can i get some tips on finding a ring buried in the snow? I was wrestling in the snow with a friend and my ring fell off. It could be buried a few feet in the snow or be right on top. I found a metal detector, not sure what kind it is. It is the VLF type and has two adjustments, one for sensitivity and the other for trash filter. The ring is pretty large and made of 14k white gold, it is worth about 1200 dolars, but finding it means a whole lot more to me than the money. Do you think it is possible to find it through the ice? Thanks for your help.

Anthony

My suggestion, if you have an idea of where it is, would be to get yourself one of those portable propane heaters (rental shop) and melt the snow in the area where you think you dropped it. It'd probably be a lot easier to find it then.

Don't do it with an electric heater though :)

You say the ring could be up to a few feet deep? I take it then, that the snow, itself, is this deep? If so, then yes, the ring could've sunk through the snow, to whatever depth the snow. Especially if the snow were soft, and the ring was warm from your body temperature. If it's gone more than 6 or 8" deep, (assuming the snow is deep enough to have let it go that far), then you're going to have to come back in the spring, or melt the snow as Jeff says.

People hunt ski resorts all the time, in the summer. Any coins, sunglasses, jewelry, poles, etc... will be sitting there high and dry when the snow melts.

But if the ring and snow are shallow, then yes, you can detect right through the snow. Turn the disc. down to the lowest setting, and turn the sens. as high as the stability will allow. You'll know if you have the sens. too high, if you start getting false signals (signals that don't repeat, and are random flutters)

Anthony, If you give your location someone close could help you. GaryC/SanBdno.

May as well try to find it with what you have to start. If you can't find it, call a local metal detecting club. They'd be happy to come out and help you out.
Make a grid of the area. First go one way and then go the other way. GO SLOW.
Good luck B)