A Gold Day Metal Detecting Is Better Than Any Day At Work

[ColonelDan]

1 hour ago, F350Platinum said:

I wonder if I would have found it with the Deus. 🤔

Without a doubt....but that's just the view from my foxhole. 😉

[mn90403]

On 4/28/2025 at 3:00 PM, midalake said:

Unbelievable you can run the Manticore at 29.

 

On 4/28/2025 at 2:48 PM, F350Platinum said:

I can run Beach Surf and Seawater at 29

This is the key.  I was out last night on a super low tide and I used the seawater setting for about the first time and you can add on the sensitivity and it gets quieter.  I eventually wound up in spots where I had to crank it back but it will go higher than low conductors/Dankowski.

Congrats on the gold and clad.  Our bay beaches are producing little and getting more sanded in.  I'm researching alternatives.

[Geologyhound]

That is a pretty little ring!  Is that a tiny pearl I am seeing on the right side of the sapphire in those pictures (down in the notch on the shoulder)?

[TampaBayBrad]

12 hours ago, F350Platinum said:

the Masonic ring would cost $6,000 today alone.

😮Wow! You've already beat me. My best appraised for $2400.....still waiting to dig one better than that. Any day now.....next hunt....just a few more swings....

[F350Platinum]

34 minutes ago, Geologyhound said:

That is a pretty little ring!  Is that a tiny pearl I am seeing on the right side of the sapphire in those pictures (down in the notch on the shoulder)?

I wish, but it's just a trick of light. 🤔

The ring seems a bit crudely made from 2 rings, there are black "burn" marks on both shoulders immediately below the setting. I haven't tried to polish them out.

My wife thought she might put it on a chain or bracelet because it is so small, but we don't have any September babies in the family so it went in the collection display box.

[F350Platinum]

6 minutes ago, TampaBayBrad said:

😮Wow! You've already beat me. My best appraised for $2400.....still waiting to dig one better than that. Any day now.....next hunt....just a few more swings....

The Masons have one company that makes their rings, today it's 6 grand for that particular style with that diamond, they will still make it.

It was made in the 1940s, so then it would have cost much less. I see them on eBay (i would not have done that) and some used jewelry shops for about $2k.

Returning it to the landowner probably made me a friend for life, and got me another big permission. 🙂

That was a lucky find, the other 4 came from the same place, 2 in the dry and 2 in the water. Guess I'll be going back there... 🤔 The sixth one I found last November with the Deus. 

[Hunterjunk]

The Manticore is treating you very well . Love the sapphire ring . Good to see you cranking up the sensitivity , there is real depth gain there , at the cost of falsing , but real targets come through the noise .

[F350Platinum]

23 minutes ago, Hunterjunk said:

The Manticore is treating you very well . Love the sapphire ring . Good to see you cranking up the sensitivity , there is real depth gain there , at the cost of falsing , but real targets come through the noise .

Thanks, @Chase Goldman suggested trying Enhanced Audio, and I haven't looked back. 🙂 EA allows me to crank sensitivity up, I'll go a little past silent which ends up being 28/29. The chatter isn't loud, more in the background. 

Another trick to add to that increased sensitivity that @midalake suggested is using one tone with a Recovery Speed of 6. A double iron tone on a swing indicates a very good chance of a non ferrous target, and so far that has been spot on. I switch between 5 region and One Tone because they are next to each other just to evaluate more, a few swings are cheaper than a deep dig 😅

[Wild Bill]

The gold ring with the blue stone is beautiful!  It’s like a wreath.  What do you suppose the stone is?  Tanzanite?  Yesterday I went over to help my daughter with a flat tire on her tractor.  She had some fill dirt brought in awhile back where she built horse corals and a riding arena.  She found some old iron in it and I detected some of it after it was leveled.  Found more.  Man that dirt hardened!  I mentioned it but didn’t bring the detector.  I need to go back and give it a go.  Got home and was sitting and having an afternoon coffee and reading.  I said to my wife “I think I’ll go detecting”  but sat there for awhile.  I thought you were going detecting she said.  Yeah I am, I’ll just detect our place.  We have 8 1/2 acres.  So I’m out in the field and she comes to the fence “find anything?”  YEAH A GOLD RING!  I holler!  I pick it out of the hole and hold it up!  It’s a gold anodized aluminum kids ring with a black stone.  Haha!  There in the hole with a little plastic cowboy and two copper pennies from the early seventies.  My wife grew up in a beach house in California.  She remembers storm surf cutting the beach down a foot or two and as kids running out jumping off the cut to collect all the old coins sliding down the wet sand with each wave.  Sometimes she’d collect $20-30 in old silver and copper!