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  1. I got out for a late afternoon hunt in quite a blow. It is not that the temperature was so low at around 52 or so but the wind was blowing about 25 mph. I layered up and was just fine. I thought I was going to only have the one 'spread the ear' ring for the hunt but then I got a deep target. It gave me a squeak above a quarter at 31-32. Down about 14 inches was this ring. It was not that corroded so I wondered about it. It probably had some varnish or protectant of some sort. It cleaned up pretty good. I can't see a maker's mark but it does have a 9(8)25 inside. There should have been more.
  2. Cold Sunday. Got out early, it was 37 and windy. ? I had to dress warm, if my hands and feet get cold I'm done. Reynaud's Syndrome is a detectorist's nightmare. Went back to the farm I've found so much good stuff at this week, I usually don't hunt on the weekends but had a social cancellation and nothing to do. This area is fairly sheltered in some places, so I figured I could warm up there. Luckily there were no hunters. Turned out to be pretty good, my hands and feet didn't get too cold because it was sunny and I was moving around and digging. I don't think it ever got above 41, but I was ok. I wore electric heated socks and brought heated gloves, from experience the Equinox can't handle the EMI from the gloves' pulse heat. I hoped the Deus 2 would be better. It was. ? The socks didn't bother it at all, and I was able to tune out the gloves with one press of the frequency button. Ended up not needing either but it was nice to know! I don't think winter is going to be too warm. I was out there for 7 hours today, scouted around a lot. Wasn't finding much, but at random I got all this: Another half spectacle buckle, some small button bits including a lead one and a broken Tombac, and some farm/animal brass. Even got .27 in modern coins. ? That big D buckle was a 95. ? Not that I minded getting a big buckle but the silver alternative would have been a bonus. ? The big half circle is some sort of old snap ring, and the curve with prongs I've never seen before. Extreme right is a fancy buckle fragment. I was detecting across the field to a different spot, and on the way got a solid 73, I thought "cool, another fancy button". Nope. Size 5.5 or 6 14K wedding band, a little over 6mm wide or 1/4 inch. It weighs 4.1g. I'm trying to find the maker's mark, could be a sideways W or M, or an "Epsilon". As usual it fits my wife's finger perfectly, she prefers white gold but never turns down a gift. This is the 4th gold ring I've found this year, two at a beach in one hole, one at a campground, and now this totally unexpected one in a farm. It might be old, it might be new. ? Only a small handful of trash again: What a great week it's been! I might get out next week but the holidays are upon us.
  3. This find was on one of my favorite beaches. The conditions weren't optimal but sometimes you just have to learn about your beach to be ready for the good times and the good tides. This is silver and weighs 13.4g. We'll see what an image search comes up with.
  4. Well, I just got my Nokta Legend with extra 6in. coil 3 days ago. Today I hit a small park and started around an outdoor basketball court with the aim to find some jewelry. Day 3 detecting with the new machine turned out to be the charm! So far I have about 15 hours coin-shooting and looking for jewelry in parks and sports fields with the Legend, and I have to say it handles my highly-mineralized soil quite well with its SMF capabilities. Thankfully with my experience running 2 other SMF detectors the past few years, watching videos and reading the manual last week, I think I've gotten a solid handle of how to set up this machine. It might take a newcomer much longer to get to where I am, but the Legend is easy to use and even in the default modes and settings would work great for a less-experienced detectorist. Ring #1 was about 6ft. in the grass behind one of the basketball hoops. I thought a VDI# of 51 would mean it was a quarter, but imagine my surprise when this heavy, initialed with a "K" pinky ring turned up. I kid you not, it weighs exactly 1/2 oz. of sterling silver at 15.55 grams on the scale! Five minutes later, I knew I had another silver ring when I saw 6ft. over a VDI# of 55. I'd never seen an ID# that high in my previous outings, but being so close to a honker ring, it had to be another...and it was. A nicely styled, large man's ring. Its not a whopper like the other, but a respectable 7.23 grams. I attribute these two finds to 3 things, location, location, and the 6in. coil on the Legend that gave me the courage to dive into this zone heavy with trash, lol. In my short time out with the Legend, I'm really enjoying it a lot. Its a ton of fun to swing with the "dinky" coil, has great sensitivity to low conductors and works great in a variety of situations like in parks, fields, tot lots. Other detectors I've owned have struggled in my hot dirt, but the Legend handles it decently for the time being. Someday I still hope for technology that tames my dirt, but this newer crop of detectors with SMF are opening things up some. You still have to swing over the treasure though, and I'm glad I was able to get over these two beauties.
