I love my Safari! Picked one up used, you can find them under $600. Have a local park that I've hit a couple dozen times this year, seems like I've combed every square inch of it with the Pro, 11 silver coins (which is excellent for any park in my area). While I love the Pro, I always wondered what I was missing because I know that in my soil it just doesn't get the same depth as in other parts of the country. But that's not exactly right. It does get very good depth, but it doesn't give a signal that I would dig at depth. I know, dig everything right? But I don't want to dig everything, I want to dig mostly good things. While the Pro will find a dime at 6 or 7 inches in my neck of the woods, it won't SOUND like a dime. It sometimes does, but it mostly sounds like foil, or maybe a nail. In a park setting with medium to high trash, I don't stop on those sounds because those sounds are 90% of what I'm hearing. My theory and reasoning behind trying the Safari was, the more tones the better. More info. More tonal info. I thought with more tones, if it doesn't exactly sound like a perfect dime, it will sound MORE like a dime than foil or trash. And it turns out I was right. First time at the honey hole with the Safari I went straight to the trashy areas by some old stone bbq pits, and here came the wheaties. I was impressed. Then to the picnic pavilion and here came the silver. Then the indians. Then more silver. I pulled silver out of the same hole as rusty nails, and silver from underneath cigarette foil. They weren't deeper than the coins I had dug with the Pro, but they were strong, definite, dig me now because I'm something awesome tones. The vdi numbers on the safari are slow and not always accurate, but the tones almost never lie. Even when they do lie, they still mostly tell the truth. While I would have loved an Etrac or CTX, I couldn't afford one. But I could afford a used Safari and I could not be happier. AT Pro sits in the closet unless it's raining.
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