Lady’s Lost Rose-Gold Wedding Ring Found! – Richard Bong State Recreational Park, Kansasville, Wisconsin.

Chicago residents, Brandon Weninger and his wife, were attending a Cub Scouts outing with their son, Ben. The group met at Wisconsin’s Richard Bong State Recreation Area east of Burlington. When Ben’s mom removed her three wedding rings to apply sunscreen lotion on him, she slipped them into her pocket for safekeeping. Later, however, as she removed her cellphone from the same pocket she saw two of the rings fall out. The third, a diamond-decorated, rose-gold band, was missing. By this time, Brandon’s wife had traversed quite a large area. The ring could be anywhere.
In concert with the helping spirit of Cub Scouts, they and their parents formed a search line and carefully combed the grass area looking for the lost ring. Unfortunately, it was not found. Brandon later returned with a metal detector belonging to his father, but the presence of metallic objects in the ground made it difficult to discern which signals he should investigate. That’s when he found me on The Ring Finders online directory of metal-detecting specialists and reached out by text.
In a later telephone call, we agreed to meet at the park early the next morning. Brandon, having driven all the way up from Chicago again, was waiting for me when I arrived.
After surveying the area and the location where the other rings had been found, I laid out two 100’ measuring lines perpendicular to one another. This served as a reference aid for a systematic grid search. 
Being a group-camp site, the ground was thick with the usual metallic debris such as foil wrappers, bottle caps, pull tabs and coins. The presence of these targets were tangible evidence that the site was well used. But only twenty minutes or so into the search, a particularly shallow target made itself known both audibly in my headset and on my detector’s control screen. Upon investigation, using a pin-pointing detection tool, the lost ring appeared deep down in the grass where it had either been stepped on or pushed down by a mower wheel. The smile on Brandon’s face tells the rest of the story!
If you or someone you know has lost a ring, don’t let its story end. Call today. I’d love to add your smile to the growing list of over 160 clients who, like Brandon, are so glad they did.






Michael, a newlywed of two months, emailed me asking about theringfinders service and if I would be available anytime soon to help look for his wife’s lost diamond engagement ring! I assured Michael that if he was confident about the area where she lost it then there would be a very good chance of finding it. Often people think they’ve lost something in more than one location and that usually means allot more work trying to locate the missing item. And thankfully in this case there were only two locations that they felt very confident about.



Jennifer was enjoying a cool afternoon walk along her favorite grassy back road and thinking about how loose her engagement ring felt on her finger. As she walked along she was thinking, I wonder if my ring would come off if I shook my hand a bit and sure enough, the motion was enough to send her ring off into the thick grass! Shocked at what just happened, she immediately stopped and tried searching through the grass, desperate to recovery her now, lost ring! After searching for several hours she realized she needed to at least mark the spot and by using her foot she scuffed a bare spot on the grassy road and then went to her truck to find something to better mark the area. All she could find was a machete and some red surveyors tape, so she returned to the mark and stuck the machete into the ground along side of the road directly across from the bare spot. She then called her fiancee and together they talked about renting or buying a cheap metal detector. Later they went on Google and typed in « Metal Detection Professionals » and up came theringfinders.com. Jennifer gave me a call and we met later on that afternoon and drove out to the unique machete marker along side of the road. I set out four flags and began my grid search and did not walk more than 5 steps before I got a really nice signal on my Whites DFX metal detector. Because the grass was so thick I decided to use my Garrett Pro Pointer and there was Jennifer’s lost engagement ring! I motioned for Jennifer to come pick up what I had located and you talk about one happy young lady! Here’s what Jennifer wrote two days later. « While out walking,my favorite ring fell off my finger and even though I knew the location where it fell off, I was unable to find the ring after several hours of looking through the tall grass. I contacted Mike after finding his information on the internet and he responded as soon as he was able. Mike asked a few questions, set up a boundary and started looking. And within minutes of him arriving at the site, my ring was found!! I am so grateful to Mike for his help and my fiancee and I would like to give him a big thanks! Again thanks so much! »