  5. I've been out again with my new Nokta Legend on the hunt for some gold jewelry. So far the gold is still eluding me, but I did manage another men's silver ring as a consolation prize for digging countless pull tabs along with other trash and clad. This time its the ring on my middle finger in the picture (the other 2 I got a couple of days ago) and its a large ring size, as it still too big even for my average sized hands. I got an ID# of 94 on the Legend and I was nearly positive by the locked on number and sweet-sounding tone it would be silver and likely a ring. I dug it about 3 inches down on the outskirts of a softball field where spectators sit in the shade of a tree. In case anybody is interested to know, my settings were Park, M2, 28sens, G(round) disc mode, 6 recovery, 4IF/3stab, 4 audio gain, using 60 tones. I had the 6in. coil attached. It works great for pinpointing the smaller targets and still gets the big ones.
  6. Yesterday at a park where I've found half a dozen small silver rings and a tiny child's 14k gold ring in the past, I hit upon my 2nd piece of gold from this location. I was using my Deus 2 in a modified P4 Fast program to quickly find non ferrous items and dig them out. The idea was to dig a lot of zinc pennies and aluminum ranged signals in the hopes of finding gold. And I at least partially reach that goal when I found the face of an ornate locket. It rang up as a #76 on the VDI and strangely enough, a pulltab was just under it loose in the same hole. The pull tab read #75 and the locket air-tested at #76. Talk about peas in a pod! I don't know the meaning of the symbols on the front of the locket, but it looks middle eastern to me? There are some tiny chips of asymmetrically faceted stones inset on the front. I don't imagine they are diamonds or precious, but who knows? This item isn't attracted to a magnet, but on the backside I do see some green where there is a small scratch on the rim and on the underside of the rim. Some scratching around the hole on the backside by the hole is dark-colored. Not a good sign for being solid gold. It weights 4.31 grams and diameter is a bit smaller than a half dollar. There are no makers markings, but perhaps those would have been on the matching rear piece of the locket? Nice to find something interesting, even if not likely to be terribly valuable. I still think this spot holds more gold, so I'll keep searching there.
  7. This is something for everyone, for the people new to this hobby right up to the seasoned who may be on the fence about deciding whether to invest a small amount of money in @kac's Devil's Tongue Park Probe. Spent last weekend at one of my favorite campgrounds, but the remnants of Ian kept us ducking, I only got out twice in 4 days but wanted to re-check the tot lots and courts where I got quite a bit last time. Turns out I did a pretty good job. ? There was literally nothing in any of those spots I hunted but two fresh drops, a quarter and a dime. I didn't bring my Predator shovel with me, the first day I got there the ground was dry after about a month of no rain, and would have been both impossible and messy to dig. Instead I threw the Park Probe in with my gear and had my small poly hand digger, which is great for sand and pinpointing. I brought only the Equinox for a detector. I focused on an entertainment field with a trailer that becomes a stage. It's about 2 acres, and loaded with pull tabs and bottle caps. I wanted to see how many coins I could get with limited time and equipment. BTW the band was pretty good. ? I used the Park Probe for about 2-3 hours in two days, one dry and one after 2"+ rain fell. I found it easy to use in all conditions, and literally left no trace. Ended up with 42 coins, last year I pulled about 300 out of this campground, so I didn't expect even that many. Oldest was a 1967 dime, this place was established in the 1970s, so no silver. I think the oldest quarter ever from here was a 1965. ? Also dug a key and a 1950s lipstick tube, which was strange to find here. Trash day 1: And day 2: Not much. Bottle caps were all sight picks. In digging all the pull tabs, I found after a while if I lifted the detector a bit and the signal disappeared, I should dig it, but I dug pull tabs anyway. That produced the cheap jewelry: The most interesting thing is the tiny owl, it's heavy and was a 5, but appears to be plated. All stones are fake. The two rings, one I suspect is from a doll, are aluminum with crystals. Both were pull tab signals that disappeared upon lifting the coil about 5". Gold will do the same thing as opposed to foil, it's a trick not a recommendation. The penny is there for scale, this stuff is all small which is the forte of the Equinox, although I've found the D2 is also no slouch. Everything was popped out with the Park Probe. I cannot emphasize enough how useful this tool is. Some of the coins were 6" down, about the depth mine can go. I love this tool. I strongly recommend giving it a shot of WD-40 every time you are done, this one has dug a lot of stuff now and still looks new. It's unobtrusive and should calm the fears of any grounds keeper. ? Thanks Kac! ?
