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[kilmer]

Man, what a great story. How often can you be thankful for disaster in your on life that lets you help someone else? Looking for this ring I thought he was along the road side ditch. Opps, how about a 12 foot deep, steep banked, muddy mess of a creek instead? He was dumping his wheel barrow when he took a trip down the bank and into three feet of flash flood rainwater. As he struggled to get up the bank he lost a sentimental ring with a touching story behind it. Short version of long story, after I looked in all of the easy places I jumped down onto a tiny island of mud in the creek. Standing there, looking up I tried to imagine where the ring might be. From my on experience with my $400 tiny, missing headphones in the same kind of place I picked a spot to start. Bingo! I held it in my hand, struggled up the bank, and asked him if I could take a picture of it. He kept saying, of what? Held out my hand, dropped it into his and watched him light up. Awesome! The stone in this handmade 24kt gold ring was from his engagement to a girl who died before their wedding.

Don
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[JRMan]

Great story! Was on the beach the past couple of days and both times was asked by people to find stuff. That is as much fun as hunting on your own.

 

[WilliamH]

That is awesome. Good work. I know he was happy! HH WH

 

[jewelerguy]

excellent job!

 

[MackDigger]

Wow, well done.

 

[AnnieF]

Just told the story out loud to my family. What a GREAT story and good deed!

 

[Atomic Ed]

Great story!

 

[steelheadwill]

C'mon where's all the votes ?? Click that banner button for this Honorable Action
My hat's off to you Kilmer. HM #2 no doubt.
Great work

 

[Army of 1]

Nice find and a great outcome , well done . cheers Mick

 

[stewielouie]

Congrats on doing the right thing!!

 

[steelheadwill]

Congrats on HM #2 What a history behind that stone

Got a question for you, did the 24 K read a higher conductive on your detector than the usual 10/14K ?

 

[pong12211]

Nice job helping out.. Good for you..

 

[kilmer]

Congrats on HM #2 What a history behind that stone

Got a question for you, did the 24 K read a higher conductive on your detector than the usual 10/14K ?

Wow, great question and I have no idea. I haven't dug a lot of gold with the Deus and my ring success has been mostly with men's wedding bands that ID close to a nickel. Since I wasn't sure how it would read I dug anything that sounded shallow and was in that range. To be honest that ring boomed in the headphones and I never even looked at the meter. K knew it was good by the sound. I may ask him to let me run by and get a reading on it sometime. Sorry, I was so excited about finding the ring my brain sorta froze.

Don

 

[scott9050]

Great story.

 

[steelheadwill]

Thanks Don, if I recall the hi karat gold reads up near copper. it is one or maybe the most electrically conductive metals,
(note all the gold plated connectors), I think alloying with other metals for karat jewelery makes it drop.
Again, Congrats and Hats Off for the return of that stunning piece

 

[cntrydncr1]

well done!!

 

[gold nuggets]

It's a great feeling to return something lost to the owner! Well done..

 

[jdmb]

Great story!

 

[MalteseFalcon]

Way to go.

Boy I get a charge out of stuff like this!

 

[justdugcrazy]

Amazing congrats on your reuniting the two together I'm sure you will be in the 2 nd chapter of the rings life story and will be remembered forever by whoever ends up owning this wonderful piece of emotional history