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<blockquote data-quote="casper" data-source="post: 473903" data-attributes="member: 562"><p>My favorite find occurred at Muckleford near Castlemaine in Victoria. I was a raw beginner armed with my newly purchased Whites GMZ detector. After 3 or 4 fruitless hours walking dry gullies, and all the time wondering if I had the settings where they needed to be, then I got signal <img src="data:image/gif;base64,R0lGODlhAQABAIAAAAAAAP///yH5BAEAAAAALAAAAAABAAEAAAIBRAA7" class="smilie smilie--sprite smilie--sprite9" alt=":eek:" title="Eek! :eek:" loading="lazy" data-shortname=":eek:" /> WOW! I'm rich!! <img src="data:image/gif;base64,R0lGODlhAQABAIAAAAAAAP///yH5BAEAAAAALAAAAAABAAEAAAIBRAA7" class="smilie smilie--sprite smilie--sprite2" alt=";)" title="Wink ;)" loading="lazy" data-shortname=";)" /> Then after much scratching through the leaf litter, I found my PRIZE and it was an aluminum Pigeon leg ring:/. After cleaning I could see that there were numbers and letters on the ring and that piqued my interest. So on arriving home I got onto the internet and found that the bird was registered to the Victorian Pigeon Racing Union. I sent off an email to the current secretary of the VPRU and he responded that the bird to which the ring was attached was registered and "ringed" in 1965 which was fully 30 years before my find. So why was the ring where I found it? The secretary said that the bird was most likely entered into a homing pigeon race by the bird's owner and that the bird likely fell prey to a hawk or a falcon or fell from exhaustion. I thought it would be nice to inform the owner of the fate and whereabouts of where his bird fell but the VPRU records were lacking and of those surviving from that time, none referenced back to the breeder or the owner and also there was no certainty that the owner was still alive!.</p><p></p><p>When you think about it very object that you unearth has a history waiting the be revealed so continue "digging" because you don't know what more you will find. </p><p></p><p>casper</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="casper, post: 473903, member: 562"] My favorite find occurred at Muckleford near Castlemaine in Victoria. I was a raw beginner armed with my newly purchased Whites GMZ detector. After 3 or 4 fruitless hours walking dry gullies, and all the time wondering if I had the settings where they needed to be, then I got signal :o WOW! I'm rich!! ;) Then after much scratching through the leaf litter, I found my PRIZE and it was an aluminum Pigeon leg ring:/. After cleaning I could see that there were numbers and letters on the ring and that piqued my interest. So on arriving home I got onto the internet and found that the bird was registered to the Victorian Pigeon Racing Union. I sent off an email to the current secretary of the VPRU and he responded that the bird to which the ring was attached was registered and "ringed" in 1965 which was fully 30 years before my find. So why was the ring where I found it? The secretary said that the bird was most likely entered into a homing pigeon race by the bird's owner and that the bird likely fell prey to a hawk or a falcon or fell from exhaustion. I thought it would be nice to inform the owner of the fate and whereabouts of where his bird fell but the VPRU records were lacking and of those surviving from that time, none referenced back to the breeder or the owner and also there was no certainty that the owner was still alive!. When you think about it very object that you unearth has a history waiting the be revealed so continue "digging" because you don't know what more you will find. casper [/QUOTE]
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