It's one of those days that I had to go to Plan B.

You know how they are, right? I've been chatting this past weekend with Kickindirt about acquiring an HF coil for my Deus and one thing led to another and since I have today off work, we thought, Hey, why not meet up at a ghost town and see if we can scare up a few keepers. I was squared away for the time to go out ghost towning, but Joel needed to talk to Mrs Kickindirt. So, while i waited for a verdict, I checked over my Deus stuff, making sure all is charged up and ready to go.

Well, granted it was Easter Weekend and there is stuff to be caught up on after a family weekend and cutting to the chase, the kitchen pass would have to be issued another time. (looking forward to it) But detecting for the day was a no-go for Joel.

What to do? I could make that trip solo, but admittedly, ghost towning is much more fun with 2 or more detectorists. Hmm, looking back at last year, I fell miserably short of all my detecting goals. Most embarrassing for me was the complete lack of gold rings. I had plans on focusing some detecting time on ring hunting and . . . . . due to moving and time constraints and the crazy year, it didn't happen.

So, looks like today was the day to start playing catch up. Plan B - ring hunting.

Some of you know that one of the reasons I acquired my 800 just over 3 years ago was so I could do some shallow water hunting in hopes of having more success finding lost gold rings. The last several years, I've been scouting places where people would be MORE LIKELY to lose jewelry, specifically, rings. And the last few years it has been paying off. Compared to previous years, my ring count is way up.

I had a place in mind, but first needed an equipment change, so I headed out to the car and swapped out my Deus and ghost towning gear and replaced it with my shallow water gear and headed out.

Arriving onsite, the place still looked promising. Once geared up, i walked the shore and picked a place to start. Moments later, first target - a solid 16 on the target ID. Some difficult digging and signal is out of the hole. And there is a men's black tungsten carbide ring with a center insert that looked like wood under epoxy. I was hoping it was going to be a good day. And it was.

More hunting; some pull tabs, some square tabs, some fishing lures, a couple gold rings, a .925 bracelet. a couple more 'other' rings and two hours later, I was out of area I could hunt with the gear I brought. Looking in my finds pouch I see 5 rings, 2 of which are gold, a 3rd is a maybe and the last 2 are definitely NOT made of precious metal.

After arriving at home, the magnet test shows the unmarked white gold looking ring responds very faintly to a super magnet. First water hunt of the year yields 2 gold rings (1 marked with a very worn 14k, the other unmarked) and 3 others, 1 Mex .925 bracelet, and the miscellaneous junk / garbage found where people meet water.

While I missed out on having a go at an old ghost town, it was nice to turn up a couple of gold rings and a silver bracelet to get the year started.


Rich -

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Just one more good target before I go.


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