Minelab Safari/Quattro Forum

I had 45min. to kill today while waiting fro a friend to finish painting his hallway. I thought I would try the back yard again for the six or seventh time. The yard is about the size of 5 minivans (yes I have one). I have used coin mode there before and it is so trashed with iron, I would lose the threshold tone for full swings. I thought I would try all metal and deal with the noise. Within seconds an IH and then a merc, a min later another IH.
Do any of you use AM normally? I never used it before on the Safari. Was it a coincidence or is AM better to use in iron areas?

Thanks

John

I've been using the Safari for a bout a year and have never used it in all metal mode. I may have to try it under those circumstances. I would think the sound of the machine would drive me batty after a few minutes. I'm one of those "annoying no headphones guy" so it would probably run my battery down pretty quick play that symphony all day long.

I bought my safari last Nov, I personally like the relic mode, sen set about 14. Sometimes it takes a little wiggle to root out the good stuff from the trash. I get better depth and quicker response or recovery time with relic. Shorty2

All metal has too much noise for me. If I were in a situation where I thought I might need maximum depth I might try it. But I have read a lot of reports that says the depth doesn't increase much in AM like it does in some detectors. So, where's that leave me? Anyone notice a great depth gain in AM? Onus

Black out - 10 and +40

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Norwegian wood. SAFARI/EXCALIBUR ll

Oslo,Norway

If you can master all metal you will go deeper and find more in iron FACT watch this vid very useful http://www.mlotv.com/view/594/safari-sounds/
you will need a good set of ear phones with volume control so u dont go deaf listing to all the high screeches silver will be a high smooth tone
take a iron nail and listen to it then run a silver coin over the coil the tones are easy to tell apart.If your tector is nulling there is a good chance
you will be missing good stuff.Just go very slow and low and you will pull up things people have missed in junk infested sites.
Start with a low sens to make it easy or your self with the falsing but keep knocking the sens up over time till u no a false from a signal.
Took me ages to learn but now i run sens on max on all my minelabs good luck HH

At the begining of the Vid, the instructer says that the target id sounds are preset, and can not be changed. It appeared that the left side disc buttons are conduct sounds, and the right side disc buttons are ferrous sounds. Then he go's ahead and turns the jewelry (left side)pre-set disc, into an all metal mode. He then saves it to the right side relic button with the included conduct sounds. This can be done? so essentially you can turn a ferrous all metal mode into a conductive all metal mode, etc etc. Am I explaining this right.

Thanks
Jason

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"If you walk away from a target still thinking of it, Go back and dig it up"
Sovereign GT , GTAx-1250

Jason,
You are exactly right. It is called "cross saving" and it is not explained in the manual. It is a great tool to check a target in both Fer and Cond sounds with the push of one button, going from your saved Cond all metal back to the factory Fer all metal then back again. Really good for relic hunting.

Barry