New to Safari-my thoughts and hopefully helpful info.

[Timelord2]

This year I am a new Safari user and I thought I would give my two cents on this detector. I have been detecting since I was 12 years old that was 37 years ago. I started out with a Radio Shack build yourself detector moved on to a couple Whites including a 6000 DI Pro the after that died a Fisher F5 which I was not very happy with. With most other detector if it makes a sound you dig, not with the Safari. For me the Safari give you a lot of information in the sounds it makes. You can tell the shape of the object by the sound, coins and rings will give a good tone and the ID will stay the same. If its a awful sound its most likely junk and the ID will jump around. That is why a button will sound like a good target because the shape is smooth and that is what the Safari is telling you.

That is why you can set you discrimination low, 0 to -10 discriminated out, then just listen for a good sounding tone. Foil will sound broken up and ID jumping around that is the Safari telling you its an odd shaped target so pass it by. After you learn that will be able to pass up the junk and dig good targets.

Hopefully I will be able to post my good finds since I have been out 10 times this year. I have found 6 Mercury Dimes, 4 Barber Dimes (have never found any of these before), one Washington Quarter, and a Walking Liberty Quarter (have never found one of these either).

At first I had a lot of junk but that has really reduced since I have learned to listen to what the Safari is telling me.

So listen for a good sounding tone with stable ID then dig it!!!!!!

 

[Timelord2]

This year I am a new Safari user and I thought I would give my two cents on this detector. I have been detecting since I was 12 years old that was 37 years ago. I started out with a Radio Shack build yourself detector moved on to a couple Whites including a 6000 DI Pro the after that died a Fisher F5 which I was not very happy with. With most other detector if it makes a sound you dig, not with the Safari. For me the Safari give you a lot of information in the sounds it makes. You can tell the shape of the object by the sound, coins and rings will give a good tone and the ID will stay the same. If its a awful sound its most likely junk and the ID will jump around. That is why a button will sound like a good target because the shape is smooth and that is what the Safari is telling you.

That is why you can set you discrimination low, 0 to -10 discriminated out, then just listen for a good sounding tone. Foil will sound broken up and ID jumping around that is the Safari telling you its an odd shaped target so pass it by. After you learn that will be able to pass up the junk and dig good targets.

Hopefully I will be able to post my good finds since I have been out 10 times this year. I have found 6 Mercury Dimes, 4 Barber Dimes (have never found any of these before), one Washington Quarter, and a Standing Liberty Quarter (have never found one of these either).

At first I had a lot of junk but that has really reduced since I have learned to listen to what the Safari is telling me.

So listen for a good sounding tone with stable ID then dig it!!!!!!

 

[SC Dirt Fisher]

Timelord2,
I too have a Safari, new, still in the box, no chance to try it out yet. Your post gives me hope that there are detectors that discriminate better than others. I've had a DFX for over two years now and have found a lot of modern coins, but have yet to find any silver or gold. 35 years ago with a Bounty Hunter Red Baron, I found my share of silver with a detector that would detect only to about 3" and had no discrimination or PP modes. I think that the reason I found more good stuff is that I dug everything.
I do realize of course that no detector will find a desirable target if it is out of the range of the coil. I can't wait to hunt some of those same areas again. I doubt if I found it all back then, which means it's still there but just deeper! I'm too old now to dig everything, so I hope the Safari will weed out most of the junk, if I use it correctly, that is.

 

[undrpar]

I HAVE A SAFARI ALSO..MY FAVORITE THING ABOUT IT IS EVEN USING DISCRIMINATION WILL FIND A DEEP COIN..I FOUND AN 8 INCH DIME USING THE STOCK COIN AND JEWELRY MODE..IT RANG IN CRYSTAL CLEAR..NOTHING COMPETES WITH THE OUT OF THE BOX DEPTH OF A MINELAB..HH

 

[Timelord2]

The Minelab Safari will go very deep, I have dug a piece of iron at 1 1/2 feet, so I think that is deep enough. Get yourself a good digger I like using a trowel because you will be digging deep holes.

I know air test are not 100% true but I have detected a dime at 8 1/2" and have dug almost that deep in the field.

With the Safari you will have to swing slow, slower than you think and I will tell you why. It seems that the Safari takes time to recognize what the target is. If you go to fast you will be getting what seems to be good signals and when you swing back over that target it will now be a broken bad sounding signal. This is my take on it. The Safari is a multi-Freq machine and it sounds like one of the freq likes what it sees but then the others think its a bad target. If you sweep slow enough the Safari has time to tell you its not a good target. The benefit of sweeping slow is you will not miss whats in the ground.

With the Safari you can run in All Metal mode and know what is in the ground, thats if you can stand all the noise. I have found out that if you go by sound and stable ID you will be digging good target. Don't be fooled by seeing a good number and then it changes, any good target will have a very stable ID with a good tone to the sound.

I have read a lot on how you have to listen to what the Safari is telling you, that is so true. We want everything we hear to be a good target but that is not the case with the Safari. If it in the ground the Safari will find it you just have to learn what the Safari is telling you

 

[MetalMiner]

On deep targets the ID will be bouncing around, but listen to the sound & watch the ID, usually the ID even though it's bouncing will give you a hint of what it may be, but definitely go by the sound on deep targets, targets where the depth gauge is nearly maxed out. I have made some good finds digging those bouncy signals that are deep

 

[Simpsonslammer]

Sounds like you have a pretty good handle on this hot silver machine, nice finds and many more. HH

 

[Metaldetective1975]

Hi Timelord2,

Many Thanks for the tips...I also have a new Safari and have only used it a few times, before my headphones failed (Minelab just sent me a replacement).
My first couple of times I thought the sounds would drive me crazy, but I am slowly getting used to the various tones. Your advice really helps.
One of the first coins I found with it was a 1939 Wheatie about 8 inches down. I was immediately impressed with the machine. Gonna go try it again tomorrow with the new phones.