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Need to find a gold ring lost 40 years ago.

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emscott

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Greeting all and thanks for adding me on

A landowner here ins eastern NC gave me permission last year to detect his property. I am a novice with a lot to learn but love this hobby a lot so far. He surprised me a week ago with a question. He said that he grew up on 80 acres adjoining his current property. 40 years ago, he lost his wedding band on the property and knows the area he lost it in. He asked the current landowner last week if he could send me over on the property to try to find it. The current owner said yes. He's asked me to spend some time trying to find this wedding ring. I am really excited about the opportunity and told him absolutely yes.

I currently have a Simplex +. The area he lost it in is about a 5 acre area with broken down old farm buildings. I am sure the area will have a lot of trash, tin, aluminum. Was wondering on what yalls thoughts are on how much the Nokta Legend would provide me a benefit over my current Simplex + in being able to distinguish the trash? Id love to upgrade to a Manticore or Deus 2 but I am about to send my oldest daughter off to college this year so I am really hobby budget tight. Thanks all!!


Scott
 
I was in on a 30 plus year recovery. I didn't find the ring though, my buddy did. This was a small front yard, not 5 acres! You could spend an insane amount of time and never find it if there is loads of trash. If he can't pin it down any closer than 5 acres I hate to be the bearer of bad news, but it sounds like to me no matter what detector you use finding the ring will boil down to pure luck.
 
Hoping when he takes me out there he'll be able to narrow it down a lot. So far it was just him talking about the property he grew up on. Thanks.
 
John Madill said:
Might be time to recruit a local metal detecting club to help out.

Get an idea of the size of the ring and find something similar to get a ball park vdi number.

Notch out numbers well above and below and cross your fingers.
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Thanks John for the reply
 
If you don't find it fairly fast and you go over the entire property, you might try turning the sensitivity down.

If it's a bigger gold ring, it probably not all that deep and turning the sensitivity down will eliminate all the small stuff you're trying to not hear.

Good luck!
 
emscott said:
The area he lost it in is about a 5 acre area with broken down old farm buildings.
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Wow, that is a ton of ground to cover. Here's how I think I'd try and narrow things down:
1) Have the owner recall as many details about where he spent most of his time on the 5 acres. *See #4
2) Notch out iron, sensitivity about 50% on whatever machine. Tweak the settings, based on your results and re work the area.
3) Grid out the search area, I think I might even use some of the little flags utility mark-out companies use.
4*) Start nearest to the dwelling. This is where life happens, this is where things get dropped/lost. Follow up with gridded focus areas like the out buildings, barns, places where other work or storage (like firewood splitting/stacking) occurred.
5) Have FUN, this is probably gonna yield some cool; epic finds. Share the details of your hunts with the owner.
 
Enlist some help if its truly 5 acres. You're looking at literally years of detecting in a worst case scenario. Do good grids and go slow. Find out what size and karat and try a few like it in air tests (something I don't normally suggest) to get a baseline. You'll want to discriminate out anything about 5 points and more above that. If you have a tracking program, use it to track areas you hunt. Find out if the ground has been tilled or plowed, if so, it could be either very deep or very shallow. If not tilled, I would suspect it to be about 6 to eight inches. Dig anything small (coin sized) in the foil to pulltab range and... as said before... HAVE FUN!

Here's a park I've been hunting for over a year now, I've got 29 hunts in here so far. Just to give you an idea how helpful tracking can be... None of my find markers are on this, there's been so many they would cover the image. But I know where they all trend and what areas have nothing.

GL & HH!

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robby4570 said:
Enlist some help if its truly 5 acres. You're looking at literally years of detecting in a worst case scenario. Do good grids and go slow. Find out what size and karat and try a few like it in air tests (something I don't normally suggest) to get a baseline. You'll want to discriminate out anything about 5 points and more above that. If you have a tracking program, use it to track areas you hunt. Find out if the ground has been tilled or plowed, if so, it could be either very deep or very shallow. If not tilled, I would suspect it to be about 6 to eight inches. Dig anything small (coin sized) in the foil to pulltab range and... as said before... HAVE FUN!

Here's a park I've been hunting for over a year now, I've got 29 hunts in here so far. Just to give you an idea how helpful tracking can be... None of my find markers are on this, there's been so many they would cover the image. But I know where they all trend and what areas have nothing.

GL & HH!

:cool3:
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Just curious, what are you using for a tracking app/program and on whatdevice?
 
Man, I could use this request to justify hunting for the next 5 years. I've got another couple of years before I want to retire, but if you can wait until then, I'll be there. :cool3: :cool:
 
robby4570 said:
Enlist some help if its truly 5 acres. You're looking at literally years of detecting in a worst case scenario. Do good grids and go slow. Find out what size and karat and try a few like it in air tests (something I don't normally suggest) to get a baseline. You'll want to discriminate out anything about 5 points and more above that. If you have a tracking program, use it to track areas you hunt. Find out if the ground has been tilled or plowed, if so, it could be either very deep or very shallow. If not tilled, I would suspect it to be about 6 to eight inches. Dig anything small (coin sized) in the foil to pulltab range and... as said before... HAVE FUN!

Here's a park I've been hunting for over a year now, I've got 29 hunts in here so far. Just to give you an idea how helpful tracking can be... None of my find markers are on this, there's been so many they would cover the image. But I know where they all trend and what areas have nothing.

GL & HH!

:cool3:
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Thanks for the detailed reply and advice. That program looks awesome. Much appreciated sir
 
Open spacec 40 yrs ago,could have trees 30 to 40 ft high.A lot could've changed in that amount of time.Or you might find it the first 10 minutes out there.Either way good luck and enjoy yourself trying.
 
This may be a fairly easy recovery. It all depends on how much the ring owner is able to narrow down the space he thinks he lost it in. I'm pretty sure he won't need you to hunt the whole 5 acres.

As far as upgrading the Simplex+ to a Legend.....USE ANY EXCUSE YOU CAN! Ha! :giggle: However, I'm not sure how much that would help with this recovery.
 
Forget about it unless you get a narrowed down area, PLUS gold rings read all over the chart in VDI. Without much identification the rings size and composite, solid ring or perforated, it is like a needle in the haystack. Good luck! You will have to dig a lot of iron today to say the very least.
 
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Update:

Was shown the property today by the gentlemen that lost the ring. Good news- on the 5 acre home and barn site he was able to show me the area he believes he lost it in. The area is only about 40 x 100 ft. He was putting on a barbeque and is pretty sure of the area.

Bad news- It is junk city. It is sitting next to old tobacco trailers that are breaking down as well as by an old barn. The area is littered with iron, aluminum, brass, small old sections of tin roof also I think.

Its going to be tough. I only have the stock coil for the Nokta Simpex +. I read that a smaller coil would help me separate targets?? Not sure if I am going to go that route or just upgrade to the Legend and get a smaller coil for it. Ill be back out tomorrow looking for a while.

Scott
 
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