Metal Detector Review – Titan 1000
Published by Larry on Tagged Detector Review, Instuctional, Metal Detector Training
This review is a new approach for me. I put this machine in the hands of Shelly, an eleven year old, who is a member of my children’s ministry. I took only five minutes to give her some basic instruction on metal detector use, pinpointing and recovery techniques and turned her loose (with two other children equipped with Fisher and Garrett start-up units) on a quarter-acre play area behind the church. Before sharing the remarkable numeric finds Shelly achieved, let us examine the Titan 1000.
The Titan 1000 XD is manufactured by 1st Texas Products and is advertised as a 4 in one detector, and with good reason. First, it has automatic tuning. Second, it has automatic ground balance. Third, it has automatic tone technology and fourth, it has auto target identification. It can be used for finding all types of treasure but I feel it is best suited as a start-up coin shooting unit. The automatic preset features makes it a true turn on and go detector. It also has a user depth adjustment good for up to six inches deep in increments of two inches (2,4,6). This does not mean that the instrument will only find things up to six inches. In fact, I dug up coin sized objects up to about 10 inches. The Titan is a part of the new technology hobby machines that are very attractive, light weight, and user friendly. They are only sightly lower priced than the start-up units of the big four American manufacturers and do not have the appearance of being strong and durable machines for hunting in rough terrains. However, looks can be deceptive. This is a fine, good depth machine that will find lots of treasure. As I mentioned earlier I took three youngsters out for about an hour and fifteen minutes to a play area behind the church to field test the Titan and compare it with two other units as well.
Shelly used the Titan 1000 XD, Kevin used a Garrett Ace 150, and Cage used a Fisher 1212X. The area hunted was used for our Easter metal detecting venture with over $250.00 in US coins buried. The Easter Sunday children’s hunt turned up well over $200.00 in coins with possibly three hundred coins still buried in the quarter acre tract with most coins buried just a couple inches deep for this treasure finding venture. I gave the three the five minute pre-hunt training instruction and turned them loose. They had a blast finding the coins and I was amazed at the results. Kevin found 45 coins totalling $4.59 cents ( 11 quarters, 10 dimes, 15 nickels, 9 pennies ) using the Garrett. Cage found 65 coins totaling $7.92 ( 23 quarters, 15 dimes, 10 nickels, 17 pennies ) using the Fisher. Shelly blew both boys away finding 110 coins totaling $11.38 ( 32 quarters, 20 dimes, 20 nickels, 38 pennies) using the Titan. That is finding better than 1.5 coins per minute. All three are novices at using detectors and Kevin is the only one of the three who owns a detector. He won the Garrett 150 in January from a children’s church contest. He is a very proud 2nd grader. Any treasure finder would be proud of Shelly’s results. Finding $10.00 an hour is not shabby. She pinpointed easily with the Titan 1000 XD and found exactly double the number of coins as the boys. To assure the testing process was accurate in terms of coins found, I had spray painted one side of all 2,500 coins buried for the Easter Treasure Hunt. There are now less than 80 buried coins left from that promotion for Easter and Kevin will get the opportunity to find the rest on his own.
The Titan 1000 XD performed exceptionally in this kids venture and Shelly knew what she was digging almost every time a coin was retrieved. Some coins buried close together gave her incorrect readings. I would recommend this detector without reservations for a new hobbyist or as a fun machine for the veteran too. Here’s to “diggin it”!
May 6th, 2009 at 6:45 pm
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June 9th, 2009 at 7:26 am
Thought I would stop by and say hi. For the last month I been MDing 4-5 times a week ranging from 1 to 4-5 hours. Haven’t found rings or anything old yet, lots of clad coins and trash.
But my piles building, 1-1/2 coffee mugs full of clad coins and about a gallon of trash. I save all my trash, no sense in tossing it back on the ground. Suprised what I have found so far, at one parks sand filled volleyball court I found long nails. That would not fell good to anyone playing volleyball if it got stuck in their foot…
Anyway, gotta head of and get some Zzzzz so I can get up and MD tommorrow.
June 15th, 2009 at 5:35 pm
Charley,
Cleaning up the trash is good for everyone and certain trash items do have value as well. I sold 1,000.000 pull tabs back in the 70′s as a part of a Guiness record book adventure. Only got $144.00 for them but I got 300 children and many senior citizens involved in the one month contest. I personally dug over 10,000 of those in May, 1973 and found over 2,600 coins, my best month(by far). I actually spent 40 to 50 hours hunting each week. Someone has since broken our record of one million in a month. I also found 19 gold and silver rings too. Keep up the good work of cleaning-up. I tell the story on one of the blog posts of cleaning a lot of 3 fifty-five gallon drums of trash as a part of getting the owner’s permission to detect the acre site where homeless people had been living for several years and was soon to be a new bank built. All that trash removal opened up my finding 2 silver dollars and several Barber halves, quarters and dimes and many newer silver coins.