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:usaflag: Molly Got Her Ring Back!! :detecting:

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Cupajo

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Last year I found a senior ring of 10K gold and contacted the school with the necessary information to get it back to the original owner, Molly.

A couple of months later I got a call from her and we agreed to get together at some future date to let me get these pictures.

Today was the day and gold ring #35 has been returned to the rightful owner.

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Molly tells me that she lost the ring in '08 so it was laying there in heavily hunted waters for a year waiting for me to come along.

Molly is happy and I am happy for her!

GL&HH Fellow Hunters,

CJ
 
Hi Cupajo; Way to go. The thing that is more valuable than the ring is the smile on her face. :clapping: Good hunting. PEACE:RONB
 
I just checked when I found this ring and it is one of my first Dual Field finds from last September.

CJ
 
way to go CJ :clapping: #35 is an impressive number of returned rings :please: I've only returned four so far.
lazyaussie
 
Nice going CJ. She's lucky that you found it! HH!
 
Thanks Fellow Hunters for your replies!

I had mentioned to the young lady that I wanted to take a picture of her with the ring on her hand.

She of course arrived with her nails painted in a favorite color of hers and we both had a chuckle over that.

Altho she was quite lovely I agreed not to post her face as I am keen on honoring the privacy of these folks.

GL&HH Friends,

CJ
 
n/t
 
With gold prices where they are these days it would be easy to fall prey to temptation, but after experiencing the pleasure of returning a ring to its rightful owner years ago I decided that when possible, the ring goes home!

At the very least I will make an honest effort to accomplish this, however I will not get obsessive about it when it comes to older rings.

Even so I have returned a fair share of my finds in my view.

It works out to about 10% (tithing?).

Thanks for your interest and replies Friends,

CJ
 
Good Job CJ, I have a question for you on your scoops you made. I've made a few scoops but never a hoop scoop, on yours is the handle SS, EC, Alum, and diameter? And how long was it before you bent it [length], and did you put sand in it to keep it from kinking. And the bucket is, SS? I like the angle of it better then the millers, was there a reason.. looks like you would have to lean forward less when digging?one last...how heavy is that monster. And good job again, people like you give us pirates a good name, and we need that with so many newbies out there...And Oldies like me that have a hard time letting go of the shiny stuff..........thanks joe
 
Hi OB,

When I started hunting in the early eighties I used an all steel open topped scoop with a wooden handle that worked, but didn't last long because the digging where I hunt destroyed it.

I went to a local metal scrap yard and found two stainless cylinders that some-one had welded together and I got the stainless tubing for the handles from a stainless supplier. I had a friend/welder build the scoops shown in my posts.


I had them built for about fifty dollars apiece in 1980s dollars.
One has a lighter gauge bucket and bends too easy to use in the stones, but is OK in sand the other is my main digging tool and has moved tons of sand and stone to recover thousands of targets over the years.

The handles were bent by my welder friend as I wanted them bent on a bending machine. I prefer the loop and bucket angle because it provides maximum digging power and the lifting angle is right for a heavy bucket full.

I lift it clear of the water with my left hand and once it clears the water I use my right hand to help dump it into the sifter.

I lose less of the small finds with this combo.

If I ever build another scoop I will use lots of small 3/16" holes and no larger holes that allow the small stuff to escape.

Last year I went to a local electrical supply house and bought a length of 3/4 heavy aluminum conduit and used an electrician's bending tool to get the arc I wanted for the new handle,

I wanted to gain a little weight advantage and have a handle that floats easier with the aid of a glued on section of plastic floaty.

I cut off the stainless handle several inches from the bucket and fitted two pieces of stainless rod in the tubing set in marine epoxy and riveted in place.

I plugged the aluminum tube with an epoxied in place plug in each end and then epoxied and riveted it to the rods on the bucket to create a very strong handle that lowered the weight several pounds.

The whole thing weighs a little over eleven pounds, but is nearly bomb-proof!

I call it my "Poor Man's Backhoe" and it hasn't failed me yet!

CJ
 
Thanks CJ....joe
 
Good job on returning the ring.
I found a lost wedding band for some newly weds last year, the husband lost the ring in 5' of water at a resort. I spent two hours looking for it and found and returned the ring. To see the smiles on their faces was the most rewarding experience than any other ring have found.
Regards
Colin
 
Each ring returned has a story to go along with it and they have almost always been joyful!

The only ring I ever returned that was less than satisfying I returned through a third party.

The owner never made any effort to acknowledge my efforts to locate her and return the University ring.

It almost was a good excuse to stop searching for the owners!

Naaaaaaaaaa!;)

GL&HH Friends,

CJ
 
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