Hello MJ:
Basically Titan IS a bounty Hunter.
Don't know much about the machine.
I found some comments regarding the
Titans and cut and pasted it for you.
There is really nothing wrong with
the BH machines. They have gotten a bad
rap due to their association with Radio
Shack and WalMart. The BH has been
bad mouthed quite a bit, but if you go to
the Forums for BH you'll see a lot of happy
campers out there!
The Titan looks similar to the T1 and the F4 and F75.
For the money, I'd go with the Fisher F4. They are
newer machines.
I suggest you go to
www.findmall.com and click on Bounty
Hunter and post a message asking about the
Titan's since it is a Bounty Hunter line made for
Kelly CO.
Good Luck with whatever detector you end up with.
Robert R
Re: titan metal detectors
« Reply #1 on: November 26, 2004, 03:43:04 pm »
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Well, can't tell you much except that it's a bounty hunter. I think it's basically a clone of the Radio Shack top end detector. RS had theirs on sale & I tried it out.. wasn't impressed. I've got to contend with real tough soil here, so that's a factor. I also really detested the fact that when switching out of disc. to pinpoint in AM, all the disc. settings were lost & had to be re-entered. It also doesn't retain last mode settings after powering down. ...Willy.? PS. Have a look at the new Garrett 250 OR really look closely at a used detector.
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Re: titan metal detectors
« Reply #2 on: November 29, 2004, 01:23:50 pm »
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Mike: I hunt with the RadioShack Discovery 3300 (near-clone to the Titan 3000XD) and really like mine. I wanted a fourth audio tone, VDI and TID, and an automatic and manual ground balance control. The RS3300 offered all of this for a normal selling price of $299.99, but I got mine on sale for $249.99. I added in the optional 3-year warranty for $59.99 and had the upper rod that comes standard on the unit changed out ($20 plus shipping) to a Time Ranger upper rod which has a larger arm cup and a locking ring to stabilize the lower rod which limits coil falsing from a wobbly lower rod. I also purchased a 4" Gold Nugget coil for trashy sites and the 10" Magnum coil for a bit more depth in less trashy sites. Both work quite well on the unit.
Essentially, when Kellyco started selling these detectors under the Titan name, they basically incorporated the changes into the unit that I paid extra for. They Titan 3000 comes with the upgraded upper rod assembly and has a 5-year warranty. If you did things the way I had to with the 3300, you would spend about $280 plus tax. With the Titan you get the extra stuff and two more years of warranty. If the Titan would have been available when I bought mine, I would have opted for it instead.
For me, the unit performs quite well in the moderate soil I hunt in here in Central Mississippi and it did surprisingly well on my one trip to the beaches at Pensacola, Florida in the dry sand, wet sand, and surf. It would hunt over the wet/dry sand line, and would hunt well submerged in the surf, but became unstable working in and out of the surf (waves). The fact that it doesn't store the last setup when switching back to All-Metal (motion all-metal mode) or Discriminate (also a motion mode) from the PinPoint (no-motion all-metal mode) really isn't too much of a pain since it is so easy to set up. I really do like mine. I have found it easy to use and it has reasonable depth as I've dug dimes as deep as 7" measured depthy in my soil with the standard 8" coil operating at the default sensitivity setting. Hope this helps, it really is a good little rig for not a lot of money. BBJ
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Date: January 08, 2008 07:44PM Registered: 2 months ago
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For those of you who wonder if the Bounty Hunter Discovery 3300 will work on the beach here are my pictures of the first time hunting with it at Virginia Beach. I found the unit too unstable to use in the wet sand, it might be my lack of experience using the unit. If there are any secrets that anyone can pass along I would appreciate it. I found the detector very stable and using the numerical scale and tone ID made identity rather easy. Of course aluminum tabs read as a nickel. Also, bottle caps registered as a good target on many occasions. The ability to "Zap" junk targets also prevented false signals and digging unnecessarily. General depth was between 5 and 8 inches on coin size objects. Foil gave very erratic readings and would not come close to locking on to give a numeric reading. Zapping all iron targets can leave you wondering if the detector is working since it is so quiet until a good target is located. The detector will eat up batteries very quickly if headphones are not used. I think that is true with all detectors. The detector is light enough to swing all day without getting wore out. Hope this helps anyone wondering if this inexpensive detector will work while hunting the beach. Keep swinging till your "swinger" breaks.
