Upcoming Events 2000

April

29th and 30th  Houston Archeology and Recovery Club 19th annual open hunt in Houston Texas. For details please note to contact Hunt Master Byron Whitaker: 3807 Oaklace Spring, TX 77389 (281) 350-6958, or e-mail user  833164@aol.com  

May

6th  Held at Illiniwek Park in Hampton , Illinois, The Great American Treasure Hunting Association will be hosting the first ever Bounty Hunter Spring Shootout. 
This is a hunt open to all brands of detectors and is sponsored by Bounty Hunter Metal Detectors and Lucky Dan's Detector Shop. There will be ample silver buried along with many silver and gold coin prizes. Bounty Hunter detectors, accessories and Crazy Ed's Pinpoint Probes will also be given away as main prizes. This event was organized to be a fun hunt and the entry fees have been kept to a minimum. Early entries received by April 6th are just $40 and $50 after that date. This gets the contestant into the main hunt, dollar hunt, and the blind Rosie early bird hunt. Lunch is included in the entry fee. For further information contact John Letson (Huntmaster) at southernman42@webtv.com , Ed Brown at Sho22156@aol.com , or Dan Breitenstein at luckydan@luckydan.com  . You can download a registration form from the front page at http://www.luckydan.com

20th  Susquehanna Valley Metal Detecting Club 21st Annual Treasure Hunt. Saturday, May 20th, 2000 To be held at the Winfield Fire Co. Fairgrounds at Winfield, PA, 5 miles south of Lewisburg on RT. 15. Two large hunts with an optional GOLD and Barber coin hunt. For an application or more information, contact Dan Shane dshane@epix.net  or Lenny Cooper at lgcoop@webtv.net

21st  Austin Metal Detecting Club Open Hunt, Sunday, May, 21, 2000. 12 miles south of Austin Tx., 3.5 miles on FM 1327 East, 1.5 miles South on Wright Road.
For information call Truman Smith, 512-258-5851, 2508 E. Rivera Circle, Cedar Park, Tx 78613. Larry Vickers 512-243-1831. E mail: lsp425@swbell.net

June

3rd  Roanoke Valley Coin & Relic Club - 9th Annual Hunt, Saturday, June 3rd, 2000 Camp Alta Mons, near Shawsville VA, rain or Shine. Prizes include Matal Detectors, treasure hunting accessories, gold, silver, (tokens buried in the ground) Questions pertaining to the hunt may be directed to Tommy Epperly at (540) 342-0153 or Anna Feazell at (540) 563-4118 or via email at  shortbelle@aol.com  

17th and 18th  The Recreational Detecting & Prospecting Club will be conducting an open event on June 17th and 18th in the year 2000. There will be several treasure hunts and river panning for real gold and control panning competitions. It will be conducted in the beautiful White Mountains of New Hampshire. You will find all the information, updates and entry forms on our web site at the following address, http://www.crosswinds.net/~rdpc  Note of interest is that no metal detectors have ever been used on this land. We have been authorized to use as much land as we want. What we use will be determined by the amount of entries we get. Saturday night buffet style dinner and dance available. Reservations to stay at the motel or campground must be done in advance. Check it out.

 

July

29th and 30th The MidState Metal Detector Club of Wisconsin Rapids would like to announce our 4th annual open hunt and State Championship.

The hunt will be held at the Grand Rapids Lions club In Wisconsin Rapids, on July 29, and 30, 2000. For more information please send a S.A.S.E. to Doug Maeder, 1411 28th. St. N. Wisconsin Rapids, Wisconsin. 54494 or E-Mail thers@wctc.net 

August

 

 

 

September

2nd & 3rd - The Oregon Treasure Trail Society is hosting their annual Silver Classic Open Hunt over Labor Day weekend at the Yamhill County Fairgrounds in McMinnville, Oregon. Two full days of competition hunts are scheduled, 7 hunts in all, and each hunt is guaranteed to have a winner of a metal detector -- not to forget a gold coin or two and plenty of silver! For more information you can check out our website at http://www.otts.org.  Click on the link for the Silver Classic and download the registration form. Questions may be directed to Barb Tyler, Hunt Chairperson at quest4thepast@aol.com  or to committee members, Clarence & Mary Sparks at mksparks@teleport.com . We'd be happy to mail you our brochure!

October

The 3rd annual Grand National Relic Shootout to be held this year in Virginia. Teams have already been picked for this years event but stay tuned to future issues for information on how you can participate in GNRS 2001.