Just got back in from a cold and frozen day but was called out to help with a neighbor that lost their ring two years ago. While she had considered it lost she decided it couldn’t hurt to look. Happy to say that it only took about an hour to recover and I hope to post pictures soon!
We got a call from a mom who was so upset, her daughter had been at a Labor Day Swim party at Cedar Creek Lake, and the group of teenagers decided to take a midnight swim. While sitting on the swim platform of the ski boat tied off at the dock. A boy reached up and grabbed her hand and pulled her into the water. As Alina was going under she her grandmother’s ring slid off. She screamed and all of her friends tried searching for the ring. The water was about 5 feet deep with ZERO Visibility.
She then had to call her mother in tears and tell her that Grandma’s ring was gone.
I fully believe that Mom was more upset than the daughter. Mom calls us and we set a time to come out to the lake 4 days after the loss. The drive was 2 hours, but the subdivision was beautiful and the water was like glass… BUT BUT BUT the dock was a single dock that pitchforked out into 4 more docks and the daughter was not completely sure which dock they had been swimming on since it was dark.
I began my search using my ATPro, and water scoop. The bottoms were 18inches of mush, like wet mash potatoes. I began clearing all the normal junk. Soda & Beer cans, nails, and junk. After 4 hours of going over and over and increasing my search grid area with every pass. I was about to call it quits, the mom had come over and said she understood I had gone above and beyond in my search and understood if I need to call it.
I said I wanted to do one more pass, I had one signal that was funky and I just wanted to pull it out to be sure I would have no regrets in my search. I made my last scoop and nearly could not lift the 30 pounds of muck, had to use my hand to squish the much through my fingers and suddenly I saw the glint of a ring.
I called the daughter and the mom over and had them explain one more time what happened and then I said… “I have a question for you ….. “Does it look like this?” 
And screams and tears began to flow… mom and daughter hugged and cried tears of joy.
Another successful find for the Dallas Ring Finders.
We got a call today from a gentleman who was inquiring about our services, said he lost 3 rings in his apartment complex common area. Something did not sound right about his story so I inquired further, letting him know that 50% of our business is from people who throw their rings, primarily women. Letting him know I was not here to judge anyone, but that we just needed the facts so we could find the rings.
I arrived within the hour and met the young man, he ask me not to discuss the thrown rings with his wife as she was embarressed. I assured him that I would be very discrete. I began my search by scanning the open areas between the bushes where an extreme amount of sticker vines intertwined in the bushes. Having cleared the open areas I scanned the bushes themselves going all around the bushes. But still no luck. I have to then begin pushing my ATPro Detector into the bushes as far down as possible. I then began removing all the major surface trash(tons of it). Finally, I spotted a glint of gold between the hard stalks of the bushes… so the first of 3 rings were found.
Continuing on, I was on my knees (thank God for good Knee Pads), using my Garrett Pinpointer, and began searching by hand, pushing my pinpointer into the bushes. My arms were severely scratched up and bleeding (looked a lot worst than it really was), Then I found the Diamond Ring… only one more to go. I searched and searched, it was 102 degrees and the customers were watching my every move.
I was nearly ready to quit but the client had rented an ACE250 and he began searching as well, so I continued. There was a 4-5 ft drop-off down to a grassy area next to a sidewalk, then more grass and a pond. The customer drop down to the lower grassy area to check there, based on the small stature of the lady who threw the rings, I did not really think she could throw a thin band gold ring that far. When all of a sudden her husband hollers “I found it”, it was actually his ring which was much heavier and had flown down to the grassy area.
We never care who finds the rings, we just want them to get them found.
So the lesson here is to ask for pictures of the missing rings before your search…
But another Successful Find for the Dallas Ring Finders”
Don & Ellen Wilson
Well, this was our 2nd attempt to find this $5,400 Platinum Ring with Diamonds. The owner had called and explained that the motor on his small 12-foot boat quit on him just 2 docks from his home. His boat was still slowly moving in the water while he attempted to restart the engine and after several hard pulls on the start cord (with no luck) his anger increased. He jerked the starting cord one last time and as he did he felt his ring fly off into the water. He felt he knew exactly where the ring went down but after an exhaustive water search with both our Garrett ATPro and our Excalibur II in the deeper water area(s) we cleared every signal with no luck. We scanned every area 4 to 5 times.
The only thing we can say is that possibly we were in the wrong location(?). With the boat moving and the anger seeping in along with the strength of the last jerk on the cord, that ring could be anywhere in a 50ft by 300ft area in black water.
I believe when we go back, and we will go back, we will extensively widen out our search area… it’s got to be there…we will find it.
We do not always win but we will give our all to every search.
Don & Ellen
Dallas Ring Finders
We got a call early this morning from a gentleman who said that his father-in-law passed away recently. His father-in-law was a serious Prepper, he was heavily fortified and heavily stocked in every area of life. He said 6 or 7 years ago he had shown he and his wife a Google Earth photo showing where he had buried Multiple Boxes of 500 coins each and many packages of 100 silver coins in plastic ammo containers.
He and his family had spent 8-10 hours digging in the known places and discovered many boxes of silver everything from 6 inches to 36 inches in depth. They were exhausted and needed help. They rented a metal detector but it did not work well for them so they went searching and found the Dallas Ring Finders.
Ellen and I drove out as soon as we got the call. It was 161 miles one way
to reach the location. We reached the home, met the family and were shown around the property and shown the 4 potential locations of the Silver coins. Just want to say it was 103 degrees today. We went to work with our Garrett ATPro metal detectors and Pinpointers.
