First gold ring!

Joshc214 · Nov 28, 2016

Went out yesterday for some water hunting after the long thanksgiving weekend and finally managed to find my first gold! It was a strange hunt, spent all day scooping up pull tabs and 0 coins. After about 4 hours I found an area around 10 by 10 yards across loaded with quarters. Decided to stay in that area for about a half hour and dig every target... 15 minutes in I pulled up a 14k (5.7g) class ring! As soon as I got the ring I marked my location and searched the area for any more targets. Sure enough, about 2 feet away I got another hit and my very next scoop after the gold ring was a silver ring... really cool experience. I spent the next hour searching that area with no luck and decided to call it a day.

bruinvikes · Nov 28, 2016

That right there is a great hunt. Congrats my friend!

Junkminer · Nov 28, 2016

Congrats on a super hunt! 2 quality finds is a fine day. Also, congrats on your first gold, we always remember our first!

FelixtheCat · Nov 28, 2016

Congrats on your 1st gold! Good move working that area. Once you find those areas you gotta work them 'til there's no more signals.

metaladdict · Nov 28, 2016

Congrats on your first,its good looking too.

Joshc214 · Nov 28, 2016

bruinvikes said:
That right there is a great hunt. Congrats my friend!

Junkminer said:
Congrats on a super hunt! 2 quality finds is a fine day. Also, congrats on your first gold, we always remember our first!

FelixtheCat said:
Congrats on your 1st gold! Good move working that area. Once you find those areas you gotta work them 'til there's no more signals.

metaladdict said:
Congrats on your first,its good looking too.

Lol, thanks guys! Its been a long time coming. I have around 80 hours of hunting in as of now. Hoping they'll show up more often now that I have more experience under my belt.

OBN · Nov 28, 2016

That's a nice first gold ring! I still remember my first, the place, seeing it in my hand and the feeling..

Joshc214 · Nov 28, 2016

metaladdict said:
Congrats on your first,its good looking too.

OBN said:
That's a nice first gold ring! I still remember my first, the place, seeing it in my hand and the feeling..

Thanks, sure was a good adrenaline rush!

cellrdwellr · Nov 28, 2016

Congrats on the great scoops!

zeemang · Nov 28, 2016

Sweet first, congrats!

Kapi · Nov 28, 2016

And thus the addiction takes deep hold! Congrats on the first gold and two ring day!

Top-USMC · Nov 28, 2016

Excellent rescues. Now that you have the first one I am sure there are more in your future. Bt don't dispair if it doesn't happen soon. I found my first and then it was 2 months before I got the next one. :-)

Joshc214 · Nov 28, 2016

cellrdwellr said:
Congrats on the great scoops!

zeemang said:
Sweet first, congrats!

Kapidr said:
And thus the addiction takes deep hold! Congrats on the first gold and two ring day!

Top-USMC said:
Excellent rescues. Now that you have the first one I am sure there are more in your future. Bt don't dispair if it doesn't happen soon. I found my first and then it was 2 months before I got the next one. :-)

Thanks guys! I was addicted when I found my first crusty penny lol This is just icing on the cake

Btw, that silver ring cleaned up nicely!

Interesting inscription too (ep=mgh):
Potential energy is the stored energy of an object. ... So the total work or energy is force × displacement = mg × h = mgh. Ep = mgh. The more formal definition is that potential energy is the energy difference between the energy of an object in a given position and its energy at a reference position.

steve in so la · Nov 28, 2016

Great finds !! - -

The gold ring stamped HJ probably stands for Herff Jones, a popular school supplier of rings, yearbooks, etc. Steve in so la

rreahard · Nov 28, 2016

Awesome finds! Congrats!!

BuscaPlata · Nov 28, 2016

Those are some beauties there!!! Congratz!

FelixtheCat · Nov 28, 2016

steve in so la said:
The gold ring stamped HJ probably stands for Herff Jones, a popular school supplier of rings, yearbooks, etc. Steve in so la

Yep!

BTW Josh, I have been detecting for over 10 years and have yet to find a class ring!

Joshc214 · Nov 28, 2016

steve in so la said:
The gold ring stamped HJ probably stands for Herff Jones, a popular school supplier of rings, yearbooks, etc. Steve in so la

Yeah I saw that, one of the first things I did when I got home with it is looked up what HJ stands for. You can find the exact ring in their online catalog.

rreahard said:
Awesome finds! Congrats!!

BuscaPlata said:
Those are some beauties there!!! Congratz!

Thanks guys!

FelixtheCat said:
Yep!

BTW Josh, I have been detecting for over 10 years and have yet to find a class ring!

Wow that's crazy, seems like you do really good out there based off the recent finds I've seen you post! This is a fresh drop (2017) ring. I think it'd be really interesting to find an older class ring from the 50's or something.

Numil · Nov 28, 2016

Wooo Hooo. Congrats on a great hunt and score

Ron 71 · Nov 28, 2016

That sure is a beauty of a first, my first was this summer a tiny 10k less than 1g and I was so happy to find it, I can imagine how you felt when you saw that beauty in the scoop. Big Congrats man!!

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