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Anyone feel like posting up best way to start using a Safari ??Thanks
- Thread starter Elton
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ronaldj2
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Start out by reading the owners manual. Make sure you have some understanding of what you read. You might want to start in coin/jewelry mode. Go out in your yard and try burying some coins, jewelry, maybe some pop tops, and some pull tabs. You can bury them individually at least 2ft away from each other at various depths maybe 2-8" to start. Important to do a noise cancel and to make sure there's no metal underneath when you do. Start detecting swing slow try to learn the different sounds each coin or metal object makes. Also keep an eye on the id numbers and how they coincide with each different sound. Be patient I can't stress this enough, the machine is going to do what it was made to do (find metal). Don't get discouraged the safari is a good machine, but you have to learn it. Remember Rome wasn't built in a day, and neither are you going to be a master with the safari in a day !! I have been using mine for over two months now, I have found silver, gold , lots of copper and even more trash. I now consider myself pretty good with the machine. I have at least 50 hrs on the machine now, still learning something new every outing. Never came home empty handed !! Practice your pinpointing skills and you will find this machine is very accurate. Order Andy Sabisch's book "Mastering the Quatro", I am still waiting for mine to come in. If you start to get frustrated with the whole orchestra of sounds don't give up, Take a breather and then jump right back on. Ask any safari owner and they will tell you something similar. The more time you log on the machine the better you will get. Once you get past the pain and frustration, and the doubts, I think you may end up loving your safari. Patience really is the key. You may want to try a park, or a school yard after you tried it a home. So remember kids "do try this at home"!! Hope this helps you.. Also there are many others on this site who have a vast wealth of knowledge on detecting, I am but one voice of many!!
Ron
Ron
Good advice Ron.
Elton, as Ron said learn to listen to the tones. I used Fishers for most of my 30+ years of relic hunting until I traded my 1266x in on a x-terra 50. I started finding relics again!! The Safari is much different and does have a learning curve. Since you have used a FBS detector before you may straighten the curve out quicker. The Safari is the deepest machine I have ever owned and will match the depth of an F75 here in N. Ga.. It will discriminate and I.D. targets better than the F75 in bad ground, based on what I've seen. But you have to put in the time to learn the machine.
Elton, as Ron said learn to listen to the tones. I used Fishers for most of my 30+ years of relic hunting until I traded my 1266x in on a x-terra 50. I started finding relics again!! The Safari is much different and does have a learning curve. Since you have used a FBS detector before you may straighten the curve out quicker. The Safari is the deepest machine I have ever owned and will match the depth of an F75 here in N. Ga.. It will discriminate and I.D. targets better than the F75 in bad ground, based on what I've seen. But you have to put in the time to learn the machine.
ronaldj2
Well-known member
Elton, Glad to hear your'e not a newbie. Neither was I, but the safari was such a different machine from my others. Its a good thing there are so many other people who have posted tips. Like ngrelic says, it only means you"ll be making good finds a whole lot quicker than most. I should have recognized you from the slogan after you posts. You've made some pretty good posts yourself, glad we are all part of the forum. Now get out there and
Hi El
You have a head start with having used the SE. As ronaldj2 and ngrelic said it is a lot different than the machines that I have used too.
It is a very simple machine to set up. I run factory settings, except for threshold and target. I have them turned down.
No one mentioned that to noise cancel with changing conditions. You know I am a beach guy and the Safari works great on the beaches. When I go from soft sand to hard sand, noise cancel. When I go from hard sand to black sand, noise cancel. When it starts to chatter. noise cancel. I noise cancel when I have moved some distance on the beach. I do that for a rest.
By the way El I am running in all metal mode. This is the very first detector I feel comfortable doing that with. I noticed that running in all metal mode that it doesn't null out as much.
It is very noisy in trashy areas. One must get a smaller coil for those areas. I tried using it in trashy areas a few times, gad had so many hits. Even tried very slow but it just didn't work. No complaint, you just have a touring coil on for driving in downtown traffic.
Another thing El. You will be digging deeper targets. I am amazed at the number of targets that I have dug up already and the season hasn't started. I usually don't really go out for another month or so on the beaches. It is a fun detector in that I enjoy just detecting and not always adjusting this or that.
Hope this helps El..... Z
You have a head start with having used the SE. As ronaldj2 and ngrelic said it is a lot different than the machines that I have used too.
It is a very simple machine to set up. I run factory settings, except for threshold and target. I have them turned down.
No one mentioned that to noise cancel with changing conditions. You know I am a beach guy and the Safari works great on the beaches. When I go from soft sand to hard sand, noise cancel. When I go from hard sand to black sand, noise cancel. When it starts to chatter. noise cancel. I noise cancel when I have moved some distance on the beach. I do that for a rest.
By the way El I am running in all metal mode. This is the very first detector I feel comfortable doing that with. I noticed that running in all metal mode that it doesn't null out as much.
It is very noisy in trashy areas. One must get a smaller coil for those areas. I tried using it in trashy areas a few times, gad had so many hits. Even tried very slow but it just didn't work. No complaint, you just have a touring coil on for driving in downtown traffic.
Another thing El. You will be digging deeper targets. I am amazed at the number of targets that I have dug up already and the season hasn't started. I usually don't really go out for another month or so on the beaches. It is a fun detector in that I enjoy just detecting and not always adjusting this or that.