The ground was really just pure sand, very easy to dig. We were able to scan the boxes of Silver that they had found the day before to get our search signals and searched for 3 hours, digging dozens of holes. The challenge was there was so much metal debris all over the search areas… (NOTE: history tells us that people who buried things sometimes scatter scrap metal all over their buried items to discourage metal detectorists from digging).
I am not going to disclose what we found but we may be returning for further digging and possibly bring a small backhoe to take off the top 2-3 feet of soil to make it a little easier to detect.
Suggestion, if you or someone in your family buries things on their property, please, please, please make a map or show someone where your items are so that everything can be recovered when you’re gone.
Awesome day helping a family who was completely overwhelmed.
Don & Ellen
Dallas Ring Finders
Sometimes when you’re strolling along a water’s path, holding your phone and decide you need a drink from your water bottle being held in your other hand, attempting to remove the twist cap can be a little more challenging than imaginable. That’s exactly what happened to Stephen yesterday. Getting in the water 5ft deep to search with a metal detector and scoop proved to be unreliable since the depth increased the further he tried to walk out. So Don suited up in his diver’s suit and tank to scan the bottom up to 15 ft deep. After a couple of passes it was found in the far corner of the water.
PS… I do have to say it was really a strange feeling Scuba Diving in Lake Christine which is in the middle of 30 story tall buildings… I know we had many eyes watching us as we located this Iphone.
Another happy customer for the Dallas Ring Finders.
(June 12) Spring had sprung and summer was nearing. A wonderful time of the year that requires a bit of physical labor in making the yard look picture perfect. While working among the mint plants and amental bushes Anne’s earring became loose. Not wanting it to fall out of her ear Anne removed the earring, put it safely into a pocket and continued her gardening. Enjoying this time of the year and now looking over her accomplishment she finished by tidying up the area before going into her home to replace the earring. Much to her surprise the erring was no longer where she put it for safekeeping.
A search was on. Unfortunately, all the effort went unrewarded. Anne reached out for help and obtained my phone number. It was now her lucky day. I had nothing scheduled for Sunday. The weather was fine and there were open seats on the Haynnis to Oak Bluffs ferry. I made all the arrangements and on Sunday I met Anne at the docks. It was a short trip to her home. We passed many eye-popping sites of colorful Gingerbread Homes, gardens, and quaint stores.
At Anne’s home I assembled my detector, tuned it in and notched out all signals except for the one that was emitted when triggered by the matching earring. The search began, of course it was in the area of the mint plants. Why? Well, the first sniff of the mint brought back memories of the fresh mint sauce my grandmother would make from the fresh mint I had picked for her. This would have been enough gratification for my day’s effort. That was not to last long as there was a more important task at hand. I moved to the area of the shed a few swings of the detector and the ring of gold was in my ears. But I did not see the object causing the detector to react. I turned on my small handheld pin-pointer to search the grass area. It did its job and now I saw the earring, took a picture, retrieved it, and returned to to a now smiling Anne.
Neither my wife nor I had ever been to Martha’s Vineyard. She had made the trip with me to keep me company and visit an area we had planned to visit. Anne was gracious and offered a tour of the island and a stop at Martha’s Vineyard Museum, the Camp area and ending up at the Backdoor Donuts. I just had to bring home some of the area’s BEST Apple Fritter. A sweet and perfect ending to a return that could not have been better.
Watch Video of Actual Recovery here: https://youtu.be/H7b4d2Rarvg
We received a call from an individual that had a rather odd request as the item lost was not jewelry, it was a very special one-of-a-kind, specially made fish filet knife that meant more to her husband than any of his other knives. It was a 40th yr anniversary present, none like any other he’d ever received. Magnet-fishing attempts to retrieve the knife from the 13-15 ft water depth were unsuccessful as the lake bottom held the support beams for their boathouse which was metal also. Since the magnet-fishing did not work we were then contacted for help. After deciding on a date/time for us to come out and dive for the knife, we loaded up all of the scuba equipment and headed to Lake Bridgeport, TX. This fun hunt was cut short because the item was found within 10 minutes of being in the water. The act of suiting up in the scuba gear and submerging into the water took longer than the actual find. Now the knife is back on dry land where it belongs and we have a couple of very happy friends.
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Watch our Video Below of the Ring Find
I received a call from an individual who said he had a problem. He bought an engagement ring, made the proposal (she said Yes!!), a celebration party and accidentally lost the ring all in the same day! He was beside himself and even went to the trouble of purchasing a metal detecting unit but was unsuccessful after hours of looking; 15 other individuals were trying to help but nope, no ring was recovered on that acre lot in Kaufman, Texas. Looking on the internet brought him to our website and we scheduled a designated time to meet so we could use our 15-year expertise to do a search. What began as ‘I hope it’s found’ turned to pure elation in about a 45 minute search with success.
Note: Check out our YouTube Channel: Dallas Ring Finders
I was called by a member of the family that knew a couple gold rings had been lost over a span of 50 years. The house had been sold and the family wanted to try and locate the rings before the house closed. They contacted theringfinders.com and 2 of us went out to try and find the rings. The landscape did not look promising with decks and pavers being added in a large area of the backyard. On about my fourth hit I struck paydirt. Out of the ground pops a 1970 class ring! I was glad to be able to return it to the family. You can see the recovery here
