Got a call from a customer to find a lost platinum wedding band in a front yard in Boonton, NJ. Area had been raked and metal detected by owner with a rented metal detector in an effort to find the ring. Despite this, was able to locate the ring in the street-side of the curb cut, pushed into the soil and under the leaf litter. Very happy couple, which is what it’s all about!
Andrew was horsing around with his dog in the backyard of his Aston, PA home when he felt his tantalum wedding band fly off his finger. He searched for quite a bit but came to conclusion it would be hard to locate in the tall grass. He found me in the Ring Finder Directory and I met him at his home the next day. After he described how and where the ring went missing…I joked to him I would find it in 3 minutes…well it took 4 minutes! I was happy to be able to find and return Andrew’s ring to him!!!
Jack in Atlanta was doing some yard work last week when he noticed his gold wedding band had fallen off. He looked around for several hours without any success. Discouraged, he reached out and asked for my help in recovering his ring. So, this afternoon I drove up to Jack’s residence and was able to recover the ring which the pine mulch had gobbled up. It’s always such a cool feeling when I’m able to reunite someone with a meaningful piece like that. Needless to say, Jack is very happy to have his ring back!
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I received a text from a sweet lady that lost both her rings while cleaning up acorns in her backyard.
She was putting them into a roadside trash bin and realized later that her rings were missing. She dumped out one bin and checked and didn’t see them or find them with a friends metal detector. I scanned that first then I scanned the backyard and didn’t find them.
Then she mentioned the other trash bin, so I pulled it over and dumped it out on the tarp with the other acorns I had already scanned and I got a hit. First I found the diamond ring and quickly scanned again and there was the wedding band just a few inches away.
She mentioned her late husband had lost his gold ring in the yard somewhere so I asked if I could try and find it. Unfortunately, I wasn’t able to get over it. She wasn’t sure where he was or what he was doing when he lost it.
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Total ring recoveries since joining “The Ring Finders” 128 total!
Ring count for 2026: 140 (32 – recoveries/1 – return)
GOLD – 35 (24 – recoveries/1 – return)
GOLD/METEOR – 1 (1-recovery)
GOLD/STAINLESS – 1 (recovery)
PLATNIUM – 7 (6-recoveries)
SILVER – 28
TUNGSTEN – 4 (1-recovery)
TITANIUM – 1
JUNK – 59
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“DIG IT ALL, SAVE SOME RINGS & BURY THE DRAMA!”
The call came in around 10:30 that morning.
John had lost something very special in his backyard — an engraved gold signet ring. He had been doing some landscaping when the ring disappeared, and despite searching, he just couldn’t find it.
When I arrived, John showed me the area where he thought he had lost it.
The area was a fairly steep beautiful back yard, terraced bank covered with grass and pine straw, with landscape lights, metal plant stakes, and plenty of other metal throughout the area. I knew right away I was going to be hearing all kinds of signals and would have to carefully work through each one.
I started at the lower end of the bank and began working my way through the area.
High tones.
Low tones.
Iron tones.
More metal.
There was a lot going on underneath that pine straw.
Before I started, I had asked John if he had a picture of the ring. Fortunately, he did. That turned out to be a big help because I had a pretty good idea of what I was looking for — and what kind of signal that gold signet ring might produce.
After about 20–30 minutes of searching, I got a signal that caught my attention.
It was a multi-tone signal, and it sounded like there were two pieces of metal sitting right next to each other.
That was enough to make me stop and investigate.
I started digging…
Pulled back the pine straw…
And there it was.
BINGO! 🎯
One large men’s engraved gold signet ring!
After working through all those signals and fighting through the terrain, that moment when the ring finally appears is what makes these recoveries so rewarding.
Most importantly, John got his ring back.
Another lost ring found.
Another happy owner.
I received a call from Tom about finding his lost wedding band. He was mowing his yard and had some low hanging branches on a tree in the back yard.
He tried to hold a limb up and mow under it with his riding mower when the limb pulled his wedding band off. Of course they searched for it and came up empty.
I went today and gridded the area under and near the tree and after an hour found the ring. Thanks for the call out and reward.
Received a text from a young man that said his wife lost her rings in their front yard and asked me if I could come find one of the two rings. They ended up finding the engagement ring but were unable to find the wedding ring.
We agreed to Sunday morning and I get there, get my machine dialed in and start my search. The area was about 5×5 area and took me less than 5 mins find it! Took me longer to set up the machine than it took to find the ring.
They weren’t home at the time so I placed the ring in a secure spot until they got back home and they sent me a photo of his wife holding up the ring.
Another recovery and a precious ring back where it belonged!!
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Total ring recoveries since joining “The Ring Finders” 126 total!
Ring count for 2026: 138 (30 – recoveries/1 – return)
GOLD – 35 (24 – recoveries/1 – return)
GOLD/METEOR – 1 (1-recovery)
GOLD/STAINLESS – 1 (recovery)
PLATNIUM – 5 (4-recoveries)
SILVER – 28
TUNGSTEN – 4 (1-recovery)
TITANIUM – 1
JUNK – 59
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“DIG IT ALL, SAVE SOME RINGS & BURY THE DRAMA!”
On September 14th, 2026, Ring Finder Dave Boyer asked my brother Rich and I if we’d help search for two gold wedding rings lost while swimming at night in Lake Michigan. We agreed, and Dave connected us with his client Matt, who described where he thought the rings were lost. He marked out a boundary in the sand, and asked us to stop at the sandbar. After several hours without success, we agreed to come back Wednesday at Matt’s request. Since Matt was heading home to Miami, his father Frank would met us and get us searching. Rich and I met up with Frank then headed down to expanded the search area. About five minutes in, along the north line, I found Matt’s wedding band in knee-deep water, closer to shore than we expected. After searching until our arms were toast, we ended the search. Still, one more Gold Ring made it home with its owner! A Special thanks to Frank for posing with Matt’s ring for my Book of Smiles.
During a late evening, this ring was lost in their grassy backyard. After several attempts to recover it on their own, they decided to purchase a metal detector and take matters into their own hands.
After several attempts and several days of searching, they contacted me, and we scheduled a time to meet. Once the search area was positively identified and the search began, after a short search the ring was located and recovered!
I want to sincerely thank you both for reaching out to me and giving me the opportunity to help reunite you with your ring. It was a pleasure to be part of the recovery, and I’m glad we were able to get it back where it belongs! 💍