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- Thread starter sonny60
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It won't be deep, but won't be a big beep, either. Will most likely be a low number reading, like in the foil range, so digging those low readings is the key, I would think. I would use little or no dsc and sen up until it starts to become un-stable. Keep it stable. HH jim tn
Everyone has given you good advice. You'll be looking for a small signal, in the low to midrange.
I've found a few stud type earrings, and they hit well enough with today's high gain detectors. However, they fade fast as you lift your coil a few inches.
And they can be difficult to spot. I chased one around shin deep water once, for quite a while....
Use the mate earring, or one similar, to get an idea of the response you're looking for.
If it's a trashy yard, well.... You've got your hands full.
I'm my experience, an item is also rarely where the owner thinks it will be.
So, if the girl is sure she lost it in a particular spot, you'll be lucky if it turns out that way.
I normally have to ask several questions and get a feel for the activities surrounding the loss.
Then, I find the missing item where it "shouldnt" be.
"Wow... I wonder how it got there?" is usually what I hear.
Last one was a 1952 Georgia Tech class ring. It was a long way from the suspected location and signaled just like the brass end of a garden hose (which I had ALSO found in the same yard!)
On the plus side, you'll have a new yard to detect in and you must investigate all signals. Who knows what else will turn up?
After four years, you'll probably be in for a full blown search.
I'd bring a lunch.
I've found a few stud type earrings, and they hit well enough with today's high gain detectors. However, they fade fast as you lift your coil a few inches.
And they can be difficult to spot. I chased one around shin deep water once, for quite a while....
Use the mate earring, or one similar, to get an idea of the response you're looking for.
If it's a trashy yard, well.... You've got your hands full.
I'm my experience, an item is also rarely where the owner thinks it will be.
So, if the girl is sure she lost it in a particular spot, you'll be lucky if it turns out that way.
I normally have to ask several questions and get a feel for the activities surrounding the loss.
Then, I find the missing item where it "shouldnt" be.
"Wow... I wonder how it got there?" is usually what I hear.
Last one was a 1952 Georgia Tech class ring. It was a long way from the suspected location and signaled just like the brass end of a garden hose (which I had ALSO found in the same yard!)
On the plus side, you'll have a new yard to detect in and you must investigate all signals. Who knows what else will turn up?
After four years, you'll probably be in for a full blown search.
I'd bring a lunch.
GREAT ADVICE from all and succinctly summed up by dahut! 
When I find one earring, I always key in on that same signal in the immediate area for the other...and that seems to be the best way to find a matching pair. but in the grass, thats gonna be a tough little target brother!
Like dahut said, for some reason, its never lost where they think it was, unless this person really had a bead on exactly where it fell off...I once searched meticulously in sub zero temps for a lost ring on the local sledding hill, where the woman swore it came off as she removed her glove to take a picture....she found it a few months later after the snow melted on her front door sidewalk, about 5 miles from where I was hunting for it!...
My sister called me and wanted me to bring my detector to look for her wedding ring she lost...I asked where? She said, maybe in the car, or in the house, or out in the yard...i told her to go buy a new one.
A guy has to learn when to say "No" on some recovery attempts, unless the person is paying you for the search to begin with, or else a fellow likes chasing rainbows for free all the time....and this may be one of those times, but like dahut said, at least you are getting to hunt a yard, and trying to do a recovery for a church member, which may lead to more access from some of the others on an off chance you get extremely lucky on what is gonna be a very tiny signal....the bummer is if you fail to find it, some folks all of a sudden think you are either incompetent, or found it and stole it!. I'd give the place a quick sweep just for giggles, this is what good stories are made of that nobody but us really appreciate the skill and effort involved especially on a target such as this....Good Luck!
Mud
When I find one earring, I always key in on that same signal in the immediate area for the other...and that seems to be the best way to find a matching pair. but in the grass, thats gonna be a tough little target brother!
Like dahut said, for some reason, its never lost where they think it was, unless this person really had a bead on exactly where it fell off...I once searched meticulously in sub zero temps for a lost ring on the local sledding hill, where the woman swore it came off as she removed her glove to take a picture....she found it a few months later after the snow melted on her front door sidewalk, about 5 miles from where I was hunting for it!...
My sister called me and wanted me to bring my detector to look for her wedding ring she lost...I asked where? She said, maybe in the car, or in the house, or out in the yard...i told her to go buy a new one.
A guy has to learn when to say "No" on some recovery attempts, unless the person is paying you for the search to begin with, or else a fellow likes chasing rainbows for free all the time....and this may be one of those times, but like dahut said, at least you are getting to hunt a yard, and trying to do a recovery for a church member, which may lead to more access from some of the others on an off chance you get extremely lucky on what is gonna be a very tiny signal....the bummer is if you fail to find it, some folks all of a sudden think you are either incompetent, or found it and stole it!. I'd give the place a quick sweep just for giggles, this is what good stories are made of that nobody but us really appreciate the skill and effort involved especially on a target such as this....Good Luck!
Mud
hammer0419
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SkiWhiz said:
Ditto. Have found several lost items this way. Good luck