Treasure Hunter Cache

[Doug Mauck]

I was searching in a large open area at our local lake without much hope when I got a signal for a coin. When I dug it up, it was a modern penny painted yellow on one side. Thinking this was curious, I scanned some more and found another painted penny about 18" away. In the end, I found four painted pennies in a square and another signal in the center of the square. There I found a painted nickel and a painted dime, but under them was a cannister. Inside the cannister I found a note with a date three years ago and the name, address, and telephone number of the person who had placed the cache! I added my name and hid the cache in another location. Has anyone found such a cache? It sounds like a good idea.

 

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[midus1]

Haven't found one but it sounds like a GPS cache. They hide these and when you find them you are supposed to add something and re-bury it.

HH

 

[lab rat]

It is called 'Geo-Cache-ing' and is growing in popularity. You can check it out on the web. My understanding is you are welcome to take one thing out of the cannister, but you have to replace it with something else. Then you are supposed to re-bury it in the same spot so someone else can locate it. These are found using a GPS (ground positioning system), but I've never heard of someone finding one with a metal detector! Good going!

 

[Darren in NC]

Yeh, that wasn't a geo-cache, but the concept is the same. Never heard of someone taking that approach. Anybody got some coins and rings you'd like to send me? I'll be glad to bury them for you...and even leave a note... 8)

 

[cutty]

As a geocacher and a treasure hunter I can tell you that it was not a geocache. It is against the rules to bury a cache. Geocachers use a GPS unit which is not accurate enough to pinpoint underground caches! Man if a geocacher had to dig for caches using only a gps unit the area would look like the moon before long!

 

[Earl]

I was curious as to what type of detector you were using and does it work well for you? thanks Earl

 

[cutty]

Earl you asking me? If so I use an early White's Spectrum, still a great machine. Don't use it for Geocaching though!

 

[Ocean7]

nope never had that happen. But what i like to do is hunt a place until the finds are really few and far in-between and then bury a coin that beats the heck out of all the clad crap in circ, today. Maybe add your initials. So if you ever find a coin and it has O7 on it - well I just may have planted it there. *L*

but the O7 is something I haven't implemented yet.