neat!
That would be a good kind of tired.

Tom

 

[Tony (NC)]

.........As usual! You had to be beat (and pretty dang "pruney") after 8 hrs in the water. That scoop gets pretty heavy after a while. Hey....just curious.....do you have a magnet in your scoop to catch the small iron and nails that fall through the holes? I put one in mine and that thing is the trick! Congrats on the gold!

 

[Bill Ladd]

What can I say.....but "GUT ER DUN!"

 

[Bill Ladd]

What can I say...but "Gut R DUN!".....hat's off too ya

 

[BarnacleBill]

I use a floating sifter that classifies, and a long handled spade shovel. The junk pictured is what I dug in 8hrs. Except the large curved nail which was on the surface in 2ft of water, I picked it up so a swimmer wouldn't step on it.

Because of the number of .22 cartridges & slugs round here a scoop would be pure misery, yes you can screen them, but then you are faced with all sorts of bark and vegetation filling the scoop. Constantly clearing the scoop would be tough. Now pure sand or the ocean, I would use one, no doubt!

BarnacleBill

 

[BarnacleBill]

n/t

 

[Tony (NC)]

The lake we are hunting is LOADED with the little freshwater clams. When you figure in the leaves and branches, you have quite a mess in there. Have you got a picture of the floating screen? I just might just STEAL that idea!

 

[BarnacleBill]

n/t

 

[Tony (NC)]

I may have to table my "thinking" for a while, as I am "Nautically challenged" at this point. What I mean is.......... I don't have a boat! I had one once upon a time, but sold it when I needed money.

 

[BarnacleBill]

Each of the three rings have been the best ring find of mine for the last three summers. So I plopped down my fifty bucks and had a certified Gemmy give me an appraisal for insurance purposes. These are the retail replace costs, not lending or pawn values. So if the jeweler had to remake them from scratch, this number applies.

BarnacleBill

 

[mtdoramike]

25% of the retail price. I took a ring that my wife found to a local jeweler, who checked it for me and said that the ring would be worth about $200.00 pawn shop price, $400.00 ebay price and retail about $1500.00. But, I didn't opt for the $75.00 appraisal for insurance purposes.

But its still better then diggin clad and who knows, someday, I might take in a real one of a kind ring with that perfect diamond in it that will be worth thousands even on the used market.

 

[BarnacleBill]

the wife plans on wearing 2 out of the 3, and, well, and she has already lost a diamond tennis bracelet, and I only bring that up to her when I need to exercise the "nuclear option" a couple times a year. Ya know, that brings to mind that I should tell her I need to buy a special new detector, to find that tennis bracelet! Hmmm, Fisher got anything new coming out like an underwater Excel??

BarnacleBill

 

[Bill Ladd]

Especially an estate piece or diamond...if you can get 2 people bidding against each other I see used rings go for a grand at times...