I have been using your metal detectors for about 10-12 years from the first day I got my hands on an old Coinmaster and found nothing but fishing weights at a local dried up lake.

I got my very first DFX which was around May 2002 which I used for around 4 years before selling it. I started using it on my newly built home, over the years I got my hands and feet wet in the hobby by finding the usual clad and miscellaneous. I found my first gold ring in the summer of 2003 on a Galveston area beach. It was a little girls ring that had been broken like 6-7 times and repaired just as many times. It has an aquamarine gemstone in it. This find is like my first gold coin, being sentimental. I have kept this ring for many years.

I have since moved to the country and currently when time permits I detect on a piece of property that may have encamped part of hoods Texas Brigade. I am still doing research on this one, I do know that I have recovered objects from more modern times, an 1857 large cent, a 44 caliber mini-ball, percussion caps, and a one inch canister shot and many various pieces of pewter cups and lead used to make the mini-balls.

I recently went to a local county park in the nearby city of Montgomery, TX with my younger brother Don and my six year old niece Camryn. We began to search around the volleyball pit. I used a grid pattern and was not too surprised to find the sand was very clean of any and all trash and targets. As if hunted out by others, I managed to find a nickel in the middle of the pit.

I did find a few pennies in one raised spot of sand and continued to meticulously work the pit area and outside area finding a piece of copper pipe, which was completely out of place. As I was getting ready to depart I decided to try the right side of the volleyball pit where the spectator line would be. I got a penny to quarter reading on my Prizm about 4 inches deep.

I scooped out the top two inches of soil and sweeping my coil over and finding the target still in the hole. I then placed my probe in the hole and got a strong beep signal then scooping the remaining 2 inches of soil rechecking the hole and finding the target in my scoop I began to sift the soil in the bucket seeing what appeared to be a type of bottle cap rolling in the bottom of the scoop.

As more soil was sifted out the familiar shape of a round ring appeared and to my amazement out comes a 14K Gold men's heavy old wedding band with only 14K in it for identifying marks. After cleaning with my shirt tail the ring more closely I call my brother and niece over to show them my find, and I ask my niece to place the ring on my left ring finger and amazingly it slides all the way into place on my ring finger being exactly my size 9.5.
I immediately begin to think that maybe this is some kind of message from the heavenly father that I should think about getting married again and laugh just a little, and have had the ring on my finger ever since. Though I did clean it up a bit with some polish, but have yet to have it weighed and appraised with current gold prices being so high I tend to believe it's worth at least several hundred dollars.

Thank you White's for making a hobby like this affordable and so very healthy, also would like to thank the company for making some of the best machines I ever have had the pleasure of using.

Sincerely thankful and a hunter for life

Tom
Anderson Texas