Easter Sunday my wife was hiding eggs in the yard. Our engagement ring was previously stolen, so the tiny wedding band was all we had left. No idea where it flew off while dropping eggs. I figured it was gone for good, but just like Jesus, it came back!
Jeremy was able to save the day 
This has been a crazy one!
So I get a text from this young lady saying she had lost some rings while playing with her kids in their wooded area of their back yard. She had placed all the rings in her pocket but she didn’t know there was a hole! Little did I know there were a total of 7!
I get there Wednesday night and found 4 of the 7 before I had to go out of town. I tried again last night and the 5th of the 7 was found. There are still 2 more that are soldered together left to be found.
Plan is for me to try again soon. 🤞🏻🤞🏻
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Total ring recoveries since joining “The Ring Finders” 106 total!
Ring count for 2026: 11 (11 – recoveries)
GOLD – 11 (11 – recoveries)
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“DIG IT ALL, SAVE SOME RINGS, BURY THE DRAMA!”
Received a text from a gentleman stating his wife had lost a gold ring with a large topaz stone while doing some gardening/planting in there backyard a few days ago.
We agree on a date and time. I make the drive, get to the area and 15 mins later found her ring!
Only it wasn’t in the flowerbed, it was in a pot that she planted a plant in! I scanned the plastic pot and got a signal. The first signal was a wine twist top. I put everything back and there was still a signal!
Last signal was her 14k gold ring with large topaz stone!
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Total ring recoveries since joining “The Ring Finders” 101 total!
Ring count for 2026: 6 (6 – recoveries)
GOLD – 6 (6 – recoveries)
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“DIG IT ALL, SAVE SOME RINGS, BURY THE DRAMA!”
Last night, just as I was heading to bed, my phone dinged with a message.
“Sorry for the late text,” it read. “Lost 1.5 carat diamond earring in a flower bed. Call tomorrow… or Monday… or now.”
Well… of course I called now.
David explained that his wife Jennifer had lost her earring while working in the flower bed earlier that day. They believed it was somewhere in the pine straw around her hydrangeas. It was insured, he said… but it was a sentimental gift that meant a great deal to her.
Earrings are my least favorite type of jewelry to recover – they are sooooo tiny. But there was no way I was saying no. We made plans for me to head to the next county over the next day and give it a shot.
Fortunately, they had the matching earring. That gave me a huge advantage. I ran it under my Minelab Equinox 900 to check the VDI and tone.
Park 1? Nothing.
Park 2? Bouncy low tone.
Beach 1 and 2? Nada. 😬
Gold mode? A nice solid signal. Now we’re talking.
The search area was small but tricky—pine straw, landscaping debris, and plenty of potential junk targets hiding underneath. Jennifer stood nearby, clearly anxious, asking what she could do to help.
My answer?
“Pray.”
(Which, honestly, I do with every swing when I’m working a recovery.)
Almost immediately, I got a promising signal—perfectly matching the test earring. My excitement didn’t last long… after chasing it with my pinpointer for what seemed like forever, I pulled out a teeny, tiny scrap of tinfoil.
Next target? A small nail.
Then more foil.
A screw.
Even a Christmas light connector.
I started weighing my options—carefully remove the pine straw or move to another area she had worked. Just then, I caught another shallow 2 VDI tone right along the edge of the flower bed where it met the monkey grass.
I knelt down, reached in with my pinpointer, and gently pushed the grass aside…
…and there it was.
A flash of sparkle.
That unmistakable wink of a diamond looking right back at me. 🙌
I’m not sure who was more surprised—me or Jennifer—but I can tell you this: there were happy tears from both of us.
That feeling never gets old.
The best reward isn’t the find itself—it’s the look on someone’s face when you place a lost, sentimental piece of jewelry back into their hand.
Rich was enjoying the spring weather with his wife and young son at a park in Wayne, PA. After some action on the playground he took a break at a picnic table. While sitting he felt his gold wedding band slip off and drop straight down into the grass under the picnic table. After a frustrating hour of searching he gave up and called me after finding me online in The Ring Finder directory. I was 30 minutes away and told him I would see him at 6:30 pm that same day. When I got there the first thing we did was move the heavy picnic table out of the way…then I set my machine for “gold only”. Less than 5 minutes later…his ring was back on his finger! He couldn’t believe he couldn’t find with his eyes but in his defense the ring did blend in with the yellow grass!!!
