Ring hunting 101

Rings are by far the easiest items of jewelry for a beach hunter to detect, if you know how and where to find them.
The how is easy, cover the beach sweeping slow and low until you put your metal detector search coil over one.
The where is also easy if you select the right sites to search, its obvious by the bling bling on the cover of my Jewelry hunting book I believe in the famous real estate mantra location, location, location.
I look at rings as easy targets for a beach hunter to detect because they are highly attractive metal objects to a metal detector, objects made of precious metals formed in a circle shape.
It does not get any better than that, the shape of rings and the highly conductive metals they are made of make it more likely a beach hunter is going to detect quite a few rings if they choose the right sites to search.
Coins are another example of easy targets for a metal detector to detect at a beach, flat and round shaped.  
Im my opinion, beach jewelry hunters are their own worst enemies blaming poor beach conditions and even their metal detecting equipment for a lack of ring recoveries.
There is no such thing as poor beach conditions, unfavorable beach conditions are just opportunities for hardcore beach hunters to recover more rings. 
Back in 2007 I recovered 274 gold rings as a weekend warrior only searching beaches for an average of six hours every weekend that year, I recovered 12 gold rings in one morning at one local tourist beach.
The kind of ring recovery success that gets you kicked off metal detecting forums because they believe you own a jewelry store lol  
Searching for rings at tourist beaches, use a good VLF (Very low frequency) metal detector that allows you to use a little discrimination, the old timers "You have to dig it all" in case you miss something of value is bad advice at tourist beaches searching for rings. 
Every rusty fish hook or crusty bottle cap you stop to dig prevents you from returning home with a platinum, gold or silver ring. 
Any experienced beach hunter should know the difference between a fish hook, bottle cap and gold ring right? they probably do but they still stop to dig junk instead of moving on. 
If you are using any one of todays good VLF metal detectors there is no excuse for digging undesirable junk at the beach.  
Will your metal detector misidentify the odd ring on the edge of detection depth, sure but you should never worry about the rings you cannot detect, get busy digging the rings you can detect!
As for location, you have to search where you are likely to detect whatever it is you are searching for.
I love the thrill of recovering expensive pieces of jewelry and I know my wife and daughters are not going to be happy with spring breaker or surfer crowd rings lol so I hit beaches popular with middle aged or older people. 
Do I miss the eye candy sure, but I do not miss the more valuable rings at beaches that attract an older crowd, I should add I am happily married with children so I only ever check out scantly clad ladies at the beach with one eye.
Rings are recovered at the beach when you hit the right areas with the right metal detector searching over the sand slowly, insuring you detect circles of precious metals. 
The slower you search an area the more small gold you will be able to detect, which is important as the most valuable rings often weigh the less with thin platinum or gold bands holding precious stones.
Detect the thin bands and you will have no problem detecting larger or chunkier rings, beach hunters who only find large rings should stop to think why they struggle to find smaller rings.
No doubt the answer is related to location, metal detector or search techniques and all of these things can easily be corrected. 
Remember it is often the precious stones that make an expensive ring expensive, not the precious metals content so it is very important for a beach jewelry hunter to detect what I refer to in my beach hunting guides as small gold.  
Many of my of most valuable Bobby Dazzler rings are just a plain platinum or gold band with prongs holding large diamonds, emeralds, sapphires, rubies, amethysts and other precious gems.
If you need help putting your search coil over rings, I know a guy with a website and a jewelry hunting guide who has recovered thousands of rings at the beach.

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