American Made Metal Detector Brands

Bounty Hunter makes easy-to-use, affordable metal detectors for beginners, families and young treasure hunters. Its lineup includes the Tracker IV, Land Ranger Pro, Quick Draw Pro, Lone Star Pro, Gold Digger, Fast Tracker, Discovery series and Junior models for coins, relics, jewelry and gold. Bounty Hunter is a brand of First Texas Products, which also owns Fisher and Teknetics, and its detectors are sold at sporting goods stores, big-box retailers and online.

Bounty Hunter detectors are "proudly designed in the USA" by First Texas in El Paso. Retailers list them as US-made. Target lists the Tracker IV as "Assem USA w/foreign/dom. parts," and Public Lands gives the country of origin of the Tracker IV and Quick Draw Pro as the United States. First Texas builds circuit boards, molds and cables in-house at its plants in El Paso and Mexico.

Made in: El Paso, TX (designed and assembled).

Imported: some parts ("foreign/dom. parts"), including from First Texas's plant in Mexico.

Source: Bounty Hunter, 2026 · Target Tracker IV, 2026 · Public Lands Quick Draw Pro, 2026 · First Texas Electronics, 2026, checked 10/2026

Falcon Metal Detectors makes the MD20 Gold Tracker, a pocket-size, high-sensitivity electronic probe for finding very fine gold. It runs at 300 kHz, a much higher frequency than most detectors, which lets it pick up tiny gold flakes and gold in quartz that other detectors and probes miss. The MD20 has a waterproof probe on a five-foot cable, a built-in speaker and a headphone option. Besides prospecting, it's used to pinpoint coins and jewelry, locate metal fragments in medical work, find buried nails in construction and woodworking, and screen food for metal. Falcon also sells a gold panning kit.

Falcon's first model, the MD8, was built in Montrose, Colorado, to find ultra-fine gold and gold-bearing material. The MD20, now its most popular model, has become an industry standard for electronic probes and is currently produced in Mesa, Arizona. Its product photos show the detector marked "Made in USA."

Made in: Mesa, AZ (MD20 production).

Source: Falcon Metal Detectors, 2026 · Falcon products, 2026, checked 10/2026

Fisher makes metal detectors for coin, relic, jewelry and gold hunting, and professional utility locators. Its hobby line includes the F11, F19, F22 and F44 for coins and relics, the F75 series, the Gold Bug series for prospecting, the CZ-21 and the Impulse AQ underwater pulse detector, plus a Gold Bug model built for African prospectors. Its professional line includes the M-Scope, TW-6, TW-82 and XLT-30 locators for buried pipes, cables and survey markers. Fisher is a brand of First Texas Products, which also owns Bounty Hunter and Teknetics.

Dr. Gerhard Fisher founded Fisher Research Laboratory in Palo Alto, California, in 1931. First Texas bought Fisher in 2006 and moved it to El Paso, where it describes Fisher detectors as "designed & manufactured in El Paso, USA." In a 2024 interview, a First Texas manager confirmed its detectors are assembled and sold from the US. First Texas runs its own SMT circuit-board lines with solder-paste and automated optical inspection, designs and builds its own molds, and makes cables and harnesses. It does this work at its El Paso plant and a plant in Mexico. Its El Paso headquarters and plant opened on Alza Drive after a 2015 expansion.

Made in: El Paso, TX (design, assembly and testing; First Texas also builds circuit boards, molds and cables).

Imported: some parts from First Texas's plant in Mexico.

Bought in: chips and other electronic components.

Source: First Texas Electronics, 2026 · Made Good Designs, 2025 · Chris Ralph interview, 2024 · City of El Paso, 2015, checked 10/2026

Garrett Metal Detectors makes hobby, security and countermine metal detectors. Its hobby lines include the ACE beginner series and ACE Apex multi-frequency detector, the AT Max and AT Pro all-terrain detectors, the Vortex series, pulse-induction gold prospecting detectors and Pro-Pointer pinpointers. For security it makes walk-through and handheld detectors used at schools, courthouses, stadiums, airports and events, and its equipment has screened visitors at the Olympic Games since 1984. It also makes AML-1000 and AML-750 countermine locators and Vortex CSI detectors for crime scene teams. Garrett owns the brand of former Oregon detector maker White's Electronics.

