Target ID Number List

[Chief390]

It would help a lot of new Safari owners if we posted our Target ID numbers. Each of us use basically the same range but listing them with a few comments may really help the newbies. Please add to this list along with your comments. Thanks. I'm sure many will appreciate it.

Gold --------------------11-13 depending on quality
Dime ------------------- 38
Quarter ---------------- 39
Silver Ring ------------ 39
Wheat Penny ------- 34
New Penny ---------- 36

I dig everything in these ranges. Always recheck your hole for more. Garrett Pro-Pointer "rocks"! Don't leave home without it.

 

[shorty2]

Here is the way I dig, different soil different numbers.
Gold 23
Quarter 38
Dime 37-38-or-39
Wheat Penny Bounces between 37-38
Zinc 35
Silver ring 38-39
Nickle 14
I think the thing is to get use to the sounds that each makes and use them.

 

[itfchaos]

I'm still new with my safari and only found two good things so far other than a lot of modern coins.

Silver ring ---------------- 39
35' wheat penny ------- 37

A lot of modern coins come in at 38.

 

[jdeiana]

I just pulled a 1907 Barber Quarter in my front yard at 38 - so some goodies come in at 38 though a lot of modern clad does too.

 

[TomH]

From a relic hunter point of view...

-10 to -8 - small iron, usually nails or small pieces of wire
-7 to -1 - larger iron including frags, gun tools, etc.
8 to 10 - foil trash but I have also found that 9 can be a pewter cuff sized button
12 to 13 - brass cuff sized buttons, brass tent grommets and knapsack rivets
15 to 16 - pulltabs
18 to 20 - brass coat and overcoat buttons, plus larger brass knapsack parts
32 to 34 - lead bullets

TomH

 

[Chief390]

I agree with Shorty2. Different soils can definately change the ID numbers. Like he said, listen to the sounds and know that you will be digging some junk. Last evening I was hunting at an old city park and got a hit at 39 on the Safari. Usually that will get me some silver. I dug about 10 inches and came up with a very rough rock about 3 inches in diameter. It definately was metal and was magnetic. Naturally at first I thought "Meteorite".....but no. Meteorwrong. It was some metal slag which happened to be all over the east side of the park which must have been mixed with fill dirt at one time. You just never know what is down there until you dig.

 

[Monte]

As I have stated and encouraged for over a third of a century now, if you want to get serious and be successful, there's one best approach to take ....

[size=x-large]"Beep - DIG!"[/size]​

Monte

 

[Sky1]

I didn't buy a FBS detector to beep and dig everything.

But I wish those that have that kind of time the best of luck.

Me likes Silver...."38" yeah, that's MY number!

Unless of course I am at the beach, then its "go slow and listen for low".

 

[Sky1]

Yesterday I confirmed a standing liberty half dollar rings in at a 38 as well

But just out of curriosity I pulled out one of my old 1878s Morgan Silver Dollars and swung it by the coil. It rang in at a 34, a 1921 Morgan came in at a 33.

Gosh, all those "penny signals" I walked by when I had my day of digging Mercury dimes, could one of them have been a Morgan Dollar?

Guess I need to go back!

 

[watersteps]

Hey Thanks a bunch, I was just looking for a possible list to learn by.

 

[chuck ky]

can you set the safari up to only get the higher coins. i hunted that way with my sovereign but haven't been able to figure it out with the explorer xs yet. you mentioned silver dollars reading lower in an air test, did you check other coins to see if they did the same. i would think in the same ground the silver dollar would read the same or higher than pennys.

 

[ronaldj2]

absolutely, just scrim out the undesirable numbers. and keep the higher ones. save it and your good to go.

 

[Onus]

The "lists" are just an inclination as to what the target might be. Don't get hung up on specifics. For instance, gold on my machine rings up between 23 and 26. Think about MIGHT BE and you will be OK. Onus

 

[watersteps]

Hats off to the guys or gals out there that listed their numbers, and thank you, it helps some of us Safari newbes with a place to start.
I made a spreadsheet with the info listed in this post and then I started adding the number displayed for my finds, location and the depth.
I can now review what was what, where, and when, this helps a lot.
The older we get the more we forget, at least I do and I'm older then dirt, (most kinds) .
Always keeping in mind, if you don't dig it, you don't get it, what ever it may be.

 

[wayupnorth66]

pull tabs 15 to 30
Gold rings 12 to 20
Silver rings 39(every time for me)
40 deteriorated rusty metal

 

[shorty2]

Like I said learn the tones, I found a 1890 silver dollar last week that came in at 29, ferrous bah I would have never dug but high pitch yea curiosity made me dig and WOW!! Different soil will also give you different numbers. I think musicians would make great metal detector operators.

 

[larryk56]

I'm so confused that I hunt C & J factory settings and
ignore -10 to 06 and dig all the tones!