2024 the best metal detector for gold review
Price: $91.99 - $58.00
(as of Dec 11, 2024 13:17:08 UTC - Details)
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The stylish GOLD Digger metal detector will detect all kinds of metal from iron relics, coins & household items to precious metals like silver & GOLD. For more privacy when treasure seeking, the GOLD Digger comes complete with headphones & 1/8” headphone jack for immediate use. Motion all-metal mode for detecting all types of metal requires 2 9V Alkaline batteries (not included).
Kid-Friendly Design with Easy Controls: The Bounty Hunter Gold Digger Metal Detector is specifically designed for kids, featuring intuitive controls for sensitivity adjustment and trash elimination. These simple knobs allow young treasure hunters to quickly learn and enjoy the basics of metal detecting.
Versatile Treasure Detection: Capable of locating coins, relics, jewelry, and even small gold nuggets, the Gold Digger can detect objects buried up to 6 inches deep for smaller items and up to 2 feet for larger targets, making it perfect for various treasure-hunting adventures.
Trash Eliminator for Cleaner Finds: The Trash Eliminator control helps kids focus on valuable targets by filtering out unwanted metal items like nails, bottle caps, and aluminum scraps. This reduces frustration and makes treasure hunting more rewarding and enjoyable.
Durable and Lightweight Construction: Built to withstand outdoor use, the Gold Digger is lightweight and portable, making it easy for kids to carry and operate during extended treasure-hunting sessions. Its sturdy construction ensures durability for all kinds of adventures.
Automatic Ground Balance for Accurate Detection: The detector automatically adjusts to ground mineralization, ensuring stable and accurate performance in various environments, from backyards and parks to beaches and campgrounds.
Battery-Powered for Long Adventures: Powered by two 9-volt batteries (not included), the Gold Digger provides hours of detecting fun. Its built-in sensitivity meter and 8-inch search coil enhance the experience by providing real-time feedback and broad coverage during searches.
Reviewer: Bran T.
Rating: 5.0 out of 5 stars
Title: You just can't beat this for the money
Review: This detector gives my minelab equinox a run for its money. Sure it doesn't go as deep, or provide a display telling you what you might be looking at. But it more than makes up for it in ease of use, and ease of learning. My friend took this thing out and found coins all over the place, and he learned quick enough to identify targets by the tone. Frequently he would be digging coins at a rate much faster than me. In fairness, I"m still learning the minelab, but this little detector is absolutely amazing. And its an excellent learning machine, PLUS it detects gold like a hound dog finds raccoons. I wouldn't buy any other machine for a beginner to learn on. It finds things, and that's what it's all about. Plus its lite weight and simplicity makes it a lot of fun to use. Get one, the price is so low you will not find another detector that can do what this does for anywhere near the money. I speak from years of experience detecting with many brands. It's not a toy, it's capable of finding real gold, and real coins. If you're new to detecting get this one and you will never be sorry when you upgrade. Or just keep it for the kids or the beach or park..Side note: We were detecting a yard where a family of 11 kids lived and played and they lost money all over the place. The ground is terrible with rocks and trash too. Hard to dig, but it still delivered the goods and lots of fun. ...
Reviewer: Aaron
Rating: 5.0 out of 5 stars
Title: its all you need
Review: I have found silver coins, antique gold jewelry swords and cannonballs with this thing. if you know what you are doing, this detector works great. I have a pretty nice Revolutionary War collection from this. its cheap. cheaply made and easy to break but hey, I haven't had any problems.
Reviewer: Diego
Rating: 4.0 out of 5 stars
Title: Mixed Feelings
Review: It works. Everyone likes the feel of a premium item, the rigidity, weight. It allows you to both trust and love a product. This product works, but has neither of those qualities. When I first opened this product, I thought "oh, yeah this is junk"; however, considering the prices that metal detectors can reach, this seems somewhat fair. I am more of an amateur when it comes to metal detectors, so the only commentary I can honestly put out there is that this is an cheap, effective, and easy to use product, but not very durable.
Reviewer: Tracy Riggs
Rating: 5.0 out of 5 stars
Title: Lightweight, easy to use, works as advertised, quite addictive!
Review: I purchased this for my 10 year old, treasure seeking son for Christmas. Due to our lack of more than a few inches of snow this year we were able to get it outside the day after Christmas. Easy to use, basic and there is no question when it finds something it likes. It's taken us to a depth of about 8 inches beneath packed soil so far with no trouble. That particular find was a disinigrating metal bucket. None of our finds have been lucrative, but curious nonetheless and it's gotten my son and I out in the cold 3 times in the 5 days he's had it. I MAY be more excited about it than he is.So far we've combed a lake beach under 3 inches of snow using a bread sack closed with a twist tie over the detector, small portions of our yard and the ditch along our street. Even when we just end up finding a rusty nail, hearing that beep and digging our way towards a mystery object is quite fun and a bit addictive. My mind is already searching for other locations to check.As far as comfort and ease of use I'd rate high. Its lightweight and while my son did say his arm began to hurt after awhile, it was just fine for me. The arm brace eliminates wrist strain. The extendable body has quite a range and adjusts well for adults or kids.I typically don't write reviews until I've had something for awhile, but I haven't had this much fun with something I bought online for quite awhile. It may not do anything fancy like decipher between types of metals with precision but, for a 10 year old, I consider it a great buy. When asking my son to stay out a little longer today to hunt for treasure he said, "Mom, you're acting like more of a kid than me." I reminded him there is no age limit on this device!
