Shawn Sherrill, Author at The Ring Finders

LOST 18k GOLD WEDDING RING IN MACON, NC…. FOUND!!!

  • from Jacksonville (North Carolina, United States)
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About 3 weeks ago, I received a call from a gentleman that had lost his wedding ring about five years ago while winterizing his boat on Lake Gaston. While he was putting a tarp over the top of his boat his ring slid off, due to the colder weather. It dropped in about 5-6 feet of water at the time.

We agreed on a date and time for me to drive the 2 hour 40 min (one way) trip to see if I could recover it. It took me 25-30 mins to gear up, get the back story before I got in the water. 

After about 5-8 mins… 1st target (piece of aluminum) 2nd target a thick and heavy 18k gold ring! “SUCCESS!”

After meeting his wife she admitted she teared up when their daughter told her, ”He found daddy’s ring!” She also admitted, “I didn’t think it could be found and thought it was a waste of time!” Glad I was able to change that mind set and make them all happy!! They shared an awesome/funny story about the inscription on the ring. It says “I LOVE TATOR TOTS, BUT I LOVE YOU MORE” they met while ordering tots! It’s always nice to learn things about the folks you help, especially something that can’t be replaced!

While there, I was told the owner of the house had lost his white gold wedding ring near the water while removing water grass and tossing it up to the bank. After about 40-50 mins I found that ring too!

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Ring count for 2024: 17 (9 recoveries)
GOLD – 6 (6 – recoveries)
SILVER – 7 (2 – recoveries)
TUNGSTEN – 1
COBALT – 1 (recovery)
JUNK – 2

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4 LOST RINGS IN LEXINGTON, NC……FOUND!

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This young wife/mom was just devastated that she had left her rings on the zero turn mower and forgot to go back and get them.

Hubby went out to mow and well you can guess where they ended up! Yup, you guessed it, in the yard!

I drove 3.5 hrs, hunted for 6 hours for these priceless items! After spending about 4 hours in areas we thought they might have fallen off I decided to take two steps back and review the still frames again. I must have missed a key element or factor! I tried my best to follow his path from where he started to where he came up on the driveway to go mow the small side of the yard.They just had to have fallen off before that. Most ring recoveries is a lot of detective work and trying to figure out where is the mostly likely spot they could be!

After regrouping and deciding to go back to the beginning, I finally get a hit and I see one of the silver rings! Stand up get another hit and there is the engagement ring!

Two down and two to go! About 30 mins later I hit the 2nd silver ring! 3 out of 4 ain’t bad, but I don’t quit or give up easily! About another 30 mins go by and I finally find the last ring which turned out to be the wedding band and the 1st ring that had been lost!

I love this hobby and and love nothing more than to put a smile back on and individuals face when you walk up with what they thought was lost forever!

TikTok video:

https://www.tiktok.com/@sgt_whitey/video/7374594096582757678?_t=8mliwE5bPK6&_r=1

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Ring count for 2024: 14 (7 recoveries)
GOLD – 4 (4 – recoveries)
SILVER – 7 (2 – recoveries)
TUNGSTEN – 1
COBALT – 1 (recovery)
JUNK – 1

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“DIG IT ALL, SAVE SOME RINGS & BURY THE DRAMA!”

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LOST COBALT WEDDING RING IN WENDEL…….FOUND!!!

  • from Jacksonville (North Carolina, United States)
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Received a call from a couple that the husband had lost his cobalt wedding ring in the yard.

Arranged a good date and time to meet and attempt to find it. Took me about 15 mins because it wasn’t in the flower bed where he thought he had lost it. It was about 3 feet out in the grass. Got a 55 in Deus mono due to very high EMI.

Feels good to recover and return priceless items.

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Ring count for 2024: 10
GOLD – 2 (2 – recoveries)
SILVER – 5
TUNGSTEN – 1
COBALT – 1 (recovery)
JUNK – 1

“DIG IT ALL, SAVE SOME RINGS & BURY THE DRAMA!”

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LOST CHILDS HEIRLOOM RING IN RALEIGH, NC…. FOUND!

  • from Jacksonville (North Carolina, United States)
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Had a buddy contact me 2-3 weeks ago about one of his buddies that has a daughter that lost 2 small gold rings in their front yard.

I was in town so I reached out to see if I could try and find them.

After an hour or so and switching from Park to General to Deus Mono. The EMI was horrible, but I managed to finally get a program that I could hear the signals over the EMI chatter.

After covering the yard again I finally got a VDI 44 and found one of the two gold rings. This ring is very tiny!

Ring count for 2024: 8
GOLD – 2 (2 – recoveries)
SILVER – 4
TUNGSTEN – 1
JUNK – 1

“DIG IT ALL, SAVE SOME RINGS & BURY THE DRAMA!”
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LOST GOLD HEIRLOOM IN GREENSBORO, NC…….FOUND!

  • from Jacksonville (North Carolina, United States)
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Back on November 12th 2023 a lady called me and said her niece had lost a very sentimental family heirloom gold ring in a patch of ivy while visiting from California for a wedding.

The niece had already left to go back to California. She was so heartbroken she had lost the ring. It was about a two hour drive, but I jumped in the truck and made my way out to try and find it. By the time I got there it was going to be dark in about an hour.

In just a few mins I had found the ring in the ivy and was able to return it to the aunt.

Fast forward three months later and I finally get a picture of the niece with her lost ring back on her finger again!

This gold ring was 1 of my 360 total rings I found in 2023!

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LOST GOLD WEDDING RING IN KNIGHTDALE, NC….. FOUND!!

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LOST 14k WHITE GOLD RING IN NEBO, NC…..FOUND!

