My Best 9 Ever? 14k/star Sapphire

[mn90403]

We had some wind waves last night and it was time to get out in the morning and see what the wind blew in.  Most of the way there was nothing.  I had no targets and then I found a little dog charm tag.  It sounded a bit different and I was able to get a 'line' on some possible deep targets.  I walked on for another 100 yards or so without any targets in between and then I got a -5 but it was 'deep' so I knew I had to dig it.  As soon as I scrapped off about 3-4 inches the target changed to positive.  I've had this happen many times on good targets.  This one was a bit deeper but it finally started coming in at a 9 and I said to myself that this is a good sound.  I still was not prepared for what came out of the hole.

It is stunning.

It is 14k/3.5g and I believe it to be real diamonds and sapphire. 

It was down about 12 inches.  A big surprise for something that nice to come out of the hole.

This was everything so not that many targets for the day and the 2 hour hunt.

[F350Platinum]

Beautiful ring. ? You can get one of these to test stones, it won't tell the difference between a lab diamond or Moisannite, but it works good and is cheap. Sadly I dug a diamond earring that turned out to be a CZ.

https://www.amazon.com/gp/aw/d/B08MTG5NHJ

This or any of the clones in this genre should work well. Luckily my wife has a few real diamonds and Moisannites to test. ? Follow the instructions to the letter and fakes will be shown as fakes.

[Rick N. MI]

Beautiful star sapphire. Great find. 

[dogodog]

That sure is a nice looking ring!!  My wife would have ripped my fingers off trying to get it out of my hand. She's on parole after tossing a pricey Tiffany ring in the garbage. Hope the sands yield some more goodies for you.

[phrunt]

Way to go Mitchel! A great score there.

No point prospecting for little dinks when you can pull that sort of thing up right near home ?

 

[schoolofhardNox]

Awesome blue star sapphire. Shows you what is sitting down deep. I wonder how many smaller rings we miss at 12" Great find. 

[delnorter]

Very nice Mitchel. We’re these finds made with the Equinox 800.

Mike

[mn90403]

Mike,

I use the 800/15 just about all the time on the beach any more.  I use no discrimination in Beach 1 at 23 sensitivity.  I've learned that deep targets at first can often be a negative number.  I use 50 tones mostly but I have been known to go down to 5.  I stick with that even in very wet sand but I do have another setting I took from King of Bling which is Beach 2 and 2 tone which I crank up to 25.  I can walk faster with that one.  The other one I have to listen for low tones which I have increased my iron tones to 10 ... maybe I should increase that volume even more.

Mitchel

[Gold Catcher]

10 hours ago, mn90403 said:

It is stunning.

Stunning indeed, Mitchel! I hope your luck spills over to me too the next time we go hunting together ?