Charles and Eleanor Garrett founded the company in their Garland garage in 1964, and Garrett still builds its detectors in Garland. Factory tours show workers winding the copper inner and outer windings of its concentric and Double-D search coils by hand, then sealing the coils with poured epoxy. Probe coils for its handheld security wands are wound on ferrite rods and heat-sealed, then mounted on the circuit board. Each detector gets its software loaded and is calibrated on a test fixture, and every unit is 100% tested before it ships. A Garrett guide on a 2023 tour said "everything is made here in Texas, USA."

Made in: Garland, TX (search coils wound and epoxy-sealed; probes wound; detectors assembled, programmed, calibrated and 100% tested).

Bought in: chips and other electronic components.

Source: Garrett, 2026 · Garrett Made in America video, 2020 · Digger Dawn factory tour, 2023 · Nugget Noggin factory tour, 2016, checked 10/2026

JW Fishers makes underwater search equipment for public safety dive teams, police and fire departments, the military, salvors, commercial divers, offshore oil and gas companies, inspectors and scientists. Its range includes hand-held and boat-towed underwater metal detectors, marine magnetometers, side scan and scanning sonars, a sub-bottom profiler that images objects buried in silt, ROVs, underwater video systems, cable trackers and acoustic pingers. Its Pulse 8X hand-held detector was rated the #1 underwater metal detector by the Department of Homeland Security's SAVER program, and its SeaLion-3 ROV dives to 1,000 feet with HD cameras and an optional manipulator arm. Every product carries an unconditional two-year warranty.

Diver Jack Fisher founded the company in the late 1960s when he couldn't find an underwater metal detector for a salvage project, so he designed and built his own. JW Fishers has made underwater detectors since 1971 and later added magnetometers, video systems, ROVs and sonar. The Fisher family still runs the company, and it designs and manufactures all of its underwater search systems at its factory in East Taunton, Massachusetts.

Made in: East Taunton, MA (design and manufacturing of all systems).

Bought in: components such as cameras, LEDs and electronics.

Source: JW Fishers about, 2026 · Marine Technology News, 2026 · SHOT Show interview, 2023, checked 10/2026

Tarsacci makes the MDT 8000 series of metal detectors for coins, relics, gold and unexploded ordnance (UXO): the MDT 8000, the MDT 8000XD with enhanced depth, and the MDT 8000UXO for extreme ground. The detectors use Tarsacci's patented Mixed Domain Technology, which stays stable and quiet in heavily mineralized soil, alkaline ground, black sand beaches and salt water. They offer five selectable frequencies from about 6 kHz to 18 kHz, plus Black Sand and Salt modes. They're built for hard use, with a waterproof, military-grade aluminum battery compartment rated IP68 and a carbon-fiber rod, locks and arm cup. Each detector ships in a custom backpack with headphones and two rechargeable batteries.

Tarsacci is a small American company founded by detector engineer Dimitar Gargov, who previously worked with Fisher. It says its detectors are "Designed and Manufactured in the United States of America" and that all service is done in the US. Warranties are tied to each detector's serial number.

Made in: Merced, CA (detectors designed and manufactured; service and repair).

Bought in: rechargeable batteries and headphones.

Source: Tarsacci about, 2025 · Tarsacci MDT 8000XD, 2025 · Tarsacci dealer unboxing, 2021 · Detector Prospector, 2024, checked 10/2026

Teknetics makes mid-range and advanced metal detectors for coin, relic and gold hunting. Its lineup includes the T2 all-purpose detector, the Patriot, the Eurotek and the Delta, Alpha and Omega series, built for serious hobbyists who want strong target separation and depth. Teknetics is a brand of First Texas Products, which also owns Fisher and Bounty Hunter, and its detectors share First Texas engineering and production.

Teknetics detectors are designed and built by First Texas in El Paso, Texas. Target lists the Teknetics T2 as "Made in the USA." First Texas runs its own SMT circuit-board lines, designs and builds its own molds, and makes cables and harnesses at its plants in El Paso and Mexico. A First Texas manager confirmed in 2024 that its detectors are assembled and sold from the US.

Made in: El Paso, TX (designed, assembled and tested).

Imported: some parts from First Texas's plant in Mexico.

Bought in: chips and other electronic components.

Source: Target Teknetics T2, 2026 · First Texas Electronics, 2026 · Chris Ralph interview, 2024, checked 10/2026