Ralph Drahos, Author at The Ring Finders

I was looking for an old home site to do some metal detecting this last summer. There was an old house being torn down near where I live. I talked to the property owner of the house and received permission to do some detecting. While detecting the now torn down house site, DeAnne the owner, came to see what I had found. In that conversation she mentioned she had lost her wedding ring 12 years ago in one of her flower gardens. We decided when winter came the flower gardens would be easier to detect in, and I would come over and see if I could locate the long lost wedding ring.
On a rainy Sunday in December, Arriving at DeAnne’s home, and seeing the extensive flower gardens spread out over an acre of lawn, I thought to myself, this is going to take days to find her ring, like finding a needle in a haystack.
Stepping on to the brick path, that ran down the middle of the 10 foot wide and 20 foot long front garden, the search began. In the first hole I found a piece of copper wire. I swung the coil on the other side of the brick path, nothing there. taking 2 steps further, my detector picked up another target, 6 to 8 inches down in the range the ring would sound on.
A 1000 times in the past, I have dug only crumbled foil on that target ID. But I was looking for a gold ring, so I cut a plug about 5 inches down and put my pin pointer in the hole. Whatever it was was still in the hole and a little deeper. I took one more shovel out, and in that shovel load was the diamond wedding ring!!!
I could not believe I found the ring at all, let alone in the second hole and less than 30 minutes of searching!
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while later, DeAnne came home and was reunited with her ring.
It certainly made for a happy ending.