How Would I go About Finding a Cache?

[PhilGarber]

Hi-

How Would I go About Finding a Cache? Pretty straight-forward.

[silvercop]

start with a little research, and hope for a whole lotta luck...

[PhilGarber]

Go you go more in-depth?

[silvercop]

start at your county seat and search court house records. then search old newspaper articles, talk to some ol timers in your area. this time of year is the time most of us do research like this because it is generally to cold to search in alot of areas of the country....good luck... and post pics of your finds...

[lastleg]

Have you checked your attic and basement?

[CWnut]

here's an article by Charles Garrett that explains a lot about cache hunting


http://www.synar.net/gg2.htm

[PhilGarber]

Thanks CW!

[Roadquest]

Research..Research..Research...Then Search


Roadquest

[sabre15]

Like the man says, Research....
It will save much frustration rather than just looking around the wrong area!

[Gary in Pennsylvania]

My suggestion is a little different.

I live in a very rural, mountainous area.

If the property I'm gonna search has a house dating anywhere in the 1800's....I'd definitely try to ID any old stump remnant or look for any nearby reeaaallly old trees and search the heck around each of them.

Many of these rural folks used to only trust the Bank of Mother Nature.


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[Kentucky Kache]

Many of these rural folks used to only trust the Bank of Mother Nature.

Alternatively, many of those rural folks had no monies to cache.

I think he's talking about those who did.

[Goodyguy]

here's an article by Charles Garrett that explains a lot about cache hunting


http://www.synar.net/gg2.htm

Great post CWnut
This is definitely a must read for anyone getting into the cache hunting game!
http://www.synar.net/gg2.htm

[Kentucky Kache]

No alarm here. It's just that sometimes...every once in a while...every now and then...once in a blue moon, things happen out of the ordinary. Sometimes reason breaks down and you have to accept things for what they are, even when it doesn't fall into your comfort zone. Caches have been buried. symbols have been carved. supernatural things happen daily, and miracles still happen, and always will. It's the way it is, regardless of whether or not we understand it. Not every claim is authentic, but some are.

[lastleg]

SWR makes an excellent point. Most of the really old rural homesites
contain little more than interesting relics. If they had a good year with
crops and owed nothing to the banks they just put it in a safe place.
Say they came up with a couple hundred extra it is doubtful they would
waste time burying it. They might need a little here and there so they
just took out a little at a time.
Yes some did save up enough silver dollars to put in fruit jars and hide.
But that doesn't mean they all forgot about them and didn't retrieve them
at a later date.
Cach hunters don't go digging randomly. They need an edge. Inside
information that can only come from research.
lastleg

[Gary in Pennsylvania]

Many of these rural folks used to only trust the Bank of Mother Nature.

Alternatively, many of those rural folks had no monies to cache.

I think he's talking about those who did.

Yep. Those who did.

And my definition of 'cache' may be different from another's.

If some settler has his family home on a property and wanted to keep the family's $3.18 in coin safe from wandering bandits etc.....they may do so by burying it in a jar by the oak tree out back. To me - that's a cache.

A face value of $3.18 is nuttin' to us now......but in 1866 - that was a chunk of change!


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[Kentucky Kache]

SWR makes an excellent point. Most of the really old rural homesites
contain little more than interesting relics. If they had a good year with
crops and owed nothing to the banks they just put it in a safe place.
Say they came up with a couple hundred extra it is doubtful they would
waste time burying it. They might need a little here and there so they
just took out a little at a time.
Yes some did save up enough silver dollars to put in fruit jars and hide.
But that doesn't mean they all forgot about them and didn't retrieve them
at a later date.
Cach hunters don't go digging randomly. They need an edge. Inside
information that can only come from research.
lastleg

So, you've searched MOST of these places? If not, where do you find your information?


First, there are and were more wealthy people in rural areas than you may know about. There are and were a lot of poor there too, but we're talking about those who might have buried their wealth.
Also, a cache doesn't have to be a million dollars. As has already been said, a cache can be a hand full of coins that someone hid. Not everyone was wealthy and not every wealthy person hid or buried their money and then forgot where it was, or died and left it. But some did. These are the ones that are of interest to a cache hunter...not the majority, but the FEW that COULD HAVE cached their wealth. Quality over quantity.

I agree with you on research.

[lastleg]

Let's see then, Gary & CC think a handful of coins is a cache. I always
thought it meant something more substantial. But if that is worth your
time to search for get with it.

I've done lots of coinshooting when I was younger and have many coins
to show for it. But when I had a chance to see some of the Western places
I had read of with abandoned ghost towns and mining centers of the late
1800's my outlook changed. These pre-pulltab areas are full of interesting
artifacts of intricate design.

Plus your odds of finding a significant discovery go way up. Collectors
pay big bucks for some saloon tokens for example. Everyone has different
expectations from the hobby of metal detecting. I enjoy detecting away
from the crowded cities instead of school yards.

I know I won't get rich using a detector but I can hope for some good hits
where lots of people used to work and live but have gone away for good.

lastleg

[Kentucky Kache]

Let's see then, Gary & CC think a handful of coins is a cache.

Only if they were purposefully hidden. A handfull of coins could also be a pocket spill.

[Gary in Pennsylvania]

Let's see then, Gary & CC think a handful of coins is a cache.

Yep.

I always thought it meant something more substantial.
lastleg

No one is saying that's wrong. It's a matter of perspective.
Good Luck Hunting!


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[Hosensack]

Since I have yet to find anything more than wheat pennies as far as coins go. A few coins in the same location would be a good enough cache for me. But once thats out of the way, my definition would grow slightly