purplesage said:
Where ya findin' all the rings Reiver??
My wife's fingers.
Ok, a joke, but several of them end up there after I find them.
It took me awhile to figure out the ring finding game, I swung a bad unit for 3 months and never found one, (but I also knew nothing about site selection at the time, either), then I upgraded to a Vaq and that slowly started to change.
The first ring I ever found was a 1970's classic mood ring.
The first gold ring was a very tiny child's ring about 8" deep in the sand at an inland lake swimming area, and over the last few years I got better at picking sites and finding rings at those sites so my collection is still growing hunt by hunt.
The ones you see in the pics above were found in all sorts of places but there are 2 kinds of sites where I find a higher percentage of rings than most others and I target these and hit them hard whenever and wherever I find them.
Those sites would be the grass, pebble or chip filled islands used to divide up parking lots, high schools and colleges are the best kind, and the very best site to find jewelry of all is the perimeters of basketball courts.
The older the courts and the trashier they are the more I like them because you have to work through the heavy trash but most are rewarded if they do.
The gold targets in the first pic were all found last year with the F2, I found 2 more gold rings to make an even dozen and hit a crazy goal I set for myself last year, one with my Vaq, one with my new F70.
Here are a few of my other ring finds from the past few years, I have a decent amount of silver chains, too.
A few found with my Vaq, several were sniffed out by my Compadre, the bulk of them were found with the F2 mostly because I used that the most.
A large amount of the gold targets I found with the F2 happened after I mounted the sniper coil on the thing which was not a coincidence.
Again, found at all kinds of sites but mostly in public parks.
A few years ago I decided to become a jewelry hunter as my specialty and studied site types and percentages, I always strive to learn new things and get better using any of my detectors on every hunt, and worked hard to get good at this phase of the hobby and became pretty successful at it over time.
I have mentioned hunting these grass islands in the past, and have posted a lot about these basketball courts, what I use, how I think and exactly what I do when I hunt them so do a search on me and those terms and you will find them if you would like to read about that stuff.