301 Rings Total For 2024

[TTT2866]

I’ve been extremely blessed this past year. After hitting 260 rings last year, with ~70 in a month being my best, I figured there’s no way I’d be able to beat that for 2024. Lo and behold, within the first few days of January I’d hit a honey hole of over 20 rings. 
over the course of the year, I had many good days producing sometimes 3-6 gold rings in a single hunt. It got to a point I was taking less shifts at my second job because I was earning more beach detecting lol. It wasn’t uncommon to make an easy $500 a day. One of my best days was when I found that 36 gram 18ct bracelet, now being worth over $3400 AUD in scrap. 
fortunately, both of my jobs have been very flexible with my detecting hustle. This year however I think I’ll need to take work a bit more seriously so I don’t think I’m going to hit 200 by December 2025. There’s also only so many rings a handful of beaches can hold.
 

anyway I had around 280 rings by early December. I think that’s when I realised I could definitely hit the 300 mark by New Year.

 I hit every spot I could think of, including areas I’d obviously found tons of stuff at, as well as areas that should’ve had fresh drops, and remote areas that occasionally threw good stuff up. I also revived an old spot that was extremely weedy and managed to find all sorts of stuff including a working GoPro 13 and multiple phones. 
I got to December 27 and was up to 298 rings. 
December 28, back to the weedy spot, and boom! 2 more gold rings, and a Pandora gold plated ring. 301 total rings. 

 

Anyhow, on top of all the rings, I also found a plethora of “cool sheit ”. The gold bracelet I mentioned earlier, a 9ct belcher bracelet which I thought was a tarnished silver fob chain, my first gold half sovereign, a working GoPro hero 13, 2 other broken GoPros, 7 or so phones in December (6 returned), a rare Seiko divers watch (6039-7040) which I restored, many sunglasses, a massive 22ct ring with a real natural emerald and ruby, and so much more. 
I’ve also had the opportunity to do many recoveries and returns. Off the top of my head there were about a dozen ring and pendant recoveries, as well as a couple phones. 

here’s the numbers: 

2024 tally:

Silver rings: 108

Tungsten, titanium, junk : 90

Gold/platinum rings: 103

Total: 301

Average of 0.83 rings per day. 
 

I hope this inspires people for 2025! 
HH

Some pictures were too large to add but here’s a small photodump 🙂 

[1491]

That's just crazy. The junk / silver / gold ratio is also unbelievable!

[DSMITH]

Many a great recovery in those photos

[PI-Man]

Wow!  BIG Congrats — I need to move to Australia! Way to go.  

I am starting to call the area I live and detect in the junk ring capital of the world.  Then again the state/county likes to spend approx 50 to 100 million just in our county alone on beach replenishment each year it seems.  I am betting closer to the higher number.

[Valens Legacy]

Great many finds and a lot of hard work on your part.

I would like to know what your part time job is as it looks like detecting is your full time job.

Good luck during this new year and stay safe out there.

[rvpopeye]

WOW JUST WOW !triple T !  😳 301 arrrrrrrrrrrrrs ! 🏴‍☠️ 

I think it's safe to say , that post WAS inspirational ! 

It goes without saying (so I will anyhow) you sure have some great beaches to swing over ! 

 

[Skull diver]

12 hours ago, TTT2866 said:

I hope this inspires people for 2025! 

It sure does!

Impressive ratio there....

 

[mn90403]

Another WOW!

 

[CalReg]

A true testament to your tenacity and skill. Congrats on the impressive haul!