well saturdays find actually * a wedding band lost in a horse stall -- $100 thank you

ivan salis

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my nephew was visiting from cocoa beach --his mom was at the local horse show here in jax fri / sat --he rode up with the mom and a female freind of the moms that we showing their horses --but he wanted to hang out and go to the local fri night turkey shoot with uncle ivan ,I got my band of turkey shoot trainee's together --my nephews --TC and jeffery and a young freind of the family ishmal -- of the 9 shoots we took part in we won 6 of the 9 shoots --4 out of 10 targets = 40% of the targets but 6 out of 9 is 66 % win rate --a good 26 % better than the random 40% target "adverage" ( if one buys 4 targets per shoot and does 10 rounds - 4 wins would be a normal win rate - we got 2 extras or 150% of the normal rate much better than adverage)

my nephew crashed at my place overnight and the following day we had a few hours to spare the next day before he was to rejoin his mom and go home , so we decided to metal detect a local spot before returning back to the horse show place -- we found a few things but nothing great

upon returning him to the horse show however --his mom said --oh you got your detector with you great --the guy parked next to us lost his wedding ring in the horse stall two days ago * -- she went and got the man ( he had a huge fancy clearly very costly motorhome attached to his horse trailer - clearly a well off man) --he and his wife we just getting ready to leave * two days earlier he was throwing hay into the stall for his horse and his wedding ring flew off into the stall which was full of wood shavings --both he and his wife had scoured the stall on hands and knees for 2 hours to no avail before giving up and putting their horse in -- the man said --I didn't know those things could detect gold , I said yes they can but they often detect it in the nickel to pull tab range--it takes a bit of time and skil to get god with em ( was using my ace 250 with a 8 x 5 dd coil ) it was rough going at first --the metal side walls made it tough --but then I had a ideal --told my nephew to pull the shavings into the center of the stall away from the walls to lessen their impact -- by doing that within 5 min I found it -- --the man gave me 5 - 20's (100) reward for finding it -- which I split with my 17 year old nephew (hehad broke his phone last week so it came in very handy for him ) --my $50 I gave to the church this sunday to help a needy family get food for their christmas dinner.
 

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Great story and good shooting Ivan. Made sense to rake that stall away from the sides. Nice recovery. Sounds like a fun weekend.
 

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