Hello everybody, I am from central Nebraska and here is my story... The wife rolled her eyes at me when I mentioned I would like to purchase a metal detector. I borrowed a BH QD II from a friend and found a 1919 wheatie during deer season at an abandoned one room school. It felt great. Even better than shooting a deer. So the crops were ok this year along with the prices and I purchased an X-TERRA 305 (E-TRAC users read on!). This was just before Thanksgiving. I hunted my Father-In-Laws over the holiday. He must've been a tightwad because I didn't even find clad. Then I went a couple of miles away where he grew up and found five wheaties from the 40's and my first silver (1943 P War Nickel). I was pumped. Day after Thanksgiving. Set a goal to put up some electric fence over cornstalks for my cattle, if I got that done I would detect the local football field where I went to High School. Took my four-year-old son with me. I told myself before I started hunting I was going to dig up the pulltab signals on the X-TERRA 305. 10 minutes into the hunt I dug, about 3" down, a ring. The closer I looked at it, still in the hole the more I began to realize what I'd found. I lost my wedding ring in 1994. I didn't know where but thought it was at my in-laws' Dairy where I worked (I always took it off to milk). This ring, my first found metal detecting, was mine...again!!! I called my wife on my cell. Wife: Hello Me: Hey. Guess what I found? Wife: What? My: My ring... Wife: No you didn't. Me: Yes I did...really. Wife: No you didn't. Me: Yes..... The conversation went on like this for a while and I'm not sure I really convinced her until I got home and showed her. The ring in the picture on the left is the one I found, the one on the right is the one we bought to replace it...they are the same pattern and the right one is way more worn as I've worn it a lot working on the farm.