Minelab Safari And Vanquish 540

[Dean Stone]

Can anyone tell me how close these two detectors are to each other, someone said they Vanquish was just a down size to the Safari. Do they hunt about the same, dose one go deeper than the other? any help please, hard to find a Safari.

[Dean Stone]

No one knows, maybe just a dumb , but was told they were about the same. I have never used Safari before, and just stared useing the Vanquish. It is doing ok for me, but always wanted a Minelab Safari, i know they are hard to find. 

[Jeff McClendon]

I haven't swung a Safari in 8 years. I don't remember enjoying it too much since I wanted something lighter and faster as far as target recovery speed. It detected just OK where I live in moderate to higher iron mineralization.

I really like the Vanquish models as long as the targets in the area aren't too close together, there isn't too much deep iron and the ground mineralization is moderate to mild. They can handle worse iron mineralization but I needed to reject the lowest iron target IDs on the 440 and 540 in order to stop the constant ground noise. Otherwise, they did very well here. The Vanquish models with their biggest coil on normal ground have a ton of depth. They also have some of the most rock solid non-ferrous target IDs in the industry. Good ergonomics, nice controls and at least with the 440 and 540, everything a person needs in a budget friendly detector. As long as I don't expect them to detect like the best VLF SMF detectors Minelab currently makes for 3 to 4 times the price, they end up being super effective and really fun detectors.

Other than the Safari and the Vanquish models being made by Minelab and also having simultaneous multi frequency technology.........no, I don't think they "are about the same" at all. Multi IQ is a big improvement over the Safari's simultaneous multi frequency technology from the early 2000s where I detect. I would pick a Vanquish 440 or 540 over a Safari everyday, every hour, every time.

[Steve Herschbach]

Safari is old FBS, excellent on silver, just ok on low conductors. Does very well suppressing ferrous but at cost of poor separation/masking. Vanquish is Multi-IQ, near Equinox performance on most stuff, superior on low conductors and separation, but maybe a little more prone to high tone ferrous falsing. Nothing wrong with Safari per se for depth on silver in particular. The biggest advantage for Vanquish would be in separation and small low conductors.

[Dean Stone]

Thanks Jeff and Steve, I was just trying to see if the Vanquish was a good detector for the money. It has done good for me, i haven't used it a lot but i think i am going to like it. Thanks  Dean