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Safari minelab

Cross save relic mode from conductive to ferrous. There is a lot of posts on this thread about now to do it. It is easy. I really never noticed any difference as opposed to running the stock relic mode. The real key to running the Safari is to swing slowly, especially in high trash areas, as the processor is a bit slow to reset. The less discrimination you use, the faster the reset. I use an Etrac in heavy trash as it scrims better, but I will run my Safari in clean areas and get every bit the depth of the Etrac. Safaris are silverhounds as well. Good luck and Merry Christmas!
 
What kind of hunting are you looking to do (coin, relic, beach, parks, fields, soil type, etc)? I am assuming you are asking about what to discriminate out.
 
I run in ALL METAL probably 98% of the time, works for me. just my preference, I don't want to miss anything. I have dug Indian Heads that were close to iron & were reading -10 because of the iron but they did not sound like iron. If you get an iron signal & it doesn't sound like iron DIG IT you may be surprised what you find
 
I've been looking for coins and hunting woods for relics new at this needed some ideals
When u r running your machine I've notice if u push arrow buttons to the right r left what does that do?
 
No need to worry about the arrows at this time. Just read the soft cover user guide a few times, then see if you can pick up a copy of Andy Sabisch's Mastering the Quattro-Safari or the newer edition The Minelab Safari Handbook. If you can't set up a test garden,then grab some coins ( including silver) of all denominations and sprinkle them on the ground and learn what sounds they provide along with their tid numeric read-out in the four pre-set hunting modes. Read through this forum to familiarize yourself with the questions and issues that others of us have raised over time.
I hunt mostly in relic mode as I prefer woods and fields for older artifacts and coins. HH to you .....A few usefull links :

http://www.minelabowners.com/forum/vbtube_show.php?tubeid=367
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lYTdNnmcIOE
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qTqILSI5szM
 
that left/right you talk about is if you want to notch out a certain ID say 22 you move it to 22 then push the DISC button & it will notch out that number. also if you can hold down the DISC & push the R/L button it will notch out a group of numbers say 2-8 or what ever group you decide. I wouldn't worry too much about notching out certain ID numbers. I rarely do that, unless I want to Cherry pick
 
Here are my setting
Coin mode
Modified coin -taking tabs out

Coin and jewlery
Good coin mode - only 38 open

Relic
Modified coin

All metal
Coin
 
For parks:
start in Relic mode.
discriminate out (ie, black out)everything except:
...39 for silver
...38 for quarters
...37 for dimes
...36, for copper pennies (this is where wheats come in for me too)
...32-35 for zinc pennies and various brass thingies (I hate zincs and usually all these #s out too)
...13, 14, 15 for nickels (this is also pulltab country and you may want to black out some or all of these, depending on that days tolerance for pulltab digging)

For relics in the woods, just push the Relic button on the upper right and have at it.

That's It. While you are learning, concentrate on the TONES ONLY that these numbers give you. Get to where you can tell what is under your coil by sound only. Only use your screen for an approximate depth estimate. Yes, this will leave LOTS of goodies behind for various reasons, but this is an easy way to learn your machine. You can go back to the same park later and get the tougher stuff after you get better. If you try to hunt now before you learn the basics with most of the range open, you will drive yourself crazy and maybe sell your machine at a huge loss while cursing it loudly.

Understand that the numbers may vary slightly from day to day (soil moisture?) and even from machine to machine. But the song remains the same. (yeah, LZ fan here) Don't trust the #'s on the screen- youre going to but if you stay with it, youll understand someday why you shouldnt.

If you don't understand what Ive posted or any of the above posts, you need to reread your manual before hunting. Until you understand these basics, you will be wasting your time and getting greatly frustrated. The Safari is a fantastic machine, but it takes some initial effort to learn to use it well. I had years of metal detecting older/lesser machines and it took me 10's of hours before I felt comfortable with my Safari. Now its my Goto machine.
 
I set mine in all metal, notch out -10 through -7, and go at it. I find super deep coins and buttons at places people have sworn are completely hunted out.
 
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