New to site & being a Minelab Safari owner.

[kscowgirl]

sabish

Whoot got my first silver find tonight at a park. A 1911d barber dime, that is in great shape. Not giving up, reading all I can that you all post, watching all the video's on Youtube and reading the book by Andy Sabish will hopefully be finally paying off. Just got the book yesterday and read 1/2 it last night, main thing that I tried so far was to slow my arm speed down alot. I was use to the White's Classic and going fast was ok with it, after reading what Mr. Sabish had to say I concentrated on taking at least 5 sec to cross the coil from one side to the other. Made the detector not make nearly as much noise, and what noise I did get I could almost tell right away if it was junk or needed to dig. So only dug up 2 pull tabs since they had good sound, pop top, and 2 pieces of junk then there was the Dime that was with some other junk sounds but going slow was able to get it then move back and forth over it quick only moving coil a couple inches to know that it was a good target. Dug it out going down about 8 inches. Can you tell I'm so excited !!!!! I'll post picture later.

 

[kscowgirl]

Well here it is my first silver. Its snowing again here in Kansas so was in house all day until finally at around 4:30p it quit. Tried to go out and froze my fingers off only dug two holes, one getting a common penny and the other good exercise. I got a adapter to fit my ear buds that I use on an ipod so I could use them with my detector and whow I loved it. The sound was great, and could really hear what was going on. Now need a longer cord, hehehe forgot and went to set detector down and about ripped my ears off when the ear buds pulled out. Longer cord is a must, and with just that short time of using them that will be my next purchase for sure. Happy hunting ! Annette

 

[Prep1957]

First off I would like to say the Safari you bought is the best over the counter metal detector ,you made a great choice.There are more expensive ,but they cannot go any deeper,or recover anymore than the Safari.I have been coin hunting for over 35 years and I locate utilities for a very good living so I have a locator in my hand of some sort every day 10 hours a day not including emergencies,when the power companies go out so do I before they can dig I scan the location and give the OK.The equipment I use each day can very from 5 to 25 thousand with some of the GPR units costing more.Having said that, after the second week of using the Safari I almost took it and beat it on a tree along with the Etrac I also had in my possession.After about a 100 more hours of use the old and deep coins finally started coming but I was still digging a lot of iron.That was using pro-coil

To all Beginners:Get rid of pro-coil if you are coin hunting.It is too sensitive to iron great for relic hunting,will not work at all in some iron or mineralized ground.Buy an SEF coil 10X12,I like 8X6,X5 anything but pro-coil.You will cut your iron junk digging by 75% your learning curve will go from 100 plus hours to 4 hours,I have trained about 12 Safari,Etrac users,first thing I do is put one of my SEF coils on there Minelab.Big smiles are all around the detectors are finding goodies just like they thought they would reading the forums.After a few hours of total bliss I take my SEF coil off their detector and put their shiny pro-coil back on and tell them to continue hunting with it the rest of day.It is truly amazing to see their hurt and tortured looks after having such a nice morning hunting having now to dig iron,and all those extra sounds they are totally confused.I had that look myself at one time.I look at them and ask now do you understand?I loan them one of my SEF coils out until theirs come in the mail.

Pinpointing Safari/Etrac:First thing get a small label and put the word STUPIED on pinpoint button.First time detector users may need not need to do this,this is mostly for us veteran that have been pushing it for many years.The Minelabs are a lot different to pinpoint with,when I first got mine I was digging and making plugs bigger and deeper than I had ever in my first 35 years.I bought a pin-pointer because I could not find my target in the massive plugs I was cutting.Then I watched a Video of Goes For Ever on how to pinpoint by using top of coil and sliding it back and many yard maintenance people have been very happy since.So here it is DO NOT USE THE PINPOINT BUTTON TO FIND YOUR TARGET.Anytime you do look at the label and say to yourself that was stupid it will take awhile but you will break the habit.WHY-The pinpoint button is stupid, if it were smart we would be using it to hunt coins with when you push it finds the strongest signal under the coil,It may not be the coin your expensive Minelab says that is there,it could be 7 inches one way or another,you will find it after you have pinpointed everything else out of the hole,scratched your coin,and spent 20 minutes on the massive plug you dug.When I bought my 8X6 using sliding back method,I rarely use my Garrett Pin-pointer any more only on beach.By the way getting a serious coin depth in trash or almost anywhere but real clean ground is almost a joke.Just trying to be helpful so someday we will talk about Safari sensitivity and why the Null is so important.

 

[dubmurphy]

Good stuff comes in across the board. My advice is to focus on good sounding repeatable signals that read above iron. Also, I recomend running in ferous tones. I like ferous tone because iron will grunt a low tone and everything above iron comes in at a higher tone. You still get falsing on rusty iron but much less.

 

[KinTN]

Now that is a NICE first silver! Mine was a crappy old Rosey,
And as to the yank the headphones thing, I've been doing it for years. An extension/longer cord just seems to tangle in more things. Learn to love it.

I 'kinda' agree with dub on the pinpoint; theres times where there is so much trash that it isnt worth using. But most of the time, I use it to good effect. But my preferred method is the wiggle described in Andy Sabich's book that you do with a DD/Butterfly coil. fwiw, I use a 6x8SEF in trashy areas.

 

[croakersmoker78]

You will love it check out my finds

 

[mark j brelsford]

Don't get what the pin point deal is???

I don't have an issue with it, Practice a bit... not to bad overall.

Listen to what the Safari is telling you, that simple, been at hunting for a bit... Practice is the key!

M