Settings for my Sovereign GT?

[equinespy]

Ive just bought a Sovereign GT - my very first detector. I will of course read the manual but it would be good to hear some opinions on settings. I live in Switzerland in a small farm alonside a river. There have been settlments here since 1293. Im thinking of exploring land adjacent to the river - I think they hunted deer here with bows and arrows hundreds of years ago that got stuck in mud along the river. I think I might find arrowheads and other medieveal things. Im not looking for modern coins and this place is so remote there wouldnt be any point anyway! Im also unlikely to fnd bottle tops as its farmland - can I leave the iron filter off and get more depth? I want to be able to get decent depth and search for anything initially. If the mineral content here is high or i start finding tin cans etc - I have no idea - what would I adjust settings to? Thanks for the advice - want to get going before the snow comes!

Please just give me a generic setting of the knobs that would work on farmland and give good results

 

[BlackX]

[This is the Explorer forum, not the Sovereign forum (about 3 more down on the forum list) but...]

I believe you'll have to run in all metal to find the iron objects but my understanding is that you'll get slightly less depth by doing so. (I don't have a GT so not sure exactly how the iron mask switch works but I think it still discs out iron even when off.)

On the other settings, the standard response--which I use--is:
- volume max (and control the volume w/ your headphones)
- discrimination all the way down (though won't matter if you're in AM (which, even if all the way down will still disc out iron)
- notch all the way down (again won't matter if you're in AM)
- threshold just audible
- then find (in all-metal) an piece of ground empty of any responses and run your sensisitivity up until it starts to get unstable, then back off a touch

Good luck!

[just realized i replied to a months-old post. doh!]