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First test run with Safari

R

Ray in WA

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My Safari arrived today and after setting it up I took it out for a test run. The tones drove me crazy at the first two sites and I found it hard to pinpoint. Went to my third spot and after 5 minutes got a solid repeatable signal at 37 in coin mode and this time I was able to pinpoint. Out popped a 1903 Indian head penny at 6"!! I think I'm really gonna like the Safari now that I know what to look for in terms of tones for Indians, wheats and silver.

Ray

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hollywood13185 said:
Wow thats neat, I just ordered my Safari yesterday. So what kind of tone did that IH sound like, was it a sweet high tone?
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Yes, it was a high tone. However, until I run over a silver coin and an Injun or Wheatie on the same hunt, I probably won't be able to tell the difference. The solid, repeatable signal, combined with the high tone and steady 37 number on the display, all told me I had better "dig." And dig I did.

I figured that the first two areas that I hit did not have any good signals to dig, which is why I got so confused at all the different tones hitting me all at once. I suspect that's a natural reaction to have for never having used a Minelab detector such as this. But once you hit a coin like that, it's pretty much unmistakable. There's no question that you have to dig.

I'll probably stay mostly in coin mode for a while to get used to the different tones and get used to pinpointing targets with the Pro Coil.

Ray
 
Use relic and learn the sounds. Switch to relic mode and save it to coins and yewellry by holding coins and jew. button 5sec, then you have ferrous sounds and icons. Sens. to auto and thrash density to low it gives better target ID. Then start and hear the sounds, you cant miss the coins.
 
I am having a hard time with the tones also. just about the time I think I have them figured out, a silver coin turns out to be an aluminum can. And when you go from Coin to Relic the tones change! Maybe my hearing is not acute enough to discriminate the different sounds? But I'm not giving up, just keep going until it comes naturally. Onus
 
Onus, You NEED to read the OWNERS MANUAL a couple of times, before you touch the detector!! It is a whole different animal than your GARRETT Detector!!
SAFARI has tow Different Sound MODES ( Coin & Coin-Jewelry Modes have Conductive Tone ID; Relic & All Metal Modes have FERROUS TONE ID)!! If you can get a
copy of Andy Sabisch's Book-MASTERING THE QUATTRO, and read it through at LEAST TWICE you'll have a MUCH BETTER UNDERSTANDING of how
the SAFARI Detector works!! You won't get FRUSTRATED with the SAFARI!! Best of luck, hh, Les Robinson
 
Plenty of 100 + year old homes and farms within 5 miles from my home. Most of those places are all boarded up and falling apart! I have already got permission to hunt 9 of the property's as soon as its warm enough to do so. One place in my downtown area burned down 3 months ago it was a bank in the 1800s and then a store for years before it went down. its a cleaned out clear lot now and I got my eyes on it ! I also own 90 undetected acres here and will cover that too! its going to be a busy summer! Also the city removed all the sidewalks in town to put in gas lines its all bare dirt from where the sidewalk was to the street! Who knows what I will find!
 
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