  8. Last weekend was spent visiting my ailing father in law in Nevada. As my wife and I were returning home I commented to her that the Sacramento valley had a nice North Wind going. That was Sunday afternoon. Lucky me when one of my clients needed to re schedule yesterday’s morning appointment. I bee lined it to a spot that knew would have taken some wave action. With only a couple hours to hunt I started digging like a badger. I wasn’t really doing that great until the pendant popped up. At first I thought it was a piece of foil because it rang up low and all the tiny stones made it look silver in the sunlight mixed in with the sand. Stamped 10k 4.36 grams. Nox 800 11” coil to cover some ground quickly. Strick
  9. That's two successful ring recoveries in a week.. If this keeps up I'll be able to retire a wealthy man.. It was another very easy recovery.. The lady who owns this ring send me a photo of the tree she was sitting under when she lost it.. Took about 2 minutes to find it.. If only all recovery jobs were this easy.. I've just send her a message to say I've found it but it's still early in the morning here (6:30) so no reply yet.. She told me this ring had a lot of sentimental value and there would be a reward if I found it.. I'll keep you posted..
  10. Back at the campground we were at last week, after getting set up for a festival I thought I'd hit the entertainment field before sundown. It's the small field with a trailer that becomes a stage, about 2 acres. I've had a hunch that there will be some good jewelry here, people dance and drink. About 20 minutes in after finding a small amount of trash, I got a pull tab (well half a pull tab) signal, a 6/7 that disappeared when I lifted the coil. It was right on top. I bent down with my pinpointer and saw a thin flash of gold, got this little guy: Sure looked like gold to me. I kept on until it was too dark to dig, I don't want to leave a mess here. Here's the trash: About what I'd expect to dig looking for jewelry. For an hour the take wasn't bad, I brought my shovel to get the deeper stuff. The ring has "10k" and some letters for a hallmark. I hope it's a ruby, my wife's birthstone. She loves it. Fits perfectly. Good start! The little oval thing was a solid 18, it says "Zildjian" on it. Probably a cymbal bag zipper pull. I'm using the Equinox 600 again with the 10x5, Park 1, 5 tones, F2=3 to push the bottle caps to iron, there are a lot of them.
  11. Quality items have been a bit scarce lately but I did find this nice ring (and 4 others). It is 13 g with the markings as you see. It has a 22 and a BO or a B0. I don't know what they mean.
  12. I got a call the other day from a very dear friend of mine. We go back over 30 years. He's part owner of a 500 acre duck club here in the Delta. Mike who is the head honcho of the club was brushing a couple of the blinds as duck season is only a few weeks away. At some point he noticed his wedding ring was missing. Frantic he searched all over for it but you know how that goes. I was able to get out there yesterday...4 days after the fact. They drive me out in the side by side to one of the two spots that it could have been lost. Turn on the detector do a quick noise cancel then ground balance and start making my way around the outside of the blind. Took about 4 minutes to locate the ring a solid 14 on the Nox. The best and funniest part was when Mike yelled out "I cant believe you found it" Then my buddy gets all excited and tells him "you see I told you he knows what he's doing" lol Mike sends his wife of over 40 years the picture of the ring and boy did she sound happy. I found out afterwards that he had someone else out there with a detector right after he lost it but no luck. I can see how some of you ring finders get a kick out of this stuff...sorry for the crappy photos my friend needs a better phone lol strick
  13. Camping season is at an end, I hunted the campground a couple more times before we left. Wasn't bad for 3 days. Ended up with 100 coins, a hot wheels car, some junk jewelry, a gold ring and a silver 1949-S Roosevelt dime, a key date coin, also my first silver Roosevelt ever. The strangest dig was chasing a 30 ID, I dug the plastic rooster before getting the coin. Thought someone did a ritual burial! ? Over $10 more in the change jar anyway, I'm going to get the ring cleaned and polished for my wife. Here's a gratuitous photo of the red white and blue sunrise in front of my house with a full moon. ?
