This review method is a new approach for me. I left this machine in the hands of Shelly, an eleven-year-old girl. I took just five minutes to give her some basic instructions on using metal detectors, locating and retrieval techniques, and released her (with two other children equipped with Fisher and Garrett start-up units) in a one-room play area. acre behind a church. Before we share the remarkable numerical findings Shelly made, let’s examine the Titan 1000 XD.

The Titan 1000 XD bills itself as a 4-in-one detector, and for good reason. First, it has automatic tuning. Second, it has automatic ground balance. Third, it has automatic tone technology, and fourth, it has automatic target identification. It can be used to find all kinds of treasure, but I think it is more suitable as a starter coin tossing unit. Auto preset functions make it a true on-off detector. It also has a good user depth setting for up to six inches of depth in two-inch increments (2, 4, 6). This does not mean that the instrument will only find things up to six inches. In fact, I unearthed coin-sized objects up to about 10 inches. The Titan is part of the new technology hobby machines that are very attractive, lightweight and easy to use. They are priced slightly lower than start-up units from the big four American manufacturers and do not have the appearance of being strong and durable machines for hunting on rough terrain. However, appearances are deceiving. This is a fine, deep-seated machine that will find many treasures. As I mentioned earlier, I took three young men for about an hour and fifteen minutes to a play area behind the church to field test the Titan and compare it to two other units as well.

Shelly used the Titan 1000 XD, Kevin used a Garrett Ace 150 and Cage used a Fisher 1212X. The hunted area was used for our Easter metal detecting business with over $ 250.00 worth of buried US coins. The Easter Sunday Children’s Hunt returned over $ 200.00 worth of coins with possibly three hundred coins still buried in the quarter acre lot with most of the coins buried just a couple of inches deep for this quest adventure. of treasures. I gave the three of them the five-minute pre-hunt training instruction and released them. They had a lot of fun finding the coins and I was amazed at the results. Kevin found 45 coins for a total of $ 4.59 cents (11 quarters, 10 dimes, 15 nickels, 9 cents) using the Garrett. Cage found 65 coins for a total of $ 7.92 (23 quarters, 15 dimes, 10 nickels, 17 dimes) using Fisher. Shelly surprised both children by finding 110 coins for a total of $ 11.38 (32 quarters, 20 dimes, 20 nickels, 38 cents) using the Titan. That is finding better than 1.5 coins per minute. All three are new to the use of detectors and Kevin is the only one of the three who owns a detector. He won the Garrett 150 in January in a children’s church contest. He is a very proud second grader. Any treasure hunter would be proud of Shelly’s results. Finding $ 10.00 an hour is not bad at all. She easily identified with the Titan 1000 XD and found exactly twice as many coins as the children. To ensure the testing process was accurate in terms of coins found, I spray painted one side of the 2,500 coins buried for the Easter scavenger hunt. Now there are less than 80 coins buried from that promotion for Easter and Kevin will have a chance to find the rest on his own.

The Titan 1000 XD, made by a Texas company, performed exceptionally well on this children’s adventure, and Shelly knew what she was digging almost every time she retrieved a coin. Some coins buried together gave incorrect readings. I would recommend this detector wholeheartedly for a new hobbyist or as a fun machine for the veteran too. Here’s to “dig it”!