Hope this helps El..... Z
ronaldj2
Well-known member
Ordered my copy on the 21st of this month, hope to get it real soon. Wish my dealer had thought about me in this respect, as I like to read. Probably could have read it 10 times by now, and hopefully comprehended at least 5 times worth. Wish I had stumbled on this forum a couple of years ago. Good posting with you guys !! Ron 
The safari takes time.
The safari works very well and finds coins, toys, slugs, and will also tell you that your over a bottle top or pull tab.
The safari requires you to learn it's music. That means that a target may have more than one tune to sing depending on approach, swing rate.
The safari frustrated the hell out of me at first but I too now think this machine is one of the best out there.
It's going to take a lot of time and a few dirt digs for you to get to know the machine and realize it's not lyeing when it's singing a coin tune..
I think the safari will be a companion of mine for a long time. So far my return on investment has been
.25 1988
.25 1971
.10 1955
.01 1976
.01 1981
.01 unable to read ( really corroded clad)
.05 1978
Silver dollar size aluminum slug ( Did get my blood pumping when I saw the edge and diameter of the thing)
Mattel electric car 2004 ( 6 inches down, weird)
4 Bottle caps
14 Pull tabs ( I know how to recognize these now)
All of this required me to bend over, stoop, get on my knees and stand back up. The exercise value is priceless.
Get one and enjoy...
The safari works very well and finds coins, toys, slugs, and will also tell you that your over a bottle top or pull tab.
The safari requires you to learn it's music. That means that a target may have more than one tune to sing depending on approach, swing rate.
The safari frustrated the hell out of me at first but I too now think this machine is one of the best out there.
It's going to take a lot of time and a few dirt digs for you to get to know the machine and realize it's not lyeing when it's singing a coin tune..
I think the safari will be a companion of mine for a long time. So far my return on investment has been
.25 1988
.25 1971
.10 1955
.01 1976
.01 1981
.01 unable to read ( really corroded clad)
.05 1978
Silver dollar size aluminum slug ( Did get my blood pumping when I saw the edge and diameter of the thing)
Mattel electric car 2004 ( 6 inches down, weird)
4 Bottle caps
14 Pull tabs ( I know how to recognize these now)
All of this required me to bend over, stoop, get on my knees and stand back up. The exercise value is priceless.
Get one and enjoy...
Ok, Ok, Ok....
I have read to page 62 in Andy's book. I started to get confused and believe me it doesn't take much to confuse me.
So I stopped reading and started using the detector to become familiar with it. Thinking that when I run into a lot of trouble or deep do-do I should pick up the book again. Than when the do-do I am experiencing and the book explains the do-do problem the book and I will be together. There should be a flow of information passing between the book and me. Not the book confusing me. I have been on at least 15 hunts and found 166 coins, 2 rings, toys and usual stuff one finds on the beach.
The only way I can explain it is,I now have some experience with using the detector and when I start reading the book again I will say I know exactly what he is saying now. (maybe???)
Sorry if I mess up some one. This is the way I like to do things. I have learned many, many things that have never shown up in my life. So not much sense in trying to prepare for the things I have no idea what will show up. That my friends is ulcers as big a foot balls. I prefer to flow with life like the eagle floating high above just in tune with nature.. I got that from the great gurus, Rocky and Bullwinkle....Z
I have read to page 62 in Andy's book. I started to get confused and believe me it doesn't take much to confuse me.
So I stopped reading and started using the detector to become familiar with it. Thinking that when I run into a lot of trouble or deep do-do I should pick up the book again. Than when the do-do I am experiencing and the book explains the do-do problem the book and I will be together. There should be a flow of information passing between the book and me. Not the book confusing me. I have been on at least 15 hunts and found 166 coins, 2 rings, toys and usual stuff one finds on the beach.
The only way I can explain it is,I now have some experience with using the detector and when I start reading the book again I will say I know exactly what he is saying now. (maybe???)
Sorry if I mess up some one. This is the way I like to do things. I have learned many, many things that have never shown up in my life. So not much sense in trying to prepare for the things I have no idea what will show up. That my friends is ulcers as big a foot balls. I prefer to flow with life like the eagle floating high above just in tune with nature.. I got that from the great gurus, Rocky and Bullwinkle....Z
ronaldj2
Well-known member
I have read enough posts now about the safari, and I appreciate them. Having ordered the book a week ago And been told it is a must reads. I will have to do some reading (I guess). I know what you mean about all the finds, as I have been swinging it since late Feb early Mar. I've found 4 rings, 2 gold earrings, and countless coins, only one silver rosie. But, you get the point as I got the point you are making. Maybe the book is like the safari you get all confused, frustrated, going in a couple different directions. Then maybe just maybe one time we read something and bam the light goes on and we are able to apply what we read. I say we, because it takes me to read something more than once,twice,etc, before the light even flickers. Don't get me wrong I love to read and write, takes longer for things to sink into a thick skull. So here we are learning by hands on experience, hopefully the book won't just become another boarder in the bookcase hotel. I can learn the tunes and all, but two left feet well you get the picture !!! 
Best way is to read, read, read, manual, Andy's book on the Quattro (They're that much alike), read and ask questions on the various treasure hunting forums, and practice , practice, prectice all you have read. If you are coming from another brand of detector, the tones will confuse the heck out of you, hence the practice. Plant a coin garden and practice some more. Take a break and go "prospecting". (That's what my wife calls my forays with my detectors). Onus