  • from Jacksonville (North Carolina, United States)
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Got a call this morning from a lady that had lost her 14k gold ring with some heirloom diamonds/sapphires that she had specially made. She lost it in Lake James near Charolette, NC. 3.5 hr drive (one way)

She lost it off a dock at a friends house. She was stepping down to get into her kayak when she grabbed the wire/cable of the ramp to the boat dock. As she grabbed it the cable caught the ring (it has a cut out in it) and pulled it off of her finger. She thought it had fallen straight down and bounced off her kayak on the right hand side of the ramp. After almost 5 hours of searching the right side I expanded and moved to the left side. After about 30 more mins I found her ring! It was a very choppy signal on the AT MAX I think because of the cut in the ring and the clay in the lake.

But I didn’t give up! She knew it was there and I wasn’t giving up until I found it. 5.5 hours later it was found and back on her finger where it belonged!

I managed to surprise her with the return too! Love making folks happy again when I find something they feared was lost forever.

TikTok video:

https://www.tiktok.com/t/ZPRcL6n8m/

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2023 ring count: #360 FTY
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27 – Total recoveries/returns FTY
87 – gold rings FTY (12 recoveries – 3 returns) – (5 class rings – 4 US / 1 MEX)
92 – silver rings FTY (1 recovery, 1 return & 1 coin silver) 1×3 in 1 silver ring
3 – platinum (2 recoveries) – 1×2 in 1
2 – platinum & gold (2 recoveries)
1 – gold & silver ring (1 recovery)
1 – Pandora LTE MET 54 (silver and palladium)
1 – silver 828 ring
1 – tantalum (1 recovery)
5 – titanium (1 recovery)
14 – tungsten (1 recovery)
1 – lustrium – (1 recovery) (1 class ring)
152 – mixed – copper – steel – aluminum – junk rings FTY

“DIG IT ALL, SAVE SOME HISTORY – RINGS & BURY THE DRAMA”

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LOST GOLD WEDDING RING SET IN RALEIGH, NC…… FOUND

  • from Jacksonville (North Carolina, United States)
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Got a call from a gentleman that found me online. His wife had lost both of her wedding rings while taking pine straw from some bushes, dropping it as she worked in the cold weather.

At some point both of her rings slipped off her finger and into the pine straw/leaves and they couldn’t find them!

After arriving I found out it was two rings when I thought it was just one ring. About 30 mins later she had both rings back where they belonged!!

These are truly moments I live for!!

TikTok video:

https://www.tiktok.com/t/ZPRce8k7q/

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2023 ring count: #358-#359 FTY
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26 – Total recoveries/returns FTY
86 – gold rings FTY (11 recoveries – 3 returns) – (5 class rings – 4 US / 1 MEX)
92 – silver rings FTY (1 recovery, 1 return & 1 coin silver) 1×3 in 1 silver ring
3 – platinum (2 recoveries) – 1×2 in 1
2 – platinum & gold (2 recoveries)
1 – gold & silver ring (1 recovery)
1 – Pandora LTE MET 54 (silver and palladium)
1 – silver 828 ring
1 – tantalum (1 recovery)
5 – titanium (1 recovery)
14 – tungsten (1 recovery)
1 – lustrium – (1 recovery) (1 class ring)
152 – mixed – copper – steel – aluminum – junk rings FTY

“DIG IT ALL, SAVE SOME HISTORY – RINGS & BURY THE DRAMA”

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LOST ROSE GOLD RING IN APEX, NC……. FOUND!

  • from Jacksonville (North Carolina, United States)
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Got a call last week about a gentleman that had lost his rose gold wedding band while planting azaleas at his house.

He had an exact copy of that ring and I was able to get the exact VDI (VDI 87) of the lost ring! It took me about a min to find his ring!

He and his wife couldn’t believe I had found it so fast!

TikTok video:

https://www.tiktok.com/t/ZPRvEXWov/

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2023 ring count: 357 FTY
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24 – Total recoveries/returns FTY
85 – gold rings FTY (10 recoveries – 3 returns) – (5 class rings – 4 US / 1 MEX)
92 – silver rings FTY (1 recovery, 1 return & 1 coin silver) 1×3 in 1 silver ring
3 – platinum (2 recoveries) – 1×2 in 1
1 – platinum & gold (1 recovery)
1 – gold & silver ring (1 recovery)
1 – Pandora LTE MET 54 (silver and palladium)
1 – silver 828 ring
1 – tantalum (1 recovery)
5 – titanium (1 recovery)
14 – tungsten (1 recovery)
1 – lustrium – (1 recovery) (1 class ring)
152 – mixed – copper – steel – aluminum – junk rings FTY

“DIG IT ALL, SAVE SOME HISTORY – RINGS & BURY THE DRAMA”

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LOST SHEETS OF GOLD in CHAPEL HILL, NC….. FOUND!!!!

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This will be one of my best but craziest recoveries EVER! I still can’t believe I was actually able to find it for the daughter of the deceased man that buried it in their backyard during his later stages of Dementia. Yes, he buried the sheets of GOLD that were rolled up and put together with paperclips. I know I will get comments like it is gold leaf. but it is 100% NOT GOLD LEAF; it is heavy and in sheets as stated. He used this gold to make chips.

The original story was that her father had made a small GOLD BAR out of the gold, but when I found it, I knew I had found what he had buried and what she was hoping I would find. It took me about an hour and a half to get the signal of this lost treasure! The backyard was full of leaves, rocks, trees and it wasn’t an easy target to find, luckily there wasn’t much other metal items in the natural area behind the house. That alone made it easier to locate the GOLD! The estimated total GOLD weight of what I think is 24K gold is about 15g to 20g.

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Craziest revovery request EVER!!! Never ever found anything like this!!! @xpmetaldetectors #gold #24k #sheets #crazy #awesome #unique

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