What a great machine. Wow. The Safari is also a very good machine - Obviously I am a long way from maximizing it's performance so my comparisons may be taken with a grain of salt. I hunted in Coin mode - Auto +3. Rest was default settings. Seemed to have the same depth capabilities in my coin garden as Safari. I used the pro coil and x-8. I used the x-8 with the safari mostly because it was more stable in the trashy area I hunt than the pro coil - but the pro coil is very stable with the etrac. I love the etrac with the pro coil. Very very stable in a trashy yard loaded with iron. The combination of ferrous and conductive information is a plus over the Safari. Pinpoint seems to perform better. Just a great machine. So happy I upgraded. Like going from a BMW 5 series to a 6 series. Both awesome machines but worth upgrading depending on what you are looking for in a detector.
Find's Treasure Forums
Welcome to Find's Treasure Forums, Guests!
You are viewing this forums as a guest which limits you to read only status.
Only registered members may post stories, questions, classifieds, reply to other posts, contact other members using built in messaging and use many other features found on these forums.
Why not register and join us today? It's free! (We don't share your email addresses with anyone.) We keep email addresses of our users to protect them and others from bad people posting things they shouldn't.
Click here to register!
Need Support Help?
Cannot log in?, click here to have new password emailed to you
First day with etrac after switching from Safari
- Thread starter jdeiana
- Start date
CONDUCTOR7E
New member
Told you.Enjoy!
I never used the explorer so i guess that's why i did not have that problem. Learning on a machine machine that "behaves basically the same" in the safari -I found it very easy to use even on my first day. Yes I know i still have a ton learn to get the best out of it - but fun machine - So much so I went outside in the yard at midnight last night with headlamp for about an hour. Found a 46 dime. Not bad for an hour in the pitch dark. I am sure my neighbors think I am friggin nuts.
E-Trac-Ohio
Well-known member
Even though I only had my safari for one month - I feel that almost all of the time I spent with the Safari gave me a real jump start on learning the E-Trac.
The target ID's and controls are different but the two machine are also alike in many ways.
Last year - a sales rep. at one of the large detector sales companies told me that in his opinion - it's a lot easier to go from a Safari to an E-Trac - than it is going from a Safari to an Explorer.
Good luck with you new machine ! --- Mark
The target ID's and controls are different but the two machine are also alike in many ways.
Last year - a sales rep. at one of the large detector sales companies told me that in his opinion - it's a lot easier to go from a Safari to an E-Trac - than it is going from a Safari to an Explorer.
Good luck with you new machine ! --- Mark
CONDUCTOR7E
New member
Great job! Actually CTTodd was one of the main people who encouraged me to switch and he was right on!
NiagracountyNY
New member
Glad you like it!! It just keeps getting better with use..HH
I'm glad that you like the E Trac .....I'm still using my Safari .....I know what you mean about the X series coils ....I run and X-5 on my Safari , and when I go to the parks with it , everything quiets down nicely, and I can differenciate targets MUCH easier .....Just so you know, you can boost your sensitivity up on that X-8 also without adding too much chatter !!.....I'm sure it's a MONSTER like my X-5 in the trash !!!..... I can full understand where folks come from when they talk about how much clearer that coil sounds .... Like you said though, the stock coil is no sloutch !!....Good Luck with the E Trac ...I'm happy for you ,,,,Jim
i pulled 57 coins out of the front part of my yard with the Safari - nothing too spectacular - mostly lincoln pennies - some 60's quarters - dimes from 1946 on (not one merc) - 10 or so wheaties - 2 indian heads, and one 1907 barber quarter - that was my "learning the safari" finds just in my yard over a month or 2 - i spent one day this last weekend day going back over the same relatively small area with the etrac - the safari picked it pretty clean. i found only 1 1946 dime where the safari had cleaned up. but i am just learning the etrac - and only spent limited time in the same area with etrac. but point being, the safari seemed to have cleaned where my new etrac searched pretty good. but i seem to have an easier time with the etrac on knowing what to dig.