BufordCityDawg
Elite Member
By 'you' I mean detectorist, not necessarily someone on the board. Back up almost 30 years. A young man just graduated from high school was enjoying his last Summer before college playing at the local lake beach. His class ring falls off of his finger and into the water.
Flash forward 30 years. I took my detector to that same beach to see if maybe the ring is still there. I kind knew going in that I was going to find one of two situations. 1) Ding, ding, ding, ding... targets everywhere or silence broken up by garbage sounds and deep odd signals. If I got the first, I had a chance. I got the second. I still messed around and tried to dig a few of the very deep signals, but they were so deep that I couldn't even get down to them to where my pinpointer would go off.
Either way some detectorist somewhere found my ring and it is either melt or sitting in a ring collection. If not it has been covered up by so much new sand as to be beyond my reach. For those of you on the real beach, this is a lake beach with a hard red clay bottom covered by sand.
If any of you ever hunted the beach in Hiawassee and found my ring, let me know.
BCD
Flash forward 30 years. I took my detector to that same beach to see if maybe the ring is still there. I kind knew going in that I was going to find one of two situations. 1) Ding, ding, ding, ding... targets everywhere or silence broken up by garbage sounds and deep odd signals. If I got the first, I had a chance. I got the second. I still messed around and tried to dig a few of the very deep signals, but they were so deep that I couldn't even get down to them to where my pinpointer would go off.
Either way some detectorist somewhere found my ring and it is either melt or sitting in a ring collection. If not it has been covered up by so much new sand as to be beyond my reach. For those of you on the real beach, this is a lake beach with a hard red clay bottom covered by sand.
If any of you ever hunted the beach in Hiawassee and found my ring, let me know.
BCD
