West coast Vancouver island Safari

[Ukee]

Hello everyone,

Just joined this site and just received my Safari. Seems like a really good one, before this I had a bounty hunter which worked good on beaches out here. Is there any suggestions for me on what settings i should have? I took it in back yard yesterday and its kinda swampy grounds but it was going crazy beeping. Went to beach and ran awesome. I really wanna start hunting grassy areas, what settings should I use?

Thanks for info

B

 

[KinTN]

What type of hunting are you looking to do? Its best to start with something simple like coins & silver until you get used to the symphony that your Safari will play for you. I've had mine a couple of years and just this month feel comfortable being able to call a clad dime vs a clad quarter vs a copper penny by tone alone.
If I had just gotten my Safari and wanted to dig on dryland, I would run ferrous mode, auto sensitivity, and notch out everything except 34-39 and learn those tones. After I was comfortable with those tones(not the #s!), I'd open up everything down into the gold range, screening out only irons.

For the beach, run that sucker wide open and dig everything! Only notch out what you get really tired of digging. Gold lurks amongst the low numbers......

And congratulations on your new machine!

 

[Ukee]

Thanks for reply, I'm gonna go hit this church in Tofino with settings on auto or ( factory preset )
Ill see what happens hehe

 

[KinTN]

If you havent read Andy Sabich's book, I highly recommend it for the new Safari user. And all the posts on this forum too, of course.