Metal Detecting

Metal Detecting is one of the most exciting and fastest growing hobbies in America. What activities can metal detecting encompass? You may want to follow these links to learn more:

Metal Detecting for Coins (coin shooting)
Relic Hunting
Gold Prospecting
Bounty Hunter Metal Detectors home page

Where to go Metal Detecting

Before you go metal detecting, try to find some old maps of the area you propose to go over. Another good idea is to check newspaper archives for wealthy individuals that lived in the area. Check old tax records to see if they left the money to any family. It is possible that they buried money, gold, and jewelry in their yard.

Two examples of what you can find while metal detecting

These are just a couple of examples of what you might want to go after with a new Bounty Hunter metal detector:

Beale Treasure

Thomas Jefferson Beale buried a vault of gold, silver and jewels worth tens of millions of dollars in 1819 and 1821 somewhere in Bedford County, Virginia. He disappeared under mysterious circumstances, but not before leaving two encrypted notes with directions to the treasure. While the first note has not been cracked, the second note's code was broken revealing vague directions to the loot. The treasure has not been found, and the first note has yet to be broken. Maybe you can find the loot!

Bergdall Gold

In 1919, a wealthy German-American named Grover Cleveland Bergdall evaded the World War I American draft authorities because of his support of the German cause. He ran with $150,000 that his parents gave him. Fearing capture by the FBI, he stashed the money in suitcases somewhere near Harper's Ferry, Maryland. He was eventually captured and sentenced to seven years in jail, but the loot was never excavated. He claimed it was still there around the time of his death in 1966.

Metal Detecting with a club

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