How good is the Safari on disc out iron?

[amcjavelin]

trying to broaden my like on detectors these days and was wondering how the disc is on the safari, i talk with the SE guys and they tell me stay away from the safari but i don't know why i seem to like it never seen one up close but would like to know about it?

 

[Prep1957]

There just jealous you are going to buy a Safari.You will be digging old Iron that has been turned conductive or has mix of other impurities.The Safari discrimination is fine it does not have the extras to get rid of the iron like the SE or Etrac but that becomes the problem or the solution on how you perfer to run and hunt with your machine.In a nut shell like all discrimination the more you use the more you lose and that is why an A T Pro user are following behind Minelabs and doing so good it was the Etrac user or SE user that is at fault to much iron disc.I think if I would explain I might dig 4 Iron objects to one really good target that was close to iron in a very trashy spot but I would get the good coins that others missed because of there selections they made on there machines they would be nulling to much.Go look at the iron the A T Pro users are finding on there daily hunts it is a lot but with all the gold rings they are finding I would say it was worth it ,often by ex Minelab users.On a average hunt 4 hours I might dig 10 extra holes but even the iron items are mostly large and have some interest in themselves.I found an Iron tomahawk/pipe in terrible condition still got over 300 dollars on line that is a lot of silver coins.

 

[pullringking]

Dont worry what they say , the Safari is a very good machine.
You can Disc iron out very sucessfully and avoid digging it , however because the Safari is a deep seeker you can have more than one target under the coil and if iron is nulling out you may lose the other targets signal.
I prefer to use it in all metal-ferrous mode and I dont dig the low grunts unless there is a mixed tone.
Best of luck.

 

[Mtnmn]

Here's just how good the Safari's discrimination is. I recently found an camping site that probably had been used by hunters and fishermen for at least the past 60 yrs. and which was located on the grade of an old logging railroad. So not only were there all the small pieces of iron from when it was used as a railroad, but there was also all the modern day trash such as foil, pull tabs and you name it. Anyhow needless to say the site was absolutely loaded with trash, both old and new. It was so bad that it was all but impossible to find a clear coil wide spot to noise cancel. Even so by using the Safari with its 11" Pro coil and a cross-saving pattern, I was able to pull about $4.50 in clad out from among all that junk. Afterwards just to see how good of a job the Safari had done, I went back over the same area with a 6" DD HF coil on the XT-70 which is about as good as anything out there for pulling coins out of heavy trash and couldn't find a single coin that the Safari had missed. To me that pretty much says it all at just how good the discrimination is on the Safari. While I found no silver probably because of previous detectorists, was still able to find a deep "45" wheat and a Sacajawea dollar which made my day.

 

[amcjavelin]

thanks everyone on your insight!