Conductive or Ferrous tones

[DirtAngler]

I'm on my second Safari, got it to be a backup machine since it is a simple to operate machine yet has a lot of potential. I was reading about the differences some say they can hear between conductive vs. ferrous sounds. Tried them on a silver dime, silver quarter, clad dime and clad quarter as well as a copper penny. I could not distinguish much if any difference. What do you use, why, and can you tell a difference?

 

[kschae4]

I hunt in relic mode (ferrous) most of the time and swear that silver sounds sweeter than it does in coin or coin/jewelry mode (conductive). In addition, at times some older silver coins actually target id on the graph bar closer to the "i" in the word silver, as opposed to the "s" when in coin, coin/jewlery modes. Compared to those two modes, relic offers less descrimination ,which offers less descrimination than all metal. Both are great for wide open hunting and not missing any good targets .Of course, I dig much trash,but in doing so, get to see a wide variety of tids displayed and recover some cool relics.

 

[KinTN]

Except when I first got my Safari, I have hunted solely in Ferrous. I like that 'good' stuff is always high tones (excepting gold of course) and 'bad' stuff is low (apologies to relic hunters). I dont leave it wide open, but have saved what is basically the coins/jewelry program into ferrous (as suggested in Andy Sabbich's book).

 

[kschae4]

I don't cross-save as much as I used to, but it's important to learn what the Safari has to offer.

 

[DirtAngler]

I must be missing something as it seems coins and silver ring high tones and iron is a low tone regardless of which mode I'm using.

 

[88junior]

Isn't all the coins you tested considered conductive? I thought on iron you get the low ferrous tone and on conductors like copper and silver you get the high tone. Am I wrong?

 

[hammyfinder1]

Hi,it depends on how you running your machine and what machine you are using/ for example if you are using a Minelab Quattro or other FBS type detector and you are running wide open (no discrim) max sens in conductive all low conductive VDI,s will give a low grunt but large silver and copper will give a high tone ,but be warned that iron will also give a high tone too so be aware of your Vdi readings so you dont miss the large silver and coppers, may not be suitable for you in the states but its the prefered method here in the UK to find the tiny silver Hammered Medieval coins and small gold, hope this helps ,cheers Andy

 

[dubmurphy]

I've been using the Safari for about a year and would definitely recommend running all metal with the preset ferrous tones. most iron will grunt with a low tone and silver and gold has a certain sweet sound to it once you train your ear to the tones. It is true iron will sometimes false with a high tone but if you turn 90 degrees you'll usually get the iron grunt which is a sure indicator that its iron. You just have to watch out for silver next to iron which will mirror this scenario.