Wedding ring lost in Oregon yard, found with metal detector
On a Sunday evening, I received a text stating “We lost a wedding band, we think in our backyard, and were wondering if you could come out and find it.”
I asked a few of my standard questions regarding how the ring had been lost, and why they thought it was in the yard. Steph told me her husband had the ring on in the morning. After working out in the yard all day, he came in to shower and he realized the ring was missing. They searched through the house and didn’t find it, so she did an internet search and found the Ringfinders.
I was able to go out to their house the next morning, so we agreed on a convenient time.
I arrived and met with Steph. She walked me through the yard work her husband was doing, and the area the ring could have been lost in. She thought it may have been lost while he had been planting berry bushes, or trimming some bushes. She also told me they had purchased a metal detector off of Amazon Prime, but were frustrated because they just kept getting noise everywhere they searched.
Searching the front yard area and flower beds, I only found some aluminum scrap and a penny. Also no indication the ring was buried under any of the berry bushes Ryan had planted.
Moving into the backyard area, I focused on the raised area above the lawn, I hit some promising targets, but were just junk.
A bit away, I received a scratchy sound on the Manticore, but good VDI numbers, and perfect response on the 2D mapping. Leaning in I could see the faint outline of a ring.
Confirming this was the missing ring, I snapped a photo, and found Steph, who was in the house. I asked if she would come out so I could explain how I was searching with the metal detector. I handed her the penny I had found, and she said she was hoping it was the missing ring. We went into the backyard. I ran the detector over a couple of bad targets, then over the ring. I told her that’s the ring, but she still didn’t see it. Kicking a little of the yard debris away, she was able to pick up the missing ring!
I asked if it was alright if I took some photos for the Ringfinders website, and Steph said she was hopeful that they would be added with a successful recovery.
Steph told me she was sure they wouldn’t have found the ring without my help.
Steph was going to use the penny I had found to give Ryan a hard time for losing his ring. He was very sad to get home and just see a penny on the counter, and not his ring, but very happy to actually have his ring back.
