hello I am a newjack, just wanted to know before I buy a detector ( safari) should i be concerened about high minerals in the soil when choosing a detector, or the coil, I will mostly be hunting my property upstate new york which original house and barn date to late 1800's, i know the water is hard, high iron, and was told the soil is high minerals, should i not be concerend thanks newjack..
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high mineral soil
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Goldstrike
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I would agree with Akita's comments and add that if you ground balance often, the Safari will do the rest by adjusting to the soil mineral content. Detecting beach's as I do here in Southern California, I see many swathes of magnetite (black magnetic sand) as I get closer to the wet sand and if I do not ground balance often, it will be unstable but if I ground balance, it will settle down and be as stable as detecting in clean soil and sand.
The soil changes everything.Lucky for you Safari thought of that.I hunt in north east Pa.with my safari and have never had a problem.I always ground balance and the Safari does the rest.Lots of minerals in my soil but I've never even noticed.I get more of a problem from under ground wires.They make the machine go crazy.I try to stay away from them.Good luck.
Goldstrike
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If want to go close to chainlink fence or re-bar reinforced walls/boardwalk walls etc; you can switch to a smaller coil. I switch to an Excelerator EQ2 DD 6 inch coil and you would be surprised at how closer you can get as opposed to having a larger coil. It's a hassle to change coils when your hunting but if it gets you a gold/silver/diamond ring, you'll be happy you did!
Big Boys Hobbies
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New Jack,
Multi frequency machine like the Safari are designed specifically for high mineral areas. The single frequency machines suffer. Holler if you have questions. Love to help you or make you a good deal on one. Bart
Multi frequency machine like the Safari are designed specifically for high mineral areas. The single frequency machines suffer. Holler if you have questions. Love to help you or make you a good deal on one. Bart
Yeah, I do. I'm in east TN and a geologist in my former life. I tried to sent you a PM but it wont let me for some reason. Maybe you need to get your post count higher for the PM system to work.
The Safari will handle your Fe soils with no problem. As an aside, when I was researching my machine, I spoke with the CFO of Kellyco and told him I was leaning toward the Safari and he said that would be the machine he would recommend for our TN soils even if I hadnt brought it up. Let the machine do autosensitivity and ground balance regularly until you get a feel for whats going on.
A little story.
I always turn on my Safari when leaving the truck, and ground balance as soon as I get on representative soil of what I will be hunting over. i always swing a few times to find a metal free place (not always easy to do) and then GB over it with coil on ground (if i cant find a clear spot, i GB at 18" above ground). One day I forgot to ground balance and for the next hour had a fantastic time, recovering lots of clad and 2 silver rings. Then I realized I hadnt ground balanced. Hmmmmmmmm..........
The Safari will handle your Fe soils with no problem. As an aside, when I was researching my machine, I spoke with the CFO of Kellyco and told him I was leaning toward the Safari and he said that would be the machine he would recommend for our TN soils even if I hadnt brought it up. Let the machine do autosensitivity and ground balance regularly until you get a feel for whats going on.
A little story.
I always turn on my Safari when leaving the truck, and ground balance as soon as I get on representative soil of what I will be hunting over. i always swing a few times to find a metal free place (not always easy to do) and then GB over it with coil on ground (if i cant find a clear spot, i GB at 18" above ground). One day I forgot to ground balance and for the next hour had a fantastic time, recovering lots of clad and 2 silver rings. Then I realized I hadnt ground balanced. Hmmmmmmmm..........
DetectThis
New member
I am confused by this all lol, I have used a X-Terra for awhile before my Safari, and I have my Safari now and I love it (though I need to sell it ATM because of its weight and my disabilies) but everyone keeps saying Ground Balance this Ground Balance that, and I am by NO means a Safari "Expert" but am I missing something here? lol, because the Safari (or any other FBS machine for that matter) does not have ground balance options, it is a Automatic ground balance machine tmk. Is everyone just talking about noise cancelling it? because those 2 things are not the same things. Either way the Safari works wonders in my Michigan wacky soil! love the machine and wish I could keep it!
-DT
-DT