My brother called this morning and had scoped out another patch of woods and we both went there and I'm glad we did. The ring was under probably 6 inches of snow and a couple inches of dirt on a hillside. It VDI'd high (class rings usually do) but it sounded like an ideal coin sized target so I went for it and am glad I did. The wheat was about 4 inches in the dirt and read just like a wheat usually does on my machine. My brother found several coins and they were all newer except for a nice 1888 Indian.