In the words of my hero, "Went out after supper and manged to squeeze out this pittance."

[cwilk]

A 1.25 hour hunt. Atypical for me. I can still do a short hunt and have fun and find some great loot. Last weekend marathon produced a lot of coins but nothing precious. Tonight I got a heavy silver ring that rang up on penny. I wondered why. As I polished it up, I saw it also contained a little gold. Question answered. It is Sterling and 10K. I think it's my new favorite ring or at very least my favorite of 2009. It was real deep and in gravel so it is pretty beat up in places. I am also finding a lot of Boyscout Bolos this year. Why? I am digging a lot more C sized targets. I can take a few screw caps as long as I get one of these or a nice big coin spill every so often.

Rain never materialized so I could have been out all day. A marathon hunt tomorrow is a real possibility even though it's getting dry like it's August.

Chris

 

[Joel-Winnipeg]

Nice ring find !!

 

[cwilk]

When are you going to start detecting? It can't still be winter up there.

Chris

 

[Joel-Winnipeg]

When are you going to start detecting? It can't still be winter up there.

Chris

Have been detecting for a while and found some interesting items .
Not much for posting and putting photos of my items on display !
Talking about winter its going down to - 1 and frost tonight .
Snow predicted north of here
I rather enjoy seeing all the great stuff that you find and display
More interesting than what I find ,although one of these days I will show my goodies

 

[cwilk]

n/t

 

[Uncle Willy]

Nice finds bud. I have a few of those combo rings - gold & silver. Most all of them that are combined with silver seem to be 10 KT. I do have a Golden Anniversary ring that is silver layered with a chain of gold that is higher karat. I've got a trainload of those Boyscout kerchief slides.

I just got to my tecting spot yesteday evening when I seen some ominous dark clouds looming on the southwestern horizon so I hightailed it back home to batten down the hatches and just made it as the wind hit. We came within a hair of having a tornado and they ain't supposed to have those here. THey had one small one in 1973 that went across the north end of town ( where I was working remodeling a house ) that done minor damage here but jumped the Columbia River and took out a school and department store in Vancouver, Washington.

Bill

 

[Uncle Willy]

We're happy to see everyone's goodies no matter what. Post some pics.

Bill

 

[lazyaussie]

that's a very nice ring Chris i haven't found any gold in over a month & i"m starting to get withdrawal symptoms
lazyaussie

 

[cwilk]

I am too. I've found five very small gold items this year. One decent ring and everything else has been gram sized pieces of 10k. Even knowing that a nice gold find will come with patience doesn't help sometimes.

Chris

 

[cwilk]

It was hard to get a test on that gold because it is both small and recessed.

An F1 tornado went right over our house in upstate NY when I was a tot and didn't do too much damage to most homes but it did knock down every single weeping willow tree in the area. I guess they have shallow roots. We kids had a whole summer of building forts in fallen trees because it took so long to clean up that many fallen trees.

Chris

 

[metalhead]

Alright!WTG!Congrats on the ring!Not a bad clad haul either, buddy! Cool Boyscout Bolo! Yeah, I alwys dig "C" size targets. You never know what you might get 'til you dig it up!Happy Hunting!

 

[DJR]

That ring is a good find.

It kinda looks like a hand made type of ring.

If I were you I would take full advantage of all those downed tress and at least detect as many as I could especially the largest ones!

Ya' never know what might be hiding under those roots!

Don

 

[cwilk]

I'm beginning to think it's handmade too. There are mold marks. I think the dent in the gold ball is from gravel.

Chris