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Old farm hook, nothing special BUT.......

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born2hunt

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The neighbor guy at my dad's place, where I found it, came up and offered me $200 to find his gold ring that he lost last winter:jump:. He said it was a big 14k ring with a 10k diamond in it. He took me to the search area, very close by, and I searched around briefly but couldn't locate it but for that kind of money I'm going back. Hopefully my 12.5" coil (forthcoming) will help me cover a lot more ground.

I had my sensitivity set low, at 4.5 or five, thinking that a big gold ring would still make a good strong signal. Does that sound right? I dug a pull tab, two pieces of foil and a few small pieces of aluminum but no ring......Yet.

It was a stone parking lot that was snow plowed after he lost it so it's gonna take some searching. I'm using a GTAx750.

As for the farm hook, my brother said that the twisted chain went out a while ago so it's probably been laying out there for a few decades. I was going to dicard it but it was just as easy to save it.

Steve in PA
 
Cool old find!:biggrin:I've never used the GTAx750, but I imagine if you got a pulltab you would pick up the ring as well. Better luck next time. As far as sensitivity goes, it really depends upon the ground conditions. You should run sensitivity as high as you can without falsing and erratic signals. Best of luck to you. Happy Hunting!:)
 
being a mans ring i"d say it"s quite large & being lost only last winter i"d say it:s not to deep so as ya said senc down & i"d ignore the deep sounding targets i"d also look were the snow plow dumped the snow probably a good chance it would be there.
lazyaussie
 
The snow plow also pushes a lot of stone along with the snow so it could be under a few inches of stone. He said it was in fact a large ring, his grandfathers so I'm guessing the diamond would be real and not a SC.
 
I'd run the sensitivity as high as I could without the detector becoming unstable and run it in zero discrimination and dig everything. Will be a challenge but well worth the effort. With a snow plow pushing things around it's hard telling where it is or how deep. Good luck.

Bill
 
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