While Harry and Jim bickered good naturedly, Heaton mimicked a cat on the other side of the fence."Meooooow, meoooooow," he called.Then the park ranger at Lake Icaria, near Corning, Iowa, opened the gates and the boys gathered their things and headed for the beach.Bell&Ross Instrument Skeleton Black RS-31 filled the air as the sun peeked over the concession stand.Hoke and Doolan went straight for the water. Heaton went to the playground.The three have shared friendship and the hobby of metal detecting for years. And they have taken it one step further by outfitting themselves with underwater gear."That's what we like about searching in the water in the summer; it's cool," Hoke said as the thermometer neared 100 degrees.
But getting to the beach, in Bell&Ross Instrument Skeleton Gold RS-32 water and finding lost treasure is only half the fun for the trio.Turning from metal detectors to detectives, they find the loot and then go about trying to figure out how to return lost items.Recently Hoke and Heaton found two identical 2001 class rings on separate hunts. Both rings belonged to Jon Sokoll of Fremont, who had lost the first at Fremont Lakes State Park, bought a replacement and subsequently lost the other in the same park.When they returned Bell&Ross Instrument Skeleton RS-4 rings, Sokoll was absolutely flabbergasted, Hoke said.Hoke, who is the president of the Midwest Historical Collectors club, has also returned a ring to a graduate that had given the ring to his girlfriend.
The girl lost the ring and it stayed lost until Hoke found it 48 years later. When he returned the ring to the Bellevue man he found that his girlfriend had kept her promise, despite losing the ring, and they were still happily married."It gives you a great feeling of satisfaction when Bell&Ross Tourbillon BR01 Phantom RS-1 can return a lost ring. To me, it's worth much more than the money I could have had by selling the ring," Hoke said.Hoke has spent years researching rings and yearbooks and countless hours on the road and phone trying to find owners.Yet, not everything can be returned. Diamond rings, watches, jewelry, and coins are the usual. There is no possible way of locating an owner with most items. The trio has found everything from a half- carat diamond ring set in a gold band to gold teeth.
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