Reviewer: Curious Reader
Rating: 3.0 out of 5 stars
Title: Not great! Here's some tips to find missing jewelry!
Review: This was purchased to find TWO gold rings we thought most likely lost in the house or (less likely) in the yard. It was used to search indoor floors and the trash we saved, that we spread outdoors. Before starting the real search, the detector was tested on jewelry on and below rugs, just to know what to expect. Key findings:1. This metal detector cannot find platinum.2. If the item is large (like a heavy gold bracelet lying on top of a rug) this detector will find it.3. If the item is a gold ring lying beneath an area rug, the detector won't find it.4. Inside a house you get some readings for pipes and things, but you can easily rule those out.5. Detector will find pipes under cement outside. detector will also detect a dog food can lid on top of ground. Detector WILL NOT detect that same dog food can lid inside an otherwise empty paper bag! In other words, some things need to be completely uncovered to be detected. That makes the detector less useful of course.6. Detector will find foil in trash and on bottles.7. Detector will NOT find two gold rings wrapped in a paper towel lying on top of the ground! -fortunately I hand searched the paper towels also, and did not rely solely on detector, so found missing rings by hand search, hurray! Success NOT directly due to detector though.8. Detector MUCH MORE sensitive to worthless foil than to gold! AFTER I found rings, as test I put the two gold rings on ground and detector only found the rings because I kept sweeping and sweeping, and even then beep was short and weak. Detector finds pipes under cement BETTER (with louder and longer beep)than gold in plain sight.9. Knob settings on detector worthless. User manual just tells you to do trial and error to learn the sounds, so user manual also useless. I ended up using highest power setting and no trash eliminator setting to be able to find gold. At minimum user manual should say settings most likely to find the most commonly sought metals. Ie, to find silver set knobs this way; to find gold set knobs this way, etc.10. Product would be better if you could turn knob to the specific metal you are looking for.11. Suggested use and method to find rings in trash:Find spot outside on flat area where detector finds nothing (makes no sound). Place empty trash bag flat on that ground as ground cover. Spread some trash on top of the flat trash bag in a thin layer. Detector very weak so big piles won't work. go over the thin spread out layer of trash with detector. DONT RELY ON THE DETECTOR - ALSO CHECK EVERY PIECE OF PAPER/trash VISUALLY AND BY FEEL. As you check each piece of trash, throw it away so you don't waste time rechecking it. Keep on rechecking remaining trash with metal detector also, just in case. In our situation, detector found foil on yogurt lid but missed the two gold rings in a small piece of paper towel!12. Detector requires two ALKALINE ONLY 9 volt batteries. I used Duracell Coppertop 9 volt which are alkaline.13. Would I buy again? Our various tests on the detector showed the detector very weak on ring-sized amounts of precious metals, and that this detector won't find platinum at all. However, I think I searched my trash more thoroughly, intelligently & organized because I was trying to work with the metal detector, so that was an unintended plus. If I lost something again I'd pull it out and try it again. Not the world's best purchase and not the worst. Overall if I hadn't found the rings, I would have had a bit of piece of mind in knowing I had tried my best in buying and trying the detector, which is probably worth more than the $70 purchase price. Not a hearty thumbs up, but maybe better than nothing, as long as you don't rely solely on the detector.
Reviewer: Luis m.
Rating: 5.0 out of 5 stars
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Review: Cumple con su función me gustarÃa que el plato fuera más grande
Reviewer: Amazon Customer
Rating: 5.0 out of 5 stars
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Review: Found a 14k gold ring on my second day out with it. Sold the ring for well over $200! I would say this is a must buy for a beginner -- it's entry level for sure, but definitely worth it. It isn't great in very wet salt water and the discrimination is not great. Won't find a ring or coin more than a couple inches deep, but I did find some cans over a foot down. The headset is cheap, but works really well and is very comfortable. All-in-all a perfect detector for someone trying out the hobby and not looking to spend a fortune.
Reviewer: Roy. R.
Rating: 5.0 out of 5 stars
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Review: Simplicity of use and good dectecting depth for a budget detector. The inclusion of headphones in the package is a plus. Shame the 2 x 9Volt batteries are NOT included; but this is stated in the description information. Fun to use.
Reviewer: kuldeep
Rating: 5.0 out of 5 stars
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Review: Delivery. On time , packing is good . Product working good . 6 " depth .....Thanks to global India & Amazon
Reviewer: Christopher Waring
Rating: 5.0 out of 5 stars
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Review: Easy to use and very light in weight, I have found it very good and finds metal objects very precise.For the price its a very good detector.
Customers say
Customers like the functionality, value for money, and ease of use of the metal detector. They mention it works well, is easy to assemble, and is intuitive to operate. Some say it's a great starter detector that works to find any metallic stuff in the sand. Customers also mention it's fun to use and perfect for learning the hobby.
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