safari vs e-trac

[Andrew Bleecker]

Most of my hunting is at parks or beaches where it seems the Safari would work just fine. However I also have beach areas where there were very active shipyards back in 1900 that I think would be very interesting to detect at but there is so much old rusty iron in the ground that seeing anything through the iron may be impossible. I have been hunting with a Garrett 1250 for about 5 years and have pretty much stretched this machine to it's limits and it has no chance in the heavy iron soil.

so the question is, would the e-trac be able to handle searching in the heavy iron, or the Safari for that matter??? If not, or not a big difference between the two, then I can not really justify the added expense of the E-trac.

Also , seems to me that searching by sounds works the best, does having the Fe/Co scale on the e-trac really make a big difference over the simple ID scale on the Safari ?? thanks

 

[silvereagle]

its all a matter of personal pref.if you have the extra money yes its a great machine just a faster proc.in the etrac but almost the same as the safari.imo either way you cant go wrong

 

[Gaz]

Just be aware of one thing dude.......the Safari only uses multi tones. I hate multi tones. I've tried and tried but it's just not me.
You have a choice with the ETrac between 1,2,4 or multi tones. That is the main reason I went for it.
The Ferrous scale is absolutely great! It gives you another dimension dude.
Go for the ETrac. More sensitive, more stable and faster. Well worth the extra money.
There is no machine out there at the moment which I would swap it for.

Gaz.

 

[BJ in Okla.]

But if you can not handle the extra money, then I would go for a Explorer SE Pro over the Safari.
Or even a good used SE or Exp. ll.
Good luck with what ever you chose.
HH...BJ