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AusTexDude

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I ran an ad on craigslist offering to metal detect someone's lost item in exchange for permission to hunt their land.

Guy lost his platinum wedding band. He has 6 acres that used to be a cattle auction 100 years ago. I found the 75 year old map which shows the cattle auction that's no longer there. I know where all the buildings and roads are. Excited to hunt this land.

I may have pulled over 20 rings from the park near me but I dig a LOT of pull tabs to get those rings. This will be a nice change of pace. Here is the old cattle auction.

Any ideas on hos to hit this property?

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I ran an ad on craigslist offering to metal detect someone's lost item in exchange for permission to hunt their land.

Guy lost his platinum wedding band. He has 6 acres that used to be a cattle auction 100 years ago. I found the 75 year old map which shows the cattle auction that's no longer there. I know where all the buildings and roads are. Excited to hunt this land.

I may have pulled over 20 rings from the park near me but I dig a LOT of pull tabs to get those rings. This will be a nice change of pace. Here is the old cattle auction.

Any ideas on hos to hit this property?

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Good luck, keep us posted
 

Sounds like a great opportunity. I'd try to figure out where the people congregated the most and start my efforts there after searching where the guy believes he lost his ring. Hopefully you'll find it for him and be able to hunt the place many times
 

Should be an interesting hunt! Platinum is below Iron on the conductivity scale so you will need to dig every target.

Is this why in 40+ years of hunting I have never dug a platinum ring, because I have to dig iron signals on the beach ?
SAY IT AIN'T SO :dontknow: :protest:😫😩😭
 

Should be an interesting hunt! Platinum is below Iron on the conductivity scale so you will need to dig every target.


I'm trying to make sense of this actually. 🤔

Iron is 1.00 Platinum is 9.43

So what you stated is Iron is above Platinum.
Alphabetically yes.
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Platinum is .943 . My wife's Platinum ring has a conductivity reading on my ETRAC of 06.
What are the first 2 numbers?
 

I ran an ad on craigslist offering to metal detect someone's lost item in exchange for permission to hunt their land.

Guy lost his platinum wedding band. He has 6 acres that used to be a cattle auction 100 years ago. I found the 75 year old map which shows the cattle auction that's no longer there. I know where all the buildings and roads are. Excited to hunt this land.

I may have pulled over 20 rings from the park near me but I dig a LOT of pull tabs to get those rings. This will be a nice change of pace. Here is the old cattle auction.

Any ideas on hos to hit this property?

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Good for you :) GREAT IDEA !!
 

I wish more property owners where open for the opportunity to detect or scan or recover items on there property, after all what I find and return to the property owner is appropriate, anyhow in all honesty I don’t think most people understand what we do and don’t care, it’s all about history and lost items, everyone has something.
 

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