  14. About a month ago I was detecting at a school field with my Deus 2 and I found a 14K woman's ring. It has an opal stone in the middle with three diamonds on each side. It was about 4 inches down in the ground. It was in pretty bad shape from being in the ground for so long, and I think that it also got stepped on. It was missing one of the diamonds, the opal was pretty badly scratched up, it was out of round, and it had lost some of its shine. My wife liked it because she really likes opals, so I took it to a jeweler and had it repaired. It cost me $290 to have it restored to new condition, but now it is worth a lot more that that. But it is not going anywhere because it now belongs to my wife.
  15. Back from camping, I'll round up that trip soon but since Ian's remnants stayed around here with high winds and rain for 4 days, I had a thought that I should check my local beaches for stuff that may have been uncovered. It wasn't a total disappointment, yesterday I took an hour or two to go to the small beach. At least a foot of sand had been washed away and some of the riprap had been tumbled. The tide was very low due to the full moon. This place has given me gold rings, but I pretty much wiped out everything I could get a tone on. The last two times I visited I got nothing. I brought the Equinox and my composite trowel, and dug everything. That's all the trash I could get, I was surprised to find anything, all items below were at least 8" down. A dime, two nickels, and a copper ring with a crystal stone. Not bad for no expectations! ? Today I decided to go to the larger beach, the tide and wind were both low. No one was there when I got there, so I put my waders on and got to it. The river is still loaded with jellyfish! After a while an old couple showed up with Equinoxes and in waders. They zipped all over the place, leapfrogging me and checking every inch of the low tide line while I was in one space. They were a bit annoying but I guess they weren't too happy that I was there. ? They never really dunked their detectors, I was fully confident with my Deus 2 and the bone phones. I didn't get much trash. I threw it out, it was about twice what I got the day before. Just small bits of odd metal that are common at this beach. My finds weren't all that great, but one item is the blingiest piece of junk jewelry I've ever found: It's heavy, 18k gold plated, and has probably over 100 hand laid CZs in it. Here is a link to it: https://thegoldgods.com/products/yung-rich-nation-takeoff-limited-edition-piece The rest was just junk and modern coins. The huge heart is an earring and may have been plated as well: I think this is the last time I'll hunt a beach this year, give them time to fill up. ? Back to the fields!
  16. was using the XP- ORX in coin deep 10.5khz 64 gain, 2.5 sweep speed disc set at 5.5----- and using the 9 inch x - 35 coal Got out for a few swings today and found a nice 925 earing , and one Gold plated one. clad was few but I made par - Par is 1.00in clad so i just made it and dug alot of junk looking for those elusive Gold rings- but ta the exercise was good .
  17. Oh my gold. I was trying out a new coin program on the legend and found this 10k ring in my own yard. Now we have lived here for over 35 years. Great little excitement on a Saturday morning
  18. Local lake is exactly one mile from my house. It was built in the 1880’s and started allowing recreation about 1917 as far as I know. I work swing shift so I have all morning to screw off and now that it’s kinda cooler, I’ve been hitting the lake. Nothing great so far but I found a ring that is gold in color but must be Carbide. It won’t scratch on the stone. It only has a CH marking inside. Here are a couple pics and I’m using the Deus 2. It’s kinda fun and different from my usual gold rush relics. I’m hoping for some gold rings as the lake drains in the fall.
