Looking for Rings... Digging Clad

[rcornell]

Having just read How to find Rings by Skippy, I decided to get out for a bit. Now, apparently where I think there might be Rings there is Clad. Alas, no Rings were found. However, I did find a Kennedy Half which is fun! I dug 39 Pennies (one Wheat). Since the Ring Guide says there are lots of Rings in the Penny range (and I am not sure how to differentiate, I dug them all). Lots of digging... The one little piece of Jewelry that looked good in the hole turned out to be a non-silver button. 52 degrees and Sunny here in Northern WI ... not too shabby.

 

[TampaBayBrad]

The Kennedy is the prize! Not common at all.....and you had fun.

 

[AlbertDigs YouTube]

Bring a few rings with you to the field, and test how they sound compared to the clad.

 

[Skippy SH13]

Having just read How to find Rings by Skippy, I decided to get out for a bit. Now, apparently where I think there might be Rings there is Clad. Alas, no Rings were found. However, I did find a Kennedy Half which is fun! I dug 39 Pennies (one Wheat). Since the Ring Guide says there are lots of Rings in the Penny range (and I am not sure how to differentiate, I dug them all). Lots of digging... The one little piece of Jewelry that looked good in the hole turned out to be a non-silver button. 52 degrees and Sunny here in Northern WI ... not too shabby.

those fat half dollars are always fun... Where did you hunt? (park/school/elsewhere?) If you'd like, I'd be happy to take a call from you, and we could look at Google Maps together, and I could give you my "best guesses" where you'd find rings. PM me if you're interested.

 

[rcornell]

those fat half dollars are always fun... Where did you hunt? (park/school/elsewhere?) If you'd like, I'd be happy to take a call from you, and we could look at Google Maps together, and I could give you my "best guesses" where you'd find rings. PM me if you're interested.

That is an awesome offer! Thanks!!

 

[Iggyks]

That is an awesome offer! Thanks!!

I'd jump on that!!

 

[Cherry Picker]

Skippy's writeup is great, but as all successful detecting, LOCATION is key. I haven't gotten out much yet this year, but I can say I have found more rings than even clad. But then jewelry, especially rings, is my main target. Elementary schools are my ring place.

Nothing wrong with finding a Kennedy.

 

[Xxray]

Join the club, safe to say everyone is after rings. Dirt hunting, I found it best to just go out and hunt with low expectations, and certainly not expecting to find rings.
That said, most rings fall outside of the sound and VDI ranges of most coins on most detectors, so there are ways to hunt more geared towards rings, which would entail notching out pennies, dimes and quarters. Occasionally, rings fall within these ranges, and also [of course], that doesn't mean anything that signals with these notched out is going to be a ring, odds are it won't be.

The only real way to repeatably increase your odds is to hunt where rings tend to be lost, such as beaches ,, And even that, as any beach hunter will tell you, is far from a certainty, and is so obvious it is often heavy with competition.

 

[rcornell]

Skippy's writeup is great, but as all successful detecting, LOCATION is key. I haven't gotten out much yet this year, but I can say I have found more rings than even clad. But then jewelry, especially rings, is my main target. Elementary schools are my ring place.

Nothing wrong with finding a Kennedy.

I don't understand who is dropping all these rings at an elementary school? Skippy indicates that most rings are lost because they are taken off... then lost (they didn't just slip off). So, what's going on at an elementary school? Are you looking mainly around playground equipment where the rings did indeed slip off? There aren't many parents out and about on the elementary grounds (even around the equipment) I wouldn't think. Are all of these rings from teachers and playground attendants? High School and even Middle School I understand more. More activities, more outside sports, and more children wearing jewelry.

 

[markinmichigan]

The best rings I have found were at school playgrounds. Kids showing off their parents jewelry and dropping them in the field. Sports fields where older kids played ball.

Mark in Michigan

 

[John Madill]

I've found about 30 rings in the last 4 years. Two were in yards, where the ring owners knew they had lost them. All the rest were at the beach. Only one in the water. Maybe 4 or 5 at the beach volleyball courts.

 

[Cherry Picker]

I don't understand who is dropping all these rings at an elementary school? Skippy indicates that most rings are lost because they are taken off... then lost (they didn't just slip off). So, what's going on at an elementary school? Are you looking mainly around playground equipment where the rings did indeed slip off? There aren't many parents out and about on the elementary grounds (even around the equipment) I wouldn't think. Are all of these rings from teachers and playground attendants? High School and even Middle School I understand more. More activities, more outside sports, and more children wearing jewelry.

I have come to believe most are from parents playing with their kids after school hours, teachers playing with the school kids, kids raiding their parents' jewelry box and taking it to school, and teens playing around on the playground equipment in the evenings and possibly drinking. Too young to drive yet.

Think outside the box. Literally, many of the rings I find are not inside the tot lot box, but just on the outside. Around the parameter. People falling while misjudging the tot lot while exiting is my thought.

I'm working on box #5 now. Each box holds 100 rings. That isn't bad even for a beach hunter, but considering I have no beach it is a fair count, and time has taught me the keys to LOCATION.

Look for signs of long-past hot spots. I have 1 school that looks like all the rest, but I happened to notice some old lights in the far background of the playground, and a fence that gave me the thought that an old baseball diamond was there years ago. I found over 80 rings at this school alone. Hot spots were where the spectators would have sat, and around home plate.

