:usaflag: Let The Fun begin!! :detecting:

[Cupajo]

Yesterday I spent almost three hours wading in the cold yet placid water at our local beach swinging my Dual Field. The strap tore loose from the cuff on my right hand rubber gauntlet and I was forced to use neoprene diver's gloves. I had forgotten to bring another pair as a spare. A handful of junk metal, a silver toe ring and necklace, and five pennies were all I had to show for lots of digging and suffering with cold arms and hands.

This AM I decided to check out a different section of beach and spent three hours of dodging swells out of the south-east which somehow soaked my right hand causing discomfort worse than yesterday. There was no wind to drive the swells so it puzzles me how they could be so large.

Persistence paid off though, because I was able to recover 85 cents, eleven bottle caps, a bit of brass, 4-fishing sinkers, some junk iron, 2-bobby-pins,

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and a pretty junk ear-ring along with 1- 18K wedding band!

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Happy hunting Friends,

CJ

 

[GoGoGopher]

Your off to a good start there...Gold is always good...

HH,

 

[Joel-Winnipeg]

For all that discomfort you got the gold for you efforts.

 

[Cupajo]

Thanks for your replies Friends!

I do like to see that golden flash of light in my scoop!

GL&HH,

CJ

 

[TerraDigger]

You are an awesome guy. Read many of your postings where you look for/find peoples jewelry.....at no charge. Hope ya find a boatload of jewelry this season. You deserve that.

 

[Cupajo]

Thanks for your kind comments TD!

I've been called many things in my 69years, but awesome is one I haven't heard!

Not long after I started hunting in the small beach community where I live in 1982, people learned about it and called me when they lost rings etc.

It's not hard to run up ring finds totals when you have people knocking on your door in a panic for having lost a family heirloom or wedding band etc.

Last year I returned four including my first platinum ring which took me four hours to recover.

There are few things as wonderful as witnessing the joy and gratitude of the folks when the once again have their rings are on their fingers.

I tell them that if I ever find the ring with a metal- detector again it's mine!!

I have not recovered three items in those many years. One, a platinum wedding band lost at the person's home, was not lost where he thought it was. I'm sure it was somehow miss-placed and not lost. The other two were lost at the beach and I'm convinced they "walked away" with the help of someone who had no feelings of remorse about the act of stealing a valuable. There were too many people searching!

At present I have two rings I am searching for as I promised the owners. One, a university ring, was lost in 1946 and the other, a very expensive diamond ring, more recently.

The oldest I have returned was lost over 40 years and belonged to a family friend, the next 22 years and belonged to my wife's second cousin.

To date I have managed to recover and return 38 gold, one silver and one platinum ring. (I should count the three aluminum rings I recovered for three broken hearted little girls last summer too I guess!)

I'm not sure who got more joy out of it, the owners or me.

Good Luck and Happy Hunting Friend,

CJ

 

[Dugday]

Great job returning all that jewelery.

 

[GoGoGopher]

It is a great feeling to bring a smile to someones face, and ease their worries...I am still looking for a 14k gold ring with an amethyst stone that belonged to a young lady who got it from her Grandma to wear for the day, and did not take it off while playing softball...I checked the likely hiding spot, her mitt, but not there...I have covered the field where she lost it many times, with no success...I know at least one other lady hunts that field too, and if She found it, She has said nothing to me, even though I let her know I was hunting for that particular type of ring...Was it lost there as the girl said, or was it never there to begin with??? I may never know...It has been 2 years now since she lost it, but I still have her phone # just in case I find it...I hate to think of her having to go home and tell her Granny she lost the ring...Probably was not worth a whole lot of cash, but I bet it had a lot of sentimental value...I do not know if I just am not hunting correctly to find gold, but I have only found 1 gold item in the 6 years I have been hunting now...There has to be gold in some tot lot or field somewhere around me...I dig plenty of nickels and pull tabs, so where is that gold???

HH,

 

[Cupajo]

Keep the faith GoGo!

Like many things in life, they appear when you least expect them!!

I've gone through weeks and even months of hunting without a sign of gold and then find 6 gold rings in one day!

That has happened twice in my hunting experience.

Good Luck and Happy Hunting Friend,

CJ