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Safari Attributes?

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Idaho PRB

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I have been looking to see if I can get my mind around where the Safari fits in in tha Minelab spectrum. I kinda get the feeling in general/multi use detectors that Explorer was the top dog for a long time and now it seems that role appears to be switching to the Etrac. The Soveirgn seems to fit the niche for the no TID folks and the Xterra 70/705 seems to be the "top of the affordable line". This is just my impression from what little actual research I have done. My question is; If the above assumptions are correct, where does the Safari fall in? What are its most positive attributes and what makes a loyal Safari user a loyal Safari user? Thanks you all in advance, I look forward to hearing from you all.
Respectfully,
Idaho PRB
 
I started with my first minelab borrowed from a friend who has little patience and who loves golf more it was an etrac I had it 6 months It was a great detector but it takes some getting use to and it picks up more Iron than most detectors I had worked with but I found hundreds of great coins and stuff in areas that I had hunted myself before.When the Safari came out I realized in my good Illinois soil that the Safari was about 90 % of what the etrac was and much simpler to understand and other members of my family will use this detector.For 2 months I carried the etrac,safari,and 2 other name brand detector around with me and marked targets with golf tees I found all targets using etrac and compared.Cost and simplicity was a big factor in my decision to just keep safari as my main hunted out park detector I do not think the etrac can go any deeper than the safari but the etrac has software that allows a person with knowledge to enhance the etrac to stay at that maximum depth with adjustable auto sensitivity and more target ID PIXEL selection more tones and back light if you hunt at night or late evening.If you are hunting parks and well manicured lawns I would select the etrac so as to keep digging at a minimum.If you are a digger you do not need a etrac or a safari look on web site or you tube look at all the etrac and safari owners that have the greatest target ID machine on the market but dig any way look at the piles of trash they show after a days hunt.There are other detectors on the market that cost about 500 Dollars that beat both minelabs in depth that have no target ID especially on small gold coins past 5 inches.Both the etrac and safari machines excel in trash there is nothing on the market that is better.You are asking why I like or chose the safari simpler to use,great depth for target ID machine.Less pixels no ferrous reading waste of time for coin hunting I think that's why minelab removed it on the safari to lower cost.I think you need to ask the etrac owners are they really using all the features the etrac has to offer I know I did not once I found 1 or 2 programs I liked I stayed with that program.I do not believe the minelabs scan all 28 frequency as you hunt up to 100 kHz or they would find gold better.
 
Prep1957,
Thank you very much for taking the time to explain and to share your experience. I currently have the X-Terra 70 and have been pretty happy with it, I feel that every trip is a learning experience for me. I pretty much hunt with little or no discrimination and work real slow and dig just about every non-ferrous solid target and quite a few "iffy" signals. I'm not a real cherry picker and enjoy some of the odd items I come up with by this method of hunting. The main feature that has my interest now is the multiple frequency capability of the other machines. I have spent a small fortune on coils for the X-Terra 70 and have learned quite a bit along the way (which has been fun!) but I think I may have been better off with a multi-frequency machine and 1-10" DD coil and one 5"-6" DD coil (my ground balance is usually around 19 +,- 2 notches) and already have the multi-frequency's contained within the control box, not the coil. You know how it is, always trying to learn more about the machine you have and at the same time, wondering what I may be missing with the one(s) I don't have!
Thanks again!
Idaho PRB
 
I bought a new Safari about 3 weeks ago and really like it. My first day of detecting with it
I found my first silver ring and a few days later I found another silver ring and some older
coins and a silver locket today. I mention this only to tell you how quickly one can use this
detector. It's very easy to use and program. Once you get use to the tones and the LCD display
you will be about 90% sure what is in the ground before you dig it.
Like you, I use very little discrimination unless I'm in a hurry so I like to dig up some misc. objects.
By the way, I also live in Idaho.
 
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