Safari Salt Beach Settings

[SC Dirt Fisher]

Was wondering if moving from wet sand to dry sand causes you to have to rebalance frequently?
Planning a 2 day beach trip this week and never have used the Safari at the beach. Have always used my DFX there.
The sand beaches here, other than the salt, have practically no mineralization.
The DFX has autotrac so basically you only have to ground balance once.
Also, I was wondering which Safari program works best at the beach.

 

[KinTN]

I assume you mean Noise Cancel as Safari only has auto ground balancing.

I typically NC if I am going to spend a long period of time either in the wet or in the dry. If I am going back and forth (rare), I don't bother after the initial NC. I have found that the only place I have trouble on the beach (SC and Fla panhandle) is about a foot or 2 where the damp meets the wet sand. The Safari seems unstable in this small very repeatable strip.

Run it wide open, or with only iron screened out. Use pinpointing to determine if some drunk has buried his entire empty.

Remember to keep it dry and don't raise the coil above the box after you get it wet! I almost dropped mine in calf deep water once and never went back into the water again at any depth with my Safari- bought me an Excal to do the water with.

Good Luck!

 

[SC Dirt Fisher]

K.T.
Thanks for the tips. I haven't use the Safari very much, so your tips will come in handy.
That's especially helpful about the water running through the shaft back into the control box.
I would've never thought of that until it was too late.

 

[KinTN]

Glad to help. Some other things come to mind:

- scour the Beach forum here at Finds
- get a good long handled scoop (I like the Sunspot Stealth, there are several very good ones on the market)
- if you don't have a scoop or have time to get one, you can use a shovel
- don't forget your pinpointer- you can do without at the beach, but they sometimes come in very handy
- I keep a trash bag with me for extra junk (tho most beaches have regular garbage cans) + in case I get caught in the rain I can protect my control box.
- as always, slow down and listen for the faint targets; those will be the good ones!
- never admit to finding anything good the same day. always palm a good target when others are around. if someone has lost something, by all means hunt/return it if they can describe it in detail before you show it to them.
- enjoy your trip. laugh at the wannabes that practically run while detecting, swing their coils like pendulums 10" above the sand, and tell stories about all the gold they have found.

 

[Rob in (Ca)]

Your going to like The Safari for Beach combing..........Be patient and spend time learning the tone's............ good luck......... HH