#metal detecting service in Illinois Tag | The Ring Finders

Keys Lost in Snow, Recovered in Elk Grove Village, Illinois

  • from Rockford (Illinois, United States)

Sunday morning, 12/29/2025,  I received a text from Rachel asking if I might be able to help find a set of missing keys that were dropped 2 days ago. The keys went missing right before a big snow storm hit. She dropped them Friday night while she was out walking her dogs before the storm. She had spent hours shoveling snow and looking for them on Saturday and Sunday morning. Sunday morning she found me on TheRingFinders.com.

When I arrived Rachel showed me the path that her and her dogs took to go on their walk Friday night. I started my search from her apartment sidewalk, across the street, to a grass area were she let the dogs run around and play. A hilly area, where Rachel walked along the top of a hill and walked back along the bottom of the hill. So I searched the loop that she walked but, didn’t find them. So I then started searching inside of her loop. On the slippery,  snow covered hillside I got a solid signal! But I knew if I picked up one foot and tried to brush the snow away I would slip and fall down the slope! So I slid down the hill across the signal area! When I looked back, there was the black Steelers lanyard and her keys, that we were looking for!!

Success!!

Another smile for the book!!

White Gold & Diamond Ring found in Rockford, Illinois.

  • from Rockford (Illinois, United States)

 

I received a text message from Kristyn today just before noon stating that she found me and The Ring Finders on Google after a quick search for “metal detecting service in Rockford”. So I grabbed my DĒUS II metal detector and Garrett pinpointer and arrived at Kristyn & Kyle’s house by 3 pm. After a quick introduction Kyle showed me the area that they believed that the ring was in. So I started a simple grid search in the front yard. After approximately 20-30 minutes, on my 5th pass I got a solid, double tapping, 46-48 signal on the DĒUS II. Nothing was visible so I grabbed my pinpointer and scanned the ground and immediately got a strong response! So I gently probed around in the grass until I eventually got a glimpse of a shiny round object tucked under the grass and some dandelion leaves! Afterwards Kristyn told me that they, including her mother,  had been searching for the ring for 3 days!!

So glad that I could help!!

Another smile for the book!! 😁