  19. The Pt950 is platinum for sure but the EDL is the part I am wanting to identify. Nice little 19.8g bracelet. I will never understand why they wear something like this to the beach but I'm not complaining! LOL If anyone knows what the EDL stands for, I would appreciate you letting me know. I thought at first that it had diamonds on it, but it is just diamond cut to appear like there are diamonds mounted on it. thanks, Joe
  20. ...and certainly one of a kind. Back on Sept 16th I posted about some of my finds from Hurricane Kay including a picture of a silver Tiffany earring. I made a similar post on another website as well as asking if any other detectorists had found an earring that would match. As it turned out, the same week that I found that earring another hunter, 2300 miles away, on a beach near Savannah, Georgia scooped out a perfect match. He saw my post and graciously agreed to getting both halves together to make a complete set. Some lucky girl in my family is going to know just how special her "new" earrings are.
  21. Yesterday I scooted over to a park for a mainly gold hunt. I was running the 800 and have been playing with single freq. setups. I only had an hour or so to dig so I made the best of it (kinda). Nothing annoys me more than digging junk but it's the rule if you want the gold. The first batch of targets were foil, foil and more FOIL. I hit up on some clad and a piece of baby spoon. I got another foil tone Ha Ha and figured I would enjoy digging another beverage seal. Well low and behold , looky here. The shape looked familiar but could it be, is it a ring??. Yup. Sadly the stone is missing from my find but its been a while since I found a 14k ring. This is only the 3rd 14k white gold ring I've ever found. For a quick 1 1/2 hour hunt I was more than happy.
  22. It's been hard going in the ring recovery business for a while.. It hasn't helped that our local council has dumped about a metre of sand on top of the island's most productive beaches to counter erosion.. Despite the school holidays and a major surf lifesaving carnival last week, I'm only finding a few freshly dropped coins.. All this changed this morning when a gentleman contacted me on my ring recovery Facebook page with a very accurate description of where he lost his wedding ring.. Although I had to go for a scuba dive to recover it, the ring was exactly where he said he dropped it.. Using my trusty PulseDive it took about half a minute to find it.. He was a very happy fella and gave me a $50 reward.. Not too bad for less than a minute's work..
  23. found two sterling items today, and 9 quarters and some nickles. The bracelet is boldly marked sterling , good weight to both of them . not plated, so i was looking for gold rings, but not disappointed with the silver. my settings on the orx where coin deep , 75 gain, 8.4khz, 2.5 sweep speed, and 6.5 disc mostly open low trash spot I chose the low frequincy becase it can see thru the junk foils and give me the higher numbers thru the small foils. a gold ring is under the junk foil , the 17,2 will not do that , some of the nickles came in the 71 ,69 VDI range but ya this is how it is . And i dug alot of trash .
  24. After my Job interview went south, I went metal detecting , and I have another offer to rake some leaves for extra cash , so I prayed that if i should do that leaf raking that God would give me a sighn and let me find a gold ring today, and I did. had to XP ORX set up in coin deep , 70 gain 6 disc and 2.5 sweep speed at 17.2khz and at the 1st spot i was hunting , I got the thinking I should take a break and then go to another spot I have been to many time but never found any rings . I found a big chunk of iron and after it was out i got a quarter Hit , other wise someone had dug the cladd out pretty good , I was finding lots of tabs and foil , thats a good sign a ring could in theory be in the ground , and I got a signal 62 on the meter and expecting a tab, up comes a nice Gold cladda ring , marked Ireland inside. and another mark i cant read its a bit worn , but its pretty clear its not bling or plated its small but still weighing in at 2.4 grams. In the last picture you can see the big iron bolt that i dug out and after that an old crusty quarter was heard , yes it was masked ,someone else had stripped all the clad so i was luckey to get that quarter , but it was clearly masked
  25. We had a storm come through N Calif over the weekend. The winds were SE and I had a great spot in mind but had to work Mon and Tues...Yesterday my first appt was at 12:30 so I figured I could get at least 2 and a half hours in.... when I got to the beach it was pretty much what I expected it was about 2/3 sanded back in but the storm 3 days earlier had done its job and there were still lots of targets. I hate to leave a target rich environment that’s exactly what happened as I only hunted from 8:30 till 11:00. The bracelet is stamped 14 k and is 5.4 grams. Equinox 800 field 2 5 tones ground tracking on Fe0 Fe2 0 Coiltex 10x5 strick
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