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I just bought my Safari yesterday (Friday) and like a kid at Christmas couldn't sleep all night anticipating going out on Saturday. Well, whats new, its raining this morning here in Western MA. Maybe I'll reread the owners manual for the umpteenth time. I do have a question on the depth reading graph. What would the depth be on average if it reads in the middle in inches?? I started MDing off and on many years ago and decided to give it another go round. By the way I just want to share a little story with everyone. I had the chance to by a BH Landstar on sale ( past month) and I am sorry that I did such a foolish thing. I only found clad and the sad part is I had a chance to hunt a place from the 1800s and found more clad. This unit wouldn't get past four inch depth anywhere. My old and trusty Compass Coin Magnum II beat the BH everytime, but its too heavy to swing around anymore. Hey the sun is coming out wish me luck!!
 
PS............. [size=x-large]Good Luck[/size]
 
Hope you find some goodies !! Little muggy today, just got back from the Cape. The past weeks weather on Cape Cod wasn't as good as I was hoping for, but, It was good enough to enjoy time with the family, fish and oh yeah detect. Found some clad, fishing lures, and a really thin silver earring. The wind was relentless and it was chilly up until yesterday. Ron :detecting:
 
I just want to let you know it is most accurate on coin sized targets. It's going to take time before you get to know its language. remember what the manual said on the tones for highly conductive targets and low conductivity targets and it will be different when your in the Relic and all metal mode vs. coin and coin/jewelry modes. There are tones in between, so take the time and patience to learn its language. The sounds are more of a analog wave of high and lows. But don't worry you will learn them and become efficient with this great detector, and yes, its deep in the detection department. Pinpointing is another thing. The coil is a double D coil. It is important that you X the target at different angles and go slow. After a while you will find yourself not relying on the pinpoint button as much. Oh remember to lift the coil to help pinpoint and narrow the target.
 
One important piece of info Pay attention where on the graph the tones come in... That little analog chart down there is important and seeing where the tones come up at relative to it will give you an idea of what your hearing...

Enjoy..
 
Thanks for the information my friends. This forum is the best because of people like you that are willing to share your knowledge and experiences with the Safari and other machines out there. I hope to gain some of that knowledge and experience as well. HH
 
Went out today for just about an hour . Didn't find much, a dime and a nickle, some bottle caps and pieces of alum cans. I can't ever remember making 15 cents an hour. All for the love of the hobby !! Ron :detecting:
 
I received a Garrett GTA 500 as a gift 16 years ago. I hadn't used it in over 10 years and I recently started using it again. My parent's home was built in the early 1800's and not finding the old stuff, that was always my complaint with the GTA 500: clad, wheaties and mid 20th century silver, but nothing older. Every time my Dad would do any excavating or digging around the house on one project or another he would pull out older coins and even a civil war button. I am hoping to get some decent finds with the old machine so I can justify getting a new one. It seems from the research that I have been doing, Whites and Minelab are making the best machines these days (aside from the Garrett Ace 250 being a good machine in its price range). Does that seem to be the general consensus?
 
I would say say yes (just my opinion). A new machine will justify itself. Unless you are hunting an area where the soil is turned over regularly, the coins will usually not bubble up to the surface. That was not meant as a negative statement, just as a matter of fact. Hope you can get some of the older stuff with your GTA 500 (good machine in its hayday). For me the Safari is hands down a better, deeper machine. Ron :detecting:
 
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