Have not been out hunting to much this year mainly because I locate utilities for a living so having a detector in my hand 12 hours a day then coming home not to much in mood to grab another and go coin hunting.When I have been out Safari has been doing great finding one or two Indians everytime.Anyway a friend of mine bought a CTX 3030 I have a small park that I hunted for 35 years it is 200feet by 200 feet I have at least 100 Safari hours on it.I told him when he gets comfortable with CTX3030 come down and hunt the park I bet him he will not find 5 coins.It has lots of rusty nails.The loser has to pay dinner at fine dining place we know of that is hard to get out of without spending 300 bucks.This park has produced in the past silver 3 cent coins,bust silver dimes over 50 large cents so I am looking forward to the hunt in about a month will let you know.
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Safari being Challenged
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croakersmoker78
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The safari will beat it for sure
Ain't no meal worth $300.00. But that is a great challenge. I still use my Safari occasionally. Minelab makes some great toys. Keep us posted. HH Those nails can be a problem for you too, how do you adjust your machine to contend with them. I use high trash, all metal blank out -8 thru -1 and 40 , use the a man sens at a level where the low sounds don't completely dominate the swing. By allowing some low iron sound and adjusting sens for it I can avoid most nails and still get acceptable depth. Maybe you have found a better way?
No not really,I think my use of 6X8 coil took care of about 70 percent of nail problem over pro coil.I run with 6 and 7 open for wedding bands.14 and 15 open for nickels,25 to 39 open for coins everything else closed.I run sensitivity hot so I hear more iron targets than most people but dig only larger iron objects when I want too.High Trash,Conductive,Threshold loud enough to hear null out.I set my sensitivity in all metal by first going to auto and sweeping spot that might produce 3 targets in auto.Increase my sensitivity until the 3 targets have gained in response or in most cases I have picked up more targets than original sweep of same area that started with just 3.These extra targets are in most cases not false signals but smaller pieces of Iron when they show up I know I am running hot enough and now I have a working sensitivity number for that hunt site to go higher or lower by one or 2 numbers for that site.I find a lot of coins within 1 inch or almost touching Iron nail.I will get fooled by rusty wire for some reason it sounds good.I see on utube video of CTX3030 they are digging nails still.
croakersmoker78
Member
The videos I have seen show that the 3030 is just the same as the safari and e trac for depth.
