Boone Posey, Author at The Ring Finders

Lost ring in South Dakota

  • from Bruce (South Dakota, United States)

A few days ago, I got a text from a woman, named Lori,  who lived in a small town about an hour’s drive from me, and said she needed help finding her lost wedding ring.  She had been mowing her lawn a couple of days before and didn’t know that the ring was gone until she was done mowing.  When she mows the lawn, she always puts her ring in her pocket to keep from losing it while mowing.  Lori, had also, put her cell phone in the same pocket, and when she pulled out her phone to use it, the ring had popped out, and she didn’t notice it missing until she was all done mowing.  I was able to get to her place a couple of days later, and since, Lori, said she would be working till noon, that day, her daughter would be home to tell me the areas of the yard that they suspected the ring could be laying.  I started in those areas, and no luck.  I found a lot of ‘can slaw’, a lot of aluminum cans that got chewed up by the mower.  I took a water break, after about an hour and a half.  It was a pretty steamy day, with high humidity.  I continued on other parts of the lawn where they said the ring might be.  No luck. Just more trashy stuff laying on the surface.  I figured that the ring would be on the surface of the ground, since there had been no rain on the yard since the ring had been lost, so the chances that it sank into the soil were very limited.  I took another water break, after another hour, and Lori arrived home from work just as I was finishing up.  We talked about the whole ordeal, and I told her where I had searched and she stated that she was very upset about this ring being lost, and she hadn’t slept very well the past few nights.  She then showed me the area that she took her phone out of her pocket, which happened to be on a cement slab that was next to a large machine type shed owned by her neighbor.  So, once she had told me about that, I started to detect along the grassy edges of the cement, and walked over a few feet to the middle of the cement.  I looked down next to my coil and there was the ring, in plain sight, just laying there.  I said, « Does it look like this? »  and showed her the ring on the cement.  She yelled, « Yes, it does ». And she immediately picked up the ring and put it on her finger.  She was so relieved to have it back on her hand.  I felt very happy for her, as losing something that precious is hard on a person.  I didn’t get a picture of her and I with the recovered ring, but she sent me a picture of the ring, later.  It was a happy day all around.  Glad I could be of service.  This is what the Ringfinders group is all about.

Lost Ring found in Garvin, Minnesota

  • from Bruce (South Dakota, United States)

A couple of months ago, I received a phone message from another ringfinder who lived in the Minneapolis, MN area.  He had received a request from, Jacob B., a young man in southern Minnesota who had lost a wedding ring and wanted this Minneapolis man to come to the family farm to find it.  The Minneapolis ringfinder told him about me, a member of the ringfinders group, in South Dakota, only about an hour’s drive away.   So, with a few phone calls, and a few texts and emails, I was on my way to a small town about 50 miles away from my home.  The lost ring was a 14karat white gold band.  Jacob, said he thinks he knew about where in the farm yard that he lost it, and my contact was his father, Greg, who would be able to meet me at the farm on a date that we both could be there.  Upon arriving at the farm, I met Greg and listened to the whole story of how the ring became lost.  The parents, Greg and his wife, were preparing to move into the old farmhouse at the family farm, and Jacob was there helping carry things in the house from the cars or whatever was used to transport their belongings.  During the time of the move, Jacob noticed his ring was missing, but he knew he had it on only minutes before. He thought it was lost near where the cars were parked by the garage.  After about a half an hour of searching this area, I stopped to take a small break, and wipe all the sweat from my face, as it was in the 90’s with high humidity.  My detector was leaning against my body as I was doing this, with the coil resting on the ground, and as I picked it up to start swinging it again, I got a loud beeping sound like it was detecting a coin, so I swept around the area, and then using my pin pointer, I searched the area where the hit came from, and scraping away some gravel I found the ring that had been pushed down into the sandy gravel.  I gave a yell over to Greg, and said I had hit the jackpot.  He came over and said, “You mean you found it?  You have got to be kidding me!”  I held the ring up and put it in his hand, and he couldn’t have been happier as if it was his own ring.   I was very gratified that my detector did the job.  I was happy to help the newly-weds who had only been married a couple of months.  My Garrett ACE 250 has been my go to detector and I have found a lot of good stuff.  Enclosed are pictures of the ring and Greg, Jacob’s father,

Lost wedding ring found in 7 inches of snow

  • from Bruce (South Dakota, United States)

image3 image1-1This search was not initiated through the ring finders site, but I wanted to share it anyway for the happy ending.  Back in November of 2014, I received a call from a guy whom I work with asking me if I would be willing to help a friend of his find his lost wedding band.  It was on a Saturday, and I wasn’t working, so I said I would help. It had just snowed 7 inches of fresh light snow that night before, so I thought it might be a challenge, but I’d give it my best shot.  I had been handing out some business cards at work the week before to let people know I help people find lost items, jewelry, and anything they may value.   So,when this guy’s friend lost his wedding band he gave me a call.  I had told my friend at work, that I only ask for gas money and any reward was up to the client.

I use an ACE 250 with an 8 inch butterfly  coil which I have used many times when I am coin shooting.  The wedding ceremony was held at a reception hall that used to be a church, and the area where he lost the ring was not very big,  maybe 20 feet by 15 feet, but there was still 7 or more inches of snow, albeit very soft light stuff.  I met the two guys out in front of the building as they were still looking over the ground thinking they might see something.

They told me that this guy, I’ll call him Bob,as I don’t remember his name, and a few other guys had been out playing in the snow and throwing snowballs at each other.  When they decided to go inside for a while Bob noticed his wedding ring missing from his finger. They all went outside and after searching for about 15 minutes, someone found the ring.   Bob was relieved and they went back inside for a while to warm up.

Then about a hour later, the same group went back outside and started playing in the snow throwing snowballs.  After a while they got too cold again and they went inside to warm up, again.  It was, then,  and there that Bob noticed his wedding ring was missing again.  So, that’s when my friend called me and asked if I could help.

After I searched the big area where all the snowball fights took place with no luck, I concentrated on an area that was closer to the sidewalk.  I asked Bob where he had been standing when the last episode of snowball fights took place.  I swept over the area twice and I  had been there for 15 minutes or more and the winds were starting to get stronger and I was getting colder.  I decided to look near a sidewalk that led to a door that they used to get in and out of the hall.  After a minute or two of swinging the coil closer to that walkway, I got a beep and a pretty strong signal.   I used my Garrett Pro-pointer to get down closer, and there was the ring, about 2 feet from the doorway just off the sidewalk.  Bob was so happy to finally find it again, as his new wife was already not too  happy with him and this situation.   My friend took pictures of me and Bob and the lost/now found ring.  It was a titanium ring and not a cheap one to lose.  Bob asked me what he owed me, and I said just for some gas, and he then dished out $30.00 which I happily accepted.  This was a first time for me to help find anything for anybody, so it was very glad I could help and that my metal detecting hobby was getting more and more rewarding.