Minelab Safari/Quattro Forum

Like I said it is hard to tell what you gain by going to the Etrac. FBS is FBS when it comes to depth but the Etrac should give you more information about if it is good or bad but not sure how much so. My Safari is deep and I am starting to go 100% tone. Still an thinking about upgrading though.

Bryanna

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Coyote65
I made the switch from an E-Trac to the Safari and love the simpler lighter Safari. With the E-Trac which I did love I found I babied it due to the cost and also found it to be a bit heavy to swing especially after a few days of hunting. I also feel I didn't fully take advantage of the extra settings and features of the E-Trac as I like to turn on my detector and go and enjoy only doing minimal adjustments while detecting. I also find I hunt more by ear than visually so the Safari fits my particular hunting style and I love the tones of both the Safari and E-Trac. The E-Trac is a great detector and I have many friends who use it and would use nothing else and they swayed me into my E-Trac purchase but for me and my hunting style the Safari is the detector for me and the E-Trac is great for those that use them and fits their hunting styles.

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Bryannagirl
Like I said it is hard to tell what you gain by going to the Etrac. FBS is FBS when it comes to depth but the Etrac should give you more information about if it is good or bad but not sure how much so. My Safari is deep and I am starting to go 100% tone. Still an thinking about upgrading though.

Bryanna

They both are deep and pretty equal depth wise IMO the E-trac does have the better/finer discrimination, the E-Trac may identify a tad better but for me as I mentioned I hunt mainly by ear rather than visual ID. I listen for the subtle tone changes and only use the target ID to verify what I'm hearing but usually dig regardless of the ID if the tones sound right to me. I more than likely do dig a little more trash than others do but have found several surprises especially on the iffy ID's that sound good. I'm sure you will be happy if you upgrade as the E-trac is an awesome detector and as I mentioned I really liked it but just felt I didn't use it to it's fullest extent due to my hunting style and found the simpler lighter Safari suit myself and hunting style better.

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Minelab Safari, Fisher CZ-3D, Teknetics Omega,
Garrett Pro Pointer, Detector Pro Pistol Probe.
Predator Tools Model 85, Predator Raven.

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Bryannagirl
Like I said it is hard to tell what you gain by going to the Etrac. FBS is FBS when it comes to depth but the Etrac should give you more information about if it is good or bad but not sure how much so. My Safari is deep and I am starting to go 100% tone. Still an thinking about upgrading though.

Bryanna

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Coyote65
I made the switch from an E-Trac to the Safari and love the simpler lighter Safari. With the E-Trac which I did love I found I babied it due to the cost and also found it to be a bit heavy to swing especially after a few days of hunting. I also feel I didn't fully take advantage of the extra settings and features of the E-Trac as I like to turn on my detector and go and enjoy only doing minimal adjustments while detecting. I also find I hunt more by ear than visually so the Safari fits my particular hunting style and I love the tones of both the Safari and E-Trac. The E-Trac is a great detector and I have many friends who use it and would use nothing else and they swayed me into my E-Trac purchase but for me and my hunting style the Safari is the detector for me and the E-Trac is great for those that use them and fits their hunting styles.

Well Byannagirl I guess the only way you will find out is if you try one and compare the rwo detectors. If I had the money I would definitly upgrade to an CTX 3030 because that is an awesome machine. Since I don'r have the money I am going to try to find nice use Explorer or Etrac and take advantage of the CTX hype. Maybe in couple of years I will be able to get an used CTX or maybe Minelab will come out with an CTX without all the bells whistles of the 3030.

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John

If you can find a nice used Etrac for around $800 dollars go for it, there are some nice useful features.but I will tell you now it will not find any more than the Safari can and that includes 2 tone ferrous.When you get your Etrac like I did and get to understand it you will really get to know what a great detector the Safari is.One really great thing that I can say for the Etrac if coin hunting is your main hobby it will give you many hours of enjoyment just setting up new combinations to run it without ever going hunting.

Safari is awsome I think the e trac would be to much for me I like the safari it is simple.I find the same as my buddys at the same depth.