I've sold all but 3 of my gold rings and many silver rings to finance buying and testing new detectors. I even bought a car with the gold I had found, mainly in tot lots and parks.

A very small example of the gold I've found in tot lots & park playgrounds. This was just 3 months of hunting.

 

[OldManDetectingMetal]

Most of the rings I have found have been adult rings near where kids would play. Some of the rings have been what I think were children's rings. Mostly junk jewelry including one engagement ring with a huge stone (I'm guessing not even a cubic zirconium) but it looks really nice. So, some day I'll take it in. There are no marks on the metal and even though I don't think it is white gold, and I know it's not magnetic, I can't imagine someone putting a real diamond or even cubic zirconium that big in a plated band.

 

[rcornell]

I have come to believe most are from parents playing with their kids after school hours, teachers playing with the school kids, kids raiding their parents' jewelry box and taking it to school, and teens playing around on the playground equipment in the evenings and possibly drinking. Too young to drive yet.

Think outside the box. Literally, many of the rings I find are not inside the tot lot box, but just on the outside. Around the parameter. People falling while misjudging the tot lot while exiting is my thought.

I'm working on box #5 now. Each box holds 100 rings. That isn't bad even for a beach hunter, but considering I have no beach it is a fair count, and time has taught me the keys to LOCATION.

I've sold all but 3 of my gold rings, and many silver rings to finance buying and testing new detectors. I even bought a car with the gold I had found, mainly in tot lots and parks.

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A very small example of the gold I've found in tot lots & park playgrounds. This was just 3 months of hunting.

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That's Awesome! I will be looking. Something that may be different here (Northern, Rural WI), is less people, less activity, less jewelry... but, I have found a few (swimming beach, park, churchyard) and will be hitting up the schools/playing fields a bit more. I must say that I have hit several playground areas (in and around) and have hit.... No Jewelry. Maybe us tight-fisted Midwesterners don't lose as much.... lol!!

 

[TampaBayBrad]

You dirt diggers (looking at you Cherry Picker and Skippy) are making me feel like I don't know what the hell I'm doing.

 

[stetam]

I don’t detect tot lots often because in our piss poor rural Pa area they don’t have squat in them

 

[rcornell]

I don’t detect tot lots often because in our piss poor rural Pa area they don’t have squat in them

I hear Ya! Lol! I need to look up median income for my county (Polk) in WI and your county in PA and see who's poorest!

 

[Cherry Picker]

You dirt diggers (looking at you Cherry Picker and Skippy) are making me feel like I don't know what the hell I'm doing.

In my case, I attribute a lot to 50 years of being taught where to look and what to look out for. I was an avid relic and coin hunter for the vast majority of my detecting past, and am now a 100% jewelry hunter. I also give some of my success to luck. I've always had an uncanny knack for finding rings.

I like to think my success is the inspiration for those with no well-used beaches to hunt. The rings are there, it is 98% LOCATION, and 2% dedication.

And I am proud of this inclusion. It was back in my prime, 2000s, but I made a name for my knowledge of knowing where to look to increase my odds. Chaper #21

 

[KOB]

In my case, I attribute a lot to 50 years of being taught where to look and what to look out for. I was an avid relic and coin hunter for the vast majority of my detecting past, and am now a 100% jewelry hunter. I also give some of my success to luck. I've always had an uncanny knack for finding rings.

I like to think my success is the inspiration for those with no well-used beaches to hunt. The rings are there, it is 98% LOCATION, and 2% dedication.

And I am proud of this inclusion. It was back in my prime, 2000s, but I made a name for my knowledge of knowing where to look to increase my odds. Chaper #21

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What better way to anoit oneself King than to chair your own MDHoFame !. Wish I thought of that. But then I would have burnt my own turf with the competition even faster. There definitely is a knack CP. And not everyone has it no matter how hard they try.

Every time I pull up to a beach , I EXPECT to find jewelry. More specifically Gold. Gotta manifest it ! Within 15 seconds of walking out and scanning from the towel line , I will have a good idea. Then walking down to the water , feeling the compaction or density under my feet , will know how good the odds are within 99%. This goes beyond all the surf reports , cameras and other research. 10% of the fishermen catch 90% of the fish.

 

[Skippy SH13]

Join the club, safe to say everyone is after rings. Dirt hunting, I found it best to just go out and hunt with low expectations, and certainly not expecting to find rings.
That said, most rings fall outside of the sound and VDI ranges of most coins on most detectors, so there are ways to hunt more geared towards rings, which would entail notching out pennies, dimes and quarters. Occasionally, rings fall within these ranges, and also [of course], that doesn't mean anything that signals with these notched out is going to be a ring, odds are it won't be.

The only real way to repeatably increase your odds is to hunt where rings tend to be lost, such as beaches ,, And even that, as any beach hunter will tell you, is far from a certainty, and is so obvious it is often heavy with competition.

Oh no... Probably 40% (EDIT: Actually it's gotta be way more than half...) of my 200+ rings a year come from within the coin spectrum on the VDI. Lots of the silver rings, especially. Copper rings account for a large number of rings within the penny range, and even stainless steel and tungsten at the right sizes will hit like a nickel.

I go out with the expectation I WILL find rings. It's genuinely rare that I don't.

Cheers,
Skippy