Received a call that a young man had lost his 24k wedding ring while playing volleyball. They thought he lost it in the sand. I jumped in the truck and made the almost 2 hour drive.
I get there, get the story and begin my search. I searched the entire volleyball sand pit area 3-4 times and wasn’t coming up with the ring. One of the ladies had a 24k gold and it rang up a 91. I couldn’t believe it rang up that high until I found his ring.
I expanded my search area. After about an hour to hour and a half I went near the grass edge to the higher grass area in the direction of the water and I get a 94 signal! I look down and I can see a gold ring! Apprenatly the ring had bounced off the ball and went to his right about 10-15 feet!!
Another recovery in the books! This one was my 100th ring recovery since joining “The Ring Finders!”
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Total ring recoveries since joining “The Ring Finders” 100 total!
Ring count for 2026: 6 (6 – recoveries)
GOLD – 6 (6 – recoveries)
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A friend of mine, Ray Mann, who is also a friend of Justin Wahrenburg, referred me to his neighbor whose wife had lost her wedding ring set in their backyard about a month ago. My friend Justin was actually my very first ring recovery I ever made as a member of “The Ring Finders.”
These rings were incredibly special — over 100 years old and originally purchased in Charlotte, North Carolina. Because of their age and history, they were truly irreplaceable in so many ways.
He contacted me, and I told him I could come out that same day to search for them.
After carefully scanning the entire backyard using a VDI range of 40–75 and not finding anything, I decided to adjust my settings to 35–65 and start again from the beginning. Within minutes, I got a signal reading VDI 37 and uncovered the first ring. About five feet away, I picked up another signal reading VDI 38 — the second ring!
Turns out I had simply missed them earlier because of my original settings.
Needless to say, the whole family was overjoyed. They had been praying and believing the rings would be found.
Her husband actually filmed the moment, and her reaction when the rings were returned was captured on video.
Moments like this are exactly why I love doing what I do — finding something so meaningful and getting it back where it belongs.
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Total ring recoveries since joining “The Ring Finders” 98-99 total!
Ring count for 2026: 5 (5 – recoveries)
GOLD – 5 (5 – recoveries)
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Mike was referred to me by fellow Ring Finder, Dave Milsted. He was working on snow clean up at a home outside Philadelphia during the recent storm. While working in the back alley behind the home he felt and heard his large, silver, vintage David Yurman ring fly off his finger. He looked for a while but it fell in the deep snow and a metal detector was needed for sure. I met him that afternoon and found the ring after a 10 minute search. Was very happy to be able to return Mike’s ring to him!
Liz reached out me to 3-4 weeks ago after finding me in The Ring Finder Directory. It was after a huge snow storm dumped 18 inches of snow in the area. She told me her husband, Kevin, was out shoveling and messing around in the deep snow in their front yard when his large platinum wedding band disappeared. Kevin distinctly remembered the feeling that his ring flew off in the front yard while he was playing around in the deep snow. I came the next day after the storm moved out of the area. I spent 90 minutes searching the front yard of their home…but the snow was crazy deep and it was very difficult to effectively scan the area. After a good but futile effort to try to locate the ring we agreed I would come back after the snow melted. Well…3 weeks later I headed back. With another huge storm predicted to dump 18 inches of new snow tomorrow I figured I better get over there! I brought 2 metal detectors with me…one with a 15 inch coil that’s good for covering the grassy yard and another with a 6 inch coil which is good for looking under bushes and in tight spaces. I first started by scanning the entire grassy yard with the machine with the larger coil…no luck. I grabbed my other detector with the smaller coil and start checking under all the shrubs and bushes bordering the front yard and BOOM! I finally got the signal I was looking for…I looked down through the middle of a large bush and without even bending down I could see Kevin’s large shiny band sitting there underneath the bush. Kevin and LIz were both standing close by when I gave my fist pump victory sign! I believe Liz actually shed a few tears and the two of them were so full of joy to see the ring back on Kevin’s finger!
