Ray in CA
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- Joined
- Oct 11, 2007
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- 983
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- Location
- Quincy, CA
- Detector(s) used
- Minelab Safari with SEF 8x6; coming soon: FORS Gold+
My Safari arrived today and like a kid I was drooling all over the thing. Couldn't wait to assemble it and take it out. Got it put together relatively quick and went across the road to an old barn, turned it on and started detecting. All the different tones about drove me crazy. I quickly realized what Monty said he has been going through with his Safari.
After 15 minutes I had enough of the barn and went to an old house where I have permission to hunt. Same thing...too many tones and I don't know how to decipher them!! Worse than this, I was having a heck of a time pinpointing.
Fifteen minutes pass and I move on to the old jail site, where I've taken my Silver uMax about a half dozen times. Turned the detector and after about 5 minutes I got a solid repeatable signal at 37 in coin mode, and this one pinpointed quite easily. Made a hole 6" deep with my shovel and turned the plug over and there she was!! A 1903 Indian head penny to my surprise!! Got three more clad pennies after that and decided that was enough lesson for one day.
After hearing what the Indian penny sounded like, I realized what tone I should to be looking out for and what I should reject, in terms of Indians, wheats and silver. With a bit of practice I'm sure I'll be able to distinguish them quite well. The harder part, I think, will be learning the sounds of nickels and gold jewelry.
All in all I think I'm really gonna like the Safari. Today I decided to just stay in coin mode until get used to the detector and its tones. The only adjustment I made was to the sensitivity, which I brought down to about 16. And given that it's not much heavier than the Tesoro Silver uMax, it won't be difficult to swing it for a few hours at a time.
Ray
After 15 minutes I had enough of the barn and went to an old house where I have permission to hunt. Same thing...too many tones and I don't know how to decipher them!! Worse than this, I was having a heck of a time pinpointing.
Fifteen minutes pass and I move on to the old jail site, where I've taken my Silver uMax about a half dozen times. Turned the detector and after about 5 minutes I got a solid repeatable signal at 37 in coin mode, and this one pinpointed quite easily. Made a hole 6" deep with my shovel and turned the plug over and there she was!! A 1903 Indian head penny to my surprise!! Got three more clad pennies after that and decided that was enough lesson for one day.
After hearing what the Indian penny sounded like, I realized what tone I should to be looking out for and what I should reject, in terms of Indians, wheats and silver. With a bit of practice I'm sure I'll be able to distinguish them quite well. The harder part, I think, will be learning the sounds of nickels and gold jewelry.
All in all I think I'm really gonna like the Safari. Today I decided to just stay in coin mode until get used to the detector and its tones. The only adjustment I made was to the sensitivity, which I brought down to about 16. And given that it's not much heavier than the Tesoro Silver uMax, it won't be difficult to swing it for a few hours at a time.
Ray
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