Grabbed the Omega this morning with the 5" coil intact and headed out early to ye ole housing site. Hadn't been there for a while and hadn't done any serious swinging with the Omega since early fall. Both did good. The site was in a giving mood and the Omega was telling me she didn't want to just set and collect dust again and did some nice sniffing among all the trash along the foundations I was hunting. The sterling ring was one of those targets that one wonders how it ever got missed. Just a nice good high tone and silver reading at a 4" depth. Nothing within a foot of it. The 54d Washington and 28s Merc. were in the same hole co-located with a piece of iron. The mangled gold ring is marked 14k and cleaned up well, but my wife says it is suspect. All I can say is it looked darn good to me coming out of the dirt. The other ring came out of a curb strip from about an inch deep, but not marked and probably a fairly recent drop. I have found a couple others just like it in school yards. It was a zinc tone and reading. The wheatie is a 16d. I was running disc. 1, sen. 99, d3 tones and g b of 64. HH jim tn