:shrug:whats the deepest finds for the safari:shrug:

[SEMPERFI61]

n/t

 

[mr1874]

1944S Mercury dime-5 inches.Found while hunting in the Factory Preset "COIN" mode.

 

[mr1874]

I would add,have had the Safari for a very short time,only been out twice with it.I doubt my Landstar would have picked the merc dime up in Discriminate mode.Coin is EF condition and was,as i said earlier,about 5 inches down.

For me,the jury is still out on this machine.Pipes and junk read as "good" sometimes. Maybe i have more "learning the machine" in my future but the learning curve seems to very steep for the Safari.I can see the potential,
especially when hunting trashy areas but,for the money i spent for this machine, the jury is definitely still out.

Any comments/recommendations are welcome.I've been going by "the book" while trying to get used to this machine.

 

[larryk56]

I also had the Safari for a short time and I personally think the machine is a depth monster!

In fact, sometimes I think it finds targets too deep!

I run the coin and jewelry program in factory settings with trash density high and auto.
Most of my hunting is in parks and tot lots!

I dig all solid repeatable signals so this means I get plenty of pull tabs and junk too!

Prior to owning this machine I had the Whites V3 which I thought was a complicated
mess of a detector! The Safari gets great depth without all the confusion.

The only thing that frustrates me is the larger coil that I have and too many deep targets!

I am also still learning this machine but so far so good!!












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[ronaldj2]

Had my Safari since Feb 09, In October I found a 1918 standing liberty quarter 8" under a tree root. It was in a park that has been detected since the 70's. It was a good strong non fluctuating 38. Yes very good and deep. I have found many many coins before this one, but this was the deepest for a park, now the beach, thats another strory. Ron

 

[TomH]

I'm a relic hunter so, generally, my targets are larger and deeper than coins. A bud of mine found two really deep bullets, about an ounce of lead in an inch and a quarter by a little over a half inch wide package, and he let me listen to them before he started to dig. Turned out to be between 18 and 20 inches deep. The signal on both the Safari and my buddy's F75 went from solid iron (-10, deepest tone in ferrous on the Safari) to a high pitched flutey chirp and a jump to 32 at the end of the tone, repeatable in every direction. Soil was low mineral with just the right amount of moisture to let the signal carry.

I have gotten dime sized brass cuff buttons at 8 to 10 inches in very mineralized soil. Perfect flutey tones and solid 12 TID, repeatable in every direction.

The Safari even found two small drips of camp lead, bullets melted in campfires either through the soldier using the cartridge to light the fire or from sheer boredom. Both were more than 12 inches down in the god-awful-worse-Virginny-red-dirt you can dig in and signals were horrible. If I had not already dug lead targets there that sounded just as bad I would have walked over them. Bottom line, the machine was giving me consistent signals, different from what I am used to but consistent none-the-less and it was reaching deeper than most VLF machines.

I really like my Safari!!!!

TomH

 

[wayupnorth66]

My deepest small target was a 20gauge shotgun shell at 21 inches deep.......whole aluminum cans up to 2.5ft

 

[ronaldj2]

This is true, the bigger the targets, the deeper you can detect them. Me, a Kastmaster fishing lure on the beach at Cape Cod 18" deep. Ron

 

[montanagold]

I have found a few barber dimes at 9 inches with the Safari. No worries I found it to be every bit as deep as the SE and the Trac. And locks onto silver just as well also.