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Hamilton High School football coach and Wauwatosa resident, Josh Neary, was moving training equipment off the field when he felt his tungsten wedding ring catch and fly off his hand. Despite his search efforts and those of several others, the ring was nowhere to be found. The loss was made all the more acute with Josh’s plans to celebrate his and his wife’s second anniversary the next day.

Josh found me on the Ring Finder’s internet directory of metal-detecting specialists. My wife and I were travelling in the Canadian Rocky Mountains when I received his text. After arriving home in Wisconsin, we arranged to meet at the Hamilto High School on Friday, September 27, four days after the ring went missing.

A systematic grid-search revealed the presence of many metallic objects. Thankfully, I had a sample tungsten ring for calibration purposes. This helped to ignore most of the signals. After, covering the most likely area without success, it was decided to expand the search grid. Soon, a shallow signal was promising. Using a pin-pointer, Josh’s wedding ring came to the light of day in the deep grass where it had fallen.

I left the ring in its place and called Josh to come and look with me. Handing him the pin-pointer I explained how it worked and then let Josh ‘discover’ the ring himself. It didn’t take long. Josh pulled the ring from the grass and held it in astonished unbelief. The smile on his face tells the rest of the story!

It seems the whole school was aware of Josh’s lost ring. Students and staff alike expressed their well wishes and joy. It was obvious to me that Coach Neary holds a special place in the hearts and lives of many at Hamilton High School. I’m so glad to have had a part in your story, Josh.

If you or someone you know has lost a ring, even long ago, don’t let its story end. Call today. Who knows, we might just be able to put a smile on someone else’s face.

Got a call Saturday morning to try and find a ring lost in a patch of reeds after falling from a jet ski.  Showed up Sat afternoon and within 15 mins had the ring back to its owner.  Truly lucky to have found this one.  Was great to reunite the ring with its owner.  Thanks again

9/28/24

Got a call yesterday from a guy who lost his wedding ring a few days ago. He was having dinner with friends when he noticed it was missing. He runs a very busy tree farm and as you can imagine works very hard and covers a lot of ground during the course of a day. He thought a likely place to start looking was around the base of 4 chestnut trees that he had done extensive work on that day. But, it could also be on another property about 10 miles away!

I went there this afternoon, and he walked me around. I could tell he was very upset about losing it. That empty ring finger was bugging him!

I got started. About an hour into the search he came out to offer to cut down some of the tall grass and weeds. I told him that it probably would come to that. I had one last chestnut tree to search around and was doing the path on the way when I got a very loud tone. He wasn’t far away so I yelled for him to come over. I pushed the pinpointer around in the weeds and there it was! A miracle! I had honestly expected this search to turn into several days and many hours.

Lindsey was sitting on the steps onside her home, cleaning her ring. When she dropped it and it bounced down the steps into the lawn.
She searched for days, even cutting the grass with scissors. hoping to recover her ring.
Several days later she called me and I arrived at her home and started to search, The search was complicated by the large amount of metal in the risers of the stairs. I finally got on my hands and knees and searched with my pin pointer. Bingo, found it.
OMG what a Happy Lady.

I love my job.