Sunday evening the 25th of July a lady left a message for me that her youngest son had lost his wedding band at a local beach in water chest deep at high tide. I made arrangements to meet her there at 4PM on the 26th and promised her that I would do everything I could to recover and return her sons ring.
I did something I had never done before when asked to search for a lost jewel, I told the lady that I didnt want anything for my time, but I would want $20 to keep my machine in batteries. She informed me that she would be willing to pay $200 to get the ring back, but I said that the cost of batteries was enough and if I wasnt able to find the ring she didnt even have to pay that.
When we met at the beach she pointed to an area about half the size of a foot-ball field and said that it was somewhere out there!!
She had to leave an hour later, but took these photos of the old hunter for me. 21/2 hours later I left with 8-quarters, a dime (all clad) and 3-pennies along with a few pieces of rusty metal and a Cast Master fishing lure and no ring!!
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If anyone can find the ring it's this old guy using his "Poor Man's Backhoe, Super Sifter and Dual Field!!!
Late today I hope to succeed in locating the ring and returning it to the lady. It will be gold ring #38 recovered and returned to the owner!
Up-date!!!
At 6PM or so I waded into the cool waters of long Island Sound on the CT. shore and after over an hour of wearing myself out with digging maybe a half dozen coins and lots of nails and other trash I decided it was about time to head home!!
One more pass about twenty feet from the waters edge and I got a solid "Ring" tone and finally found the ring I spent 21/2 hours searching for yesterday about 60 or 70 feet farther away from the waters edge!!
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I have called the Mother of the owner to verify, but it looks like the one I saw in a picture she showed me.
# 38 in the bag!!
GL&HH Fellow Hunters,
CJ
PS I just got the call verifying the ring as the right one.........my first platnum ring in over 300 gold rings recovered!!!YAHOO!!!
I did something I had never done before when asked to search for a lost jewel, I told the lady that I didnt want anything for my time, but I would want $20 to keep my machine in batteries. She informed me that she would be willing to pay $200 to get the ring back, but I said that the cost of batteries was enough and if I wasnt able to find the ring she didnt even have to pay that.
When we met at the beach she pointed to an area about half the size of a foot-ball field and said that it was somewhere out there!!
She had to leave an hour later, but took these photos of the old hunter for me. 21/2 hours later I left with 8-quarters, a dime (all clad) and 3-pennies along with a few pieces of rusty metal and a Cast Master fishing lure and no ring!!
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If anyone can find the ring it's this old guy using his "Poor Man's Backhoe, Super Sifter and Dual Field!!!
Late today I hope to succeed in locating the ring and returning it to the lady. It will be gold ring #38 recovered and returned to the owner!
Up-date!!!
At 6PM or so I waded into the cool waters of long Island Sound on the CT. shore and after over an hour of wearing myself out with digging maybe a half dozen coins and lots of nails and other trash I decided it was about time to head home!!
One more pass about twenty feet from the waters edge and I got a solid "Ring" tone and finally found the ring I spent 21/2 hours searching for yesterday about 60 or 70 feet farther away from the waters edge!!
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I have called the Mother of the owner to verify, but it looks like the one I saw in a picture she showed me.
# 38 in the bag!!
GL&HH Fellow Hunters,
CJ
PS I just got the call verifying the ring as the right one.........my first platnum ring in over 300 gold rings recovered!!!YAHOO!!!
