Mike Moutray - St.Louis MO
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The heat has been unbearable lately and I almost didn't go out Sunday morning for a planned trip to my favorite park. I got there at the crack of dawn and decided to hunt 'til the heat got too bad. I concentrated on an older picnic area that is loaded with trash to try and get some silver. I hunted for about 4 hours without ever getting anything remotely close to a good silver signal to dig, but I did dig up the usual trash items from signals that were in the nickel range or deeper down.
About 3 hours into my hunt I came to a small area along the road that was older dirt, but not loaded with trash so bad that I could concentrate on deep signals that didn't read up into the coin range. I dug for a 1940's Jeff nickel about 8 inches down that I had hoped was a Buffalo, but no luck. I took a few more steps and got a faint hit around the square-tab range. I was at the edge of a large shallow depression that used to be a huge tree before being cut down years ago.
I thought "This might be an old Wheatie or an Indian", but knew it had just as good of a chance as being a deep screw cap or bullet. I dug down a good 7-8 inches until I saw a pale yellow circle in the bottom of the hole. "There's your deep screw cap" I thought... but when I popped it out, it was heavy and the dirt pushed out of the center...
a ring! I held my breath and wiped the dirt and it all came off clean with no corrosion anywhere - a GOLD ring! 
I was thrilled to find my second gold ring in as many months after a long drought. It is marked 14 K and has initials carved into the inside. It is a very thick round band like a comfort-fit band but an older one. It is easy to see how it slipped off a finger! At 7.1 grams and a couple hundred dollars in gold, if I found a ring like this every day I'd be doing this for a living!!!
Take care and HH, Mike.
Here's the whole nut for the morning...
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And a close up of the ring...
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About 3 hours into my hunt I came to a small area along the road that was older dirt, but not loaded with trash so bad that I could concentrate on deep signals that didn't read up into the coin range. I dug for a 1940's Jeff nickel about 8 inches down that I had hoped was a Buffalo, but no luck. I took a few more steps and got a faint hit around the square-tab range. I was at the edge of a large shallow depression that used to be a huge tree before being cut down years ago.
I thought "This might be an old Wheatie or an Indian", but knew it had just as good of a chance as being a deep screw cap or bullet. I dug down a good 7-8 inches until I saw a pale yellow circle in the bottom of the hole. "There's your deep screw cap" I thought... but when I popped it out, it was heavy and the dirt pushed out of the center...
a ring! I held my breath and wiped the dirt and it all came off clean with no corrosion anywhere - a GOLD ring! I was thrilled to find my second gold ring in as many months after a long drought. It is marked 14 K and has initials carved into the inside. It is a very thick round band like a comfort-fit band but an older one. It is easy to see how it slipped off a finger! At 7.1 grams and a couple hundred dollars in gold, if I found a ring like this every day I'd be doing this for a living!!!
Take care and HH, Mike.
Here's the whole nut for the morning...
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And a close up of the ring...
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---Congrats on that great find.------------Del
