DirtAngler
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How do you get used to the constant up and down flute tones...lol. Really would like to figure this machine out but the constant modulating flute tones keep forcing me back to my other detector.
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What is the secret to using a Safari
- Thread starter DirtAngler
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Goldstrike
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Practise, practise, practise and more practise as well as lot's of patience! Always remember that the Safari is an awesome metal detector but it is only as good as it's user! When you come to realise and accept the fact that all of the tones that you hear are targets beneath your coil and until you know what your detector is telling you, you will stay frustrated not knowing what those tones mean.
There are several things you can do to improve your learning curve. Have you tried a smaller coil? Using a smaller coil like an excellerator coil will help to single out individual targets, as opposed to a large coil picking up many targets especially in trashy areas. Reduce the sensitivity. Reduce your swing time i.e. go slower! Make a metal detecting 'garden'. Take the time to learn and remember the tones of individual targets. Pennies, nickels, dimes, quarters, dollar coins, gold rings, silver rings and various relics if you wish. Also just as important is to remember what a pulltab, screwcap, ball of foil, nails and other common items that you find in the ground and at the beach, bobby pins etc; sound like.
The FBS feature on the Minelabs is a great tool in our detecting efforts but it takes time to master as well as the variety of tones that come with the program. Work with the detector, regard it as a friend and it will find and reward you with the gold, silver and relics you are looking for!!
There are several things you can do to improve your learning curve. Have you tried a smaller coil? Using a smaller coil like an excellerator coil will help to single out individual targets, as opposed to a large coil picking up many targets especially in trashy areas. Reduce the sensitivity. Reduce your swing time i.e. go slower! Make a metal detecting 'garden'. Take the time to learn and remember the tones of individual targets. Pennies, nickels, dimes, quarters, dollar coins, gold rings, silver rings and various relics if you wish. Also just as important is to remember what a pulltab, screwcap, ball of foil, nails and other common items that you find in the ground and at the beach, bobby pins etc; sound like.
The FBS feature on the Minelabs is a great tool in our detecting efforts but it takes time to master as well as the variety of tones that come with the program. Work with the detector, regard it as a friend and it will find and reward you with the gold, silver and relics you are looking for!!
Since you are just starting out set your Disc to 25 and lock out everything below that and hold your program button down on coins to save.With your pro coil on, put sensitivity in auto and then go to all metal and find a clean spot and noise cancel with coil directly on the ground in the clean area you found make sure you are in high trash setting before you do this.Now go to the location that you have been using your other detector and you will see how much it missed.It is better to start in a cleaner area but do not be afraid to go in the trash with pro coil either.You have to go real slow almost to a creep in high trash you will know you are going to fast when you hear in your head phones the Safari is cutting out and not recovering fast enough.remember you are hunting with only the center bar of the coil the 11 inch bar in the middle ignore the rest of the coil.When you do get a target and it sounds good see if you can get it to repeat at 180 degrees the other way.Try this for awhile until you get use to it, it will get you use to hearing good or better targets.I use this mode myself after a hard days work and I do not want to do a lot of digging sometimes I might open up 13,14,15 to go for nickels.Good luck
kschae4
Well-known member
DA- There is a lot of great advice above from some very experienced Safari users. I'd just like to add that after noise cancelling, at your specific locational, I always toss on the ground "worn" and dirty coins of the denominations that I expect to recover. The audio & visual feedback they give off then stays fresh in my mind during the hunt. Do the same with common trash items,button caps, pop tops, beaver tails, nails. Then you can press accept/reject button and 'scrim them out as the graphic id bar will then blacken out the rejected item.
crazyjoe999
New member
One more really important but simple suggestion.....make sure your shovel is nowhere near the coil (that is if you use a big shovel) drag it BEHIND you. Also don't have any metal on your boots and if you do be very aware of it stick that coil out far from your shoes. Thats' how sensitive this thing is. And learn in an un trashy area first. Do not try to learn in a park! Good luck!